Matt Beltran

Experience

 

Focusing on Product and Product Quality, I’ve been involved with software organizations since 2012. Utilizing my Computer Science degree, I ventured into Quality Assurance early in my career, and have since found myself in Product and Leadership roles.

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Front Gate Tickets builds festival ticketing products that provide data-rich insights to our clients, delight for Fans, and efficiency for our internal users.


Sr. Director of Product and Design
Front Gate Tickets
February 2022 to Current

Executive representing the entirety of the Product portfolio at Front Gate Tickets within the Ticketmaster and Live Nation Organizations. I set and communicate the vision and strategy of the products, as well as handle the execution of all major Product Development initiatives at FGT.

Director of Product
Front Gate Tickets
August 2019 to February 2022

Lead and manage the Product, Design, and Project Management teams. I work with executives to craft the Strategy and Vision of our Products. I work with my teams to plan, execute, and deliver all Product Development initiatives at FGT.

Director of Product Management
Front Gate Tickets
Apr 2017 to August 2019

Lead and manage the Product and Project management teams. Setting process, and best practices, we focus on delivering highly usable Products on time.

Product Manager
Front Gate Tickets
Feb 2017 to Apr 2017

Operate as the Product Manager for our internal Point of Sale solution.

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Malauzai (now Finastra)

Consumer-focused native mobile banking apps for credit unions and small banks.

Product Manager

May 2016 - Feb. 2017
Worked to gather, define, drive and deliver requirements for new feature initiatives across iOS, Android, and Web. My main project was redesigning bill pay for consumer banking.

edo Interactive (now Augeo)

Financial SaaS providing card linked programs to various major financial institutions such as Visa UK and Vantiv.

Product Manager

Mar. 2015 - Mar. 2016

Worked to launch the Prewards Product internationally in conjunction with Visa UK. I was the product manager owning our white label web, API, and SDK solutions for Financial Institutions.

Product Specialist

Sept. 2014 - Mar. 2015

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uShip Inc.

Online marketplace connecting consumers to a network of carriers able to transport items.

Assoc. Product Manager - iOS/Android

March 2014 - Sept. 2014

Worked to mature the uShip iOS and Android offerings. I worked on the team that released the initial iOS and Android apps at uShip.

iOS QA Engineer I

Jan. 2013 - March 2014

QA Contractor

Aug. 2012 - Jan. 2013

Quality Assurance Intern

May 2012 - Aug. 2012

 
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 Education

The University of Texas - Austin

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science

2008 - 2012

 Skills

Atlassian Administration (JIRA, Confluence, Service Desk)

Experience managing and working in multiple SDLCs (lean, scrum, agile, kanban)

(Probably too) Comfortable learning and utilizing technical tools to get the job done (Postman, various AWS services, Jenkins, etc.)

Strategy and Vision Definition - where we want to go and how to get there

Process Definition Expertise (Product, Design, and Project)

Experience working with Invision, Sketch, MarvelApp, Zeplin and other UI/UX products

Certified Scrum Product Owner by way of the Scrum Alliance in 2014

 

 Volunteer

8th Grade Math Coach
Austin Partners in Education     
Jan 2016 to May 2019

UT Prep Career Speaker
uTeach Outreach     
July 2017