Matt has coached soccer for nearly 20 years, most of which spent in the ranks of youth soccer. He also served as a Director of Coaching (DOC) and player development at several youth organizations in Mississippi and in the northeast, while being heavily involved with a State and Region III Olympic Development program (ODP) for about a decade.
Matt is also a coach-mentor and a soccer coaching instructor for the New Hampshire Soccer Association, while also serving as an Associate National Coaching Instructor for the United Soccer Coaches (USC) - formerly the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). Matt holds the USSF “A” License and the USSF Youth National License. He also holds USC Master Coach Diploma, Premier Diploma, and the Advanced National Goalkeeping Diploma.
Matt played collegiate soccer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in 2003-04 and at various semi-pro clubs in the greater NY/NJ metro area. After hanging up his soccer cleats, he went on to receive his Bachelors (B.S)., Masters (M.S.), and Doctoral (Ph.D) degrees in Applied and Computational Mathematics, all at NJIT. For the past 11 years, Matt has worked as a research scientist and an Associate Technical Director for the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL – Hanover, NH) of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), respectively. There he leads an interdisciplinary group of scientists and engineers in performing research and development activities in the U.S. and abroad in support of civil works and the warfighter. He specializes in high-performance computing and numerical modeling of nearshore coastal environments, such as ocean waves within flood-risk management and extreme weather conditions.
Matt moved to New Hampshire in 2019. He resided in Grantham, NH with his wife Wioletta, his 4-year-old son Adrian, and a 6-year-old German Shepherd Bella.
