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When&Where (W&W) is social media just for events. It is a community of people and experiences. The focus of W&W is the future of online and offline communities. As a bootstrapped software startup W&W's strategic goal is to create economic and communal value for creators and communities. W&W has been a passion project that I have been able to leverage in a way to develop my software engineering skills, product management skills, and product theories• Product: Created vision, strategy, roadmap, and success metrics // interviewed customers, grew community, designed prototype• Engineering: Built community-focused social platform, deployed to iOS and Android test stores // Flutter, Firebase product • Organically grew pre-launch community to 3500+ people, 200+ creators/partners

Fast was a fintech company in the 1-click-checkout market. The company focused on web-based eCommerce companies. My team sat between the sales and engineering teams. My responsibilities were to technically assist customers during their onboarding and act as a first responder to immediate technical issues. My overall focus was to develop long-term relationships with customers to maintain and grow their transaction volume.• Priorities: Implementing software and troubleshooting technical issues from sellers • Implementation: Working with 200+ clients to install and edit their checkout solutions • Managed dozens of long term client relationships in order to retain and grow transaction volume week over week

Apprenticeship. Momentum at Morehouse is a fulltime immersive development program that prepares students for a career as Software Developers. Program reinforces developer skills focused HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and Django. The program culminates with a team project and cohort demo day.

Brain Rain Solutions (BRS) was my first formal Product Management experience. BRS is a software firm and my time was spent leading various projects as a PM. My time was split between leading communication with clients and managing task for the developer teams. My overall results were keeping projects within the time and budget scope while condensing weekly development time.• Led technical teams and startups to execute projects // Handled scoping, planning, sprint, release, and QA• Analyzed clients opportunities and created custom goals using Volume, Velocity, Revenue metrics• Utilized agile and scrum methods and maintained project tools // Worked with GIS, HIPPA, APIs

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has partnered with Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Center and TechSquare Labs to launch Ascend2020 Atlanta, a technology startup and small business support ecosystem for minority-led companies throughout Metropolitan Atlanta.• Selected alongside 30 idea/early state ventures that are lead by minority founders • Participated in bi-weekly programming for 6 months• Created and presented When&Where demo product for the program Demo Day

• University Engineering and Corporate Recruiting• Led regional HBCU technical and nontechnical recruiting by researching, identifying, and connecting to top talent• Represented Microsoft on campuses, at career fairs, and conferences

• Member of the 1st HBCU@SXSW Cohort• Cold called HBCU academic departments and administrative offices for partnerships and student applicants• Managed 100 college students from 40+ schools for 2017 and 2018 HBCU@SXSW Cohort • Managed and lead day to day activities for 100+ students at South By Southwest

• Gained professional level knowledge in a business perspective of the social media ecosystem • Applied existing social media user knowledge with social media business knowledge• Lead inbound Business Development Representative initiatives• Assisted account managers with client research focusing on complementary and competitive social presence• Assisted account managers with creating preliminary demo presentations and documents• Utilized Salesforce, Salesloft, and Linkedin Sales Navigator effectively

A) 1st Annual HBCU hackathon by The Black Founders (2013)A) Lead team to create web app over weekend and pitch to judges (1st place)B) Morehouse Business Association 26th Spring Symposium case study competition (2014)B) Lead team on strategy, plan, and execution (1st place)C) PENN APPS 2014 hackathon (largest college student hack in world) (2014)C) Applied and accepted to competition (competed)D) Southeastern Entrepreneurship Conference/ Pitch Competition (2014)D) Invited to compete in business pitch competition (competitior)E) Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Center Business Plan Competition (2014)E) Wrote and submited business plan (35pgs) and selected as finalist out of 50+ applicants (3rd)

• Community service based scholarship program for students to receive scholarship funds by doing community service• Students create events, programs, and initiatives for community service on campus and in the community • Working with Morehouse College Community Revitalization and University Community Development Corporation • Facilitator for Youth Entrepreneur Incubator at Kipp Ways Academy

• Learned concepts of big data and how it applies to information infrastructure for companies• Learned concepts of corporate information technology data storage, back up, disaster recovery, and server vitualization • Learned product concpet, industry and market information, plus consumer needs• Utilized salesforce effectively• Made 400 cold calls per week to IT Managers of small and large corporations

• Helped organize year end Entrepreneurship Workshop• Designed and created 20 week long Youth Entrepreneurship Incubator curriculum• Designed and created Youth Entrepreneurship Incubator Business Exposition

• Reviewed instruction material plans • (2012) Panelist speaking on importance of student leadership • (2013) Spoke with GA Dept. of Edu. to implement Growing Leader curriculum into all public high schools in GA• (2013) Panelist speaking on the importance of Emotional Intelligence and how to develop it in students

• Chosen by current members of each school, school administration, school Principal• Taught leadership skills from local / national business leaders• Took skills learned back to High Schools to teach student leaders