MATTHEW D. STROUP
stroupm (at) surewest (dot) net

Objective
To secure a challenging and rewarding engineering position where my programming skills, engineering skills, and program management skills may be utilized to their full potential, and where I can make a significant contribution.
Professional Summary Work Experience
6/97 – Present
Hewlett-Packard Company, Imaging and Printing Group (IPG)
Firmware Design Engineer Specialist (3/09 - Present) Firmware Design Engineer Specialist (10/08 - 3/09) Firmware Design Engineer Specialist (7/05 - 10/08) Software Design Engineer Specialist (5/00 - 7/05)Firmware Design Engineer Specialist (6/97 - 5/00)
3/95 – 5/97
California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Industry Division
Student Assistant
Administrated Windows, Linux and NetWare servers. Managed Novell GroupWise e-mail system. Software and hardware installation, repair, troubleshooting, training. Computer Help Desk manager. World Wide Web page creation with HTML, CGI, Java, Javascript, SQL. Delphi troubleshooting. Created the first California State web page, among other things. Recognized by Governor Pete Wilson for my contributions.
Education
Sierra College
A.S. Degree in Computer Science
Graduated with Honors 1995 - GPA 3.8

California State University of Sacramento
B.S. Degree in Computer Science
Concentrations in Network Communications and Computer Graphics
Graduated 1998 - Major GPA 4.0
Senior Project: Help desk management web service. Used ASP and MS SQL.
Coursework Completed
Advanced C Advanced Java CLR via C#
Intel Assembly Advanced Pascal COBOL
Data Structures Software Engineering Computing Theory
File Organization Systems Programming Programming Languages
Advanced Computer Architecture Operating Systems Modeling and Simulation
Data Communication Data Privacy SOAP Fundamentals
Intermediate Graphics Program Management Technical Leadership
Other Experience
Volunteer mentor for all ages in performing in musical groups for The Rock of Roseville.
Volunteer Director of Sound for The Rock of Roseville
Volunteer work with a group to create a 3D-animated short film. We won a Scollie award for it.
Volunteer producer and director of weekly TV shows for college and public access TV stations in Placer and Nevada counties
Volunteer youth group leader for Church on the Rock in Grass Valley, CA
Volunteer work on the Stella and Virtual 2600 open-source projects.
Worked in after-school programs and summer day camps for kids in kindergarten through 8th grade.