Matthew Eavenson

Matthew Eavenson has worked in a variety of roles since 2004. Matthew began as a Part Time Employee at the Application Solutions Group at the University of Georgia, where they assisted in the completion of a web-based GUI for the College of Education at UGA, provided bug reports and fixed errors in JavaScript, PHP, and ASP code, and installed software packages and setup workstations and servers for use. Matthew then became an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Georgia, where they maintained a research lab's website, assisted graduate students with programming various projects, and participated in ontology development and metadata extraction from various Internet sources. In 2006, they became a Summer Intern at the Athens Heart Center, where they solicited billing module requirements from the AHC staff, designed and implemented a web-based GUI for an in-house billing module, and designed a database schema to store billing information. In 2011, they were a Summer Intern at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where they designed and implemented a prototype data organization system, implemented modules for importing data from multiple sources, and implemented a web-based GUI to enable resource organization. In 2015, they became a Software Developer at SPARC, an Agile Systems Delivery Hub of Booz Allen Hamilton. Finally, in 2017, they became a Software Engineer at Catalytic Data Science, where they were part of a team of life scientists and software engineers who believe the brightest minds in science should have access to the best tools that are key to driving innovation. The Catalytic Platform is a new kind of R&D cloud built specifically for how life scientists work, and they were responsible for providing researchers with the best digital tools and networking them with colleagues in order to generate novel insights, compress the time and money required to achieve key R&D milestones, and produce knowledge that can be monetized to drive business forward.

Matthew Eavenson attended The University of Georgia from 2001 to 2005, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. Matthew then returned to The University of Georgia from 2006 to 2015, where they earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science.