Top Five Strengths: Achiever, Individualization, Woo, Arranger, Futuristic
Matt joined OIT in 2022 and brings a wealth of experience in IT, data management, analytics, and business engineering process standards. Prior to joining CU Denver, he served as the president and CEO of Optimize Consulting Group, a boutique IT and data analytics consulting firm based in Florida as well as Vice President of the Education market for MTX Consulting Group and Chief Strategy Officer of their AI subsidiary mavQ AI. Before that, he served as the State of Florida’s chief data officer for more than 28 state colleges, 12 state universities, and 34 state agencies, as well as the University of Florida’s director of enterprise data management, which encompassed areas of research computing, data lake/warehouse/engineering, master data management, data trustee/stewardship, analytics and reporting, and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. Matt received his doctorate of business administration in AI and business intelligence analytics, as well as his MBA in strategy and IT, MS in business intelligence and analytics, MSc in agile and waterfall project management, and BSBA in management from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt believes in being a servant leader that is not afraid to roll up his  sleeves and work alongside team members to help them grow.