Mathew HagerOperations leader who builds systems and enables teams

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About Mat

Operations leader
who builds systems
and enables teams.

I’m Mat Hager, an aerospace engineering graduate and former nuclear-qualified submarine officer. I’ve spent my career helping people and processes perform at their best.

I’ve planned submarine missions, taught crews to execute as a team, rebuilt manufacturing processes, and built and led teams. I’ve led AI adoption by building tools, processes, and training that help people use AI well.

Looking for leadership or Chief of Staff roles in operations, AI enablement, and adoption.

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01 / The foundations

Built on a
strong technical foundation.

Full-time manufacturing work alongside an aerospace engineering degree.
Learning what complex builds need to finish on time.

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A LIFE IN SYSTEMSBuilt through experience.

02 / Below the surface

Know the
whole system.

Electrical Officer. Nuclear qualification.
Responsibility starts with understanding.

Qualified Nuclear Engineer Officer

03 / Assistant Operations Officer

Make the
mission possible.

Mission demands. Maintenance. Broken equipment.
One plan that has to work.

5/5

Missions succeeded.
Plans adapted along the way.

04 / Information assurance

Build the
conditions for trust.

Modernizing shipboard systems.
Advising the commanding officer.
Making information assurance part of the work.

05 / The classroom

Make
knowledge travel.

Update the training.
Teach the crews. Debrief the work.

Training programme reach 27 crews

Alongside the work

MBA · Temple University

06 / Tech → Healthcare → AI

More capable.
Still accountable.

Build the capability. Bring people with it.
Use AI where it helps.
Keep judgment where it matters.

The decision The upload stayed human.

07 / Back to the factory

Rebuild how
it gets built.

A stalled trailer manufacturer.
A different assembly sequence.
A production system that could move.

08 / ARDA · Manufacturing software

Connect
the whole business.

Customers. Support. Operations. AI.
Build the shared practices that make
the company work together.

09 / The work continues

Experience,
put to work.

Tools and methods I’m building to make work more accessible, more repeatable, and easier to hand over.

  1. vocalize

    Available

    Accessible tools

    A command-line tool that turns Markdown and coding-agent responses into speech. Built to make long stretches of written output easier to use.

  2. Running Fix toolkit

    In development

    Agent-assisted delivery

    Skills and tools for planning, building, reviewing, and handing over work with AI agents. A repeatable way to keep decisions, checks, and context with the work.

  3. The Load Line Method

    Published

    Managing knowledge work

    A method for managing work when agents can produce more than a person can carefully judge. Judgment is the limit, and the method keeps review capacity and commitments in balance. It will keep improving.

  4. Explore Kingston

    Live

    Chamber app · Unpaid volunteer work

    A tourism and membership platform for the Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce. Built end to end as unpaid volunteer work for the community.

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