Oren Mendelow Email & Phone Number

United States

Paramus, New Jersey, US

• Develop and teach the entrepreneurship curriculum across six classes (2x 9th, 2x 10th, 1x 11th, 1x 12th).
• Lead the "Entrepreneurship Elective" track for 9th and 10th grades, guiding students through market research, ideation, customer discovery, prototyping, CAD, business models, finance, and investor pitching.
• Oversee the 11th and 12th grade "Accelerator" program, where students develop and launch real companies, taking ideas from concept to market.
• Orchestrate cross-departmental collaboration with engineering, woodworking, art, robotics, and sports management, maximizing student access to the school's facilities and resources.
• Foster hands-on, project-based learning environments, emphasizing innovation, product design, branding, marketing, finance, e-commerce, public speaking, and pitching.
• Spearhead "Demo Day" event where students pitch their MVPs to parents, teachers, and peers, providing real-world experience in entrepreneurial presentations.

• Conceptualize, design, develop and produce inventive digital and physical products, branding, UX/UI designs, and market strategies.Deliver comprehensive design solutions for diverse clients. Detailed portfolio on.
• Pa+ched: Developed UI/UX design for a mental health app built around enhancing community engagement and support.
• Alto: Designed cross-platform playlist creator with user-centric design principles, built interactive wireframe.
• Yurtle: Spearheaded logo design, branding, and identity for an event scheduling app; presented at the 2023 RedwoodJS Conference.Industrial Design:
• Oil Brush Co. - Conceptualized, designed, and manufactured innovative kitchen accessory tool (patent pending). - Crafted logo, branding, product photos, and web design for market entry. - Negotiate sales agreements.
• Pomander Walk - Conceptualized, designed, and manufactured nature-based minimalist art installation (patent pending). - Created branding, website, and marketing content. - Presented at trade shows, negotiated with.

Mclean, VA, US

• Developed user interfaces and back-end improvements to enhance functionality and accessibility ofinternal systems, optimizing user flows and improving the overall user experience.
• Enhanced UI/UX by designing user interfaces and developing back-end logic for key systems.
• Improved developer efficiency and customer experience through optimized user flows and streamlined processes.
• Spearheaded the creation of a centralized learning hub, improving onboarding and training for over 150 engineers.
• Codified quality control measures and authored comprehensive documentation for the Adobe Analytics dashboard.
• Led employee engagement initiatives, including virtual volunteer events and an in-person team-building program.

New Brunswick, New Jersey, US

• President (2020 - 2021), Chief Operations Officer (2019 - 2020), Project Manager (2018 - 2020), Consultant (2018)
• Managed student teams to provide startup companies with pro-bono consulting and marketing services including market analysis, industry and market research, branding, business development and strategy, and market fit.

Princeton, NJ, US

Created plugin in C# using a geographic system information API for use in a mobile publisher add-on

US

Fitted guests with snowsports equipment and educated on resort safety protocols; cleaned, serviced, and tested gear

Designed UI/UX for mental health iOS application

Drove tractor to fertilize 10 acres, tended to livestock, installed drywall; general gardening and groundskeeping

Palo Alto, California, US

• Technologies: Python, SQL, Bash, AWS, Celery, Django, Docker
• Built program to estimate incoming car arrivals at a traffic intersection using data provided by AI image detection, to optimize traffic light durations in real-time.
• Instituted module to fetch and backup database to S3 daily; increased data durability and reduced service costs.
• Designed backend optimization dashboard to provide useful, visual trends and alerts to algorithms team, allowing them to easily track effects of changes, analyze long-term trends, and quickly view and respond to errors.

Designed media-sharing mobile app user-interface using Adobe XD with live demo; logo and branding in Sketch

New York, NY, US

Sole cinematographer/editor of tribute video for memorial event; conducted interviews in 3 countries

Created weekly themed promotional videos, produced animated segments, ran videography clinic for campers and staff

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Minor, Entrepreneurship