Inspiration, Innovation & Implementation

About Matt Stepchuk

Innovator, entrepreneur, and master project manager, Matt Stepchuk has enjoyed a prolific career providing private sector and government clients with tools, structure, and strategy to operate and communicate more effectively internally and with external target groups.

A business administration and marketing expert with advanced skills in information extraction, organization, and packaging in multiple mediums, Matt also has extensive experience in best practices search marketing and Solve360 CRM.

Entrepreneurial & Volunteer Initiatives

President and CEO of Matt-A-Graphics Inc. (MGi), a marketing and communications company (est. 1991) providing SWOT/FOOM analysis, information audit and organization, strategic content development (operational, organizational, financial, and marketing); graphic corporate image; information packaging and promotion (print, web, video, signage, specialty advertising), search marketing; social media; integrated CRM solutions; corporate gmail product suite setup and training; corporate VOIP systems; policies and procedure development; and more.
Co-founder, president, and CEO of this CSA-approved, Canada/U.S. bonded, high-value, high-risk (HVHR) carrier and freight broker providing full truckload (FTL) services to UPS-SCS and other North American clients (2005-2010). Roles included: financing (working capital and AR factoring); human resource management; administrative structure assembly (financial, operational and organizational); print/web marketing collateral; application/maintenence of CDN/US authorities; document production (job descriptions, staff procedure Wiki, forms, contracts, driver manuals, etc.). At time of partner buyout in 2010, this 55 employee/owner-operator conglomerate had sales approaching 10 million in just 6 years of operation.

MyRevelstoke.ca is a digital marketing agency masterwork launched on June 28, 2019 to provide a central information channel for Revelstoke's awesome people and business community. A local company serving local needs, MyRevelstoke.ca introduces a whole new range of options to promote local interests, goods, and services > MyRevelstoke.ca
The goal of NBB is to spark global innovation in modern adolescent sex education, life skills adoption, and social-relational mental health support through a shared, dynamic global platform. Unleashing the world’s most repressed discussion on the planet’s favorite topic, NBB promotes a new generational paradigm where: education and tolerance supersede ignorance and fear; gender identity, sexual orientation, and sexually transmitted infections are addressed without stigma; sexual pleasure is promoted; unwanted pregnancy avoided; respect and communication prioritized; opposing views of other cultures and religions understood and valued; the impact of poverty on sexual health and domestic violence understood; and promotion of gratuitous violence towards women in any form outlawed with equal disdain to human slavery in the United States in 1865.
Inventor of the Alpha-Slips compact disc organization system sold in Canada and the U.S.A. (2002-2005). Manufactured using U.V. silk-screened ink on premium styrene plastic to resist fading and scratching, the Alpha-Slips system was comprised of a Starter Pack (A to Z, Soundtracks and Various Artists), with Theme, Genre and Artist Slips each sold separately. Click HERE for the backstory on this invention.

Pioneered first Marketing department for this independent corporation serving four campuses in both official languages (1988-1990). Achievements include: first departmental budget encompassing new tools and service promotion channels for Revenue Operations, Programming, and Athletics divisions; conception, writing and production supervision of Algonquin’s first student information-daytimer (‘Insta-Guide’ editions 1, 2 & 3) and new, bi-weekly college newsletter ‘Info-Connection’; creation of ‘G-Force’ in-house banner service; implementation of first college-wide billboard regulation system; introduction of in-house desktop publishing; co-management of 300 student information dissemination system; orientation lectures; college committees, policies, procedures and job descriptions for 5 support personnel. Click HERE for the untold story.
Organized by Matt from 2005 to 2013, Ottawa’s Great Pumpkin Charity Ball (GPB) is an integrated community initiative that has raised $80,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Adaptive Snowsports, and affiliate charities since 2005. Held on the first Friday that kicks off Ottawa’s Halloween party season, this highly anticipated, 750 guest, sell-out fundraiser at St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts is made possible with volunteer labour from local university sororities and fraternities.
Humor City is a hilarious board game idea that uses punchline joke questions and answers (organized by category into separate decks) as the primary mechanic to extend play. If a player doesn’t know the answer, at least their turn always ends with a good laugh. Play tested in the Revelstoke B.C. in 2017, the project was put on hold due to flaws in mechanics which require remedy. LEARN MORE >

Best thing about this company was the logo. First initiative back from mini-retirement, incorporated May 3, 2018, Water Command Management Ltd. was intended to excel as a one-stop provider of fluids management field personnel and support services to leading energy producers throughout Western Canada. What actually transpired was more like an episode from PULP FICTION. You gotta know when to holdem', know when to foldem'. Sorry about everything Eric. I miss you buddy. START AGAIN.

MGi Highlights

  • Typesetting Canada’s information highway blueprint: Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC) Report (1995)
  • First promotional forward slash off Canada Post's web site (/tagsandlabels)
  • Invention of the Flash e-brochure in 1996 (in conjunction with Industry Canada) with deliverables to Industry Canada, Canada Post, and Hummingbird Business Information Systems
  • Competition Bureau's first website (Industry Canada)
  • Design/typesetting of more than 100 premium Industry Canada publications
  • Design/typesetting of Canada Post corporate training manuals, instructor guides, and creation of CBT modules for 5 years and corporate marketing materials for 3 years
  • Design and delivery of a Career Hunter’s Workshop for Algonquin Technology Institute

Volunteer

Education/Certifications

  • 3-Year Business Administration Diploma, Marketing Major (Algonquin College, 1985-1987)
  • 100 Hour TESL (Teach English as a Second Language) Certification (2014, Ottawa University)
  • 16-week Weekend Warrior French Cooking Class (Algonquin College (2008)
  • Certified motorcycle instructor with the Ottawa-Carleton Saftey Counsel MRC program (1985 to 1988, recertified in 1996)
  • PADI Scuba Diving Certifications: Advanced Open Water; Deep Diver; Wreck Diver; Rescue Diver; Oxygen First Aid; Field Neurological Exam; Medic First Aid

Passions

Snowboarding • Photography • Travelling • Guitar • Singing (former lead singer for 52 Gigs cover band, 2005 to 2011) • Impressionist art (especially Claude Monet) • Cooking • Volunteering

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  • Abraham Lincoln
    Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.
    Abraham Lincoln
  • Louise Pasteur
    Work is the magic word which transmutes the base metals of humanity into gold.
    Louise Pasteur

Lead Singer for 52 Gigs at the Great
Pumpkin Charity Ball (2009)

2017 Whistler Peak Deep Snow Shredding Video