Welcome to my electric rain portfolio

• 2009 - 2010

  • Virsis.com Founder
    User generated product comparison utility. Designed to be simple and straight forward. Value is to provide quick answers to the most needed questions before a product purchase (Feb 2010 Launch).
  • Vagabond Experiment
    August 2009 - December 2009, A living experiment featuring refusal of a home for 4 months. The Goal is to establish true resourcefulness, to strip material want, increase focus on ideas/projects, lose fear of failure, and to have interesting stories to pass down to my children. (3 months to go!)

• 2008

  • Kreetle Founder, October 2008 - May 2009
    Embeddable Commenting System and Analytics Engine with 3 Patents in development. Solves infinite nesting problem. Project put dormant for strategic release... let's see what google wave can do ;)
  • BSG Lead Online Marketer, Summer 2008
    Increased stale inventory movement out of a warehouse to over 50 additional products a day within 2 weeks. Required creativity, speed, and quick understanding of a warehouse’s functionality. Personal goal; to better understand the bottlenecks and pains of fast paced online retail companies with regard to inventory and sales.

• 2007

  • Google Quality Analyst, Summer 2007
    Tasks included testing quality of search index. Personal goal; to better understand search engine’s focus and behind the scene quality content ranking especially with regard to SEO.

• 2006

  • Henderson Industries Research/Software Engineer, Summer 2006
    Hired to solely research, design, and build a rear vehicle object detection system prototype. Using a PLC, ladder language, sonar sensor and LEDS, It was designed, built, and completed in three weeks for movement to production. Personal Goal; to understand physical product design with software function requirements.
  • Pennsylvania State University
    Student, expected 2010
    Computer Science, Entrepreneurship Minor, Mathematics Minor.
    Activities
    Ruby Group, PSU Entrepreneurship Club, Computer Science/Mathematics Tutor

• 2005

  • turbotune Founder, June 2005 - August 2007
    A computer consulting firm for small business. Began my first official startup at 19. $50 in pocket and starting from scratch, It grew to 48 active clients and 4 hired contractors in 6 months (over 150 clients served total). Clients ranged in size of 5 to 20 employees. The project was suspended after deciding to go back to school in pursuit of software interests.