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Took sole ownership of the company's code base for several months utilizing frameworks including Cordova, Ionic, AngularJS, and RailsResponsible for all aspects of the application across the technology stack, including building out new features, bug fixes, maintenance, and production support for iOS and AndroidWorked with the founder to select and design new features of the application including sorting and filtering, adding upcoming jobs, and scheduled push notificationsWorked on a development team with a personal focus on front end features including a full rework of the UI and flow of the application, the addition of animations, and the implementation of a responsive design to common device sizesBuilt integrations with Facebook analytics to effectively track conversions from advertisements and managed existing third party integrations including Rollbar, Slack, Clevertap, Metabase, Mailgun, Mailchimp, and AWS Simple Notification ServicesResponsible for maintaining the company website found at http://www.tycoonapp.com

New York, Ny

Assisted with idea generation and researched industries and companies for potential early stage investments.Set up and managed Lux’s blog on Medium.com.Participated in investment team meetings and pitches from entrepreneurs.

Chicago, Il

Screened potential deals for investment for alignment with firm’s criteria. Prepared summary memos and diligence checklists as appropriate.Researched companies and industry sectors, using primary and secondary sources, and analyzed potential capital structures. Surveyed competitive landscape of target companies and conducted industry assessments.Participated in investment team meetings and meetings with operating managements.Traveled to Miami and El Paso to learn and report on firm’s health care and pizza retailing operations.Attended “Training The Street” financial modeling class, learning Microsoft Excel and basic modeling.

Chicago, Il

Evaluated effectiveness of investor relations at existing companies in Kabouter’s portfolio in connection with a research project broadly assessing the effectiveness of investor relations at small public companies. Kabouter published the paper in 2009.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics

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