New Episode: Live Interviews at the 50th Anniversary Celebration: Drew Mattison, Dave Meeker and Arnold Young

Ides of Engineering podcast hosts Bryce Lemert and Alex Petty talked with many alumni during the 50th Anniversary Celebration that took place in the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering. In this episode, you'll meet Drew Mattison, Dave Meeker, and Arnold Young. True to the spirit of our program and those who pursue a degree in MDE or IDES, each share their own unique story and next giant leap.

Guest Bios

Drew Mattison

Drew Mattison (IDE '94 Visual Design Engineering)

Drew is a connector, changemaker, and storyteller.  As a transformation and design thinking leader, he focuses on the craft of connecting the client to their audience in ways that resonate. His passion for clients and partnerships extends well beyond pitching an idea and sealing the deal.  

Always with a systems-thinking lens, he focuses and delivers the broader activation of consulting and business development - delivering strategies for organization effectiveness, shaping culture and change, and lending his expertise to team members. He's in tune with evolving company goals and is the first to test new ideas to achieve them. Above all, he's passionate about securing and growing business for the strategy consultants, experience designers, content strategists, visual designers, developers, and project managers who take pride in producing superior client work.

Drew is currently a Partner at Territory Global, a strategy and transformation consultancy that leverages design thinking and visual expertise to solve clients' biggest challenges. He has vast experience across multiple industries designing, building, and activating strategy, innovation practices, and transformation initiatives; having worked with UPS, BNY Mellon, GM, Nike, P&G, Ford, Coca-Cola, and many others. Drew holds a BS in Visual Design Engineering from Purdue University, an MBA from Michigan State University, and has lectured at Columbia University.

Dave Meeker

Dave Meeker (IDE '79 Biomedical Engineering)

Dave Meeker is a Business Gap Closer who provides insights to executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners. He typically meets with them 1:1 and provides creative technology solutions thus increasing revenue. Dave’s services include Executive Social Media Insights & Implementation, Clinical Healthcare Project Coordination, and serves as a Relationship Connector.Once you meet Dave, you’ll know he is driven by a caring heart and his love to help others.

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Arnold Young

Arnold Young (IDE '73 Environmental Engineering)

Arnold is a 1973 graduate with a concentration in environmental engineering. He earned a masters degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from San Jose State and has his professional license in both California and his childhood home of Hawaii. 

Arnold started his career as a consulting engineer for 10 years at two consulting firms in California, managing environmental-related construction projects.  He then transitioned into software, his real passion found through an early computer science class taken his freshman year at Purdue, and pursued a position as a developer, architect, and implementer at Ball, Ball & Brosamer Inc, a heavy highway construction company. 

It was there that Arnold found his true calling with the goal of streamlining processes and creating applications to help management with scheduling, job cost accounting, operations of the fieldwork, and estimating new work. All this led to significant efficiencies for Ball, Ball, and Brosamer Inc. and they promoted him to Vice President of Management Information Systems. 

Arnold took the leap in 1996 to start his own company. He launched his business doing hardware and software support for heavy construction companies. Now 20 years later, he still owns and operates Nice Touch Solutions, Inc. It offers a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) application that helps companies process and manage extra work billing by automating a normally time-consuming process. More than 200 major California construction companies are customers and over $1 billion of billings pass through their system annually.  

Arnold is also co-founder and co-organizer of ClarionLive – a community of Clarion Software Developers that began in 2009 and holds weekly webinars and international conferences. 

More about Arnold Young, our 2020 Outstanding Alumni Award Recipient:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/Academics/Undergrad/MDE/Highlights/my-path-from-environmental-engineer-to-entrepreneur