What Do You Want to Know About Matty Byloos?

Hi. It’s me. Matty Byloos here. For those of you who already know this stuff, skip on. Or skip around, off this silly page where I’m forced to talk about myself for those who have no idea because we’ve never met. I insist. Go…. (scroll down to the bottom now if you are looking for a comment form or to send me a message directly)

If we’ve never met, then here are some trivia tidbits. I spent a little more than five years teaching English at East Los Angeles City College before, as is the case with many teachers, I got tired of the bureaucracy and tedium of going through the same course material, semester after semester. Sure, in the beginning, it was wonderful. Loved my kids. Loved teaching. Then, things changed. And working part time wasn’t helping much either, with inconsistent money and too much free time.

Over a period of a few months, I took a lot of lunches with friends who had other careers going. Advertising people. Lawyers. Marketing demons. Publishing world hoo-ha’s. After exploring various avenues and gathering advice from professionals in business, I narrowed my fields of interest to publishing, editing and maybe Internet marketing as viable offshoots of my teaching foundation. I just didn’t want to feel like I’d wasted my time in the classroom. I wanted to know my skills would translate somewhere.

I got lucky and found a job off of Craig’s List that spring (2007) and quit teaching after that semester, to begin my work as an online marketer specializing in SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. In one way or another, I’ve been doing project management ever since. And it’s quite nice to be rewarded financially, basically just for being organized.

I received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Santa Clara University (BA 1996) where I studied Literature and Creative Writing. After a few years off, I went back to get a Master of Fine Arts from the Art Center College of Design (MFA 2001) in Pasadena, California.

So now I write fiction, work at building a career in the art world as a painter, and exhibit my work at Sandroni.Rey Gallery in Culver City, the new gallery district in Los Angeles. Interested readers can also check out my exhibition resume / CV.

Matty Byloos in the Long Beach Studio 2005

Photo copyright and courtesy of my good friend, Andre Vippolis.

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