Matthew Barta

About

As a Product Manager at Neon One, I leverage my 13+ years of experience and multiple certifications in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe to create software solutions for nonprofits and social good organizations. I am passionate about solving real-world problems and improving lives with impactful and innovative products. I have a holistic and enterprise-wide background in bridging the gap between business and technology stakeholders, defining product strategy, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering user-centric solutions. I excel at applying my expertise in Web3, AI/ML, UX/UI, and SaaS to the unique challenges and opportunities in the social sector. I am also a servant leader and facilitator who values collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement. My mission is to own the product vision and roadmap and to empower my team and customers to achieve their goals.

Experience

• Product Manager · Neon One07-01-2023 – 2025

  led end-to-end product development efforts that help mission-driven organizations connect with their supporters, increase giving, and simplify campaign execution. ✨ Key Outcomes & Focus Areas: Modernized a legacy fundraising platform into a scalable, self-service, and mobile-friendly experience, enabling organizations to better engage their audiences and manage events with ease. Introduced innovative fundraising tools that empowered individuals and teams to creatively engage donors through flexible giving experiences. Improved donor engagement and retention by redesigning core constituent-facing experiences to be more intuitive, accessible, and data-rich. Enabled broader access and inclusivity through language accessibility features and streamlined onboarding for both nonprofits and donors. Boosted platform performance and reliability by prioritizing tech debt reduction, scalability enhancements, and process modernization across key product areas. Led cross-functional teams to ship user-centered solutions and ensure alignment across product, engineering, support, and business stakeholders. I bring a strong bias for action, a deep curiosity about user behavior, and a constant drive to simplify the complex — helping organizations do more good, more efficiently.

• Senior Product Manager · The Solana Sanctuary2021-07-01 – 2023-07-01

  Matthew's expertise in product development management shone through during his time at The Solana Sanctuary, a startup focused on Web3 data refinement and development. He successfully launched The Entangler and The Reloader Products, revitalized numerous projects, and engaged with communities to understand market trends and strategies. By securing initial funding and establishing an internship program, Matthew emphasized education and giving back. He fostered employee growth and mentorship, maintained comprehensive product roadmaps, and made crucial decisions to ensure success. His commitment to collaboration and inclusivity led to innovative solutions in both B2C and B2B operations at Sanctuary. Product ethos: In-depth Insights, Vision and ideation, MVP and road-mapping, Continuous iteration, Exceptional communication.

• Project and Program · Genesis Financial Solutions2019-07-01 – 2021-07-01

  At Genesis, Matthew played a crucial role in the establishment of a comprehensive Project Management space, where he was brought on board to spearhead the development of a Project Management Office (PMO). In this capacity, he successfully streamlined the project intake, management, and execution processes, demonstrating his versatility as both a Project Manager and a generalist PMO. Matthew took the initiative to construct an Operations and Risk Confluence site from scratch and meticulously designed a project intake methodology, as well as a Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC). With his exceptional organizational skills, he managed a vast portfolio of work and implemented a workflow that made projects easily visible to stakeholders, users, and project leads. To further enhance the company's project management efficiency, Matthew led a company-wide training initiative, educating project leads on the PDLC process he had designed.

• BA / PO · Genesis Financial Solutions2020-11-01 – 2021-06-01

  Genesis reshaped its business with a massive 2-year long changeover of all systems of record. Here the BA's led the charge in converting massive requirements into technical stories, mapping current and future state, as well as performing UAT Testing through sprints.

• Scrum Master · Genesis Financial Solutions2015-01-01 – 2019-07-01

  My continued work here at Genesis evolved into taking on SCRUM for our Private Label Platform. In this role, I filled the need for a dynamic leader to help the team navigate the business, its requirements and to create a feedback loop to ensure the best team normality; helping to nurture the team to a more normalized flow.

• Software QA Engineer · Genesis Financial Solutions2011-03-01 – 2019-07-01

  Strong focus in SQA Testing & Methodologies including: Test plans, cases and acceptance criteria where I was an integral part of a massive, transformation project to create a new platform from the ground up to support a new client which doubled the size of the company (both personnel and revenue) in only six months.

• Unit Manager · HSBC2005-09-01 – 2010-07-01

Education

• Portland State UniversityLiberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
• Portland Community CollegeAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Business IT
• Minneapolis Community CollegeAssociates of Sound Arts

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