{"id":3778,"date":"2020-12-09T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T18:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/magazine\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:18:28","slug":"how-he-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/magazine\/2020\/12\/how-he-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How He Does It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nick Mattiello wants to do it all. The M.B.A. student\/marketer\/firefighter had a busy summer, transitioning to working remotely and searching for people trapped in a burning building.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

Nick Mattiello is an ace at managing his time.<\/p>\n

Doubling up on his courses, the 25-year-old Stillman School of Business student is earning his M.B.A. in just 14 months while holding down a full-time marketing-strategy job at Samsung\u2019s North American Headquarters. There, among myriad other duties, he works with marketing and media agencies to book product placements and advertising on, say, \u201cThe Jimmy Fallon Show.\u201d Add to that, he\u2019s a volunteer firefighter at Rescue 1\/Engine 2 in Secaucus, where he has to respond to emergencies at any time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are sleepless nights,\u201d he admits. Yet he says successful multitasking can be done with the help of mental flexibility, drive (which he calls \u201cmomentum\u201d), and lots of support from understanding bosses and professors at Seton Hall.<\/p>\n

Mattiello\u2019s race with time and his drive to do more likely began at age 18 when \u2014 on top of serving as a 911 operator for his local police department and the state police \u2014 he took the oath as a volunteer firefighter. His reasons were very personal.<\/p>\n

In 1997, when Mattiello was just 2 years old, he saw a strip mall burn in Pompton Lakes with billowing black smoke. \u201cI watched my family\u2019s business and livelihood go up in flames, literally and figuratively,\u201d he says. Then, in his teens, a natural gas leak obliterated the house across the street from Mattiello\u2019s \u201cin a huge ball of fire.\u201d These two incidents convinced him that he \u201cwanted to be on the other end of a fire \u2014 by fighting it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This past summer, firefighter Mattiello entered a burning apartment complex. According to Deputy Chief Joseph Schoendorf, Engine 2 arrived to find \u201cheavy smoke and fire in the building and people trapped. Nick was inside conducting a search.\u201d He won a unit citation for \u201ceffort under combat conditions.\u201d Just weeks before, his company saved two tots locked inside an overheated car.<\/p>\n

He also played his part in New Jersey\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, risking infection while responding to calls at senior centers, hotels, hospitals and homes. During these times he often breathed bottled air.<\/p>\n

In his professional life at Samsung Electronics, Mattiello has helped promote the Galaxy Note 9, Note 10, S-10, Galaxy Fold, and other blockbuster products through integrated marketing communications support, budgets, planning, contract agreements with vendors and compliance, says his boss, Rey de los Reyes, a senior director.<\/p>\n

All this activity won Mattiello a Samsung Marketing \u201cGuru Award\u201d in 2018, his first year at the company. And for his recent performance while the company reorganized amid the pandemic, he became a project manager supporting the digital marketing team, says de los Reyes, who is \u201cimpressed by Nick\u2019s ambition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Equally respectful of Mattiello\u2019s work ethic is Stillman Professor Paula Alexander. \u201cDuring this summer, as part of our Leadership Seminar course, Nick led an employee engagement initiative for his division of Samsung,\u201d she says. That experience became not only grist for a business school paper, but a template for Samsung best practices.<\/p>\n

It was created \u201cto boost morale and bring everyone within my division together virtually,\u201d Mattiello explains. As co-chair, he devised online trivia contests, an MTV Cribs event, a happy hour and \u201cFamily Feud\u201d game to get \u201ceveryone together and laughing again from home.\u201d On a more serious note, the group, which numbered as many as 50 employees per session, discussed issues relating to the social climate of the country, says de los Reyes.<\/p>\n

Whatever motivates the hyperkinetic Nick Mattiello seems innate, and de los Reyes characterizes him as \u201cthirsty to get things done.\u201d Chief Schoendorf calls him \u201ca real go-getter.\u201d For Professor Alexander, \u201cNicholas Mattiello embodies the Seton Hall ideal of a servant leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

While living such a packed life may not appeal to everyone, he asserts that \u201cas long as you have support, momentum and a focused mindset, anyone can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bob Gilbert is a freelance writer based in Connecticut.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nick Mattiello wants to do it all. The M.B.A. student\/marketer\/firefighter had a busy summer, transitioning to working remotely and searching for people trapped in a burning building.<\/p>\n

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