About
Matt Haney
Read about our amazing CEO, Matt Haney and the timeline he traversed as he became the founder of Mobile Imaging, LLC
About Matt
For Matt Haney, a 2013 graduate of Meridian Community College’s Radiologic Technology Program, persistence is a trait that has always served him well.
Fresh out of Northeast Lauderdale High School in 2002, Haney enrolled in classes at MCC. Undecided about a career path, he took day and night classes over the next several years while working full-time jobs that ranged from retail to the construction industry.
“I went years just taking classes because I did not know what I wanted to do,” he said. Finally, he ended up landing a job at Anderson Regional Medical Center as a patient transporter in the Diagnostic Imaging Department.
“That is where I got my first interest in X-ray,” he said.
Fascinated by radiology, he began taking pre-requisite classes to get into MCC’s Radiologic Technology Program.
Haney wound up just outside the cut-off of the 15 students who were accepted into the program during the first year he applied. The same thing happened in his second year, too.
“On my third attempt in 2010, I got on the alternate list. So, I thought, ‘well, that is better than nothing.’ Then, in the next few days, MCC called me and said somebody had changed their mind, and I got accepted into the program.” His persistence had paid off, a trait he encourages other students to show if they fail to get into a competitive collegiate academic program on the first attempt.
“If you do not get accepted into a program the first time, don’t give up, but keep applying,” he said. “That will show the administration that you are really interested in the program. You have to be persistent.”
Haney continued to show his unstoppable spirit throughout his time at MCC. He did not progress from freshman to sophomore year in the Radiologic Technology Program, so he was forced to reapply and repeat his freshman year. It turned out to be the kickstart he needed.
“It put me a year behind, but I ended up graduating in 2013 with my Associates of Applied Science degree in Radiologic Technology,” he said.
Haney then took a full-time night shift at Rush Foundation Hospital, where he worked as a student during school. Two years later, he moved to a day shift and began taking classes two days a week at the University of South Alabama, where he earned his certificates in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, and Computed Tomography, CT.
A registered Radiologic Technologist with the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, or ARRT, Haney joined the diagnostic imaging staff at Anderson Regional Medical Center in 2016. The next year, he accepted a job at Anderson’s MRI Center as a full-time MRI Tech where he worked at the past 6 years. He recently moved to a night position in X-ray to launch a new business of his own, Mobile Imaging LLC.