Matthew Hartley

Matt Hartley Lighting provides a wide variety of services to the lighting design community. Many of these services include application support, technical marketing services, design services and education. These services are just general areas, I can do much more. If it has to do with the technical side of lighting, chances are I can assist in all of your needs. My company is focusing on providing a high level of expertise to the lighting community with quality results.

Working at the in a manufacturing environment for many years have helped me understand the capabilities of light fixtures from physical installation to optics and photometry. My 20 years of experience in lighting design, lighting software development and fixture design gives me a broad range of experience that I bring to every design I do

At SL Bagby I work on lighting designs big and small, taking the scientific approach to each design while balancing it with attractive fixtures… Show more

Working at the in a manufacturing environment for many years have helped me understand the capabilities of light fixtures from physical installation to optics and photometry. My 20 years of experience in lighting design, lighting software development and fixture design gives me a broad range of experience that I bring to every design I do

At SL Bagby I work on lighting designs big and small, taking the scientific approach to each design while balancing it with attractive fixtures appropriate for each design. Show less

The position at Energie covered modification to existing products and new product development. The position involved coordination and team building with various internal departments including customer service and manufacturing operations. Requests for modified products as well and new products were managed directly with the agents, designers or engineers. Additional duties included development of modification tracking program, management of photometry, installation instructions… Show more

The position at Energie covered modification to existing products and new product development. The position involved coordination and team building with various internal departments including customer service and manufacturing operations. Requests for modified products as well and new products were managed directly with the agents, designers or engineers. Additional duties included development of modification tracking program, management of photometry, installation instructions, specification sheets, AGI32 asset management, and education of Energie products, lighting design, and lighting science.

Key accomplishments include:
• Created a product modification program that linked Customer Service, and Product Engineering together to reduce BOM errors and duplicate entries by 75%.
• Created a program to format IES files from European partners for the US market following a specific structure for all Energie fixtures, reducing the time to market by 75%.
• After initial downsizing took over 3 positions of Customer Service, Product Development, and Sales Management.
• Created new procedures for Customer Service that increased productivity and order entry by 20%
• Constructed a procedure and program to create an fixture in AGI32 using simple optical designs and converting them to usable IES files to verify the designs. Show less

Managed requests from customers for modified Peerless products, as well as manage and assist in the design of custom fixtures. This involved direct customer relations with designers, contractors, engineers who specify the modifications in each phase of design from concept to commission. Project Management duties included coordinating with Peerless customer service, quotations, sourcing, design engineering, production engineering, R&D, manufacturing, and shipping. Additional duties included… Show more

Managed requests from customers for modified Peerless products, as well as manage and assist in the design of custom fixtures. This involved direct customer relations with designers, contractors, engineers who specify the modifications in each phase of design from concept to commission. Project Management duties included coordinating with Peerless customer service, quotations, sourcing, design engineering, production engineering, R&D, manufacturing, and shipping. Additional duties included management of sustaining engineering projects, development of the modification process and project management software for Peerless, development and instruction in Peerless seminars on fundamentals of lighting.

Key accomplishments include:
• Managed the design for the Georgia Dome concourse lighting renovation that included a 1 mile continuous fixture with a 1/8” variation where it connected to itself.
• Collaborated on a design for a transit fixture that was used in all of the lightrail stations in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
• Created a program to manage modification which included real time updates through e-mail that increased collaboration response time by 25 %. Show less

Managed and maintain customer response database. Assist specifiers in the use of the AGI32 software. Develop strategies for development of AGI32 and Photometric Toolbox software. Instruct customers on the use of the AGI32 software in various formats from in-house training to training at Lightfair. Assist with sales channel efforts including trade shows and pre and post sales service. Maintenance of the AGI32 website for content and accuracy was also my responsibility.

Key accomplishments… Show more

Managed and maintain customer response database. Assist specifiers in the use of the AGI32 software. Develop strategies for development of AGI32 and Photometric Toolbox software. Instruct customers on the use of the AGI32 software in various formats from in-house training to training at Lightfair. Assist with sales channel efforts including trade shows and pre and post sales service. Maintenance of the AGI32 website for content and accuracy was also my responsibility.

Key accomplishments include:
• Created targeted testing program that decreased program errors by 50% and reduced time to market by 20%
• Assisted in Development strategies for AGI32 and Photometric Toolbox.
• Created 30 new objects for AGI32 including 8 realistic male and female models.
• Researched daylighting conditions to be visualized in AGI32 ray tracing option based on existing daylighting conditions. Show less

Management of several members of the Application Engineering group was my main responsibility for Lithonia Lighting. Assign project workload for exterior applications department, perform field visits as technical expert, produced renderings for client needs, created policies and procedures for the exterior application department, and instruct members of the outdoor lighting group on IESNA recommended practices as well as industry standards and technology. Maintaining relationships between… Show more

Management of several members of the Application Engineering group was my main responsibility for Lithonia Lighting. Assign project workload for exterior applications department, perform field visits as technical expert, produced renderings for client needs, created policies and procedures for the exterior application department, and instruct members of the outdoor lighting group on IESNA recommended practices as well as industry standards and technology. Maintaining relationships between agents and specifiers was also my responsibility. Managed entire application engineering department after the position of Manager, Application Engineering was vacated Aug 2004.

Key accomplishments include:
• Managed an average of 8500 designs per year for the group, of which I was responsible for 2500 of those projects.
• Created a logging program for projects submitted to Lithonia Lighting that reduced input and tracking errors by 35%.
• Worked with the outdoor group on new fixture design from an application perspective that improved design efficiency by 30%.
• Designed a program to convert over 100 sports lighting typical designs to a different fixture type in order to expand the offering to municipal customers on the website.
• Assigned all projects to the group based on their skill set and expertise. Show less