Bridging the Gap Between Customers and Products

With experience and education in both business and technology, I can work cross-functionally with your management and engineering teams to help your organization achieve success with its products.

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Companies I've Worked With

Product Innovator

I co-founded the startup company Brazen House with the goal of creating the next generation of musical instruments. We have designed the Martone, a new electronic instrument that combines modern technology with the features that musicians love.
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As a product manager, I conducted over one hundred customer discovery interviews to help our startup find its product-market fit. As a mechanical engineer, I designed the instrument in CAD and fabricated high-quality prototypes for beta testing.

Experienced in Design

An artist at heart, I love turning ideas into realities. I specialize in creating mockups and prototypes to get an engineering team started, or to use during customer discovery to gather feedback on a product idea.

I have experience with many facets of customer-centric design including mechanical design (CAD), graphic design, UX / UI design, and web design (including this website).

Customer Focused

At NextCorps, a startup incubator, I worked directly with multiple early-stage startup companies to create product roadmaps and prioritize feature lists, develop new product features, and launch customer insight platforms to help their businesses grow.

Testimonials

"Matt is extremely adept at combining worlds of business, tech, and product management.... Matt is a valuable contribution to any team, can learn quickly, plan out the tangible steps to success, and deliver on an assignment with the utmost quality and care. Finding individuals who are detail oriented, extremely effective in their work, and bring ingenuity and creativity into their work is a rare find. These qualities put Matt in the top 3% of individuals I’ve worked with."
-Marik Hazan, Community Manager at NextCorps

"Matthew created a list of product features with recommended prioritization for our startup company. After careful review of our product goals, Matt also mocked up a vital part of the business application complete with hyperlinked actions to demonstrate user experience and workflow. Through this, he demonstrated the key skills that will serve him well as a product manager."
-Jaimie Cole, Co-Founder at Smoother Nutrition

"Matt worked collaboratively on a project for What’s Good bringing valuable insight, creative thinking, and professionalism.... I was impressed with his ability to immediately understand our business, articulate his findings, and offer real solutions. He is organized, detail oriented with an eye on the big picture."
-Jennifer Young, Founder at What's Good

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