Tech Projects

• SandHill.io – A single feed that aggregates content from 190+ VCs, tech founders, and analysts.
• Lightbank Connect — Single app to apply to our portfolio at Lightbank. Featured on Chicago Inno.
• ProductHop — Timehop meets Product Hunt. #3 product for the day on Product Hunt. Featured by The Next Web.
• FlashLine — POS app that allowed for advance ordering. Top 3 prize at AngelHack Chicago 2014. Won a sponsor prize from BitGo.
• Lingal — Speech translation between languages (Google Translate didn't have it yet). Won a sponsor prize at PennApps 2014
• Sentry — Home security device. Won a sponsor prize at HackMIT 2013

Research Projects

• 'Genetic Contributors to Intergenerational CAG Repeat Instability in Huntington’s Disease Knock-In Mice'
• Paper published in GENETICS by one of the academic teams that I worked with for a little over a year. Was listed as a co-author for my contributions.

Community Initiatives

• Co-Organizer @ Chicago Enterprise Tech Meetup (2016-17)
• Monthly meetup with 100+ attendees including local VCs, founders, and operators
• Co-Founder // Co-Organizer @ Chicago Young in Tech Meetup (2016-17)
• Quarterly meetup with ~50 attendees mostly from the startup / venture community
• Founders at Illinois (2013-16)
• I launched/led 2 internal programs: A semester-long startup accelerator for student entrepreneurs and a microgrants program that gave student teams $500 to pay for initial product & marketing expenses. A few startups that went through each program ended up raising proper seed rounds after.