Matt is an urban planning and development professional with 10 years of experience in environmental, energy, transportation, and real estate research, publication, policy and project management.
He is currently the Program Director for the HeatSmart Tompkins initiative, a new program administered by Solar Tompkins, the nonprofit organization focused on facilitating a large, sustained increase in the rate of renewable energy adoption in Tompkins County, NY. The HeatSmart initiative, employing the same Solarize program model as the 2014 Switch to Solar campaign, aims to accelerate the transition of home-heating away from fossil fuels via deployment of highly-efficient air- and ground-source geothermal heat pump systems in combination with better building efficiency through improved insulation and air sealing.
Formerly, Matt has held positions in Boston, MA, with the Harvard School of Public Health and the Conservation Law Foundation, and in Washington, DC, with the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, the Urban Land Institute, and as a consultant to the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Planning and Design Quality. He has also served as an independent adviser to several real estate management and development companies in the New York City and Washington, DC metro areas.
Matt earned an MA from Cornell University in City & Regional Planning and a BA from Ithaca College. Additionally, he has fulfilled graduate coursework at the Harvard University Extension School, completed the Photovoltaic Installer’s Solar Electric course at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and is a trained event facilitator and mediator.
He is currently the Program Director for the HeatSmart Tompkins initiative, a new program administered by Solar Tompkins, the nonprofit organization focused on facilitating a large, sustained increase in the rate of renewable energy adoption in Tompkins County, NY. The HeatSmart initiative, employing the same Solarize program model as the 2014 Switch to Solar campaign, aims to accelerate the transition of home-heating away from fossil fuels via deployment of highly-efficient air- and ground-source geothermal heat pump systems in combination with better building efficiency through improved insulation and air sealing.
Formerly, Matt has held positions in Boston, MA, with the Harvard School of Public Health and the Conservation Law Foundation, and in Washington, DC, with the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, the Urban Land Institute, and as a consultant to the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Planning and Design Quality. He has also served as an independent adviser to several real estate management and development companies in the New York City and Washington, DC metro areas.
Matt earned an MA from Cornell University in City & Regional Planning and a BA from Ithaca College. Additionally, he has fulfilled graduate coursework at the Harvard University Extension School, completed the Photovoltaic Installer’s Solar Electric course at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and is a trained event facilitator and mediator.
