Matthew Calamatta

Our client is the USA's most prestigious manufacturer of trailers, with an iconic and appealing brand. They wanted to update their mission by offering an app-based smart control system for their luxury trailers. I led a team of cloud architects, UX designers, mobile app developers, and embedded system engineers in doing the initial requirements analysis, discovery workshops, technical R&D, prototyping, and product planning.

Who Was Heroes is your headquarters to discover the coolest parts of history. Listen to tales of trailblazers and legends taken from the best-selling nonfiction book series. And there’s new stuff every month to explore!

INSPIRED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING BOOK SERIES
Who Was Heroes is based on Penguin’s best-selling nonfiction series. Enjoyed by millions of readers of all ages, Who Was? books have been educating and entertaining readers for over a decade. From trailblazers to legends, ancient heroes to today’s pop-culture icons, the series has a book for everyone.

NEW CONTENT EVERY MONTH
Who Was Heroes is updated every month with new content and themes—check back in to explore what we’ve got on deck and learn more about some of the most famous and important figures in history.

This major global audiobook publisher required a new CMS and mobile apps for their staff and partners to manage the promotion, distribution, and consumption of audiobooks. I led the product team, defining scope, managing the product requirements and delivery, creating user stories and acceptance criteria, managing trade-offs, and documenting decisions, features and processes. I also created and led the training for enterprise users.

Facebook for Windows Mobile was a mobile client installed on millions of devices worldwide in tens of languages over several years. The project involved working with Facebook APIs, providing a fully native experience on Windows Mobile, and identifying new features that eventually made it onto the flagship iOS app.

The client is a successful private firm offering restoration and reconstruction services to government, commercial, industrial and retail clients. Matthew was brought in to identify opportunities for innovation through technology, and delivered a 2-year roadmap for digital transformation as part of a full strategic review. this covered data, infrastructure, IoT, field software, user experience strategy, APIs, security and integrations.

The startup was founded by experts in the field of luxury real estate. The job was to set up the initial phase of work to get to an MVP, including product backlog management, prioritization of features, documenting user stories and acceptance criteria, and scheduling sprints.