I build things. Work is one of the places I do it.

I’m Matt. I build and run the systems a business depends on, and I like figuring out how things work, how they fit together, and how to make them better. Over fifteen years in IT, that’s taken me from building a regional business’s technology foundation from scratch to designing and building the platforms, standards, and automation that enabled a national organization to integrate acquisitions and scale. I’m comfortable setting the direction and doing the work to get there.

What interests me is understanding the whole environment: how the technology works, how people use it, and where things could work better together. That gives me plenty of reasons to keep learning, whether I’m working on infrastructure, connecting business applications, or writing automation to make everyday work easier.

A lot of my work is connecting things that already exist. I’ve built workspaces that bring monitoring, remote diagnostics, identity, patching, tickets, and documentation together, so I can follow a problem across systems without piecing everything together from separate consoles. Sometimes that means a script or an API integration; sometimes it means a larger application. AI can help investigate and use those tools, with controlled access and safeguards around changes.

Before IT, I spent a decade in the HVAC trade. That work taught me to troubleshoot, manage projects, and get things working with someone waiting on the result. I still hold my North Carolina mechanical contractors license, and that practical approach has stayed with me.

Outside work, there’s a home lab in the closet and a workshop in the garage. I’m always reading, following questions that interest me, and teaching myself new skills. Building a backyard sauna, making a smart mirror, and experimenting with software give me places to put those ideas into practice.

I taught myself mobile development and built a mobile app business, starting with around twenty apps before focusing on one profitable product. It’s now passed 50,000 lifetime purchases. I rebuilt it in Flutter so I could maintain iOS and Android from one codebase. It’s given me years of experience taking software from an idea into people’s hands and keeping it useful as the platforms change.

Matt’s Volleyball started as a pickup group with just enough people for two teams. I built it into a business with 200 players per season, four seasons a year, and built its website and Volleyball Engine, the software behind tournament registration, payments, scheduling, balanced teams, and live scoring on phones and venue TVs. It’s my most extensive software work: I own the architecture, development, testing, and deployment, and improve it based on what happens during real events. Contractors run nightly operations, and I still enjoy the people and the game that got it started.

I like having things in my life that give me a reason to learn and something useful to do with that knowledge. There’s usually a project underway and another idea I’m reading up on.