CoderBrown.com is the personal website of Matt Brown. I’m a tech enthusiast, a travel adventure photographer, and in 2025, I dove into 3D printing and launched a small business called Matt, Print This! where my wife and I sell 3D printed items at craft markets in the Union County, NC area.
I'm currently working as an accountant for Paar, Melis & Associates, an accounting firm based in Maryland that specializes in automotive repair shops. I spend a lot of my work day in QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks desktop, doing monthly reviews to produce financials. I also talk with shop owners and bookkeepers to answer questions and troubleshoot and solve issues as well as doing training for QuickBooks Online. My position fits my natural inclination for working with numbers though I never considered accounting as a career before now. This is my third career since 2017.
Before that I worked at the former Discovery Communications (currently known (as of this update) as Warner Brothers Discovery) for 13 years as a production manager and later as a web producer. Back then there were over 100 networks including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Investigation Discovery, Oprah Winfrey Network, Science Channel, American Heroes Channel, Destination America, and Discovery Kids as well as many international networks all over the globe. My last position was as a Web Producer on the interactive team for Discovery Agency, the former in-house creative agency at Discovery Communications. My team created websites and interactives for all of Discovery's networks and business units and our unique composition allowed us to work on every major network and business unit instead of specializing on a particular network. A sad reality is most of the sites we built no longer exist anymore. Such is life in the TV media world. Some of our past work includes:
- The Emmy® award-winning Skywire Live with Nik Wallenda, Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk across the Grand Canyon which was broadcast live on Discovery Channel (formerly at skywire.discovery.com, more info here: Skywire Live (Wikipedia))
- The Webby Award winning Whale Wars: Blood and Water, Animal Planet's interactive episode of the story about Japan's whaling fleet and the Sea Shepherds activists who try to stop them (formerly at blood-and-water.animalplanet.com, you can view a sizzle reel here: Sizzle Reel)
- Skyscraper Live with Nik Wallenda, a multilingual website showcasing Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk between three skyscrapers in Chicago that aired live on Discovery Channel (formerly at www.skyscraperlive.com, more info here: Skyscraper Live (Wikipedia)
- Klondike, Discovery's first scripted mini-series (formerly at klondiketv.com, more info here: Klondike (Wikipedia)
- Sci2.tv, a site from Science Channel with curated science-related YouTube clips and original video content (formerly at sci2.tv, more info here: Sci2 (Discovery press release)
- Everest Avalanche Tragedy, a site that was originally supposed to carry Joby Ogywn's wingsuit jump from the top of Mount Everest live on Discovery Channel but was quickly converted to cover the tragic 2014 avalanche that occurred in the Khumbu Icefall near Base Bamp and claimed the lives of 16 Sherpas (formerly at everestavalanchetragedy.com)
- We also built Discovery's Corporate site and Press Web site.
In my role I specialized in website QA (browser testing), but as a web producer my daily tasks are widely varied and include managing analytics, building electronic press kits and other small-scale websites, processing video and audio used on our sites, serving as the company HTML email expert, training users on our CMS systems, and administrative items such as tracking and managing our server costs. I was also a Web Standards, accessibility and usability advocate (and still am today).
- Untappd
- Tumblr Blog (ancient travel blog listed here for archive purposes)
Want to contact me? Use one of the services above or email me at matt@coderbrown.com.