Exceleratr
Cofounder & CEO
Exceleratr was an online platform designed to bridge the gap between motivated high school students and everything extracurricular-- whether it was an internship, academic, or non-academic program, Exceleratr was there to help. You can read more about Exceleratr here.
Along with my cofounder and COO, I hired a CTO, and brought on a team of developers, and one 'content curator'. My cofounder and I managed our team which built out an entirely custom web platform from scratch. I self-aggregated opportunities in the beginning, to support the future growth of a 100% user-generated content website.
Highlights:
- Built a database with 1,000s of listings.
- Designed and wireframed the entire webiste layout, UI&UX- including each individual element.
- Managed a team of developers to build out functional versions of creative copies.
- Onboarded into local high schools.
- Won business/business plan competitions.
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Rita Hazan Salon
Freelance IT Director/PM
I was brought in to salon in order launch a digital system for client information. I created a plan of action, implemented an existing/easy to use software, and digitized data. I then built my own database and 'consumer' facing application for the colorists and assistants in the salon. Client information is now easily callable on a digital medium, and can just as easily be appended/updated, as well as shared over several devices
Highlights:
- Recruited a team to digitize card data.
- Created a simple Vcard (.vcf) database to easily and actively manage newly digitized data.
- Built out custom database on a local server.
- Imported all .vcf data with SQL autopopulation query.
- Wireframed UI/UX for user-facing platform.
- Magaged team to develop user-facing front end.
- Scaled to multiple mobile devices.
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HomeGoods Plus
IT & Ecommerce Director/PM
HomeGoods Plus had been operating very successfully at retail on 3rd party e-commerce site such as Amazon, Ebay, etc. After years of online sales through third parties, HG+ was looking for a storefront of their own to send their customers back to. I was brought in to help them develop their own online store front. I leveraged an established e-commerce platform to start, and used my technical knowledge in HTML, CSS, mySQL, and js to add design and functionality cusomizations.[Also: set up custom cart- PayPal API implementations, Custom item database, Bulk Upload .csv functionality, serverside forwarding, optimized web extensions, optimized listing pages and more.]
Highlights:
- Set up custom cart- PayPal API implementations.
- Custom item database.
- Bulk Upload .csv functionality.
- Serverside domain forwarding.
- Optimized web extensions and product listings.
- Established payment gateways and cart parameters with tax and shipping considerations.
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Project: E-ceipt
Project Manager
E-ceipt was a project designed to act as a standard protocol for the creation, compilation, tranmission, storage, and presentation of a digital retail receipt. Similar to calendar invites in .ics, E-ceipt would serve as a foundation for allowing digital copies of receipts to exist in and on all of our devices (cross-client, cross-device, cross-platform -- all around the world.
Highlights:
- Modeled a blueprint for a small scaled database.
- Built and managed a 'customer discovery' team to inform project direction.
- Leveraged data to influence actual product.
- Wrote custom queries for implementation into a website.
- Coded the front-end user-facing page displaying the receipt
- Established payment gateways and cart parameters with tax and shipping considerations.
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