Matthew Houser - Senior VP Global Engineering, Tealium

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Work Background

TealiumSVP Global Engineering

Jan. 2024● Led a global engineering team of 150+ professionals across 9 countries, driving innovation and maintaining high-quality standards. ● Oversaw strategic planning and execution of engineering projects, ensuring alignment with company objectives and market demands. ● Mentored and coached engineering leaders, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. ● Championed talent acquisition and retention, attracting top-tier engineering talent and reducing voluntary attrition to less than 1 %

TealiumVP Global Engineering

Jun. 2022 - Jan. 2024● Facilitated change management, guiding teams through major organizational changes with minimal disruption. ● Led stakeholder engagement, presenting technical strategies and progress updates to the executive team. ● Drove innovation and technical modernization, resulting in improved performance and efficiency.

TealiumVP Engineering EMEA

Mar. 2020 - Jun. 2022● 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫: Successfully created a new development center in Belarus, scaling the team to 50 members within 2 years. ● 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Effectively relocated the entire team to Poland in response to geopolitical conflict, ensuring business continuity and team stability. ● 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: Led the recruitment, onboarding, and development of a highly skilled engineering team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment. ● 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬: Implemented comprehensive KPI and metric tracking systems for engineering teams, leading to improved performance visibility, enhanced productivity, and data-driven decision-making.

KyribaSenior Director Of Engineering

Jan. 2019 - Mar. 2020San Diego, Minsk, Paris• Recipient of Leader of the Year Award 2018 • Recipient of Excellence Award 2019 • Responsible for 60% of World-Wide Engineering (12 teams across 3 countries) • Lead all Development and QA for Platform Engineering (Architecture, Development, Mobile, UI, UX) and Kyriba’s core business modules: Treasury Management (Cash, Liquidity) and Payments • Key Member of the Integration Team for Kyriba’s first company acquisition • Key Member of insourcing, opening, and running an engineering office in Minsk, Belarus with 120+ employees in 1 its first year • Leading the technology transformation of a legacy monolithic Java application into a modern micro-service based stack

KyribaDirector Of Engineering

Dec. 2017 - Dec. 2018San Diego, CaliforniaResponsible for the management of 12 international development teams, across 3 countries. Oversee all technical platform engineering, UI, UX, mobile, Payment, and treasury management development. Highly involved in strategic integrations with new partners and acquisitions.

Ebates | Rakuten Card Linked Offer NetworkEngineering Manager | Head of Engineering

Jan. 2016 - Sep. 2017Greater San Diego Area♦ Led the initial rollout of a Patent Pending in-store cash back reward platform, which has totaled 50 million GMV to date. ♦ Direct the daily operations of cross-functional teams of software engineers, QA engineers, and DevOps engineers. ♦ Collaborate with executive management to keep project design and development aligned with business objectives. ♦ Grew the QA department and refined their process to increase both quality and time to market of new features. ♦ Streamlined Agile software development by implementing daily KANBAN and JIRA Agile boards focusing on a continuous delivery methodology. ♦ Spearheaded a successful PCI certification, and recertification.

Beyond Ordinary SoftwareCTO

Aug. 2011 - Aug. 2015Greater San Diego AreaSupervised the design, development, and delivery of full service solutions for several insurance carriers. Researched new technologies to improve client satisfaction while also recruiting prospective customers, Optimized technology stack by implementing strict requirements gathering, rule translation specifications, database administration, and thorough design processes and testing, enhancing project outcomes.

PlayStationApplication Security Manager

Aug. 2010 - Aug. 2011♦ Initiated the Application Security Program helping the company through a successful PCI Certification.

PlayStationPlatform Architect

Feb. 2008 - Aug. 2010♦ Designed the DRM solution for all video content delivered through SONY connected devices. ♦ Architected a new RESTful API for client facing features on the Sony Network Platform. This replaced the original solution which I also served to design and develop.

Sony Online EntertainmentLead Software Engineer

Feb. 2005 - Feb. 2008Developed and executed architecture for client-facing functionalities on the PlayStation Network, contributing to service scalability and supporting a widespread international user base across 70 countries.

Managed VenturesSenior Software Consultant

Apr. 2004 - Feb. 2005♦ Provided java software solutions to the pharmaceutical industry that aided major companies in new drug discoveries. ♦ Designed a web based application utilizing Struts and EJB’s on a JBoss application server that provided valuable data management capabilities to chemists performing research.

WildType InformaticsSr. Software Consultant

Feb. 2002 - Oct. 2002• Developer on a project for the Illumina Corporation, based in San Diego. This project was responsible for creating LIMS systems for the Biotech industry. • Intense Swing work on a Java Distributed LIMS application. This included extending the standard Swing API to create new "widgets" not available in the Java Library at the time • Involved in the initial design and implementation of an XML based LIMS system, "LINX".

YouZoom Insurance ServicesSoftware Engineer

Jul. 2000 - May. 2002• Integral member in the design and implementation of a 100% Java Insurance Rating Rules Engine that is the first of its kind. • Instrumental in establishing strategic business rules behind insurance rating programs by designing a custom desktop application for users - an Insurance IDE. • Web development involving Jsp pages, Java Swing and JDBC API's. • Utilized the Weblogic application server for application deployment • Responsible for the design of on-line software which enabled insurance rating and buying. • Maintained, debugged, and restored systems to ensure reliability. • Heavily involved in the implementation of a web-based insurance system for agents to track customers, rates, and policies. This system also allowed customers to rate, bind, and manage policies themselves. • Selected to spearhead the highest priority and most prominent company projects

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