Mat Lien
Creative Director
Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMat Lien is a creative director with 12 years of leadership experience shaping brand strategy, creative operations, and cinematic storytelling across regulated industries like energy, healthcare, and financial services. He has built and led multidisciplinary teams to execute enterprise rebrands, unify legacy identities, and translate complex business priorities into clear, credible brand experiences. Comfortable at the intersection of film craft and strategic marketing, Mat leverages a background in filmmaking and award-winning video production to bring narrative rigor and production discipline to brand systems and governance. He’s known for simplifying complexity—reuniting organizations around a single story—and for coaching leaders to communicate more authentically. Based in Wisconsin, he combines studio-level creative execution with business training from MIT Sloan and Yale to ensure brand work drives measurable organizational alignment.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Digital Filmmaking and Video Production, Bachelor of Arts, Digital Filmmaking and Video Production at The Art InstitutesCertificate of Completion, Leading through Financial Excellence, Certificate of Completion, Leading through Financial Excellence at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBusiness Perspectives for Creative Leaders, Business Management, Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders, Business Management at Yale School of Management
Github Skills (21)
python8
bandwidth8
thunderbird7
cpu-usage7
raspberry-pi7
plex6
iot6
disk6
mqtt6
gdrive6
home-automation5
disk-space5
monitor5
usenet4
cpu4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lienma/UpStatsBoard
Dec 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
lienma/UpsBoard
Jan 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:82 commits in 7 months
memorymemory-usagemonitorcpu-usagebeard
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