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Mercer Island, WA, US

Washington, DC, US

Joining the AI Corps to advance the DHS product roadmap, work to solve government-scale problems, and serve the American people.

Seattle, WA, US

- Taught "Video Prototyping", HCDE 526, Fall Quarter 2024- Member of Human Centered Design & Engineering Department's External Advisory Board- Sponsored the Shobe Prize for UW student entrepreneurs, 2010-2015- Many other direct engagement activities on campus

Foundations is an in-person, invite-only community of tech founders & entrepreneurs in Seattle. I am helping define its community program structure to encourage pre-seed founders to home their companies here and for experienced operators, investors, and other sharp people from all walks to become members.

Seattle, Washington, US

Tuze combines live sports data and large language models to deliver game predictions, recaps, and more, covering over 20 collegiate and pro sports. Expanding to additional domains soon.

Chicago, IL, US

In 2013 I designed and built initial social media engagement dashboards for sports teams, players, and leagues. Worked with CEO to build initial bidev relationships in the US and UK with organizations like Seattle Seahawks/Sounders and Manchester United.I still consult with the company on-demand.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

As an early stage employee at Rebellion:- Established a new Seattle office as a U.S. product engineering hub- Wrote, designed and launched second major company website revision (early 2020)- Developed synthetic data product roadmap to accelerate computer vision efforts- Prototyped mission replay and visualization tools for autonomy applications- Helped.

Worked on EV restomod as a business, converted a Fiat Spider to an EV as an MVP, and explored all sorts of other B2B ideas as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Pioneer Square Labs.(I still have the Fiat. Let me know if you want a test drive.)

Seattle, Washington, US

As one of four co-founders, I focused on product strategy and all aspects of user experience.Additionally, as a generalist: - Hired and led the UX design & research team- Set up customer support and workforce community management- Evangelized Mighty product vision at industry events and webinars- Conducted investor relations/development to support the CEO.

San Francisco, CA, US

As a product designer, I focused on investors who used AngelList's startup investment platform. - Designed angel investment performance reporting - Applied the 5-Day Design Sprint method to prototype and test a hiring mobile app design- Created the service design and built initial application review tools for a new investor vetting/education process.

Seattle, WA, US

As CDO, I helped design the next gen of BigDoor's gamified loyalty platform for partners like MLB, NFL, Dell, and the City of Austin, Texas.

Mountain View, CA, US

As a user experience designer:- Spearheaded various efforts to incorporate the key parts of FeedBurner into the overall Google publisher product mix- Designed and launched the initial version of Google Apps Enterprise Marketplace- Proposed a strategy to better map the complexity of advertising tools to match publisher scale- Designed early enterprise.

US

from my FeedBurner "About" Page entry:Credited as the original "voice of FeedBurner," Matt also maintains an unwavering devotion to the FeedBurner fan club. If publishers and advertisers want it, his team brandishes the t-squares and slide rules required to make it happen.Acquired by Google 2007.

Burning Door was myself and three other colleagues who've created, nurtured (and in some cases, outlasted) various Internet startups in Chicago. We did web app design and architecture consulting as BD in between our startup drives.

Spyonit was a web service offering a catalog of alerts to the general public, covering everything from eBay auctions to breaking business and news headlines to a “Vanity Spy,” which could tell you when your name appeared anew at the major search engines. Named one of the "Top 50 Most Useful Sites" on the web by Yahoo! Magazine, July 2000 and acquiring a.

Dublin 2, IE

Brought what I learned about usability at Microsoft to a new team within Andersen that was attempting radically rethink how the firm built its solutions from a much more modular and reusable process and architecture. This rethink included much more focus on user experience; the best part was that I met my co-founders for the next three startups to follow.

Redmond, Washington, US

Ran usability evaluations (and learned my way around a corporate usability lab, video editing, and concise, daresay "punchy" report writing) on very early Windows 95 prototypes and on the PageMaker-for-everyone-else of its time, Publisher 2.0. Cultivated an obsession for white cheese pizza and Talking Rain.

M.S., Human Centered Design & Engineering

B.A., Professional Writing, Economics Minor