Matt has over 12 years of business experience in sales, entrepreneurship, machine learning and data science, and he earned his AWS Machine Learning Specialty Certification in the summer of 2021. With a BA in English from the University of New Hampshire, Matt began building his professional foundation by surpassing expectations in sales and leadership roles before starting his own small business. Through building data dashboards, Matt saw the importance and opportunity around this data, and opted to obtain his second degree in Computer Science. Matt’s highly technical engineering skills allow him to analyze and forecast data using Python, Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch and Django, while also looping in his creative problem solving and people/project management abilities to deliver solutions that people are able to use and enjoy. When Matt’s not geeking out over data at work, he’s learning how to play the piano, running on the beach, reading fiction, or identifying exoplanets with Neural Networks and deep-diving in to other outer-space exploration topics.

With website development as the core focus of his 20 year career, Rex has evolved his skills, continuously learning and adapting with the Internet times. As the “dotcom” days exploded, Rex jumped into animation and Flash multimedia interactive website designs for international retail enterprises, as well as became a jack-of-all-digital-trades for a leading music and lifestyle magazine resulting in his fluency in PHP, JavaScript, CSS and HTML. Acquiring his Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Painting lent well to the more creative digital projects Rex accomplished in marketing design and print production. Rex is able to easily balance his logical and creative sides, and thrives on challenges where he has the freedom to push creative limits while still enabling functionality for top clients like Franklin Covey and URB Magazine. When Rex isn’t behind a computer screen, he may be producing music, DJing, painting, or traveling with his family.

Allison has over 20 years of experience building and managing global communications and marketing programs and teams, positioning companies and executives for strategic growth, resulting in market and thought leadership. Whether she is working cross-functionally and collaboratively, developing tools to measure program impact and success, managing high-profile speakers and large caliber events, crafting clever messaging, or calmly executing on high-stress public relations activities, she is a dedicated and proven professional. Her passions outside of work include dog rescue organizations and interior design.

With over 20 years of experience in the IT technical field as a system administrator and operations manager at a local internet service provider, Chris founded Cloud Brigade to support the growing number of companies adopting internet technologies in the cloud.