Matthew Shaffer

About Matthew Shaffer

A senior leader with extensive experience in engineering leadership, production, and product development, currently serving as the Director of Commercialization at Advanced Construction Robotics. Dedicated to aligning product strategy, sales execution, and production readiness, while overseeing the full lifecycle of robotic systems to ensure they are deployable, scalable, and impactful in construction environments. Focused on enabling measurable productivity improvements, safety enhancements, and schedule reliability, the role emphasizes translating customer needs into market-ready solutions. With expertise in commercialization, go-to-market strategies, and new market development, the mission is to drive adoption of robotic systems and expand their application across diverse markets.

Experience

1. Director of Commercialization

   Advanced Construction Robotics

   Sep 2025 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Lead product commercialization across robotics systems, with responsibility for aligning product strategy, sales execution, and production readiness.Operate across the full product lifecycle to ensure robotic systems are deployable, supportable, and scalable in real-world construction environments. Focus on translating customer needs into market-ready offerings, shaping product direction, and tightening execution loops between development, production, and field deployment.Drive adoption by emphasizing measurable outcomes. Productivity, safety, schedule reliability, and risk reduction, while supporting expansion into new applications and markets.

Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  Associate’s Degree, Electrical Engineering Technology

  2000 — 2002

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering Technology

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• System Design
• Engineering
• Design for Manufacturing
• Microcontrollers
• Altium Designer
• Electrical
• Pcb Design
• Fpga
• Vehicles
• Process Improvement
• Circuit Design
• Engineering Management
• Electronics
• Personnel Management
• Research
• Hardware
• Problem Solving
• Manufacturing
• Systems Engineering
• Systems Design
• Integration
• Product Management
• Program Management
• Agile
• Product Development
• Mobile Robotics
• Analysis
• Embedded Systems
• Testing
• Electrical Engineering
• Eplan
• Robotics