The Partners

Matt Hodgson

Matt Hodgson

Matt has spent the last few years involved in a wide array of technical projects ranging from web applications to race car design to electronics hardware development. His defining strength is his ability to quickly understand and contribute to new ideas and technologies.

Before Scenario4, Matt worked as a consultant for Mercator Partners, a Boston-area strategy and management consulting boutique. Hodgson holds a B.A. degree in physics from Ithaca College and both a Masters in Engineering Management and a B.E. in computer engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. When not hard at work, Matt enjoys sailing and snowboarding throughout New England.

Ariel Diaz

Ariel Diaz

Ariel has an engineering background, complemented with extensive experience on the business side of startups, including fundraising, marketing, business development, sales, and defining core strategies.

Ariel is also the President of the Dartmouth Entrepreneur Network of Boston, and on the Executive Committee for the Thayer School Annual Fund. He has worked as a Management Consultant for a boutique strategy consulting firm in Boston, and has an A.B., and B.E. from Dartmouth College, and a Master of Engineering Management from Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He occasionally runs marathons and ultra-marathons, always wears his collar up, and loves all things orange.

Jeff Hebert

Jeff Hebert

Jeff brings a background in strategy consulting, mechanical engineering, software development, and user interface design to the team. His strength is in spanning seamlessly across both the technical aspects of products and services as well as the high-level business objectives. Jeff's role typically includes product marketing, usability, software development, and project management.

Before Scenario4, Jeff worked as an Associate Consultant at Fletcher Spaght, Inc., a Boston-based strategy consulting and venture capital firm. Hebert holds A.B. and B.E. degrees from Dartmouth College in Mechanical Engineering, and a Masters of Engineering Management from the Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. When not working, Jeff enjoys rock climbing, cycling, and playing the electric guitar.

Colin Ulen

Colin Ulen

Colin has deep technical skills as a electronics engineer in hardware and firmware design, implementation and prototype and high volume manufacturing. He excels at system analysis and designing complex distributed computing capabilities. His strength is his thorough technical knowledge and breadth of experience along with an ability to convey it easily and understandably to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Prior to Scenario4, Colin worked as a Senior Device engineer at Alarm.com, a D.C. based commercial/residential security company and as Chief Architect for Youcastr, Inc, a Boston based video monetization platform. Ulen holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering with minors in Math and Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University and a Masters of Engineering Management from the Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Our Technical Abilities

Platforms & Frameworks

Web Applications

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, RDB)
  • Adobe Flex and Flash
  • Wowza Media Server
  • Red5 Streaming Server

Desktop Applications

  • Cocoa (Mac OS X Native Apps)
  • Qt (Cross Platform Apps)
  • Adobe Air

Mobile Applications

  • iPhone/iPod (Cocoa Touch)

Programming Languages

  • C/C++
  • Java
  • Ruby
  • Javascript
  • HTML/CSS
  • Actionscript
  • Objective-C
  • VHDL
  • SQL
  • MATLAB (m-code)

Tools & Environments

  • Eclipse
  • TextMate
  • ProEngineer
  • SolidWorks
  • SolidEdge
  • Adobe Design Suite
  • Flex Builder
  • Qt Creator
  • MATLAB and Simulink

Our Domain Expertise

Electronics

  • Hardware Design
  • Schematic Capture
  • Layout
  • BOM Optimization
  • Power Management
  • RF Communications
  • Signal Processing

Web

  • SEO/SEM
  • Payment and Billing Systems
  • Cloud-Based Application Scaling
  • Distributed Systems
  • Monitoring and Failure Detection
  • Video Transcoding
  • Video Compression
  • Video Streaming

Product Development

  • Agile Development Techniques
  • Usability Testing
  • Interface Design and Optimization
  • Complexity Management
  • CAD