Matthew Pest Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

This is my passion project, an organically grown amalgam of art and technology in the form of a Chicago-based ticketing platform. I use this as a vehicle to enrich my social life and explore real world use-cases for technologies such as blockchain and ai.

Greater Chicago Area

As the Director of Process & Innovation at Zentro Internet from July 2020 to December 2023, I played a pivotal role in steering the company's technological direction. I led the development team, overseeing all aspects of business technology from the ground up – including web development, system architecture, DevOps, and CRM, to ensuring compliance, change management, and disaster recovery. My tenure was marked by significant achievements, such as orchestrating a seamless transition of various business operations to a SaaS model, driving a cloud-first strategy, and leading the charge in data integration and system optimization post-PE funding and during an aggressive phase of M&A-driven growth. My hands-on approach in coding, coupled with strategic leadership, facilitated the creation of over 50 internal web apps, enhancing cross-system workflows and employee efficiency. My expertise in a wide range of technologies, including Python, JavaScript, AWS, and our CRM, was instrumental in achieving operational excellence and maintaining a high standard of data compliance, positioning Zentro Internet as a leader in its field. In my last year at Zentro I executed three successful ETL projects stemming from mergers and buyouts as well as an OSS/BSS migration from Chargify to Sonar.

Greater Chicago Area

TA for Booth MBA course on blockchain technology

Greater Chicago Area

I worked as an independent contractor, developing global IP portfolio strategies, writing and prosecuting provisional and non-provisional patent applications, as well as combing past disclosures for new matter. I regularly communicated with CEOs, engineering leads and inventors to understand and oftentimes expanded upon my clients' cutting-edge technologies.The clients I worked with range from funded start-ups (often coming out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's incubator program) to billion-dollar international enterprises having engineers that reside on vital standard setting bodies.My fields of expertise comprise: signal processing in polar transceivers, low weight intra-chip encoding schema, wireless-communication of QPSK and OFDM signals, control protocols for real-time multimedia communication sessions, wireless power, object recognition and extraction from image and/or depth data, image filtering, 2D to 3D reconstruction, image and video encoding, virtual and augmented reality, pattern recognition/classification in time dependent signals, gesture analysis, user interface design, and various other applied sciences.

New Delhi Area, India

At helius I was responsible for a plurality of duties which typically fall under the respective jurisdictions of the COO, CTO, and Product Development Lead. I was the system architect for our initial SaaS offering, the Helius Hospitality Management Suite. This entailed ideating, refining, and composing all product features, process workflows and a strategy for their digital implementation. I worked directly with our dev team to ensure an efficient and scalable infrastructure. Furthermore, I led our design team, acting as the sole point of contact between both departments and the C-suite.As the head of product development it was my responsibility to oversee delivery of our MVP as well as all subsequent updates. I performed extensive research into available programming languages, libraries, frameworks, and enterprise utilities with the purpose of identifying the technologies we would leverage. I ensured our development team PM had clear and detailed directives for executing all tasks related to the coding of our application. This included providing parameters for the database schema, back-end models, API requirements, application routing, and front-end interface. Additionally, I worked hand-in-hand with our design team, providing them with prototype wire frames, functional requirements, and our brand identity guidelines.On the operations side, I managed internal tasks for all helius employees. The CEO and I worked continually as a team to determine which jobs were required, what was their priority, whether they should be executed in-house our outsourced, etc. Together we devised strategies for (i) on-boarding key members to the team, (ii) negotiating contracts with external entities, (iii) disseminating our desired corporate culture, and (iv) improving operational efficiency.

Greater Chicago Area

At XcelPros I was tasked with leading product direction for SaaS solutions serving the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.I built strategic relationships with professionals in the IT space with a heavy focus on Cloud Solution Providers, Web Developers, iBPM Solution Providers, and ERP/XRM System Integrators.I performed research and analysis in an attempt to identify industry pain points and formulate a service or product to address said pain points. I eventually proposed a blockchain-based supply chain management / track and trace solution for the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry as impending legislation would force a stricter track and trace requirement in the coming years. We settled on this project and I was tasked to assemble a team of in-house members, contractors, and partners to execute delivery.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

At Invention Mine LLC I specialized in developing global IP portfolio strategies, writing and prosecuting provisional and non-provisional patent applications, as well as combing past disclosures for new matter. I worked closely with CEOs, engineering leads and inventors to understand and oftentimes expand upon our clients' cutting-edge technologies and I provided consulting services for our clients' in-house counsel.I regularly performed prior art searches, IP landscape analyses, and built claim charts to help visualize how claim language reads on published standards.My strengths include determining the broadest reasonable scope of novel aspects within a complex multifaceted system or method and my fields of expertise comprise signal processing in polar transceivers, low weight intra-chip encoding schema, wireless-communication infrastructures for OFDM signals, control protocols for real-time multimedia communication sessions, wireless power via magnetic resonance, object recognition and extraction from image and/or depth data, image filtering, 2D to 3D reconstruction, image and video encoding, virtual and augmented reality, pattern recognition/classification in time dependent signals, gesture analysis, user interface design, and various other applied sciences.

Pgk Qi Group At Loomis Lab

For this project I designed and built an optics bench setup for first and second order autocorrelation and phase retrieval of femtosecond laser pulses in the UV. I custom fabricated a two-photon-absorption detector circuit utilizing a generic op amp and a suitable photodiode which was selected via extensive research into the prior art. The construction of the nanometer-resolved autocorrelation experiment comprised utilizing a pellicle beam-splitter, piezoelectric controlled stages, the TPA detector, and a linear absorption detector. This experiment was carried out in an effort to generate fringe-resolved results of the phase of the absorbed photons. I coded a LabView program for automating computer control of the stages and created a direct-to-software data acquisition script which ran alongside the controlled displacement of the stages. Towards the end of my stay, I began coding data analysis software based on a hybrid genetic-simplex algorithm written in Matlab. These efforts helped graduate students - PhD candidates - better understand the alignment of a grander optics bench set-up that was engineered to entangle photons for quantum information science experiments.