Matthew Kolb
| occupation: | business owner | web developer | online marketer |
| mobile: | 601.529.2970 |
| email: | me [at] matthewkolb.com |
| www: | www.matthewkolb.com |
| business relationships: | affaction | progressive computers |
| aka: | matt kolb |
| age: | 26 |
| location: | columbia, md |
Specialties: I focus on helping businesses grow while decreasing management costs. I've developed marketing, content, and inventory management systems for multiple organizations including $400k annual paid marketing campaigns, search engine optimization for sites exceeding 2 million monthly visitors, 350k spam-free emails per week, and over 4,500 products.
Past: By the time I started college, I had served as the lead developer for a jewelry supply company for several years and helped it grow to grow to a multi-million dollar annual business. I coordinated with other developers and a staff of up to 35 employees. More information: Progressive Computers.
Present: Upon graduating college at the end of 2009, I joined AffAction, LLC full time as the primary developer. I currently help AffAction expand its multi-million dollar online affiliate marketing efforts through web development and consulting.
Master of Science in Computer Science: Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. December 2009. Overall GPA: 4.0/4.0
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering: Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. May 2, 2008. Overall GPA: 3.8/4.0
Computer Science and Engineering Information Assurance Professional Certificate: Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. May 2, 2008.
Management Skills for First Time Supervisors:
Rockhurst University Continuing Education Center, June 16, 2005
iDiscuss: iDiscuss is a joint project with several professors at Mississippi State University to better understand student interactions within online discussion systems. More info: http://idiscuss.msstate.edu
Connection Diversity Measurement Tool: The tool was developed with Dr. Ed Allen and Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly at Mississippi State University to determine if information theory based metrics and visualization apply to network intrusion detection by analyzing network traffic logs. It requires developing a Java and C application for the Army Research Laboratory's (ARL).
MADAAT: The Microarray Data Annotation and Analysis Tool was a year long effort to aid the MSU Forestry Department with genetic research on poplar trees by providing a data storage and reporting mechanism for gene expression data in C#. The team consisted of 9-13 team members at any given time.
Intelligent Music Processing, April 2009: Project and paper aimed at grouping songs into a set of moods or genres, rating songs quickly, and provide ratings for new songs based on overall musical tastes. Methods focused on a graph of the songs with similarity metrics between songs and using graph partitioning for selecting genres and nearest neighbor methods for ranking songs.
An Analysis of Detailed Software Design Documentation Methods for Object-Oriented Code, April 2009: A summary of the importance of various software documentation qualities and an analysis of current tools capabilities in meeting these qualities is done by examining previous works and modern documentation methods.
Graph-Based Music Discovery, December 2008: The paper describes research based on implementing a graph-based system for visualizing a small world network of artists from a user's music collection, artist meta-data, and associated recommendations from Last.fm.
A Comparison of Programming Languages, December 2008: This term paper explains some of the key differences between the Ruby and Scheme programming languages. An emphasis on the readability, writability, and reliability will be used for evaluations.
I grew up in Vicksburg, MS and attended Warren Central High School. I attended Mississippi State University in Starkville, MS. I started dating my high school friend Megan Woleben Kolb while in college. We were married shortly after college graduation.
I really enjoy travel. Before graduating college, I had made two separate trips to Europe. While living in Mississippi, I enjoyed weekend trips to Memphis, Birmingham, New Orleans, and the gulf coast. Moving to Columbia, Maryland, which is just outside of the Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC metro areas, after college graduation has given me an entirely new set of areas to explore.
I also enjoy the outdoors. I frequently went on canoeing and camping trips while in the Boy Scouts where I attained the rank of Eagle Scout. Columbia also offers the ability to make short drives to the Appalachian Trail for over night backpacking trips.
My sister Brittany Kolb is also getting married to Michael Mann in May of 2012, and I designed the Mann wedding website.