Matthew Starr Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wi, Us

My goal is for our team to be the most effective in the industry. I focus on building teams where top talent at all levels of experience feels a true sense of belonging, is recognized for their unique strengths, and is challenged in ways that support both personal and professional growth.I work on the Enterprise Commercial Data Platform (ECDP) initiative, which is critical to the enterprise realizing material returns from our investments in market-share growth. Responsibilities include:• Communicating cross-functionally with DBAs, data stewards, and business stakeholders to define data architecture requirements (dimension, fact, and grain) for transforming third, fourth, and fifth normal form data tables into dimensional star schema data models that answer relevant business questions and power internal analytics for product, financial and risk business teams.• Deploy, Operated, Maintained, and Enhanced scalable Python based ELT and ETL pipelines for Google Cloud using Cloud Composer to ingest data from Google Cloud storage, transform the 3NF-5NF models into a dimensional model, and load it into BigQuery , including error reporting and operations support.• Keep existing data sources and data models fresh against data quality issues and source system updates, refactors, and upgrades.• Develop relationships with production engineering teams and business analysts to manage our data structures as the consumer and business needs evolve.• Maintaining a tight, transparent feedback loop with leadership on ways to improve project performance.• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements for automating manual processes (e.g. data governance, data profiling, etc.)

Madison, Wi, Us

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Us

www.rallyenergy.co• Set strategic direction of the brand and lead product development strategy based on product research and competitive analysis• Translate customers’ needs to long-term product roadmap and business plan, incorporating regulatory factors and market analysis• Ensured product is customer focused by conducting frequent customer interviews• Use lean business model practices to uncover business opportunities and minimize risk, develop and reevaluate business plan• Responsible for execution of product roadmap and new product introductions• Evangelize for the product to corporate buyers and end users, driving 5 consecutive years of >100% gross revenue growth to a 6-fig, positive cash-flow business• Established tradeoffs between internal development and business partnership activities, reducing costs of goods and operating expenditures by >20% year over year for 5 consecutive years by scrutinizing every aspect of our supply chain while increasing quality control.• Responsible for financial forecasts, cash flow statements, P&L and balance sheet, and inventory • Secure key, award winning intellectual property for differentiating and protecting Rally Energy in the market

Design, document, build, test, and deploy custom scalable data extraction, transformation, and loading processes in production. Support existing processes running in production with tight SLAs. Maintain the full data life cycle: capture, qualify, transform, utilize, report, archive, and purge.Python (Object-Orientated Programming), SQL, Pandas, version control with Git & SVN, Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Uluro, Exstream, etc.BCS is an amazing place that combines my love for people, technology, processes, and helping others build something new.I'm fortunate to work with some of the kindest and most experienced people in the business communication industry, routinely handling the data pipeline process end-to-end: from raw data intake to both electronic and print content distributionI was brought on to help manage the integration, deployment, and troubleshooting of a new composition engine into the BCS workflow. Being an outsider called in to deliver something new, I first strive to understand the whole process (the technology and people) as it exists today: why it exists that way, what it accomplishes for whom, who the stake-holders are, and what it means to them. My objective is to execute an integration plan that aligns the incentives of all stakeholders.I have fully embedded myself into the composition engine workflow and work to fully automate the 1) intake, 2) cleaning, 3) processing, 4) data-integrity verification, and reporting of data contained within diverse data types (JSON, XML, PDF, XML, etc.) for industries ranging from finance, healthcare, utilities, and insurance to service and hospitality.

Madison, Wi, Us

Data driven with my decision making and hands-on with my engineering, I explored how electrical, mechanical, solar and chemical energy conversion could be manipulated using piezoelectricity.I focused my studies on the electromechanical and electrochemical properties of piezoelectrics. I custom build most of my lab's experimental apparatuses through a combination of clean room and machine shop access... and taking apart random junk and MacGyvering it into something awesome.I publish my research in peer reviewed journals and have 5 accepted talks at international conferences.I wrote most of my code in Python and Mathematica, which numerically crunched on coupled second-order nonlinear different equations. I gained a lot of appreciation for the effectiveness of data visualizations in communicating unintuitive phenomena.Conference Talks:"Piezopotential Induced Electrochemical Reactions in Aqueous Media" (updated work) 2nd International Conference on Nanogenerators and Piezotronics, 2014, Georgia Tech "Interface Engineering by Piezoelectric Potential in ZnO-based Photoelectrochemical Anode” Materials Research Society, 2013, San Francisco"Piezopotential Induced Electrochemical Reactions in Aqueous Media" Materials Research Society, 2013, San Francisco"Characterization of Piezoelectric Potential and Piezotronic Effect in ZnO Nanowires via 3DKPM." Materials Research Society, 2011, Boston"Three Dimensional Kelvin Probe Microscopy for Spatial Potential Mapping and Nanowire Characterization." Materials Research Society, 2011, BostonPoster Presentations:2014 2nd International Conference on Nanogenerators and Piezotronic (NGPT)2014 UW-Madison Department Review Meeting2013 WARF Discovery Challenge2013 "The Secret Life of Energy"​ Energy Hub conference2012 WARF Interdisciplinary Discovery Challenge2012 "All of the Lights"​ Energy Hub conference2011 "Greening the Grid" Energy Hub conference

Madison, Wi, Us

MS&E 361: Materials Laboratory IIPrinciples and experiments in metallography, thermal analysis, diffusion and deformation. Mechanical property determination.Introduction to basic materials preparation and characterization techniques (polishing, optical microscopy, XRD, etc.)(Previous year)MS&E 361: Materials Laboratory IIIExperiments in the mechanical and electronic properties of matter in bulk and thin films; computer instrument control (LabVIEW); and data analysis.Students perform structural properties tests under varying conditions, grown films, manufacture diodes and characterize their creations with electrical and microscopy techniques.

Madison, Wi, Us

Assists WARF in enhancing the connection between research on campus and technology transfer. Educate students and faculty about WARF's mission, Intellectual property management and current patent law.I have worked in coordination with other ambassadors to put onseminars, open to the public, addressing topics from effective data presentation to cross-disciplinary collaborations. Acted in conjunction with numerous committees to coordinate sponsorship activities, judges and speakers for the 2013 & 2014 WARF Discovery Challenge.

Assisted in designing operations/protocols for scalingGenerated newsletter contentManaged social media presence

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Liaison between faculty, staff and students for coordinating research job placement within the department and student internship/Co-op opportunities outside of the department

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Hydrothermal synthesis of construction materials (vol. scale).Research contributed to the development of a university spinoff company, Solidia Technologies.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Base precipitation of hydroxyapatite (HAp) nanoparticles.HAp/Collagen composite fabrication.Developed dry mixing method to overcome reactant diffusion problem which allowed controlled stoichiometry of precursor concentrations via in situ precipitation.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Collaborated work in the design and operation of a continuous-flow chemical vapor condensation carbon nanotube (CNT) synthesis apparatus. Deposited CNT’s from vapor onto room temperature substrates for composite electronic applications

Initiated 11 original programs in first year; several were the first of their kind to be headed solely by studentsManaged 7 committeesDoubled 2nd year membershipFounded of the Rutgers University Solar Car Team

Phd, Materials Engineering

B.S., Material Science And Engineering

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