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Matt Brumberger

Salesforce Consultant at Innovate! Inc. The person who understood both the business logic and the regulatory context. EPA program specialist. One of the core team members who made Innovate great.

Innovate! Inc.EPA Programs

The Arc

Matt Brumberger is a Salesforce consultant in the truest sense of the word. Not someone who configures fields and calls it consulting — someone who sits with a client, understands their regulatory mandate, maps it to a platform capability, and builds the solution that actually solves the problem. That's what Matt did at Innovate! Inc., project after project, year after year.

At Innovate, Matt worked on EPA Salesforce implementations — the kind of complex, compliance-heavy government projects where getting a requirement wrong doesn't just mean rework, it means regulatory risk. He was part of the core team that delivered OPPT Program Plan, BMC, HSRAP, and other EPA program office solutions. When the team needed someone who could bridge the gap between what the program office was asking for and what Salesforce could actually deliver, Matt was that person.

He's one of the names that comes up every time you talk about the Innovate team — alongside Josh Long, Catherine Nolan, Larry Spackman, Mark Filpus, Stacey Cogswell, and Tom Perkowitz. That wasn't an accident. Innovate was great because of the people, and Matt was one of those people.

Career Timeline

~2014

Salesforce Consultant

Innovate! Inc.

Joined Innovate! and began working on EPA Salesforce implementations. From the beginning, Matt was the kind of consultant who dug into the details — understanding not just what the system needed to do, but why the EPA program office needed it to work that way.

2014 - 2016

EPA Program Implementations — OPPT & BMC

Innovate! Inc. / EPA

Worked across EPA Salesforce programs including OPPT Program Plan and BMC initiatives. Collaborated with Glen, Josh Long, Catherine Nolan, and Larry Spackman on requirements gathering, development sprints, and deployment cycles. Matt brought the consulting perspective — translating complex regulatory requirements into actionable Salesforce configurations.

2016 - 2018

Senior Consultant — Cross-Program Delivery

Innovate! Inc. / EPA

Expanded into multiple EPA program offices. Worked on HSRAP, OSCP, and CAS/BMC coordination. Matt was one of the people who could move between programs and maintain context — understanding the dependencies between systems that most people didn’t even know existed.

2018 - 2020

Salesforce Consultant — GSU & Higher Education

Innovate! Inc.

Contributed to Georgia State University Salesforce initiatives alongside the team. Brought his EPA program experience into higher education implementations, helping bridge the gap between government compliance patterns and university operational needs.

Innovate! Inc. Era

Core Team Member

EPA, GSU & Beyond

One of the people consistently named when you talk about who made Innovate! great. Worked alongside Josh Long, Catherine Nolan, Jordon Schulman, Larry Spackman, Mark Filpus, Stacey Cogswell, Tom Perkowitz, and the rest of the team that built Salesforce solutions for some of the most complex clients in government and higher education.

What Matt Brings

Salesforce Consulting

The difference between a Salesforce developer and a Salesforce consultant is that the consultant understands why you're building it, not just how. Matt brought that consulting lens to every project — requirements, design, build, and delivery.

EPA & Government Programs

Deep experience with EPA Salesforce implementations including OPPT, BMC, HSRAP, and OSCP. Understands the regulatory context, the compliance requirements, and the multi-stakeholder approval processes that make government tech uniquely challenging.

Requirements Translation

The ability to sit with a program office, understand their regulatory mandate, and turn that into a Salesforce solution design. Matt was the person who made sure what got built was actually what the client needed — not just what was on the spec.

Cross-Program Coordination

Worked across multiple EPA programs simultaneously, understanding the dependencies and shared data models between them. The kind of systems thinking that prevents one team's changes from breaking another team's workflows.

Team Collaboration

Part of the core Innovate! team that delivered EPA and GSU Salesforce solutions year after year. Matt wasn’t a solo operator — he was someone who made the team better by being in the room.

How I Know Matt

Innovate! Inc. — EPA Salesforce projects, in the trenches together

Matt and I worked together at Innovate! Inc. on EPA Salesforce projects. He was one of the consultants on the team who made the work actually happen — not just writing code, but understanding what the code needed to accomplish and why. When you're building Salesforce solutions for federal program offices, the “why” matters as much as the “how.”

We were part of the same core team — the group that built and delivered EPA program implementations through OPPT, BMC, HSRAP, and beyond. Matt was in the sprint meetings, the requirements sessions, the working sessions where we figured out how to translate federal compliance language into Salesforce objects and automations. He was a consistent, reliable presence on a team full of talented people.

Working alongside Josh Long, Catherine Nolan, Jordon Schulman, Larry Spackman, Mark Filpus, Stacey Cogswell, Tom Perkowitz, Paul Stephens, and Tim Lynch — that was a team. Matt was part of what made it work. The kind of person who doesn't need to be the loudest voice in the room because the quality of their work speaks for itself.

Why He Matters

Good Salesforce consultants are rare. The ones who can sit in a room with a federal program office, understand the regulatory mandate, translate it into platform requirements, and then work with developers to build the solution — that's a skill set that takes years to develop. Matt developed it at Innovate, working on some of the most complex government Salesforce projects in the ecosystem.

Innovate was a great place to work. Matt was one of the people who made it that way — consistent, capable, and always focused on making sure what got built was what the client actually needed.

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