Matt Madsen has over 25 years of terrestrial resources experience.  This includes project management of major capital construction projects in excess of $1b in the mining and oil & gas industries globally.  He has worked extensively in operations management across resources sectors as well as industrial manufacturing of construction materials.

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After beginning his career in the field of education and training, Matt was formally trained in project management, including LEAN, TQM and Six Sigma, by Motorola while working at their R&D center in Sendai, Japan.  These two early aspects have been fundamental in shaping his career.  

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First, being an educator has provided him a valuable understanding of the importance of good communication including both observation and listening.  Second, the project management practices he learned are readily transferable to a wide variety of situations where problem solving, teamwork and leadership are required.  Together, his realization that project management success is amplified by effective communication has led him to integrating a combination of these soft and technical skills into his approach to work ever since.

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Matt has a passion for entrepreneurship, having successfully started and managed two companies prior to founding Tamer Space. Following his entry into the mining industry, first as a project manager then as a general manager of a contract mining company in Latin America, he started a mining equipment sales and consulting business in southern Africa.  That business he built on his own from the ground up was Crushers International which represented well known North American brands of equipment such as Terex, FLSmidth, Lippmann, and Mack Trucks.  In addition to selling and servicing those brands, the business also provided technical consulting on plant and mine design, process design, and production cost rationalization.  Matt’s ability to effectively interface and onboard new technology into the mining industry first commenced through this experience.

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The second business that Matt started and managed was a boutique project management and supply chain management consultancy based in Australia.  He and his business partner ran this business for ten years focusing on providing strategic inputs to Tier 1 corporations in mining, oil & gas, engineering, industrial manufacturing, power generation, and power/water distribution. 

Through servicing customers with a wide range of challenges, Matt has become adept at identifying opportunities for cross-leveraging technology and, importantly, figuring out how to apply and implement these technologies to result in sustainable cost and safety improvements.

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Now with Tamer Space, Matt is leveraging this background knowledge and experience into building a unique brand that bridges aerospace and terrestrial resources through identifying and developing technology transfer opportunities for the betterment of terrestrial industry and mankind’s future in space.