Mandy Matthew

Mandy Matthew has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Mandy is currently employed at Duolingo as a Senior Security Risk Program Manager, where they oversee the delivery of information security initiatives and ensures compliance with industry risk frameworks. In their previous role at Duolingo as a Senior Technical Program Manager, they defined the roadmap and strategy for the security and operations teams.

Prior to joining Duolingo, Mandy worked at Fidelity Investments as a Senior Manager, where they developed and implemented a plan to achieve 100% application availability for a client managing $2 trillion in assets. Mandy also managed the strategy and technical requirements for an internal application health check dashboard.

Before Fidelity Investments, Mandy worked at NavLabs as a Technical Program Manager, where they successfully managed a project to consolidate multiple legacy Java applications into a single platform. Mandy collaborated with stakeholders and prioritized new app features to meet project goals. Earlier in their career, Mandy served as a Business Analyst Lead at BNY Mellon, where they led a project to select a new mission-critical software for the asset management team.

Mandy's work experience also includes an internship at EY as a Technology Advisory Intern, where they designed a software application to assess the authenticity of prescription drugs. Mandy integrated external databases and built a working version in Java.

In their early career, Mandy worked as a Consultant and Associate Consultant at Appian Corporation. In their role as a Consultant, they assessed the functionality of a legacy system for a federal client and redesigned a new version with improved UI and backend algorithms. As an Associate Consultant, Mandy worked with a cross-functional team to develop a mobile maintenance tracking app for a property management company, resulting in the retirement of an existing Excel-based tool and widespread adoption of the new app.

Overall, Mandy Matthew's work experience showcases their expertise in program and project management, information security, application availability, and software development.

Mandy Matthew holds a Master's Degree in Information Systems Management, which they obtained from Carnegie Mellon University in the years 2015 to 2016. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Maryland from 2009 to 2013. Additionally, Mandy has acquired certifications as an "(ISC)² Candidate" from (ISC)² in June 2023 and as an "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner" from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in April 2021.