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Experience & Education
Volunteer Experience
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Board Member
Central San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce
- Present 7 years 7 months
Economic Empowerment
Responsible for overseeing all things technical within the organization.
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Executive Director
Startup San Diego
- 7 months
Science and Technology
Executive Director of Startup Week 2017. Responsibilities included creating all of the marketing, design, and development for the weeklong event. Brought in over $100,000 in revenue, selling over 5000 tickets, and getting the support of over 250 volunteers.
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Guest Speaker
Startup San Diego
- Present 7 years 11 months
Science and Technology
Guest Speaker on the Development Track, How to Communicate Complex Ideas Simply. Created and taught the MARS model and led a workshop for over 80 attendees.
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Guest Speaker
Startup San Diego
- Present 8 years 11 months
Science and Technology
Guest speaker on Development and Future Tracks. Discussed the application and benefits of using WordPress, as well as the Future of Marketing.
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Mentor
Startup Weekend
- Present 9 years 9 months
Science and Technology
Mentored startups participating in the 2016 San Diego Startup Weekend
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Pitch Judge
Startup Weekend
- Present 8 years
Science and Technology
Listened to, critiqued, and mentored over 16 groups on their startup pitch before the final pitch competition.
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Guest Speaker
Downtown San Diego Partnership
- Present 8 years 5 months
Education
4x Guest Speaker at the Collaboratory for Downtown Innovation (CDI), part of the Downtown San Diego Partnership. Teaching how to get clients and how to communicate with customers.
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Mentor
Fōkcus Mentoring
- Present 8 years 10 months
Science and Technology
Mentoring startup founders and helping them identify problems and offering solutions for technology, marketing, monetization, and scale.
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Mentor
CONNECT ALL @ the Jacobs Center
- Present 7 years
Science and Technology
Mentoring local agency that connects American businesses with Latin American designers and developers.
Publications
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Oh So Fresh Magazine
Princeton University
See publicationIvy League entertainment focused magazine highlighting the accomplishments of talented students, and giving them a platform to launch their professional careers. From interviews with professionals such as JJ Abrams and David Geffen to travel tips and interviews with faculty, all articles were written by, edited and published by students.
Projects
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Bar and Restaurant News
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See projectb2b website developed for owners and leaders in the restaurant and hospitality industry that pulls in content from around the web and displays it within a branded template design. Built in Wordpress using Twitter Bootstrap, custom coding, custom layout, custom logic and functionality. Total project time = 4 days.
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GoBEOND
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See projectb2b website developed to introduce potential customers to a new product. 10 micro sites were additionally created in under a week to cater to some of the biggest restaurant chains in North America.
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Buzztime Business
- Present
See projectb2b lead generation site built to introduce visitors and potential customers to the Buzztime product line. Optimized for mobile, Custom responsive design, Custom buttons, Custom coding. Gets > 10,000 users monthly with over 20,000 pageviews.
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Smart Ideas for Smart Bar and Restaurant Owners
- Present
See projectb2b website created to prove Buzztime as a thought-leader in the restaurant and hospitality industry. Built in Wordpress, the theme was custom designed along with custom css, custom widgets and plugins, custom coding, custom Wordpress functionality, and logic to display content based on date, total views, category and tags.
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Stump! Trivia
- Present
See projectStump! Trivia is a national trivia company purchased by Buzztime in 2011. It had a website already, but had no content management system, which made it impossible to update or add any content. I was responsible for breaking apart and rebuilding the site in Joomla. In 2012, Stump! Trivia launched Questionnairey, it's sister product, and needed a website built as well. I then created and launched the Questionnairey site in under 5 days.
Honors & Awards
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Pollies - best website for gubernatorial candidate
Pollies
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish
Limited working proficiency
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Hebrew
Elementary proficiency
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German
Elementary proficiency
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Japanese
Elementary proficiency
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French
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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Ivy Entertainment
Founder/President
-Created Oh So Fresh Magazine from scratch, which naturally evolved into more than just a magazine as the Ivy League Television Network. Successfully received funding for equipment and materials, created original content for 12 shows, and also recruited producers, writers and actors by hosting events at each school. Gained the support of all 8 Ivy League schools, as well as OSTN, an open-source television network that is affiliated with over 200 schools worldwide and distributes original content…
Created Oh So Fresh Magazine from scratch, which naturally evolved into more than just a magazine as the Ivy League Television Network. Successfully received funding for equipment and materials, created original content for 12 shows, and also recruited producers, writers and actors by hosting events at each school. Gained the support of all 8 Ivy League schools, as well as OSTN, an open-source television network that is affiliated with over 200 schools worldwide and distributes original content between them all. Solicited advertising for the magazine and tv network, and raised over $50k.
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