Business Planning Related Projects

I can’t talk publicly much about this project out of respect for Voltage, but I wanted to include it in my projects because it was a great opportunity for me to continue honing my skills of UX/UI Design as well as back-end architecture. Steven and I worked together to lay out early wireframes of the Read More >>

One of my first entrepreneurial endeavors was MyNiceTie. When I got home from serving in Russia a friend, and business partner, gave me $7,000 to start what we thought would be a nationwide necktie company. I took the investment, flew to South Korea, and bought 2,000 ties. At that time, having a website wasn’t even Read More >>

The idea for HappyFreebie came when I featured my neckties (MyNiceTie) on a niche giveaway blog and found it to be very effective but difficult for both the user and business. I decided to make giveaways easier online. I built the business from nothing to 3,300 subscribers through an innovative and low-cost marketing strategy.

Update: this site is now called goodsbee.com I did 90% of the development on the site.

MyNiceTie was the catalyst that propelled me to learn to code and also gave me some great business experience. This is a website I built ~ 3 years ago in Magento. Although its old, I include it to show that I’m very familiar with the platform. One highlight is the way I used the existing category and Read More >>

I was promoted quickly at Payless to a planner role in the International Athletics Department. In addition to my responsibilities of planning and buying shoes, I redesigned almost every excel tool that international planners used. One tool in particular took massive amounts of data and summarized it in easy-to-use charts and graphs. This allowed planners Read More >>