Josiah Peterham Email & Phone Number

Rochester, New York, United States

Connecting individuals with flat fee financial advisors who are ideally suited to their financial situation.

Rochester, New York Area

Business:• Established business plan with cofounder, attracted both national and international customers• Defined and developed competitive analysis, customer segments, distribution channels, intellectual property, marketing strategies• Received $12k+ of funding from National Science Foundation and Saunders Business AcceleratorDesign:• Conceptualized initial interface, evolved design with designers and developers• Conducted usability testing with a/b testing, eye tracking, retrospective think aloud sessions, and questionnaires• Helped develop a fellow graduate student’s HCI MS Capstone on mySpiderwebDevelopment:• Interviewed developers from 70+ applications and hired upon review of interview projects• Developed both non-functional AJAX and functional Ruby on Rails prototypes• Followed Agile Software Development Life Cycle, organized work into sprints, assigned to members through GitHub• Managed NGINX server migration, deployments, AWS S3 storage, and rollout of the Android and iOS apps• Facilitated transition from one development team to another

Rochester, New York Area

• Worked with multiple business coaches and community leaders to accelerate student startups through advising• Spoke on topics including cost structures, customer segments, distribution channels, revenue streams and value propositions

Rochester, New York Area

• Worked closely with a small team to organize and market events including RIT Business Model Competition, Idea Lab, Innovation Challenge Grant, Saunders Summer Start, Tiger Tank, etc.• Designed Gantt charts and created standards for communication, competitions, conferences, digital work spaces, and directories• Attended and networked events including Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award and Celebration of Entrepreneurship Luncheons • Worked with Salesforce consultant to create and organize multiple email campaigns and event directories• Recruited students for Entrepreneurship Minor and helped create class schedules

Boston, Ma

• Responsible for quality and user experience of the leading Android social gaming community in North America (100MM+ users)• Worked closely with the development team to identify and resolve software issues in both stage and production environments• Managed 3rd party testers with UTest cycles and utilized Jira to log user experience and software issues

Webster, Ny

• Communicated closely with both founder and program director to design mockups using Photoshop• Following mockups, implemented web pages using CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, and mySQL

Canandaigua, Ny

• Taught and motivated a wide range of skiers• Instructed lessons with large groups of 10-15 skiers• Supervised mountain to maintain safety

Master Of Science (M.S.), Human Computer Interaction, Magna Cum Laude

Mission: Gain skills in UX design, agile usability testing, entrepreneurship, leadership, and team management. • Developed Activity.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Information Technology

Mission: Gain skills in web and mobile development, communication, innovation, leadership, and team management. • iOS App - Pull data.

Regents Diploma With Advanced Designation

Invited to and participated in NYS Boys State Participated in both Junior Varsity and Varsity Sports including: Basketball, Soccer.