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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Executed sophisticated marketing and PR campaigns for Shaka Restaurant Group, driving significant brand exposure. My top 5 Instagram reels garnered 482,000 views, highlighting strong audience engagement. Managed and optimized social media for 5 restaurant brands and maintained the corresponding Google Business Profiles. Led content production, from photo and video creation to editing, boosting our digital footprint. Handled catering inquiries, masterminded major City Kitchen Events, and crafted the 2024 marketing plan. Forged key partnerships with academic and industry leaders, including the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, orchestrating SRG's largest events. Spearheaded PR initiatives, securing coverage by notable media during a pivotal PR crisis.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Partnered with clients to build product road-maps, long-term vision, and detailed go-to-market strategies for consumer product designs and design spaces through expert understanding of competitive landscape, market, and user requirements. Prototyped concept designs for apps, diagnostic devices, and consumer electronics on cross-functional, international teams. KRNLS focuses on research, implementation, and the design of advanced technologies for community-relevant place-making and economic development. KRNLS is a U.N. certified vendor. Clients include NASA, DARPA, Hyperloop Transportation Technology, and Radius Indiana.

Pittsburgh

Directed product development, public relations, and product marketing through entire company life-cycle. Designed, prototyped, manufactured and marketed products that made 1.2 million dollars on Kickstarter (Top 1% of Kickstarters), 1.9 million in investor and SBA funding, and 4.8 million in revenue for the company. Set up a 6000 square-foot manufacturing and prototyping facility, brought product lines through dozens of iterations, and thousands of products sold. Worked on globally distributed, cross-functional teams. Customers include NASA, US Military, Audi, Best Buy, AT&T, Google, and hundreds of schools, universities, and maker-spaces.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Directed the board as founding chairperson, as well as oversaw outreach, public relations, and community engagement. Collaboratively built non-profit’s strategy with members and community stakeholders as well as the board of directors. Developed marketing outreach, created all digital content, and built organizational partnerships. Protohaven is the largest makerspace in Pittsburgh.

Greater Pittsburgh Area And New York State

Oversaw reorganizing the company, managed Pennsylvania and New York construction projects, and trained and managed sales teams, teams of insurance negotiators, as well as over a dozen crews, both contracted and in-house. Mayflower Contracting was a multi-state contracting company that provided commercial and residential construction in disaster areas and worked closely with insurance companies, like State Farm, Liberty Mutual, and Allstate.

I evaluated data, ran participants, presented research results, collaborated in research design, and performed extensive literature searches and in-depth research on ostracism, social cues, perceived burden, perceived burdensomeness, suicide, social pain, and expectation violation.

Performed empirical research in learning theory, behavior modification, motivation, team building (corporate and educational), and the science of flourishing, as well as actively educated--both in concert with a learning theory PhD’s assistance and without--many different sections of Learning Theory, Social Psychology, History of Psychology, Science of Stress Management, and Research Methods. During this time, I helped advance many students in sophistication of though, learning content, and learning process. I applied a behaviorally informed, collaborative, Socratic method in class and observed—through behavioral observation, grades, and measures of improvement taken throughout courses--significant improvements of the majority of student’s intellectual and personal skills.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Consulted teachers at Head Start in behavior, treated behavioral problems, worked extensively with the children, and their parents, both at school and in their homes, applying both social/cognitive and behavioral/neurological methods in solutions. I performed sophisticated, empirically constructed and refined assessments of growth, health, sensory ability, coordination, and intellectual ability; and then designed and applied class plans and individualized behavioral treatments to mitigate learning challenges, take advantage of strengths and interest, and advance intellectual growth, physical growth, and overall flourishing. My application of tireless observation and ample researched showed clear, healthy results in the growth of many of the children—including a complete elimination of extremely debilitating linguistic, developmental, and behavioral poverties and excesses.

Bachelor Of Science, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi, ASL club, contributor to the Florida Student Philosophy Blog, Researcher (Ostracism, Perceived Burden.

Bachelors Of Arts, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi, ASL club, contributor to the Florida Student Philosophy Blog, Researcher (Ostracism, Perceived Burden.

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