Matt Reed in Nashville, TN | University Of Tennessee-knoxville

Matt Reed

Male, 33 years old

I like to make novel connections between online things and real-life things. Then hack them into pieces. That's probably why I'm a Creative Technologist. I'm self-taught and hardened through my experience of breaking and making things since I was a little kid. Once I went with my mom to her favorite craft store. I took my . I had saved and bought some buttons and springs and stuff to make a robot with. I love my job and the people I work with. I love being a part of a team. It's no fun by myself. I've designed and built many websites, HTMLCSSJS and Flash. I've built custom web apps in PHP, Django, and Rails. I've populated a million row MySQL table and done fun stuff with it. I've built five iOS apps. I've hacked the Pinterest button for profit. I've made a Likelight with the Facebook Graph API, Legos, and an Arduino. I've made a Hotpad with an iPad . I've built a robot that pours beers for Tweets. I've made a QR code out of Oreos and then eaten it. I've made a facial-recognition-check-in-sms-a-deal system. I've triggered a CD from Facebook and an inquiry from the FTC. I've been a finalist for Nashville Tech Council's Innovator of the Year. I've won some Addys. My hand has been on CNN. My watch has been on Mashable. I like pretty much all web technologies except for Silverlight. I want to invent. This is all. Specialties MS Word. I'm the best at Word no matter how good you think you are. That's it. That's my only specialty. I just click the "Convert to HTML" menu button and it makes all the things I do come to life read more ...