Chief Technology Officer and SVP of Information Technology Matt Davies

Matt Davies has been responsible for programming and development of company software, including MyHealthArchive, DisasterLink, and LocatorSuite. He has also been responsible for day to day tasking, performance reports, incident handling, training, time tracking, and time off requests. He Lead head-first development J2EE platform to solve issues (EDI, data storage, Business Intelligence) to which the standards are in flux in an agile environment. He worked with partners such as Symantec, Google, BioSignia to integrate services. He architected and built HIPAA-compliant multi-site service oriented data warehouse to support all PatientCentral products. (SOAP and REST interfaces) and architected and built EDI interfaces to connect PatientCentral to EMR’s, pharmacies, physician registries, regional and national health information networks using SOAP, HL7 transports. He built physician portals to PatientCentral data warehouse incorporating HIPAA and customer business rules. Utilized JBoss SEAM and Struts for framework incorporating JSP, Servlet, JSF, XML for presentation and REST, SOAP for EDI. He built high-performance service oriented application clusters utilizing a layered approach providing data storage, application server, caching, web, and perimeter security layers and utilized Hibernate caching and memcache clusters to dramatically improve performance. He implemented change control to ensure product quality. He architected and began implementation of MyHealthArchive Personal Health Information Management System. First generation PHR built on Struts using Hibernate. Built using n-tier principles in a J2EE environment. He architected and built CryptoEngine: a cryptography engine to secure sensitive health information for the PatientCentral data warehouse using AES encryption in a J2EE environment. He co-wrote RFP responses and presented for governmental agencies.

Matt Davies has management skills and experience, including having been team lead for application design, development, and support; writing technical information for RFPs; interviewing, hiring, firing, and managing employees; creating and refining IT direction for software, policies, opportunities, and partners; directing all points within the software development life cycle (SDLC); defining scope of work and ensuring quality control; interfacing with stakeholders and presented IT options.

He has development skills and experience, including leading and participating in all phases of the SDLC; in-depth knowledge of Java, Object Oriented programming; J2EE, EJB, Web Services (REST and SOAP), Axis2, SOA; JUnit, TestNG; client / server programming, Hibernate, JDBC enabled application coding; JSP, JSF, Servlet, XML, XHTML programming; Richfaces; JBoss Application Server, Apache Tomcat; JBoss Seam , Struts, Wicket, Spring; Apache Hadoop, Hbase, Pig; Esper Complex Event Correlation Engine; Jersey Annotations for Restful API; Memcached; RabbitMQ; Agile development, SCRUM; designed creative solutions to complex problems; Ant, Maven; distributed systems, n-tier systems; HL7, CCD (Continuity of Care Documents), CCR; experienced with PHP, (Visual) Basic, C#, C++, Unix Shell Scripting; Large-scale Data; Apache Hadoop cluster; Apache Hbase cluster; handled thousands of clients and billions of monthly datapoints; Linux: customized and debugged kernel; tuned kernel, IO, network and applications for performance; developed management software’ developed applications for platform; UNIX: installed, maintained, and upgraded Solaris and HP-UX servers; maintained systems in compliance with DoD regulations including Systems Authorization Agreement (patches, auditing, kernel configuration, system hardening); Veritas/Symantec Volume Manager installation and maintenance; systems requirements gathering, procurement, setup, and maintenance; cloning and change management; performance tuning; implemented high-available systems and applications using clustering; backup and recovery implementation, testing, and usage (Veritas Data Center, Yosemite Tapeware, Custom backup scripts); designed cryptography system to protect patient data in accordance with HIPAA regulations; DOD NAC clearance; Secure and maintain servers integrity according to Air Force & DOD security guidelines; maintained and debugged Xcert SentryCA (now RSA Keon) PKI Server; support and developed applications for hardware encryption device from NetOctave, nCipher and Chyrsalis-ITS; designed and implemented a highly secure multi-tiered distributed computing environment (Public Certification Authority); RDBMS: heavy usage of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle; installed, maintained, patched Oracle database(8, 9i, 10g); Oracle Application Server, Real Application Cluster ; PL/SQL, PL/pgSQL; stored procedures, triggers, views ; Oracle Reports development; disaster recovery prevention including RMAN and custom tools; enterprise Manager, Top SQL, Top Sessions, Performance Manager, Toad’ and set up and supported Wells Fargo’s PKI backup recovery site located at ARCANVS using Baltimore Technologies UniCERT Certificate Authority (sole backup site).  

Matt Davies has been Principal Software Engineer, Symantec, Inc. as part of the Enterprise Management Group working on a brand new product which will simplify enterprise security management. He has been Senior Software Engineer at Tynt, Inc., a web analytics company boasting more than 600k clients and tens of billions monthly data points. He has been Principal Architect, ShopShield.net, a secure payment processor offering virtual Visa cards and a suite of tools to protect a person’s identity while shopping over the Internet. He was co-founder of Septcon, LLC, a company that brought large business services to small business (eCommerce, warehousing, fulfillment, bookkeeping, promotional products). He was Systems & Support Manager, ES3 Inc. and Spearhead Innovations, Ltd, a contractor to Air Force deploying vital applications to many DoD sites. He was Senior System Administrator, ARCANVS, Inc., a 24x7 E-commerce company selling digital certificates for identification purpose. He was a Network Analyst, Network Operations Center, BYU. And was System Administrator, MediScene, Ltd.

Matt Davies has a baccalaureate degree from Brigham Young University, Provo.