Matthew Vargas
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Eric Rajasalu
Working operations at a Startup can be very challenging. Matt was a great resource and was always willing to do whatever we needed to ensure the success of our events. Matt is dependable and flexible. He was able to step into roles outside of his area of expertise and deliver for the team.
Eric Rajasalu
Working operations at a Startup can be very challenging. Matt was a great resource and was always willing to do whatever we needed to ensure the success of our events. Matt is dependable and flexible. He was able to step into roles outside of his area of expertise and deliver for the team.
Eric Rajasalu
Working operations at a Startup can be very challenging. Matt was a great resource and was always willing to do whatever we needed to ensure the success of our events. Matt is dependable and flexible. He was able to step into roles outside of his area of expertise and deliver for the team.
Eric Rajasalu
Working operations at a Startup can be very challenging. Matt was a great resource and was always willing to do whatever we needed to ensure the success of our events. Matt is dependable and flexible. He was able to step into roles outside of his area of expertise and deliver for the team.
Experience
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ITSRAPID
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United States
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Marketing Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Owner
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Jan 2022 - Present
RapidAds streamlines cross-retailer workflows, giving customers the power to manage E-Commerce advertising at every step. With RapidAds, producing online banner ads, social media images and offline banners is easier than ever before. RapidAds streamlines cross-retailer workflows, giving customers the power to manage E-Commerce advertising at every step. With RapidAds, producing online banner ads, social media images and offline banners is easier than ever before.
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Code With Us
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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1 - 100 Employee
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Coding Instructor
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Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
Teach programming lesson plans to kids in C++, HTML, CSS, Javascript. Teach programming lesson plans to kids in C++, HTML, CSS, Javascript.
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Northeastern University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Teacher Assistant
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Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Assisting multiple courses (CS5001, CS5004) in Python and Java. My responsibilities include: - Coordinating with the professor and other TA's to create lab assignments for the students - Assist in teaching lab classes for students - Grading assignments, quizzes, and exams of the students - Communicate with professor on learning objectives, tools to use during class, and plan of action for upcoming class sessions Assisting multiple courses (CS5001, CS5004) in Python and Java. My responsibilities include: - Coordinating with the professor and other TA's to create lab assignments for the students - Assist in teaching lab classes for students - Grading assignments, quizzes, and exams of the students - Communicate with professor on learning objectives, tools to use during class, and plan of action for upcoming class sessions
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SPORTS APTITUDES
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France
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Spectator Sports
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Advisor
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Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
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Product Strategist
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Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Sports Aptitude, Inc. (“SA”) is developing a new and innovative web and mobile application for the sports industry. I am in charge of managing the product development team at SA. I helped create the development road map as well as am helping with the product development of SA’s web and mobile applications. Responsibilities:- Develop personas, user stories, and requirements for product development team- Help build, modify, and review wireframes for SA product- Collaborate with team on wire frames for product requirements- Work with offshore development team on weekly scrum meetings- Lead customer interviews in developing future product features, requirements- UX/UI product interviews with potential customers to improve product- Work in Jira to assist in adding new stories, epics, update product roadmap- Produce and implement Unit Testing on new development updates Show less
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Full Automaton
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Santa Clara County, California, United States
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Freelance Software Engineer
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Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Independent full stack developer working on projects for personal portfolio, as well as building sites for various groups/brands. I've built comprehensive websites with database components, server-side logic, as well as quality front-end UI. Projects listed below: https://www.renaissancecg.com/ -> Currently rebulding the Wix website for Renaissance Consulting Group, Renaissance Consulting Group has asked me to take their current website off of Wix, and do some UX/UI updates to current site offerings. This project is in progress. - MEAN stack - MongoDB for database - Express.js, Node.js - Angular front end client framework - Bootstrap - Trello Kanban Board https://myriathon.com/ -> Charity gaming group which holds bi-annual marathons. Group wanted a website where their information could be shared, and videos could be uploaded. More content will be added, website just launched V1. - MEAN stack website - MongoDB for database management - Express.js, Node.js - Angular front end client framework - HTML/CSS/Javascript/Typescript - Bootstrap - Trello Kanban Board - AWS - Nginx - Ubuntu 16.04 - Let's Encrypt for SSL - AWS Route 53 - AWS S3 storage for image files https://www.warpmeta.com/ -> Personal brand website for my gaming teams, as well as space for a blog. This website is currently in idle mode as the brand itself has down scaled. Languages, tools, and skills used are the following: - Java, Java Spring Boot - 3rd party blog tool for custom page UI to feel more like a blog post - MySQL for database management - HTML/CSS/Javascript for front-end UI with JSP - Bootstrap - Trello Kanban Board - AWS - Apache2 - Ubuntu 16.04 - Let's Encrypt for SSL Show less
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WarpMeta
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United States
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Entertainment Providers
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1 - 100 Employee
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President at WarpMeta
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Sep 2016 - Nov 2019
At WarpMeta, I am in charge of business development, strategy, marketing outreach, management of the product, as well as working closely with development of the platform. My role takes me to all sorts of specialties, which include: - Developed partnership strategies, worked with LCS Team, Sportsnation, Unikrn blog/podcast groups - Managed local developers on weekly scrum calls - Defined scope of projects based on design objectives and requirements - Built wireframes, worked with designers on updated UX/UI for website - User Feedback/Testing/Design to improve product, iterate product road map, update requirements - Implemented over a dozen solutions based on user feedback w/developers - product features, improved UI - Increased user base from 0 - 1,000 gamers as a startup using growth hacking methodologies - Reddit, Discord - Built new website using Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, AWS Show less
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eSportsfanz
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Computer Games
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President. Co-founder
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Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
We launched a B2C site for users to gather data and perform research on professional eSports games, as well as sharing data with business partners for Media and NA LCS Teams. My role included securing relationships with SB Nation, Content at Unikrn (Rough Drafts Podcast), and a NA LCS team (undisclosed due to NDA), as well as several content sites for League of Legends LCS media. We built a community of over 2000 users to our site over 6 months during January through June of 2016, before moving the company to more B2B products for data. I managed dayday operations of the team at eSportsfanz, including business development, marketing, sales, product strategy and roadmap, and product management with our developer on the website. We have now pivoted our offering to an eSports tournament platform. Work included: ● managed our business development team, as well as helped secure several partnerships to share data for the product. ● Set up and managed our outbound email marketing tools, created plans for growth hacking as well as execution for this work, created and managed Google Analytics, and helped manage SEO with our development team. Created social media content and drove social media campaigns on Reddit, Twitter. ● Led the charge on development of our product roadmap, as well as product strategy, including building a managing deadlines for work done. ● Worked with our Engineering lead to manage the development tasks and deadlines for the website. ● Developed and executed customer feedback sessions for current and future feature releases. Accomplishments ● Launched website on Jan 2016, peaked at 2000 users Monthly ● Had more than three data partners for the data we captured and stored ● Raised over $120,000 in funding for a startup company, including pitching for events. ● Partners included SB Nation, Unikrn, Tri Force Network, NA LCS teams ● Accepted into the GSVlabs Pioneer Accelerator Program Show less
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Palo Alto Midnight
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Palo Alto
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Coach
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Mar 2013 - Mar 2015
Palo Alto Midnight is a year-around AAU basketball club. Offering camps, clinics and club basketball teams, Midnight is intended for players of all skill levels who love basketball and are looking to improve their skills. The club’s top level travel teams, compete at the highest level of national competition. -Running practices -Coaching games Palo Alto Midnight is a year-around AAU basketball club. Offering camps, clinics and club basketball teams, Midnight is intended for players of all skill levels who love basketball and are looking to improve their skills. The club’s top level travel teams, compete at the highest level of national competition. -Running practices -Coaching games
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Thinktomi
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United States
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Education Management
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1 - 100 Employee
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Operations
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Dec 2013 - Feb 2015
Thinktomi provides concise, high impact, real life, and skills-based education leveraging its dynamic content management platform (DCMP) to help individuals launch a startup idea or scale a business. Thinktomi focuses on experiential learning delivering content via live, facilitated classes with thought leaders and practitioners who have built successful businesses, law practices, investment funds, and social enterprises in Silicon Valley and beyond. The company is guided by its mission to increase accessibility to high-impact entrepreneurship and business education to people of all ages and backgrounds, while growing a network of Thinktomi thinkers and doers across globe. For more information, visit www.thinktomi.com or contact us at info@thinktomi.com. - Manage and assist in getting product (classes) checklist ready and completed in a timely manner - Assist in pricing model for current and upcoming products - Create and assist with budget projections - Assist with facilitation of courses - Assist with CRM service (Insightly) - Set up and sending outbound campaigns using Mailchimp to contacts/affiliates - Set up events both online using Eventbrite and at location of event - Set up analytics using google for all events and courses, including website data and outgoing campaigns. - This includes analyzing said data and reporting to CEO/CCO - Assist in other areas of company when applicable (curriculum, marketing, etc.) Show less
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Vixxa Displays Inc
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Milpitas, CA
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Marketing Executive
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Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
Pioneer and patented Mobile-Digital Out-Of-Home Advertising Kiosk and Mobile-Digital ATM Kiosk (integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities in Digital Advertising Displays). Engineering capabilities includes both hardware and software design and development. Owns and manages Vixxa Media Group Inc a company that manages Digital Hotel Ad Network (www.digitalhoteladnetwork.com) and and Mobile Digital Retail Ad Netork (www.digitalretailadnetwork.com) and Vixxa Advertising Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd a company that manages manufacturing partners in China. - Market Research - Assist with campaign management - Develop and maintain leads using our CRM service (ZOHO) - Assist our graphic designers with ad creation - Develop tracking information analytics (QR codes) - Website design maintenance - Location strategy for hardware placement (Where the hardware is doing) - Door to Door sales - Cold calling potential advertisers for our platform - Responsible for converting 50% of all our advertisers - Contacting customers about new features - Responsible for all customer needs being met and dealt with in a timely manner Show less
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Student
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2008 - 2012
I majored in Economics I majored in Economics
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Marketing intern
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Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
Helped develop presentations for leads and partners. Helped develop presentations for leads and partners.
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Marketing Intern
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Jun 2010 - Aug 2010
Worked with sales team to help develop leads Worked with sales team to help develop leads
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Education
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Northeastern University
Master's degree, Computer Science -
Coding Dojo
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Colorado College
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Breck School
High School, GED