Let’s Create, Together

ℹ️ 2026 Update: I’m still officially #OpentoWork! In July 2025, alongside 362 others, I received a layoff notice from Stanford University due to financial challenges impacting the entire higher education industry. My current role at LinkedIn is a short-term contract and I am actively searching for my next career opportunity.

Details About My Global Job Search

I’m excited about opportunities that activate the diversity of my professional background, including full-time roles in these areas:

  • Marketing communications
  • People Operations / Talent Management
  • Program Management
  • College Counseling
  • Project Management
  • Change Management

I am open to moving anywhere in the world that has an opportunity that is aligned with my career. 🌎

👋🏼 Know about an opportunity for me? Send me an email or message me on LinkedIn. I’d love to hear from you!

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Matt’s Story

Not Your Average Marketing Communications Professional

I’ll start with the basics: I am a marketing communications strategist and content producer based in the greater New York City area. 

While that line is true, it falls short in capturing the full essence of who I am. I am a creative, the grandson of immigrants, a proud Borícua, an advocate for justice, a former school teacher, a singer, a change-maker. Above all, I’m a person with a story.

And I believe everyone, and every organization, has a story to tell.

Career

My career background includes marketing communications leadership and program direction spanning K-12, higher education, and most recently, the tech industry. I also bring a background in student development / student affairs, which has informed my people-centric approach to team management and my joy for supporting others along their growth journey. As I search for my next professional role, I’m open to roles in and out of education organizations.

My professional work aligns best with brands, groups, and organizations that share my core values of community, equity, and mission as demonstrated by measurable action and long-term commitments to advancing inclusion, diversity, equity, access, and belonging. 

My work in marketing communications is a blend of the strategic and the execution, and I have served in both specialized and generalized roles. Telling real stories backed by metrics-driven decisions and data-proven best practices has been a through-line of my career. Over the course of my 13-year career, I’ve led marketing communications and content strategy for the following kinds of organizations:

  • K-12 education
  • Higher education
  • Non-profit / small business
  • Conference organizations

Some areas of focus in my marketing communications roles include:

  • External marketing communications and public relations
  • Internal and executive communications 
  • Visual brand, positioning, and key messaging development
  • Student life communications and divisional branding/positioning
  • Student affairs / student services and retention strategy
  • Recruitment and enrollment communications to reach admissions goals
  • Diversity, equity, & inclusion program direction and messaging
  • Leading small to large marketing communications teams & vendors
  • Advancement, alumni engagement, & fundraising communications to reach organizational giving goals

Education

I wouldn’t be who I am today without my education and the school communities I still call home.

I received my M.Ed. in Student Development Administration from Seattle University’s College of Education and completed my undergraduate studies at the University of San Francisco, earning a B.A. in Media Studies.