University of Minnesota

Founder & CEO at SHIFT Power Partners

Aurora, Illinois, United States

SHIFT Power Partners is a Shared Energy Savings company that provides advanced energy efficiency technology and services to large corporate and industrial customers at no up-front cost to the customer.SHIFT pays for every system that we install and earns revenues only as a percentage of dollars saved by the end-customer.  The more the customer saves, the more we make.The SHIFT Shared Energy Savings Platform provides accredited and institutional investors with access to these shared energy savings opportunities as income-producing investments.  SHIFT evaluates all new customer prospects based upon how much our proprietary software estimation tools indicate can be saved.  Not all commercial or industrial customers will qualify.  Those that do will generate a predictable and reliable long-term income stream for both SHIFT and platform participants.Each SHIFT installation's financial performance is predictable, reliable, and repeatable.

SHIFT Power Partners

Founder & CEO

Energi Pros, LLC is an Energy Services Company (ESCO) that specializes in helping commercial facilities to save up to 50% on their energy expenses. They accomplish this by identifying and eliminating waste and introducing low-cost, off-grid, energy sourcing and/or storage technologies.My role is to work with C-Suite executives to create simple, cogent, and accessible narratives that make clear the mission and value proposition of the company.  I then help produce investment, marketing and other business development materials that allow the company to 'get the message out.'Energy savings are effectively free money and the professionals at Energi Pros are highly adept at helping clients eliminate waste and improve sourcing to produce those savings.   For client companies, this often amounts to hundreds of thousands of Dollars put back on the bottom line each year.  Over time, client energy savings can amount to literally millions of Dollars.The aggregate effect of all of this saving is that it also reduces the demand for energy, which reduces stress on already overtaxed grids.  This helps bring down the cost of energy for everyone and potentially eliminates the creation of countless tons of greenhouse gasses.I am very fortunate to be a part of their mission and to be able to contribute to their success.

Energi Pros, LLC

Member Of The Board Of Directors

funding strategy developmentinvestor and shareholder communicationsintellectual-property market developmentdigital marketing and investmentsuser experience design

Experiential Dynamics, LLC / EXPERIENTIAL DYNAMICS OÜ

Principal

Co-Owner and General Manager of an exciting opportunity to help healthcare, education, and commercial institutions get and keep their facilities as safe as we know how to.A true passion project driven by a tangible need.

WellSpray Technologies, LLC

General Manager

Smart Phases, Inc (dba Novacab) manufactures ground-breaking Thermal Energy Storage Systems (TESS) which reduce HVAC energy consumption in commercial buildings by as much as 45% (measured at massive IBM facility, Bromont), and can produce electricity directly from waste heat, even at utility scales.My job description for Novacab is simple: Create and implement creative strategies that further the goals of the company and promote their game-changing green energy product to a world that sorely needs it.Formally, that includes:● Development of innovative structures and plans for company and project capitalization;● Development of documentation and communications which include messaging and marketing materials that align with and effectively project the needs, goals, and expectations of the company to prospective investors, strategic partners, key customers, and other affiliates of beneficial interest to the company;● Direct and indirect interface with potential investors, strategic partners, distributors, and keycustomers at any or all stages of said interactions;● Direct interface with the Board of Directors and/or shareholders of the company;● Selection, management, and direction of any and all internal resources and/or external vendors that may be required to assist in the performance of my duties.

Smart Phases, Inc. (d.b.a Novacab)

CSO (Chief Strategic Officer)

Inspiring cross-functional team members to deliver best in class user experiences to SPR clients by acting as the lead UX evangelist both internally and externally.Promoting exceptional experience design that exceeds the needs of our customers by creating delightful, innovative and engaging experiences that meet user goals and drive positive business outcomes.Working with Sales and account teams to identify new and existing opportunities, conceptualize and pitch ideas, and scope and estimate UX-centric and/or UX-lead projects.

SPR Consulting

UX Lead & Practice Principal Architect

Lead UX Resource for all "below the wing" Mobile Applications

TEKsystems @ United Airlines

Sr. Design Engineer

Contracted as a Sr. UX Architect to provide client-facing strategy on UX-led projects, specifically as the ‘face of UX’ for the firm’s largest and oldest client.•  Primary responsibility was to provide user-centered thought leadership and product guidance along with the usual range of IA, UX, and design services.•  Secondary responsibility was to assist the UX and Development Directors in developing long-term strategies for integrating UX into a highly dev-centric culture including bringing Lean-UX best practices into both new and existing client development engagements and integrating UX into Agile processes.

Pathfinder Software

Sr. UX Architect

Designing incredible customer experiences by...Leading user experience teams and activities for major client engagements.Guiding, motivating and mentoring our user experience gurus to continue providing innovative and creative user-centered interactive design and architecture for our Fortune 1000 client-base.Providing strategic and tactical consulting, helping our clients improve existing and integrate new systems designed to maximize successful engagements with their customers, vendors and employees....in other words: Making things better by making things easier, faster, friendlier, and more intuitive.

Manifest Digital

Associate Director, UX

W.W. Grainger

Contracted Sr. User Experience Architect

Avanade

User experience Manager

Matt's recipe for award winning web sites (Risdall Version):1 part strategy2 parts experienceadd a dollop of creativitymix in a healthy dose of logicroll out into evenly distributed site-mapsand cut/press into fully qualified wire-frames and use-case analysis'hand off to brilliant creative staff for icing and sparklesLet dev geniuses figure out how to package, ship, etc...I LOVE THIS JOB!!!All joking aside, my role at Risdall is to leverage my 20+ years of business experience along with some sound logic and creative exercises to make the sites that we develop just seem intuitively obvious.  Simply put: If you reach for it and it's not right where you thought it would be... then I did something wrong.Currently working with some great clients such as:Fairview Health Systems;U of M Alumni Association;Smith System;Premier Mounts;Hickory Tech;Envelop / Shield Technologies;and numerous others...

Risdall Marketing Group

Solutions Architect

Web: E-Commerce Design / Architecture / Development / Marketing / SEOBusiness: Research / Analysis / Structure / Development

MDXwired

Recruited through merger by CEO / former client to develop and manage the company’s ‘Interactive’ (Internet) department primarily focused in the 1:1 E-Business / CRM space.Primary responsibilities included:•	Executive-level technical and business objective analysis and strategic planning;•	Needs assessment and project planning in a highly client-centric environment;•	Extensive ‘C’ and Executive level client interaction;•	Generating or reviewing all technical proposals prior to release to the AEs;•	‘Hands-on’ development / technical team leadership and project management;•	Full profit-center responsibility for the performance of the ‘Interactive’ department.		Direct Reports: 3 (Team / Functional Area Leaders)Indirect Reports: 24Left Due To: Position eliminated through sale of company.

InHouse Productions

Director of Interactive Services

Co-founded consulting / development firm with three partners.Lead the development of Internet-enabled software (primarily E-Commerce, E-CRM and Extranet technology) as well as maintaining responsibility for the management of all internal technological resources.  Primary responsibilities included:•	Executive-level technical and business objective analysis and strategic planning;•	Needs assessment and project planning in a highly client-centric environment;•	Virtually all client interaction;•	Generating or reviewing all technical proposals;•	‘Hands-on’ development / technical team leadership and project management;•	Full P&L responsibility for the performance of the firm.Direct Reports: 3 (Team / Functional Area Leaders)Left Due To: Company Acquired.

Matt Dahl