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Vuzit is a software company located in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Executive Members
Brent Matzelle - CEO
Mr. Matzelle has worked for over 10 years in multiple industries and roles as a lead development architect, product manager, software engineer, and IT consultant. Prior to Vuzit, Mr. Matzelle worked as the development architect and product manager for NAVTEQ where he was responsible for leading the team that built the Traffic.com web site. He led the effort to adopt an AJAX-based development environment which reduced product development time by over 80%. Prior to joining Vuzit, Matzelle was a member of the Media Development group at Traffic.com where he designed and co-developed the first real-time 3D traffic reporting system used by broadcast television networks such as FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, and UPN at over 70 stations in the top 25 metropolitan markets. While at Traffic.com, Mr. Matzelle co-invented and published 5 technology patents. Mr. Matzelle is credited with the creation of the popular open source email transport library, PHPMailer, whose individual monthly downloads exceeds 100,000 and is distributed with hundreds of applications and content management systems. Mr. Matzelle holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Cabrini College.
Christopher D. Cera - CTO
Mr. Cera has over 10 years of experience as a project leader, software developer, and researcher in computing technologies. Prior to joining Vuzit, Mr. Cera was the Director of Customer Experience & Development at Drakontas where he managed all research and development, customer relationships, and IT operations. Before leaving Drakontas, Mr. Cera played an integral role in securing a $3.6M management contract to create a Center of Excellence for the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to oversee communications technologies for law enforcement. Prior to joining Drakontas, Mr. Cera was in the Media Development group at Traffic.com where he co-developed the first real-time 3D traffic reporting system used by broadcast television networks such as FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, and UPN at over 70 stations in the top 25 metropolitan markets. While at Traffic.com, Mr. Cera co-invented and published 5 technology patents. As a researcher at Drexel University, Mr. Cera authored or co-authored over 15 peer-reviewed publications primarily funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Pew Learning and Technology Program. His published contributions in electro-mechanical engineering design include role-based viewing, semantic authoring, conceptual and collaborative design. Mr. Cera holds both a B.S and an M.S degrees in Computer Science from Drexel University.
Greg Bright - VP Engineering
Mr. Bright has eight years experience developing software applications in the military, academia, pharmaceutical, and financial industries. Mr. Bright began his career at Lockheed Martin Management & Data Systems as a Software Engineer, where he developed large scale modeling programs that simulated satellite delivery systems for the U.S. Military. Mr. Bright later joined USABancShares.com, where he was instrumental in developing a wireless banking application and auction web site. Following this position, Mr. Bright worked for Admed as an applications developer where he created web-based training and testing applications for the business development teams at GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer. Prior to joining Vuzit, Mr. Bright was an applications developer at Peirce College, a fully accredited on-site and on-line learning institution serving thousands of students in the continental United States and surrounding territories. Mr. Bright oversaw the development of their course management system, consumer web site, online learning portal for students, and a variety of internal applications. Mr. Bright received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from Lehigh University.
Dave Noreen - VP of Sales & Marketing
Mr. Noreen graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Business Administration, and started his career with Expeditors International, a global logistics freight-forwarder. His primary focus was information technology and supporting the company's transportation IT systems. In 2003, Noreen went to work at ShareBuilder Securities Corp. He held positions in customer service and advertising before helping ShareBuilder start ShareBuilder 401k, a 100% online 401k retirement benefits plan designed for small and medium sized businesses. In 2007, Noreen moved to Seattle's F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. At F5 he was responsible for selling networking equipment and information technology solutions to F5's Washington-based accounts. Noreen now attends The Frank P. Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the 2009 MBA Class Vice President of Recruiting, and is Director of Investor Relations for The Nittany Lion Fund, a student-run investment fund with $5 million in assets.
Adam Phillips - VP of Business Development
Mr. Phillips has over 10 years of experience in sales, business development, consulting and marketing. Prior to leading business development efforts at Vuzit, Mr. Phillips was Manager of Business Development for Traffic.com, a leading provider of traffic information. At Traffic.com Mr. Phillips negotiated high-value content syndication deals totaling over $6M with Comcast, Verizon, NPR, Emmis, Communications, Greater Media and Rand McNally. Phillips has extensive experience in negotiating complex deals, managing sales teams and shortening difficult sales cycles. Mr. Phillips, has negotiated high-value content syndication deals totaling over $6Mwith Comcast, Verizon, NPR, Emmis Communications, Greater Media and Rand McNally. Licensing arrangements for these deals ranged from Ad-supported to fix licensing fees. This experience helps give Vuzit the fast track to building sellable and scalable models that work in practice not just in principle. Additionally, Brent Matzelle and Chris Cera built many of the products that Adam Phillips has been able to successfully sell during his tenure at Traffic.com a NAVTEQ company. Mr. Phillips holds a degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Utah. He lives in Phoenixville, PA with his wife and two daughters.
Chris Dailey - VP of Operations
Mr. Dailey has over ten years experience in management, technical writing, training, quality assurance, web design, and research in the IT field. Before joining Vuzit, Mr. Dailey was part of Sovereign Bank as the Business Resumption Planning Officer (BRPO) and Project Liason. Mr. Dailey's ability to comprehend the business-critical needs of each Sovereign Bank business unit led to his role in overseeing the disaster recovery planning, documentation, and testing of hundreds of servers throughout Sovereign Bank's network. This often included managing several highly-critical tests that incorporated some of Sovereign Bank's most crucial applications. While employed at Sunoco, Mr. Dailey piloted, designed and implemented their entire Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) documentation project. While in this role, Mr. Dailey advised senior management on best practices in order to meet federal guidelines in the timeliest manner. In addition, Mr. Dailey spawned an initiative to create disaster recovery documentation for a portion of the company. Mr. Dailey holds a B.A. in English with an emphasis on technical writing and web design from The Pennsylvania State University.