Highlights

A quick summary of my work over the past few years.

• Selected to be a 2017 Education Pioneers Visiting Fellow in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can learn more about the fellowship here

• Led all product development for Fast Company's 2015 #2 Most Innovative Company in Sports. Also won a few product awards for the products I have helped build: like this one (twice) and this one.

• Founded a college readiness mentoring program at Deloitte that attracted over 100 students and mentors in its first year. The program had great success and is being used as a model for similar programs in other Deloitte markets.

• Featured in the Huffington Post, quoted in the New York Times and invited to speak on the same podcast as Mark Cuban

• Speaker at several conferences and events including those held for FBStart, Developer Week San Francisco, at the Sprint Accelerator powered by TechStars, and the InnoTech Conference

• Created LessnLab a personal project to help teachers create, deliver and track differentiated lesson plans. Learned Python, Django and Bootstrap as part of this project.

• Published a few papers, including a chapter in this Cambridge University Press book, that was praised by Nobel Prize Winner, Thomas Schelling

• Won the John F. Kennedy Memorial Prize, awarded to one graduating senior and the Meinig Family Excellence in Leadership Award

• Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Distinction from Cornell University, with a degree in Economics, Government and Information Science. I maintained over a 4.0 GPA in my majors.

• Qualified to the American Forensics Association National Speech Tournament in Extemporaneous Speaking as a member of the Varsity Cornell Debate team

• Selected as a Sophomore Summer Scholar in Deloitte Consulting's New York City office. I was among a few interns asked to work on a client - facing project during this experience. I was asked to interview CEO Barry Salzberg for a recruiting video called "The Intern and the CEO" and participate in other recruiting videos like this one.

• Interned twice (in HS and during freshman Summer and following Fall of college) at a leading Healthcare IT company. Worked on real - time claims adjudication for a third - party health insurance administrator. I also helped build thin-client frameworks, writing custom bindings for an UI component.

• Won the 2007 Missouri State Championship in Policy Debate and was 3rd Place in Extemporaneous Speaking that same year. Link here.