Matt Peddicord, MBA

Product Innovator - AI - APIs - IoT - CPGs

Building innovative products at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI for Fortune 500 companies.

AIAPIsEnterpriseSaaS

Signalpattern - API orchestration platform

About

Product Manager with 20 years shipping products from CPGs and custom hardware to IoT, B2B SaaS and AI workflow automation. I enjoy scaling startups from 0 to 1, using the latest coding platforms to build enterprise AI solutions, and learning new AI/ML systems and architecture. I'm passionate about building products that solve real problems for people and business.

20+

Years in Product

50+

Products Shipped

$10M+

ARR Scaled

Featured Projects

Signalpattern - API orchestration platform

AIAPIsEnterpriseSaaS

Clients: Verizon, Charter, Fidelity, JCI

Signalpattern revolutionizes end-user UX by deconstructing applications into discrete interactions that can be discovered, combined, and used anywhere.

Impact: Reduced context switching and saved employees 50+ minutes per day!

Dweet.io - IoT messaging Platform

IoTSaaSAPIs

Clients: Verizon, Ford, Renesas, TI, ST Micro

IoT messaging platform for connected devices. Enabling M2M and social machines around the world. Simplicity and ease of use were key factors in adoption.

Impact: Handled millions of messages a day. Sold as B2B and B2B2C IoT platform. Early enabler of the Verizon Thingspace platform.

Freeboard - IoT Dashboard

IoTSaaSDashboardEnterprise

Clients: Verizon, Ford, United Technologies, TI

Open-source real-time data visualization for IoT devices.

Impact: Over 200K users across the Developer Community, SMBs and Enterprise
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SignalStrength - WiFi Analytics for large networks

AISaaSEnterprise

Clients: Charter, Fidelity, JCI

SignalStrength is an innovative software solution designed to streamline network issue resolution, specifically targeting authentication failures, association errors, and DHCP issues. This powerful tool integrates seamlessly with existing data sources via APIs, providing business users with an intuitive chat-style interface to query complex data and generate customizable visualizations.

Impact: SignalStrength is the future of network management, offering a powerful, user-friendly solution that saves time, reduces costs, and ensures optimal network performance for businesses of all sizes.
See it in the Cisco Marketplace

EaterE - AI enabled QSR app

AISaaSSMBQSRVision

Clients: Alvo's Pizza

Smart (Gemini AI) restaurant operations platform with voice assistant. Combines order processing, delivery routing, menu pricing and ideas, a run book, network administration and more.

Impact: A Quick Serve Restaurant application that any owner can use to organize their business.
EaterE demo site

Bug Modular Hardware

HardwareIoTCPGsVisionRetail

Clients: Accenture, Pitney Bowes, Humana, Darpa

The Bug base was a modular computer with various peripherals meant to allow anyone to build their own device. The Bug included custom software with an IDE, Device to device communication, and endless possibilities!

Impact: Sold through distributors to Enterprises and software developers who wanted to build custom devices and low volume solutions.

Octocam - Darpa prototype

HardwarePrototypesVision

Clients: Darpa

Octocam was a prototype built for Darpa, using completely off-the-shelf parts. No custom parts allowed. The Bug base acted as the brains of the web cameras, which streamed 360 degrees views of the city streets while perched on top of a car.

Impact: Octocam project was absorbed into a street view program.
See it in Action!

USB hub

HardwarePrototypesCPGs

Clients: Ford

Designed and built a 7-port USB hub that fits in a standard Ford vehicle cup holder

Impact: Open sourced the files for the OpenXC program, anyone can produce the USB hub for free.

Plush companions

HardwareCPGsIoT

Clients: Humana

Plush companion prototypes were built for Humana to help children and elderly in hospice or care homes. The devices were animated and connected to each other so audio messages can be passed, and interaction with one activates its twin.

Impact: Reduced loneliness in children and elderly with a cute and cuddly buddy!

The Freebie Machine!

IoTAPIsCPGsPrototypesEnterpriseSocialRetail

Clients: Walmart, P&G, Saatchi x Saatchi

The freebie machine was one of the very first social machines ever invented! The machine instructed users to give it a like on facebook, and then dispense a free sample.

Impact: P&G benefitted from social media interaction, while Walmart benefited from increased foot traffic. Today these machines are common in stores with loyalty programs.

Social Shipping Kiosk

IoTAPIsEnterpriseShippingSocialRetail

Clients: Pitney Bowes

The Social Shipping Kiosk was an innovative kiosk solution which gave users free shipping in exchange for a facebook like.

Impact: Users who liked the kiosk received a stamp voucher, one per person.

Automotive App

SoftwareAPIsEnterpriseSMB

Clients: ITG, Toyota

Design, develop and launch a new vehicle compliance system for ITG Automotive/Toyota. iOS Application and web admin portal were built to interface with the existing system, written in React/React Native.

Impact: Digitized a manual entry system for compliance and auditing.

Soft Serve Connection

IoTAPIsRetailSocial

Clients: United Technologies, Raceway

Connected soft serve vending machines to the internet, built dashboards and interactive capabilities for monitoring and compliance

Impact: Reduced machine downtime by 80% with predictive maintenance scheduling and ingredient delivery optimization

Connected Fitness Rooms

IoTAPIsResidentialVision

Clients: Building Link

Connected fitness machines to the internet and built dashboards so residents would know if the fitness room or their favorite machine was available.

Impact: Reduced overcrowding and extraneous elevator trips

OpenXC - Ford

SoftwareEnterpriseAPIs

Clients: Ford

Prototyped a connected vehicle system that could predict traffic and weather.

Impact: Proved a system can predict traffic and weather based on signals from connected cars!

Ag Tech - Vision system

AIAg TechAPIsDashboardVision

Clients: Huxley

Built custom dashboard connected to cameras, greenhouse sensors and APIs. AI vision tracked mold growth, with confidence scores and alerts.

Impact: 50% Reduction of mold growth in indoor grow houses

Heart 4 Heart

HealthcareAPIsDashboard

Clients: Afib awareness

Connected Dashboard that collected results from a phone app meant to measure heart rate and look for sign of afib.

Impact: Marketing awareness of afib and how to measure heart health.

API Integrator

SaaSAPIs5G EdgeEnterprise

Clients: Verizon

Created Product launch campaign for Veriozn's 5G Edge APIs. Assets created included: Sales Enablement materials, Developer Experience Content, Mobile Apps, Sample Code, Tutorials, How-tos, Sample Patterns, Web site assets, Text, Graphics, Video/audio, Animations, Training & Support material.

Impact: Reduced new app development time from weeks to hours.

Personal Dashboards

AIAPIsSoftwareEnterpriseSaaS

Clients: Verizon

Personal Dashboard is a white labeled version of Signalpattern meant to reduce context switching and empower employees to get work done faster.

Impact: Reduced context switching and saved employees 50+ minutes per day.

Smartphone Applications

APIsIoTMobile Apps

Clients: Honeywell, ST Micro

Created and launched on both Android and iOS marketplaces, these apps turn your phone into a data pipeline by streaming phone sensor data or BT-connected device data to the dweet.io server.

Impact: Simple way to get streaming and real-time IoT data from any device

SSDs

HardwareCPGsRetail

Clients: PNY

Launched SSDs as a new product category for PNY. Sold at retail (Best Buy, Staples) and online.

Impact: Still adding millions to the bottom line today!

Digital Picture Frames

CPGsHardwareRetail

Clients: PNY

Launched Digital Picture Frames as a new product category in Best Buy and Staples.

Impact: Children keep buying them for their parents

AI Manufacturing Network

AIAPIsEnterpriseDashboard

Clients: Hoya, Verizon

Created network dashboard for multi-location manufacturing facility. Connected machines, routers, APs, APIs together for holistic view of network and machine issues.

Impact: Reduced down time of disconnected machines 65%

Goose Goose Swan

AISocialGames

A fun social game of adult duck duck goose, but now it's all jerks as Geese flock the streets scavenging and searching for Swans. Be careful what you wish for, Swans fight back!

Impact: Social game for groups exploring a new town. Sign up today!
Game SIte

My Site

AISoftware

Clients: Myself

A site I built with Vercel to show off my skills and projects.

Impact: Pretty cool site, right?
My site

Plant Spinner

CPGsHardware

Plant Spinner is a rotating stand that spins 15 degrees a day for optimal sun coverage of window plants. No more leaning plants, now they will all grow straight and healthy!

Impact: Buy one today, it works!
Plant Spinner website

Social Machines

SocialBook

I brought this book to life by convincing everyone involved it was a good idea. I convinced my CEO to write the book as a marketing tactic, and I convinced the publisher that the book was a good bet on their part.

Impact: I negotiated a limited the number of books to purchase (the dirtiest secret in publishing), and launched it!
Buy the book!

Ember Field

HardwarePrototypes

A concept I developed for a zero-electronic device and method of determining where and when a wild fire crosses a boundary.

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Let's Work Together!

I'm always interested in hearing about new opportunities and challenges. Have an idea you want to build? I can help!