Title: Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Matt Browne, M.S.

URL: http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.matt.browne

Description: Matt Browne, M.S. is a senior team leader in Frankfurt, Germany. His areas of expertise include enterprise content management, web technologies, knowledge management, intranet search engines and collaboration software. He earned his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics from the University of Kansas. He started his information technology career at Siemens in Munich as a software engineer and project manager developing natural language processing tools. Matt is also a part-time writer and has recently published his first science fiction novel called The Future Happens Twice which is based on the concept of embryo space colonization. Key elements in the first book of his planned trilogy are the detection of Earth-like extrasolar planets, the advancement of embryo-splitting technology, artificial wombs and the cryopreservation of human embryos for an interstellar space mission as human survival is threatened by an impending extinction-level event.