Hi, I'm Matt

Generative AI Researcher • Educator • Strategist • Author • Consultant •
Founder • Synthetic Reality • Generative AI • Simulations • Metaverse

About me

Matt is a visionary and thought-leading technologist with a 30+ year tenure driving and delivering successful large scale, transformative and high value technology projects. Combining an excellent grasp of business and technical disciplines in advanced technology architecture, engineering, operations and product development, Matt has been able to synthesize disparate domains to create innovative new technologies and products helping to advance applications of emerging technologies.

Resume

Experience

Head of Architecture & Engineering

Amdocs · Full-time · 2020 - Present
Denver, Colorado, United States

CEO & Founder

Berkeley Synthetic · Full-time · 2022 - Present
Berkeley, California, United States

Teaching Faculty, Data Science

University of California, Berkeley · Part-time · 2022 - Present
Berkeley, California, United States

Principal & Chair, Digital Asset Management

Metaverse Standards Forum · Part-time · 2022 - Present
San Francisco, California, United States

Co-Founder & Chair, Technical Advisory Committee

Open Metaverse Foundation · Part-time · 2014 - Present (former Executive Director) Linux Foundation Project
San Francisco, California, United States

Author

Wiley & Associates · Part-time · 2022 - Present
San Francisco, California, United States

National Director, Data Science

IBM · 2018 - 2020 · 2 yrs2018 - 2020
Irvine, California, United States

Director, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Innovation

Shaw Communications · 2016 - 2018
Denver, Colorado, United States

Principal Architect, Video, Applications and Security Technology

CableLabs · 2013 - 2016
Denver Colorado, United States

Senior Director, Video and Applications Technology

Rogers Communications · 2006 - 2013
Toronto, Canada Area

Senior Manager, Engineering

Sprint · 2003 - 2006
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Education

Master of Science (M.Sc), Data Science

University of California, Berkeley
Grade: 4.00

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

University of Denver - Daniels College of Business
Grade: 4.00

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Technology

York University
Grade: 4.00

Volunteering

Chair, Robotics And Automation Society

IEEE
Jan 2019 - Present · 4 yrs Education

Mentor

FIRST Robotics
Sep 2013 - Present · 9 yrs
Science and Technology

Mentor

The WICT Network
Jun 2016 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos
Science and Technology

Licenses & Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon

CCNA

Cisco

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

ITIL Practitioner

Axeos

PMP

PMI Toronto Chapter

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate

Amazon

CISSP

(ISC)²

IT Information Library Foundations Certification (ITIL) 4

AXELOS Global Best Practice

P.Eng

Professional Engineers Ontario

Scaled Scrum Master Certified (SSMC)

Scaled Agile, Inc.

Organizations

VRAR Association

Member · Feb 2022 - Present

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2017 - Present

Association of Enterprise Architects

Member · Dec 2016 - Present

Web Networks

Director · Jun 2016 - Present

Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry

Member · Jun 2015 - Present

The White Foundation

President · May 2015 - Present

SCTE

Associate Board Member · Dec 2014 - Present

Project Management Institute

PMP · Mar 2014 - Present

Colorado Technology Association

Member · Jan 2014 - Present

Information Systems Audit and Control Association

Member · Jan 2014 - Present

Information Systems Security Association

Member · Nov 2013 - Present

IEEE Cybersecurity, Computational Intelligence, Consumer Electronics & Communications Society

Member · Jan 2012 - Present

Professional Engineers of Ontario

Professional Enginer · Jan 2012 - Present

3GPP

Individual Member · Jan 2007 - Present

Open Metaverse Foundation

Jan 2006 - Present

Moving Picture Experts Group

Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

IETF

Feb 1995 - May 2007

W3C

Mar 1995 - May 2007

Projects

Generative AI Research

Digital Asset Management

Metaverse Standards

Open Metaverse Foundation

Digital Asset Protection

Descriptive World

UC Berkeley Data Science

Testimonials

Matt is extraordinarily broad and facile in the technologies that ISP and telecom service providers depend on, to the point of being encyclopedic. He deftly relates the specifics of particular technologies to their architectural and business impact and rationale. And he eats the dogfood; he is a prolific experimenter. Highly recommended.
Tom Lookabaugh
Head of System Sciences at Viasat Inc.
Matt is thorough and organised in his work and planning. He is technically very capable and has an excellent capacity to complete work.
Johan van Coller,
Innovator
On behalf of S3 Group, I have been dealing with Matt over the past 18 months. Matt has been a pleasure to work with, he combines a strong technical background with detailed domain knowledge and sound business awareness.
Philip Brennan
Chief Revenue Officer at Alpha Wireless

Skills

Contact me

Today’s business environment demands critical thinkers and innovative leaders to drive transformation and growth; always keen to expand connections, please connect directly via LinkedIn. Requests for public speaking, consulting and training please email me.