Matt Warden

Where I've been

Roles and dates, in order, without the accomplishment bullets, because those are boring.

Now

Straive

Straive acquired Double Line. I stayed, and now hold two roles there: I lead the Public Sector business unit — the unit that exists post‑integration, housing the acquired capabilities alongside the related ones Straive already had — and I remain CEO of Double Line, which continues to exist as a legal entity and subsidiary.

Business Unit Lead, Public Sector Straive
Chief Executive Officer Double Line, subsidiary
Roles, in order

Double Line

April 2012 – present

Education data integration and management — consulting and professional services for states and districts trying to make their own data usable. I joined as an analyst and am now its CEO, by way of every rung in between:

Chief Executive Officer to present
Chief Operating Officer 10 months
Vice President of Technology 3 years 4 months
Director of Technical Solutions 1 year 5 months
Senior Project Manager 7 months
Senior Business Data Analyst 8 months

Balanced Insight

Sept 2009 – April 2012

Product Manager for a platform that brought an agile approach to business intelligence projects. A broad job at a small company: messaging and marketing, technical pre‑ and post‑sales, a repeatable AWS deployment for the SaaS offering, and the roadmap arguments between current customers and the market we hadn't reached.

Deloitte Consulting

Aug 2006 – Sept 2009

Business Technology Consultant. Where I learned how large organisations actually decide things, which was not what I expected.

Earlier, briefly

Writing software since 1999, mostly while still in school.

Medicfusion 2006
Signal US Communications 2005–06
Google, Summer of Code fellow 2005
Celestine 2004–05
Miami University 2003–04
Synchrony Communications 1999–2001
Education & publications
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
BS Systems Analysis, BA Psychology · 2006
Professional LAMP
Wrox / Wiley Publishing · December 2005
How better prototyping can improve BI
The Data Warehousing Institute · March 2011
Generalized AJAX response handling for XML
DevX.com · July 2005 · archived
Certifications
Claude Certified Architect
Exam passed July 2026
Private pilot certificate
Earned November 2017

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