blog.mattgoyer.com

• Entrepreneurial, motivated, problem solver
  • Currently at a rapidly growing startup redefining the real estate business
  • Microsoft Program Manager
  • Co-founded Transpose a music discovery company
  • Founded and later sold Fairtunes, an experimental web-enabled marketing initiative
• Previously an outspoken digital media activist. Featured in Time Magazine, the Globe and Mail, CNN, and various other publications. Interviewed on Much Music, FOX, CTV, CBC, and various other TV programs. (See complete press listing).

• Design user experiences for the web and applications being displayed on televisions
• Lead teams in designing, costing, scoping, developing, testing and usability of features

• Focused on marketing stuff.

• Built a kick ass online real estate experience

• Worked on Windows Vista
  • PM owner for: Accessibility, Communications, DVD, IME, Limited User Accounts, Media Discovery, Movies, Sample Content, Settings, Text Input
• Shipped Windows XP Media Center 2005 Update Rollup 2
  • PM owner for: ‘My DVDs’, a feature which enables 200 disc 1394 DVD changers to be connected to Media Center
• 2′/10′ Netflix Prototype
  • PM owner for a Netflix prototype developed in Avalon for PDC 05
  • Co-ordinated design and development with third party vendor
  • Prototype was showcased during Jim Allchin’s keynote
• Shipped TweakMCE
  • Co-ordinated design, development and testing.
  • Receives ~20,000 downloads/month
• Shipped Windows XP Media Center 2005
  • PM owner for: Accessibility, Overlays, Settings, TV Skin
  • Worked with partners on improving their Media Center applications

• Built both the client and server components for a music recommendation client for Apple’s iTunes using Java (J2EE), Python, XML-RPC, Resin and MySQL
• Enabled Transpose’s code base to use both Oracle 8i and MySQL interchangeably
• Conceived, designed, and developed a match making service using J2EE, Oracle 8i, running on Resin under Solaris 8

• Conceived, designed, and developed an innovative new music recommendation service, www.emergentmusic.com, using J2EE, Oracle 8i, XML, RSS, running on Resin under Solaris 8
• Named as an inventor on a patent application for a ‘Method and system for identifying high-quality items’
• Handled ad purchasing, grassroots marketing efforts and public relations

• Pioneered the voluntary contribution as a way to pay for Internet content (Think ‘Amazon Honor System’). Collected and distributed tens of thousands of dollars to artists who make their work available online
• Conceived, architected, and implemented the e-commerce web-service www.fairtunes.com using J2EE, Oracle 8i, Apache/Tomcat on Linux
• Assembled a professional team of advisors, lawyers, service providers and accountants and handled negotiations for 4 separate investment offers including the sale of the company
• Handled press relations and received media coverage in the New York Times, Wired Magazine, Time Magazine, CNN and various other publications. Also appeared on shows such as Much Music, Canada AM, and Newsworld

• Developed, documented, and tested web applications built using Java Server Pages, Java Servlets, and DB/2
• Diagnosed and corrected defects

• Organized and ran group and private sailing lessons for adults and children at Falcon Lake, Winnipeg, River, Fort Whyte Centre, and Northern Harbour
• Maintained a fleet of 15 sailboats, a motor boat, and two monster trailers

Education

• Received an Honours Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science
• See the courses I’ve taken

• Candidate for Honours Bachelor of Science
• Grade Point Average: 4.42 (Maximum attainable is 4.5)

• Hogg Centennial Entrance Scholarship for academic excellence, University of Manitoba, September 1998
• Pepsi Cola Entrance Scholarship for academic excellence, St.Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, September 1998
• Kristin Joy Siemens Memorial Scholarship for outstanding personal character, academic and intellectual ability, and community service, Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, June 1997

• Researched and then drafted a report on the problems faced by a rural Nepalese village as part of a team of international volunteers

• Sole investor and slumlord of ‘Hotel Goyer’, a six bedroom lodging house
• First year representative for Conrad Grebel College Student Council (Spring 2000)
• Promotions Director for St.Paul’s College, University of Manitoba Student Council (Sept 1998 to April 1999)
• Founding member of the University One Student Council (Sept 1998 to April 1999)
• University One representative on the University One (faculty) Council (Sept 1998 to April 1999)
• Spent 6.5 months backpacking, trekking, rafting, and riding buses, trains, and boats throughout Nepal, India, Burma, Thailand, and Malaysia with a friend (Nov 1997 – May 1998)