ACoolNERD contributes to the South Los Angeles Transit Empowerment Zone (SLATE-Z) efforts to "Revitalizing South L.A. by Moving Residents to Economic Opportunity". We're working with the team and workgroups to define, designate, identify, and research resources for the residents and business owners of South Los Angeles. We provided data in combination with over 50 other agencies that resulted in a complete map of the landscape and diverse population we're striving to help. https://www.slatez.org/where-we-work/

Innovating industries by - Deeply understand of core functions. - Redeveloping, organizing, optimizing, and educating those whom help others. - Developing imitative, protocols, and strategies through entire organizations initiating collaboration.We find ourselves focused on the study internal business, cutting edge technology and enterprising solutions. We look to learn your process so we can break it down into executable strategies for small and medium business to actually be able to execute upon.

The security world is becoming more and more important due to an increase in crimes and threats around the world. Shadow will develop an app which sub-contracts qualified security personnel in order to offer security services on demand via app. The app will be the Uber for safety and security services while disrupting the industry.

Contributing to Milken Institute for Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (P.L.U.M.) program by reviewing, researching, ratifying data which was used for the purpose of completing reports on the state of lending to the underprivileged. Some of the workgroups included:- P.L.U.M. Economic Development for Established Businesses Working Group - For this group I was responsible for researching and reporting various methods of Service Delivery Design in place by the organization supporting our target demographic. Once ratified by team we then created reports to submit to Milken team as they compiled and made comprehensible in formal report. (https://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/view/879)- P.L.U.M. Lender Working Group - For this group I was responsible for profiling case studies and identifying potential solutions to the problem being presented providing real-time information that could lead to a resolution for the problem the studied business was facing.

ACoolNERD under the mentorship of The Valley Economic Alliance (The Alliance) conceptualized, researched, prototyped & scaled a number of projects and programs for The Alliance. Managed by Kenn Phillips ACoolNERD more specifically Keith McPherson oversaw:Innovation Program Development: Define and lead the innovation initiatives across ideation, concept development and prototyping phases. Ensure solid technical, business and go-to-market validation. Events Included (but, not limited to): - The Valley Hackathon I, II, & #HackGlandale - San Fernando Biz Summit - TechX & HealthX (TedX Talk Type Events) [Video] - How To Avoid ADA LawsuitsAssisted in Research for publications : - San Fernando Valley Business Resource Guide! - A Summary of San Fernando Valley Resources, Services, and Incentives - Ease of Doing Business in City of San Fernando Conducted Insights Analysis and Portfolio management: Market analysis, forecasting and demand estimation for various products/projects. Analyzing major areas of economic development gaps and formulate plans to close those gaps.Created Market Entry Strategy: Evaluate industry trends, develop long-term implications and recommended strategies for new business opportunities Technology Sourcing: Identifying sourcing strategy for new technology infrastructure. Cost value analysis, contracted vendors and advised on MOU contents for partner agreementsCity of Los Angeles Open Data Portal - 113 Datasets - 47 Charts & - 8 Maps GOAL: Develop baseline datasets for the Cities we partner with to model their own data portals. This data was shared in a partnership with Neighborhood Council's, Chambers of Commerce, Local Elected Officials and other non-profits to assist in their effort to recognize and empower businesses with such history in our San Fernando Valley.

Responsible for working with strategic partnerships to engage their audience with our clients set.

As the "DIEM" Officer I am responsible for the Development Implementation Education and Management of our client base. Focused on helping my client to understand and advance their business set through digital strategy, marketing, web/app development, and more.

Digital Visual Media is a boutique Digital Reputation Management Firm based and deeply rooted in the San Fernando Valley. Helping you with development, implementation, education, and management of your digital reputation across multiple platforms DVM will help you CATCH your next customer by "Captivating Attention Through Content Hosting."

Developed a database of contacts that were prospected for interest in available investment opportunities

Assisted small cap bank implement various Check 21 protocols