April works with local content creators to build engaging short form video campaigns and communities for real estate clients ranging from new developments and traditional multifamily rentals and sales to hospitality and commercial projects.

My responsibilities as the Chief Product Officer included:• Planning the company’s product and platform strategy, roadmap, and overall vision.• Directing user research and data collection to achieve product, platform, and brand goals.• Aligning platform operations with core product and business goals.• Making executive and operational decisions on behalf of the company’s business and product requirements.• Collecting, analyzing, and translating user insights to help identify market trends and inform overall business and product decisions.• Defining, implementing, and testing future product prototypes based on company and product vision.

As the Chief Technology Officer of April, I was in charge of:• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.• Creating prototypes for key product and platform tests in conjunction with business partners.• Planning the company’s product strategy and accompanying technical roadmap.• Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all the products and services.• Making executive decisions on behalf of the company’s technological and business requirements.

Selected as one of the Founders in Residence to join the Antler NYC2 Accelerator cohort.

Cofounded and developed the backend infrastructure for Flyright, a mobile (iOS) and web app that reached nearly 20K global downloads and participated in the Madeira Startup Retreat Incubator in early 2019. Flyright's goal was to make the international travel process easier by providing all the information travelers needed about visa, health, and safety requirements to their destination country in a pleasing and intuitive Trip Card format.My primary duties as CEO included:- Handling public relations and marketing outreach by managing contact with users, reporters, and media outlets- Identifying market opportunities and pursuing connections with investors, business partners, and users- Managing the company's social media presence, primarily via Twitter and LinkedIn- Developing the company's business plan and short- and long-term objectivesMy primary duties as the primary technical founder included end-to-end design and implementation of:- the web crawlers, parsing engines, and automated database update programs that collect, curate, and keep current the critical data behind Flyright's success,- suitable data architectures and parsing for data collected from various sources,- the private API through which all of Flyright's data is protected and distributed following a RESTful architecture,- various AWS services like S3 and Cloudfront for website hosting, EC2 instances for data collection and curation as well as API endpoint hosting, and DynamoDB for critical data storage

Research Assistant in the Re-embodied Cognition (ReCo) Lab under Yasmin Chowdhury, PhD student, and Dr. Leila Takayam (PI). Researched trust in HRI, compliance, and embodiment in telepresence robotics.

Research Assistant in Dr. Raymond Gibbs' lab in the Psychology Department. Current responsibilities include prepping and running experiment participants, participant response coding (for studies involving video recordings), data entry, and annotating and familiarizing myself with relevant background research. Worked under Patrawat Samermit on humor-related studies.

Polity is all of government in one clean space. Read curated legislation, judicial rulings and executive actions directly from the source, no media involved.

Mentoring and leading a discussion section in an undergraduate course offering an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of the brain, the mind, and consciousness as they apply to artificial intelligence design and philosophy. Topics include such things as basic neuroscience, the philosophy and history of artificial intelligence, current AI research, and future directions for the development of emotive robotics and life-like (synthetic) intelligences. This class represents a first step in formalizing my own research in AI and the creation of emotive machines.