Matt Hempey

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A little about me. Born at Stanford Hospital April 18th, 1974. Grew up in Beaverton, Oregon, attended Sunset High School. Graduated 1992. Studied Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis (BS 1996, Magna Cum Laude), and at Stanford (MS 1998, HCI specialization).

I bounced around the dot com bubble after Stanford, including time spent at Oracle, Infoseek, Animatrix, and Takira.com (eventually sold to Bluestreak).

I found I was great at software consulting, so I joined Vertigo Software and spent five years helping Microsoft with various projects, most notably the digital locker and Windows Marketplace, Microsoft's electronic software distribution portal. I received a number of patent awards for my work on the digital locker, and Microsoft now sells Windows Vista and Office for download through the site.

I've sung a cappella as a hobby since college. At Wash U I was in the Pikers, and at Stanford, the Fleet Street Singers.
I currently sing with the Richter Scales, a group of technology, finance and other professionals in San Francisco. We all have similar backgrounds in a cappella with not enough time to do more.

I have an amazing wife, Lauren, and a lovely daughter, Meara, who likes to spin.