Matt Vokoun

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Experienced tech. industry executive, with strong results track record in product…

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Publications

  • US Patent 9544662 - DISTRIBUTING METADATA TO PEER DEVICES

    United States Patent Office

    This patent describes techniques and apparatuses for distributing metadata to peer devices, that enable a receiver device to store or create metadata associated with content streamed from one or more peer devices. The receiver device can distribute this metadata to other peer devices thereby enabling identification or procurement of the content at the other peer devices.

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  • Wisconsin couple click at Google: Opportunity draws them both to Silicon Valley

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    Wisconsin's loss, Google's gain.

    Matt and Reena Vokoun grew up here (South Milwaukee and Town of Delafield, respectively), graduated from college here, met each other in their mid-20s at a birthday party in San Francisco and are doing very, very well for themselves - in California.

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  • MIT Thesis: Operations capability improvement of a molecular biology laboratory in a high throughput genome sequencing center

    MIT

    The Broad Institute is a research collaboration of MIT, Harvard, and the Whitehead Institute with a mission to "(1) create tools for genomic medicine and make them broadly available to the scientific community and (2) apply these tools to propel the understanding and treatment of disease." The Broad Institute contains the world's largest high throughput genome sequencing center, which contributed approximately one third of the sequence for the Human Genome Project (HGP) completed in 2003. The…

    The Broad Institute is a research collaboration of MIT, Harvard, and the Whitehead Institute with a mission to "(1) create tools for genomic medicine and make them broadly available to the scientific community and (2) apply these tools to propel the understanding and treatment of disease." The Broad Institute contains the world's largest high throughput genome sequencing center, which contributed approximately one third of the sequence for the Human Genome Project (HGP) completed in 2003. The Molecular Biology Production Group (MBPG) is the most upstream part of the Broad Institute's genome sequencing operation, responsible for incoming DNA quality control, construction of DNA Libraries, and production of agar plates containing E.coli cell colonies. While most of the genome sequencing process at the Broad had already been highly industrialized, MBPG had not yet undergone such a transformation and still operated more like a laboratory than a manufacturing group. This low level of operations capability resulted in highly variable output from MBPG in terms of quantity, physical quality, and data quality. Additionally, the MBPG processes were not well understood or measured, yet had a very significant effect on downstream processes in the genome sequencing center. Thus, the goal of this thesis was to create a framework for improving the operations capability of a molecular biology laboratory in a high throughput genome sequencing center. This framework defined an operations strategy of maximizing quality in MBPG, characterized the group's sources of quality problems, implemented lean and production forecasting, and defined future opportunities to implement Six Sigma and RFID. This thesis work resulted in significant quality improvements and a more industrial approach to the laboratory's operations management. More broadly, this thesis work can be applied to the operations improvement of any high-throughput laboratory in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry.

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Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin - Chemical & Biological Engineering Department - Visiting Committee

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    - Member of the Visiting Committee (alumni board) for the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • University of Wisconsin - Center for Brand and Product Management

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  • MVLA Soccer Club

    Board Member

    - Present

    - Governing board member (and also a parent of an MVLA player) - Joined MVLA board support role through program at Google to place executives on local non-profit boards

  • Youth Sports Coaching -- YMCA Basketball, AYSO Soccer, NJB Basketball

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    - Multiple coaching positions for my two sons' teams in the Mountain View and Los Altos area

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