Matt Peterson

Matt serves on Madison Development Corporation's Venture Debt Advisory Committee, assessing technology companies for program participation.

Consultant to a specialized agency of the United Nations (Switzerland).

Challenge: Improve the productivity and quality of data collection and analysis for field medical studies, automate manual processes, and evolve legacy systems, all involving diverse international locations, and complex organizational/cultural ecologies

Solution: Complement the design of state-of-the-art IT systems with development of best practices for staff, updating of systems and practices to speed adoption by diverse cultures, and sourcing external resources where appropriate.

Vertatique - Sustainable Computing, Media, Devices supports the efforts of progressive enterprises and practitioners and informs Matt's work. Vertatique also provides a testbed for rapid deployment using open source and other agile publishing resources and for social media integration.

Building an international audience has been a key objective for the Vertatique initiative. The site and its Twitter feed, @GreenICT, is now referenced in over 80 countries . Vertatique content is cited worldwide.

Partnered with colleague possessing complimentary skills to deliver introductory training to IT group seeking to transition from proprietary to open technology.

Challenge: Enable ongoing knowledge acquisition within limited budget

Solution: Combined high-level subject-matter material with training on how to access local and national resources to enable internal champions continue to acquire knowledge and credibility.

Sector development leadership

Challenge: Create a community of interest across multiple industries -- entertainment and telecommunications -- to accelerate an emerging market.

Solution: Partnered with key telecom and media industry clients to assemble and lead a team to plan, produce, and promote a multi-year conference series and related online community site.

International Teleproduction Society: Supplied market research and customized analysis to support industry initiatives oriented toward public sector outcomes, including creation of new NAISC code and tax policy.

International Trade Centre (Switzerland): Researched, designed, and costed "Roster of Experts" system for United Nations agency to better match worldwide commercial expertise with specific needs of developing countries.

Video Services Forum: Provided early-stage professional services to establish and grow new organization with worldwide membership focused on developing emerging telecommunications industry sector. Built financial/administrative capabilities, conducted sector market research, and created online business information resources.

University of Southern California's Entertainment Technology Center: Researched and analyzed quantitative and qualitative information to characterize target market and its segments.