Matt Brown

Lived Experience:

• I have been consulting for over 20 years, including retaining clients for 5+ to 20 years. Good customer service, understanding where a company is now and how to get the company to where it wants to go, and user adoption have played a large part in this journey.
  
  
• Directly impacted the technical direction and implementation at over 40 Australian Brands. Understanding how to influence other teams without having direction control.
  
  
• I have led 6+ large-scale divestiture and acquisition projects for clients from a technical standpoint, building teams and capability from the ground up.

Success factors:

• Helping business leaders gain influence on an outcome when they don’t have direct control.
  
  
• I have a deep technical and business network. I can help you hire and retain the right technical staff and ensure that your technology works not only now but also years into the future.
  
  
• You achieve your desired outcome. Any strategy or planned outcome has a practical roadmap for achieving the goal with a strong focus on specific actions and user adoption.

Core values:

• Honesty
• Loyalty
• Integrity
• Trust
• Caring Leader

Knowledge:

• Building technical teams from the ground up.  Scaling an IT consulting company from $1M to $10M in revenue.
  
  
• Being able to talk tech and business simultaneously allows me to help people on both sides of the fence understand each other and simplify complexity without jargon.
  
  
• I can help you understand the technical landscape, set a vision and execution plan for the future or improve your internal team's abilities.
  
  
• Deep technical understanding of databases, data warehouses, data lakes, data modelling, modern data architecture, data and systems integration and AI.

Career highlights:

• Worked with companies from $0 start-ups to $10+ Billion giants, having a real impact on all of them.
  
  
• Successfully automated data systems that ran for 5+ years without user intervention. Walk the walk.
  
  
• Helped guide and implement the technology stack for 2x successful start-ups - One with a global presence and the other with software running on all pharmacies within Australia.

Best advice received:

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

Favourite business model:

Scaling Up - Building systems & hiring for business fit is key

Book recommendation:

Find your why - Simon Sinek

 Understanding the “why” has been more impactful in my career than any other book.

Matthew Brown | LinkedIn Profile