Matthew Liere Email & Phone Number

Eastern Washington

Spokane, Washington

Award-winning author for outdoor columns appearing in The Spokesman-Review in 2017 and 2018.

Spokane, Washington Area

Provide quality content on a variety of topics. Award-winning author with work published in various media, including newspapers, periodicals and professional websites.

United States

Tech Transfer Specialists are highly trained field agents who offer regular on-site hive inspections and sampling for large commercial beekeepers and queen breeders. The data they collect help provide large-scale beekeepers with the knowledge to make management decisions to maintain healthy colonies. We focus on demonstrating the importance of monitoring disease and parasite management while working with beekeepers in the field. Duties include sample collection, support, and analysis of test results and inspection. Additional services include longitudinal sampling on new feed and treatment options desired by the operation. Together, beekeepers and Tech Transfer Specialists interpret real-world disease levels to make informed decisions about future treatments and colony management.

Spokane, Washington Area

Served as President for the The Inland Empire Beekeepers Association (IEBA) - a Non-Profit Corporation that exists to promote beekeeping in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho through the education of future and current beekeepers, and educate the general public of the benefits and necessity of honeybees and their products.

Loon Lake, Wa

Spokane, Washington Area

Develop, control and lead all quality aspects for Omega Pacific, Inc., an ISO 9001-certified company specializing in the manufacture of carabiners and associated mountaineering equipment.

Air Station Los Angeles

Plans, schedules, manages all maintenance, launch and recovery evolutions for fleet of MH65C helicopters; supervises two, full-time maintenance shifts, 4 shops and 60+ support personnel. Budgets and manages a $5.8M aviation materiel inventory and $230K departmental fund. Responsible for final flight-release authorization for all aircraft returning from safety-of-flight maintenance.Maintains all agency and OEM engineering directives; liaisons with industry partners to resource and resolve complex aircraft safety and technical issues. Primary environmental program coordinator for Los Angeles-based unit; ensures HAZMAT management compliance IAW federal, state, local and rigid California airport regulations. Develops, reviews and edits all unit technical instructions; validates currency and/or establishes directives to implement new engineering and Quality Assurance programs, as well as process improvement initiatives.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Program and Budget Manager for Coast Guard's Aviation fleet. Developed platform capabilities to meet or exceed designated performance improvement benchmarks; recapitalized funds for support equipment and Personal Protection Equipment upgradesPartnered with DOD sub-systems board members on multi-agency research projects, including each branch of the military, Customs and Border Patrol.

Ms, Quality Systems Management, 3.93

Lean Six Sigma, Technical Writing, Value Stream Mapping, DMAIC processes

Bs, Aeronautical Technology, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Published freelance writer and correspondent, Copy editor and columnist for the Exponent Minor in English.