Matthew O'Connor

1317 W. Fillmore St. #2
Chicago, IL 60607
708-642-1637
moconnor16@gmail.com
https://github.com/matthewoconnor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-o-connor-02203055/

Professional Experience

American Planning Association (www.planning.org)

UX Developer

Chicago, IL
Oct 2013 - Present
  • Working on a 3-6 person agile development team with bi-weekly sprints, and bi-monthly project milestone releases
  • Collaborating closely with QA, UAT testers, project stakeholders, and leaders from various company departments to gather requirements for new projects and identify defects with existing software
  • Drafting application workflows and wireframes to gather project feedback and clarify business rules prior to development
  • Developing and deploying software for APA's website, CMS, and other projects (Python, Django, Node.js, JS, CSS, HTML)
  • Writing and executing scripts for mass data imports, data cleaning, and generating adhoc reports (Python, SQL)
  • Managing all CSS and JavaScript for APA projects, supporting all modern web browsers and implementing responsive design
  • Organizing codebase, refactoring code to comply with team's standard design patterns, optimizing code performance
  • Reconstructed APA's formerly self-hosted .NET website and CMS using cloud-hosted Django framework (Python, Django)
  • Designed, developed, and releasing updates for APA's iOS app and corresponding API (XCode, Swift, Python)
  • Created Wordpress theme from design deliverables for Plan4Health, a partner project of APA and APHA (PHP, JS, .LESS/CSS)
  • Leading development for project to host 50+ APA chapter and 20+ APA division websites (Python, Django, Wagtail)

Arc Mobile

Developer Intern

Chicago, IL
June 2013 - Oct 2013
  • Contributed to a restaurant mobile payment start-up during its launch in summer 2013
  • Designed, developed, and tested an account manager HTML5 mobile app, using JavaScript, jQuery, and jQuery Mobile
  • Participated in weekly all hands meetings and communicated to team members using 37 Signals Basecamp

Education

University of Chicago

Bachelor of Arts in Physics

Chicago, IL
June 2013
Cumulative GPA: 3.37/4.0
Honors: General Honors, Dean’s List 2011-2013
Relevant Courses: Intro to Computer Systems, Intro to Computer Science 1 & 2, Computational Physics, Experimental Physics, Statistical Models and Methods

Northridge Prep

High School Diploma

Niles, IL
June 2009
Honors: Valedictorian Class of 2009, Dean's List 2005-2009, Illinois State Scholar, National Honors Society, AP Scholar

Additional Projects and Interests

Volunteer Tutor/Mentor, Midtown Educational Foundation, Sept 2012 - June 2016
Weekly sessions to help 4th-6th grade students achieve academic success and develop good character
maps (github.com/matthewoconnor/maps), (Python, Django, Celery, AngularJS), Sept 2016 - Present
An application for visualizing location-based government data superimposed onto maps
meowhorn (itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1127488741), (XCode, iOS, Swift), July 2016
A fun iOS app that uses AudioKit, built to refamiliarize myself with the iOS development process (app submission, beta testing, etc.)
Website for Verify Home Inspection Group (verifyhomeinspections.com), (Wordpress, CSS), June - July 2016
Frontend development and content editing for a wordpress website
Varsity Baseball, University of Chicago, 2009-2013
Starting Pitcher, 4 Varsity Letters, OOC MVP Award 2013, UAA Player of the Week (2), All Central Region Team, All UAA Team

Skills

Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Java, C
Frontend Web Development: HMTL5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, .LESS, AngularJS, D3.js, Jade
Web Frameworks: Django, Wagtail, Express.js, Wordpress
Data Management: SQL, Postgres, SQL Server, Apache Solr, Redis, Pickle, SQLite, MongoDB, CSV, JSON, XML, KML
Cloud Technologies: Digital Ocean, AWS (S3, EC2)
Mobile App Development: Swift, iOS, XCode