Senior Archaeologist and Historic Preservation Technician

Graduate Studies, Anthropology, City University of New York, Hunter College, 2005-2007
B.S., Communications with Anthropology minor, Southern Oregon University, 1995

Matt began his career in the mid-1990s with the Bureau of Land Management in Klamath Falls, Oregon. While there, he prepared a National Register of Historic Places nomination for a diverse complex of prehistoric archaeological sites near the Oregon – California border.

He then worked as a staff archaeologist for a large Pacific Northwest CRM firm for 7 years.

In 2003 he left the northwest to work as a staff archaeologist for one of the world’s largest engineering and environmental consulting firms, AECOM, in New York City, working on projects throughout New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Southeastern United States.

Matt returned to the Pacific Northwest and joined WillametteCRA in the summer of 2010. He has extensive experience documenting aboveground historic period resources at the inventory level and has 20 years of experience performing GIS analysis for CRM projects.

During his 25-year career Matt has completed more than one hundred cultural resources assessments for communications tower projects throughout the Pacific Northwest and specializes in guiding communications tower clients through the NEPA permitting process.

Matt has a special interest in precontact lithic technology and stacked rock features.