Matt has been in the technology arena for over 10 years, spending more than eight developing Enterprise Java applications. A full time consultant, he spends his days (and sometimes nights) leading development teams and designing scalable applications that are still in use today. Matt has worked in the commercial and government sectors, and includes development experience with companies such as General Electric and Oracle Corporation. He has been working with Spring and Hibernate since 2004, leveraging the joint technologies on several projects, and is a Java Certified Programmer as well as an Oracle Certified Professional for the Oracle Database.