Résumé
Please note that my Résumé is available as a PDF download for printing and display, and that this page is offered as reference only. I also have computer- and music-specific resumes available as PDF downloads.Matthew J. Scott
makyo@drab-makyo.com
615 Andrea St.
Fort Collins, CO 80524
(303) 818-5943
Overview
Matthew J. Scott is a student at Colorado State University, a programmer, a business owner, and a musician. He resides in Fort Collins, Colorado and seeks to expand his work experience in the field of computers and information technology, as well as in music and music publishing. While he is not pursuing a technical degree, he is competent in the fields of web design, database design and administration, software design, server administration, computer networking, and hardware diagnosis and repair. In music, he has worked in concert composing for voice, choir, and small ensembles, as well as game music composing and sheet music publishing, including layout and aesthetics.
Matthew views a well rounded education, a good work ethic, and the value of new ideas and technologies as key in bringing about change in the world of computers and music both. As an advocate for Free and Open Source Software, he strives to help bring this change about in every position he works.
Education
- Colorado State University - Bachelor of Music, Composition concentration (in progress)
Work experience
- Colorado State University - Morgan Library - Library Technical Services / Research and Development - May 2007 - Present
- Support both public and staff machines from purchase to retirement, including software support, hardware support, image creation and deployment
- Repurpose, brand, and implement open-source software on the server-side, such as the Meeting Room Booking System.
- Designed a simple library catalog check-out system for a short-notice branch reading room
- Shepherded and designed a library GIS application, including way-finding, call-number location, and remote computer management
- MJS Services - Web-design and programming - Commission
- Implemented a provided design for RoofTech Consultants, Inc.'s website.
- Designed and implemented InkWorksFC.com for a local business.
- Designed and implemented Matthew J. Scott Music Publishing's website.
- Matthew J. Scott Music Pubilshing - Sheet music publishing, programming, composing
- Placing music from new composers into the standard repertoire while allowing them to license the music how they wish.
- CSU Department of Music - Varied projects - Commission
- Organizer and assistant to the Summer Choral Degree program, helping Dr. James Kim provide music to the workshop students
- Initial web-design services for the Choir Department as well as the Music Composition department
- Coordinated the construction of the music composition lab, working with both Morgan Library and the Music Department to acquire hardware, and volunteering spare time to assemble the nine composition stations, both hardware and software
Skills
- Dynamic web design specializing in content management and organization
- Database design, with experience in PostGreSQL and MySQL
- Framework implementations in Django, Drupal and SimplePresence
- Custom desktop and web applications using PHP, Python, Javascript, Java, C, and any language needed given learning time
- Concept music from short films, books, and video games, as well as music for the concert repertoire
Personal Projects
- Exploring graph structures for human interaction as opposed to hierarchical structures in a publicly editable web application
- Designing a matrix-based MIDI sequencer in Java to tie music to programming while learning GUI concepts
- Utilizing Java and related technologies to build a desktop application for music composition, based on the typesetting language Lilypond
- Exploring the extent of design frameworks such as Django for quickly producing dynamic sites
- Setting the poetry of contemporaries to music in order to widen the choice of texts in the vocal and choral repertoires
- Composing evocative, incidental music for books and stories so as to gain experience in the field of storied music
