Matt Jones

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Executive Director @ Ford Motor Company | Global Tech Platforms, Research & Advanced Engineering @ Ford Motor Company
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Portland, Oregon, United States, United States
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About Matt Jones

As the Executive Director of Global Technology Platforms at Ford Motor Company, I oversee the delivery, development, research and planning activities in digital software and systems, electrification, automated systems, robotics, sustainability, materials and manufacturing. I have more than 20 years of experience in leading teams and projects in the automotive, aviation, and transportation industries, delivering multiple connected intelligent systems to market, spanning apps, embedded devices and cloud.I am passionate about transforming and scaling teams, embracing, architecting, and driving developments in hardware and software, and promoting open source software. I am also the current President and Chairman of the Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (COVESA), a not-for-profit alliance of automotive OEMs, Tier 1s, ISVs, OSVs and service suppliers producing an open source platform for connected vehicle systems. My specialties include RTOS, Linux, IoT, ML, AI, simulation, autonomous, robotics, cloud, embedded, edge, agile, and DevOps.

Matt Jones's Current Company Details
Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company

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Executive Director @ Ford Motor Company | Global Tech Platforms, Research & Advanced Engineering
Matt Jones Work Experience Details
  • Ford Motor Company
    Executive Director - Global Technology Platforms
    Ford Motor Company Apr 2024 - Present
    Dearborn, Michigan, Us
    Overseeing the Connected Vehicle Software, Research & Advanced Engineering, Global Technology Strategy, and Technology Platform Program Management teams. His responsibilities include delivery, development, research and planning activities in digital software and systems, electrification, automated systems, robotics, sustainability, materials and manufacturing.
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  • Ford Motor Company
    Executive Director - Tech Platform Strategy & Program Management, Research & Advanced Engineering
    Ford Motor Company Dec 2023 - Apr 2024
    Dearborn, Michigan, Us
    Oversees technology and platform strategy and embedded experience across a the entire vehicle portfolio worldwide.Leads Technology Platform program management to ensure technology platforms and digital systems are development, delivered and maintained.He also leads research activities in electrification, controls, automated systems, robotics, intelligent embedded systems, sustainability, materials and manufacturing.
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  • Ford Motor Company
    Executive Director - Global Technology Strategy, Research & Advanced Engineering
    Ford Motor Company Dec 2022 - Nov 2023
    Dearborn, Michigan, Us
    Oversees technology and platform strategy and embedded experience across a the entire vehicle portfolio worldwide.He also leads research activities in electrification, controls, automated systems, robotics, intelligent embedded systems, sustainability, materials and manufacturing.
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  • Ford Motor Company
    Director - Global Technology Strategy
    Ford Motor Company Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
    Dearborn, Michigan, Us
    Oversees technology and platform strategy and embedded experience across a the entire vehicle portfolio worldwide.
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  • Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (Covesa)
    Board Member, President & Chairman
    Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (Covesa) May 2011 - Present
    San Ramon, California, Us
    Nominated and elected to the Board of Directors as the current President and Chairman.GENIVI evolved into COVESA in October 2021.Previously elected to serve a term as Vice President, and terms as President. I was representing all members interests, focused on promoting the success of the alliance for all parties.Board-level, strategic leadership and operational oversight to a rapidly growing not for profit alliance of Automotive OEMs, Automotive Tier 1s, ISVs, OSVs and service suppliers producing an open source platform for connected vehicle systems.
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  • Wind River
    Corporate Vice President - Global Engineering
    Wind River Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
    Alameda, Ca, Us
    Leading the transformation of the global engineering teams; focused on delivery, CI/CD development philosophy and agile culture. Together we expand the meaning of “mission critical” beyond devices to software services and complete solutions for connected intelligent systems. Whether it is in #aviation, #defense, #automotive, #telco or #robotics, we are advancing the state of the art for edge machine learning #edgeML in mission critical deployments. The engineering teams are developing and integrating, proprietary and open source systems, for embedded and cloud connected, safety certified solutions. This single platform focuses on enabling internal and external developers to rapidly create the next generation of connected intelligent system - Embedded systems (hypervisors, RTOS and Linux) seamlessly connecting to cloud systems (AWS, Azure and on-prem Kubernetes), to safety levels such as D0178 DAL-A, ISO26262 ASIL-D and IEC61508 SIL-4 complete with associated cybersecurity certifications.This platform spans all phases of the system development lifecycle; development (code, build test), deployment and operations; including software update and the ability to capture operational telemetry robustly – Mission Critical Digital Feedback Loop.
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  • Virgin Hyperloop
    Senior Vice President Of Software Engineering
    Virgin Hyperloop Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
    Virgin Hyperloop, previously known as Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Technologies, is the leading company working to commercialize Hyperloop systems - moving passengers and/or cargo at airline speeds, at a fraction of the cost of air travel.I oversaw and managed complex autonomous embedded hardware and software projects, including the multiple networks connecting the embedded systems. Outside embedded, I led the overarching cloud solutions of apps, web and services; including devops. All are necessary to deploy Virgin Hyperloop’s automated services; encompassing the autonomous control systems of the vehicles, infrastructure, and Command Center.
  • Moovel Group
    Chief Product Officer
    Moovel Group Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
    Berlin, Deutschland (Deu), De
    moovel North America brings mobility solutions for public and alternative transportation options to cities via mobile ticketing and our RideTap SDK.As head of moovel NA’s product team, I owned the vision and roadmap for the portfolio of mobile, SDK and web products that will define the future of urban mobility across the globe.
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  • Jaguar Land Rover
    Director Of Future Technology - Electronic & Software Systems
    Jaguar Land Rover Sep 2002 - Aug 2016
    Coventry, West Midlands, Gb
    Defining the technical strategy and leading the per-development of the future Electronic and Software Systems – including technical leadership of infotainment systems and connected, autonomous vehicles.With a global team; in the UK, I oversaw teams of software Technical Specialists and Development Managers, coordinating with the rest of JLR to bring future software features and hardware product swiftly to market. In Portland, Oregon, I lead the creation, launch and oversaw Jaguar Land Rover’s two development centers (with a third in stealth mode).The JLR Open Software Technology Center is focussed on developing open platforms in collaboration with the GENIVI alliance and the Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux project. The JLR Technology Incubator, with a mission to incubate 120 start- ups in the state of the art, technology and development center. The third center is dedicated to autonomous vehicle and collaboration with the leading players in the industry, with a newly built and dedicated team.Prior to this role I lead the physical and logical architecture specification, and the delivery, of Jaguar Land Rover’s Next Generation of Infotainment, working with many parts on a Linux MeeGo OS platform, and then into the Tizen project. This included building an offshore development center in Bangalore with 160 skilled software engineers.This included managing the NGI Core Team and Electrical Telematics Team; developing the strategy, specifying systems, managing sourcing of nomination of multiple suppliers through RFQs.
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  • The Linux Foundation
    Member Of The Board Of Directors
    The Linux Foundation Mar 2014 - Jul 2016
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Elected to represent the Silver Membership level on the Board of Directors; representing companies such as ARM, Dell, LG, nVidia, Sony, and Yahoo - aiming to raise the profile of Linux as a means to deliver product across all verticals, including automotive and mobile.
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  • Bmg Chrysalis
    Radio Producer
    Bmg Chrysalis Dec 1999 - Jul 2003
    Producer for weekend shows and for outside broadcasts.
  • Springwood Leisure
    Technical Manager
    Springwood Leisure Nov 1999 - Mar 2003
    Technical Manager of multiple nightclub venues, and designer of technical Audio / Visual systems in new venues inside and outside of the group.
  • Smiths
    R&D Engineer
    Smiths May 2001 - Oct 2001
    København, Dk
    Developing embedded DSP, microcontroller and FPGA code for power supply modules in the aerospace domain, complete with related analogue circuitry
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  • Sendo
    Database & Testing Engineer
    Sendo Jun 1999 - Nov 1999
    Database Engineer, designing and delivering the database for system test results and design verification in a mobile handset environment.

Matt Jones Skills

Embedded Systems Automotive Product Development Electronics Management Integration Strategy Project Management Program Management Software Development Linux Engineering Engineering Management Strategic Planning System Design Software Engineering Team Leadership Manufacturing Cross Functional Team Leadership Product Management Systems Engineering Android Vehicles Embedded Software Automotive Electronics System Architecture Requirements Analysis Sound Automotive Engineering Product Design Consumer Electronics Fmea R&d Software Design Public Speaking Team Management Infotainment Being Amazing Automotive Infotainment Telematics Future Mobility Mobility Ios Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence Robotics Machine Learning Deep Learning Devops Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery Executive Leadership Engineering Leadership Technical Architecture

Matt Jones Education Details

  • University Of Birmingham
    University Of Birmingham
    Electronic & Electrical Engineering With Management
  • The King'S School, Worcester
    The King'S School, Worcester

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