Seize Your Fame LLCFounder
Aug. 2009 - Jan. 2013Project Management Professional Certification
Agile Certified Practitioner expected April 2013
New York University, training: 85+ total hrs of PM training, 20+ hrs with Agile/Scrum
Technology Innovations: • Invented Memorizing, an app to help memorize lines, speeches, and poetry, for the iPhone and Android. This involved two separate projects with two separate teams based on the different programming needs. It gave experience leading iPhone and Android projects for UX design • Co-drafted non-provisional utility patent application for above software
• Founded Uspays.com, a social media site where users get paid to recommend Amazon.com items using personalized affiliate marketing, using PHP language-based coding, including video integration for the site. It involved UX facets to optimize the site.
• Provided web-based entertainment consulting for emerging actors, models, and musical artists to help them succeed in the entertainment industry, seizeyourfame.com. The original site created as an entrepreneur incorporates all aspects of web design. • Developed a revenue-generating blog, sykwinds.com, modeled after yahoo.com, highlighting ways to succeed in the entertainment industry. This site is a WordPress media-based site for informing individuals about the entertainment industry. 90th percentile Klout score
Project Management: • Expert in leading Software Development Life Cycle to achieve strategic business objectives, mainly through the Agile methodology, using test-driven development.
• Analysis of over 100 freelance contractors to make final team hiring selection and creating human resource management strategies and building high performance teams
• Designed innovative technology products through wireframes that were new to market and showed continuous improvement, as well as evolution of these designs.