Matt Brewer

Senior-most technology leader for a 65-employee food biotechnology manufacturer; owns IT, security, and enterprise systems across a single primary site and a distributed remote workforce.

• Presents technology investment recommendations, cybersecurity risk posture, and project status in business terms to executive leadership and the board on a quarterly basis — translating technical risk into decisions non-technical leaders can act on.
• Solved a data-trust problem for Finance, Sales, and Operations by delivering an enterprise BI platform (Apache Superset) with Entra ID single sign-on and row-level security, replacing manual and spreadsheet-based reporting and improving data integrity across source systems.
• Closed the gap between siloed ERP, CRM, and LIMS systems by architecting an internal integration layer connecting them to AI and reporting tools behind SSO and service-token authentication, reducing manual data preparation across Finance and Sales.
• Led enterprise AI adoption from evaluation through rollout: deployed AI tooling across the organization, established usage governance and data-handling standards, and ran enablement programs that drove active adoption.
• Built an ISO 27001-aligned governance program spanning policy, risk assessment, access control, and third-party review — clearing customer and partner security assessments and reducing audit findings.
• Standardized endpoint management and security on Intune and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint across all devices; automated compliance enforcement and user-data backup, eliminating recurring data-loss incidents.
• Owns business continuity and disaster recovery planning, including RTO/RPO targets validated through annual restore testing and tabletop exercises.
• Manages the technology vendor portfolio — provider contracts, SLA performance, licensing, and renewals — reducing annual spend.
• Operates as the organization's sole dedicated technologist, personally covering security, data, and applications functions typically split across separate teams — a constraint that forced resilient, well-documented systems rather than systems dependent on headcount.
• Leads cross-functional implementation teams drawn from Finance, Sales, Operations, and R&D through requirements, testing, training, and adoption on major system rollouts.
• Eliminated key-person dependency across critical systems through documented runbooks, automated recurring administration, and tested recovery procedures.

Led IT and security operations across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Executed a full data center exit, migrating 100% of on-premises server infrastructure to Microsoft Azure with minimal business disruption — retiring aging hardware and reducing infrastructure spend.
• Deployed layered security controls across cloud and on-premises environments: next-generation firewall, endpoint protection, and intrusion detection.
• Authored the company-wide security policy set and launched recurring awareness training, measurably improving phishing-simulation results.
• Consolidated application development onto Azure DevOps, standardizing source control, build pipelines, and release management across multiple teams.
• Rationalized the hardware and software estate from numerous supported configurations to a manageable set, cutting support ticket volume and simplifying patch and lifecycle management.

Promoted to lead a 7-person organization spanning software engineering, IT operations, and cybersecurity, owning the technology and staffing budget for the department.

• Led the organization to ISO 27001 certification — established and documented the ISMS, ran internal audits, and drove readiness across departments to pass the external audit on the first attempt, securing buy-in from teams outside direct reporting lines to change how they worked for the audit.
• Owned resource planning, project prioritization, and delivery across concurrent product lines, aligning technology investment to company growth objectives.
• Unified development and IT operations workflows, improving release frequency and reducing production incidents.
• Owned hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development across the department — advancing team members into senior and lead roles and sustaining strong retention.
• Established cross-training and documentation standards across engineering and operations to protect delivery continuity through turnover and absence — building resilience into the system rather than relying on any one person.
• As Technical Product Manager, delivered the PRISM ARMOR and CHEQ web and mobile platforms from concept to release, serving aviation industry customers.
• As Technical Product Manager, introduced Agile and Scrum across the development organization, shortening release cycles.

Led Agile delivery of the VisitorTrack SaaS platform and rebuilt front-end UX with integrated product analytics, increasing site usage 180%. Earlier career: product management and software delivery leadership roles prior to 2014.