Professor of Entrepreneurship at the SMU Cox School of Business ● Teaching two sections of CISB 4397 – Starting A Business (Entrepreneurship Capstone Course) ● Teaching one section of CISB 2379 – Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunities (Intro Course) ● Teaching more than 150 students in Fall 2024

Building an affordable family-oriented outdoor adventure experience in our short-term vacation rentals. We invest in mountain communities with great access to: Slopes, Lakes, Rivers, Forests, and other amenities. We have operated more than a half dozen properties and always seeking to expand the portfolio.

We help universities, schools, centers, programs, and other community partners to create a pre-seed investment ecosystem around their respective entities. This happens by training new accredited and unaccredited investors on the fundamentals of early-stage investing, applying that knowledge by going through the diligence process, and finally empowering them to create their own personal investment thesis. We have a triple bottom line approach where it is good for investors, founders, and the operators running entrepreneurship programs. Our philosophy is to give back financially to the academic partners priming the pump of our startup ecosystem and hopefully offer a slush-fund for additional programing, headcount, grants, or anything they deem appropriate.

Entrepreneurship Professor teaching Dornsife course MDA 300 - Launching A Startup∙ Teaching this semesterly class continually since 2014∙ Extremely hands-on course to discuss, ideate, and prototype a startup idea∙ More than a dozen students have raised funding before they graduate after taking the course∙ Former students admitted into Y-Combinator, incubators, accelerators and several have won prize competitions ∙ Average Teaching 18+ students each semester with extremely high rankings from my students

In 2014, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation (the “Foundation”) formed a three-year regionalconsortium to support the next generation of entrepreneurs in Southern California by awarding $3.5 million in funding to the region’s premier institutions. The grants – to the University of California, Irvine,University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the Los AngelesCounty Economic Development Corporation – expanded Blackstone LaunchPad (“BLP”), a programthat provides aspiring entrepreneurs with the tools and supportive mentors they need to transformuntested ideas into vital companies. The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporationserves as the regional partner managing the program on behalf of the Foundation.Based on The LaunchPad program developed by the University of Miami, BLP initially pairs studentswith consultants who help them develop their business ideas. As their ideas mature, students arethen connected with Venture Coaches – entrepreneurs, lawyers, service providers, executives,investors, and others with professional expertise in the Southern California community andnationally – to help them bring their ideas to market. Through BLP, these universities will expandtheir entrepreneurship and support programming while also serving as a gateway to an extensivenetwork of mentors, experts, and services.The Blackstone LaunchPad @USC offers entrepreneurs with:• Free, smart, just-in-time advice from trained consultants, venture coaches, and industry savvybusiness and community leaders;• Resources that are available to all qualified individuals irrespective of the experience of theentrepreneur or the stage of the idea;• Goals and objectives based on various factors, including product or service attributes, teamstrengths and weaknesses, financial resources, and business model strategy.

Helped establish the newest university entrepreneurship program in Southern California. Met with key stakeholders, identified revenue models, and launched the center. This center is internally and externally focused and helped grow our community on La Verne's seven satellite campuses, two military bases, and the greater SoCal community. Leveraged key platforms and partnerships to build an infinitely scalable program.

Work as we know it is rapidly evolving. The COVID-19 pandemic was a major catalyst for this change, but disruption in the workplace has been a long time coming.At Untapped, we firmly believe the New Future of Work is in redefining what, where, and how we get work done, and why we do it in the first place - is it our life purpose? Are we leveraging our superpowers? Are we using the latest productivity tools? Can we easily reskill? How is well-being? This is our definition of the New Future of Work.This is a 6-month intensive program for founders passionate about disrupting work environments, designing new models of work, developing new tools for enhanced productivity, and bringing wellbeing into the workplace. If you're an experienced entrepreneur with a bold new idea aimed at changing the "traditional work experience" and you are ready to commit to this hands-on venture building journey- we want you to apply!

IncubatriX is the premier Trojan Incubator that works to develop and enhance the startup ecosystem at USC. This organization is dedicated helping individuals find their team, sharpen their idea, find mentors, seek funding, crowd source assets and build lifestyle companies that can quickly flourish into big companies.All the assets that a company could ever want are housed in the University of Southern California if you just know where to look.

Startup Internet Travel Company (Cross between Instagram, Pinterest, Expedia & Uber) ∙ Winning pitch of USC’s New Venture Seed Completion & Marshall Startup Accelerator∙ Created a 14 person team dedicated to launching web travel platform ∙ Leverage Angular.JS, Java Spring and MongDB technology stack ∙ Continually growing social media following (20K Twitter, 6K Instagram, 4K Facebook, 2K Wechat)

Marketinig As A Service (MAAS) Business Development for clients in Southern California– Building Strategic Marketing Analysis Report Technology (S.M.A.R.T) report cards– Creating social media roadmaps and identifying program goals– Analyzing companies social media channels, content plans, distribution and competitive outlook– Auditing top blogs, book marking, photo, video, content, authority and social sites for current ‘standings’ in social media– Monitoring trends, activity schedules, managing social media resources and reviewing/reporting progress on KPI’s

– Assisting client in running a portfolio of consulting projects, continually initiating new projects, monitoring projects that are already in progress then closing the project down when coming to the successful conclusion – Presenting potential projects, requesting funding and socializing initiatives to ensure all parties are informed and on board– Calculating the return on investment to justify projects being put forward and shepherding them through the project life cycle

Inflexion Agency is a consulting firm focused on the convergence of marketing, public relations, corporate communications, and technology. We focus on both overall strategy and education as well as specific campaigns. Our focus is on finding the right strategy for your organization. Our methodology is based on bringing concepts to execution by understanding all aspects of the People, Processes, and Systems involved in your success.

– Trained a crew of 19 Enumerators on proper Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) operations– Supervised the performance qualities of field enumerators and monitored the progress of submitted questionnaires – Coached persuasive social skills to conduct interviews and developed strategies to elicit positive responses

Assisted in building a new type of affiliate or partnership program in which participants can receive multi-year referral fees for leads that generate a new clients. This position was composed of business development, recruiting, strategic alliances and cross over industry analysis. Knowledge of the multiple manufacturing sectors and how RapidResponse on-demand solution can assist customers with multiple ERP/MRP legacy systems. The RapidResponse solution can help consolidate your data in a central repository, lean you supply chain and improve performance on a number of levels. RapidResponse's complex analytics allows you to get far more value out of your data than you thought possible.Educating potential affiliates, partners, consultants, organizations and companies about Kinaxis and having them become knowledgeable about the companies products and solution.

Documented business process changes to reconcile billings between doctors and insurance companies to Medicare.

– Built an online presence for a start up wind energy company– Created a partnership with a manufacturing company that solved major supply chain issues – Facilitated critical part creation process for waste water company– Assisted New Los Angeles NFL “Green Stadium” to generate more LEED’s points

New CRM Business Practice & Internal Projects – Architected the requirements for creating a new global business process which processes millions in intercompany work agreements and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars on these transactions– Streamlined business process with a corporate workflow tool by increasing communication between departments– Participated on sales calls, evaluated sales proposal & analyzed tenders for major prospective clients.– Prototyped potential proof of concept Siebel configurations for prospective clients Department of Immigration and Citizenship - Siebel 7.8 Developer– Assisted in the management of a team of 26 people for a project that created an illegal immigration detention system for the Australian Government– Configured error handling functionality, automation, eScript, List of Values, Data Standardization, and Data Mapping– Designed and developed the module of Indicators, enabling detention officers to monitor detainees’ health

Working on the Congressional Campaign for Senator John Campbell. Duties consisted of campaigning to constituents, discussing district and national issues, phone banking, life-cycle for sending bulk mailers, reviewing city council meetings, delivering signs, analyzing opponents campaign and a veteran of GOTV “STOMP” process model.

Various Entrepreneurial Activates:Outsourced repair technician for internet servers on the west coast of the U.S. Installed new servers in downtown hub then transmitted information from main office to hub. These machines ensured secure financial transactions between the U.S. and the Cayman Islands. Creating custom built computers for customers with a variety of customization needs.