Matthew Reyes

Current

Workforce Development & Education Specialist at NASA Ames Research Center
Chief Project Manager & Founder at Exploration Solutions Inc.

Past

Chief Project Manager at Before You Submit
Special Projects Director at Preventive IT Group
Director, Technical Operations at Zero Gravity Corporation

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Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

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Industry

Program Development

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Matthew Reyes’s Summary

Exploration Solutions Inc. is a consulting firm dedicated to improving the success of research, science, & technical programs through mission planning & documentation, technical advising, and the development of education & public outreach programs. Matthew founded Exploration Solutions as an S-Corp to serve the education, science, and edutainment sectors. Since it’s founding, Exploration Solutions has completed a number of science related activities, including:

• July 2007: Exploration Solutions co-facilitated an expedition to CSA & NASA’s Haughton-Mars Project Research Station in the Canadian Arctic. Matthew filmed & co-hosted a series of webcasts to 14 Challenger Learning Centers with NASAWATCH editor Keith Cowing, & Astronaut Leroy Chiao. The trio inspired hundreds of children by sharing our observations and stories while living & working alongside researchers preparing future missions to the Moon & Mars
• Oct, 2007: Exploration Solutions worked with the Space Sciences Institute as a videographer for a microgravity education documentary about the Northrop Grumman Foundation.
• Dec. 2007: Exploration Solutions developed video, conducted interviews & supported students from Rollins College as they hosted an ecological conservation education campaign to mainland Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands.
• Feb 2008: Exploration Solutions developed a small format, microgravity flight research program for Space Florida sponsored parabolic flights by the ZERO-G Corp. As Technical Manager, Matthew developed the pilot program’s research manual and worked closely with a competitively chosen group of University students to insure a safe and DOT, TSA, & FAA compliant engineering process.
• Nov 2008, Exploration Solutions partnered with Zero Gravity Films for work with National Geographic TV as a creative & technical consultant for a video production of props and acrobatic maneuvers during parabolic microgravity flight.

Matthew Reyes’s Specialties:

Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics Lab Experience, Special Project Management, NASA Contract liaison, Science Education Outreach, Parabolic Flight Research & Engineering Experience, Diving & Underwater Archeology & Videography, General Videography & Photography

Matthew Reyes’s Experience

Workforce Development & Education Specialist

NASA Ames Research Center

(Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

Working to improve overall diversity of NASA Ames education programs in a way that realigns NASA Ames's workforce to support future missions.
Chief Project Manager & Founder

Exploration Solutions Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Market Research industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Exploration Solutions actively seeks opportunities to improve science awareness and critical thinking by bringing distant science and conservation activities to audiences of all ages.

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Matthew Reyes’s Groups:

Creative COW (Communities of the World)
American Society of Plant Biologists - ASPB
Computational Biology
Film and Television Professionals
MolecularLab (Community of Molecular Biology & Biotech companies, students, researchers)
The Official American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
NASA Academy Alumni Association
Zero-G-nauts
Cooperation Science
North Florida Filmmakers