Benjamin Cardon Email & Phone Number

Lehi, Utah, Us

Pure commission, D2D sales for solar contracts.

Windhoek, Khomas, Na

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

I worked night shifts on a team preparing the store to open by moving heavy merchandise with my body, non-automated tools, and forklifts.

Mesa, Arizona, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

I worked on a team of seven engineers to build a sports event discovery and planning app. We built preliminary plans based on negotiation with a client, wireframed them in Figma, and then built the MVP of the product within two weeks. My role on the team was Architecture Owner, and I planned the interaction between the team members components as well as our application's interaction with Firebase Firestore and MySQL. I additionally built the User Profile component of our application.Bullets:* Created a smooth and easy user experience by coordinating the interaction across our team’s seven React-Native components as well as their integration with local storage(MySQL) and Firebase Firestore. * Used Figma to develop and present the wireframes designs for the User Profile component to our client.* Built a component which used Firebase authentication to allow users to see and modify their own personal information, as well as see the information of other users.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

During a two day hackathon, I built a website meant to help with Guerilla User Research. A researcher using the website can input the name of a public subreddit. My website queries the Reddit API and retrieves information from the most recent posts to that space, then uses natural language processing techniques to analyze the text content of the posts and identify the most commonly used words, as well as the sentiment of the posts that they were used in. It then calculates metrics such as "Controversiality" or "Salience" and then displays the words based on the metric which the Researcher chooses. This represents a current snapshot of the topics of discussion and opinions of the individuals in that internet community. That snapshot can be saved to a MongoDB database, and users can compare the results of current discussion to discussion in the past. Bullets:* Built a research tool for targeted internet marketing which utilizes NLP techniques for sentiment analysis of live Reddit API data to identify the most important topics to online communities.* Created filterable word importance visualization which allows a researcher to compare different opinions held by an audience based on calculated metrics such as controversiality, positivity/negativity, or salience.* Implemented database persistence using MongoDB to enable comparing data collected at different times.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Details:In this project, I worked on a team to refactor the API associated with the Shoptopia project to be able to handle production level load. We approached this problem by vertically dividing the API into modular services. I was responsible for refactoring the Products service, which represented data of 1 million products, 3 million styles associated with those products, and 10 million SKUs associated with those styles.I wrote code which used node streams to extract the data from CSVs, denormalized it to more closely correspond to our endpoints, and loaded it onto a PostgreSQL database. I also wrote Express.js code to serve the endpoints of the transformed database conforming to the previous data pattern in term of types and structure.After deploying my code using Amazon Cloud Services, I used Loader.io to test and benchmark my endpoint performance, then implemented an NGNIX load balancer to increase our total capacity. Bullets:* Achieved target performance of sub-20ms median query time on EC2 instances with 1000 RPS on multiple single-record read endpoints by denormalizing SQL database. * Achieved 60x improvement in latency on range read endpoints, from 1.8s to 60ms, by horizontally partitioning the more than one million rows of data using Postgres subtables.* Increased errorless load capacity by 2.5x by adding NGINX load balanced EC2 instances.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Details:I and a team of 3 other engineers built a React-based product details page that displayed information from an existing API. The goal was to make a dynamic and interactive e-commerce experience like customers have come to expect. I was responsible for the Questions and Answers component, which was core to user interaction - the component is built to allow users to input their own Questions about the product, rate other individuals questions based on helpfulness, give an answer to a question that has already been asked, flag inappropriate responses, or sort and search responses that already exist.During our development cycle we used Scrum and Agile practices, with Test-Driven Development. We specifically used Jest and React Testing Library to build our tests based on a Business Requirements documents that we had received before beginning the project. We managed tasks using Trello.Bullets:* Ensured that our application matched the standards of our client by using TDD with Jest tests based on a business requirements document.* Enabled user engagement by building Q&A component with posting, filtering, reporting, liking, searching* Deployed website using Amazon Cloud services. Repo:https://github.com/Black-Razzberry-Revelers/Shoptopia

Provo, Ut, Us

I taught students how to build innovative products using customer insights. I also taught students to evaluate the potential profitability of products by modeling business competition in R code.Specifically I....Made an interactive workbook in Miro on how to use customer research to go from zero to Minimum-Viable Product. This included step-by-step instructions on doing secondary research, customer interviews and surveys, customer observation, as well as synthesizing gathered information from varied sources to make product decisions, and how to build and use prototypes to verify/disprove product hypotheses. This workbook was used by more than 100 MBA students. Taught more than 80 undergrads how to use R-code to model competitive behaviors and competitive advantage between firms based on the demand and cost data of those firms. This involved producing tutorial videos, as well as in-person teaching. I also helped the administration of an interdisciplinary innovation program including hiring, evaluation, communication, execution, etc. I monitored the performance of 10 different interdisciplinary product development teams through their lifetime using 360 surveys, and developed leadership training based on our findings.

EMRI diagnosed problems in the User Experience of Doctors using Electronic Medical Records (such as Epic)Specifically I…Ran 11 customer interviews with physical therapists with the goal of building a product for them.Discovered that they all hate, Hate, HATE their Electronic medical records.Used secondary research to discover the size of this problem (Huge) then felt puzzled that no one had fixed it.Analyzed the main competitors and discovered the forces supporting the state of things (Government supported monopoly, technical commitment to legacy systems, institutional incentives)Developed an entry strategy for a new company based on the Theory of Disruptive Innovation by Clayton Christensen. According to this oft-buzzwordified theory, disruptive innovation occurs when a new company enters at the bottom of the market, providing for the needs of the lowest profit customers, then builds products that progressively outcompete for higher and higher profit customers until they have an absolutely better product. I think that this theory applies to the EMR space, with large multi-wing hospitals representing high profit customers, and small practices representing low profit customers. I think that an Electrical Medical Record firm with an improved User Experience can enter, and then potentially disrupt the EMR industry.

I analyzed the Aquaculture industry through customer interviews as well as through secondary research into technical, legal, and market forces. Then I developed a product concept to solve a recurring industry pain. Specifically I..Interviewed 19 individuals in the aquaculture industry. I transcribed the interviews and analyzed them at a sentence level to find recurring themes and problems.I did an in-depth analysis on the effects of regulation and international competition. I found that US companies were at a significant disadvantage to overseas companies because of the lack of a unified regulatory framework for aquaculture, and that this was the main reason for our relative lack of development.I also researched various technologies in the aquaculture industry, and found that the technology with the most potential was genetic improvement of fish stock. The greatest winners in the industry were those who had the best genetic technology.I also found that a serious issue for the industry was system management, and that many farms had complete system failures with huge losses.I made simple designs for a product which would automate many features of water management. However, when I evaluated the potential profitability of this product I found that the US industry was not large enough for it to be significantly profitable.

I led an interdisciplinary team in building an Internet of Things device for boaters. Specifically I…Ran 28 customer surveys using targeted advertising on Facebook, and used the results to write user stories for the engineers on our team.Worked with our engineers and ran customer interviews in order to define functional and performance requirements for our device.Collaborated with our team on the design of both looks-like, digital, and functional prototypes, and used those prototypes to test our product hypotheses.Built a Product Roadmap for the continued development and marketing of our product.

I built an award winning digital product for parents with autistic children with a team of other entrepreneurship students. Specifically I..Did ethnographic research on our customer, including completing interviews with individuals who had autistic family members, attending a parent support group, touring a special needs educational facility, meeting with industry experts, and working through paperwork with customers in their homes.Used design thinking methods to generate many potential features and value propositions, as well as select those features with the most potential.Built initial wireframe prototypes of our product.Built a working Minimum-Viable-Product website which we used with initial beta customers.Won 3000$ in a local business canvas competition as a finalist.

At Truphorme I assisted at a startup with the tasks included in recieving FDA 501(k) premarket approval for a medical device. In addition to playing roles as an executive assistant (Making calls, managing meetings) I also located the best predicates for our device and found the FDA documentation that was relevant to our application.

At Flywheel Fullfillment I helped customers develop individualized strategies to increase their sales on Amazon using keyword and competitor analysis.

Provo, Utah, Us

As a University Impact associate I sourced deals for the fund, which focused on social entrepreneurship, performed due diligence and produced general research reports on social issues.

Lehi, Utah, Us

As an Intern at ACE I worked on an award and recognition system for ACE to apply to their 400+ independent chapers across the world

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Computer Software Engineering