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Alameda, CA, US

I’m a flight instructor and an instrument, commercial and multi-engine rated pilot fulfilling a childhood dream of being a professional pilot. I particularly enjoy working with mid-career adults and children who want to learn to fly. I have about 630 hours total time with complex, high-performance, and tailwheel endorsements, including over 350 hours in an.

Alameda, CA, US

Josu is a new brand of flavored salts inspired by Korean cuisine. All of our salts are sourced from our own family farm on the island of Imjado, South Korea. The farm has been in Hae-Sin’s family for four generations and her parents harvest the salt we use. The salt tastes great, has some of the highest mineral concentrations in the world, and is good for.

Anytown, US

We are a nonpartisan community action network mobilizing to elect climate candidates and pass climate policies. We the people who care about our climate, in order to form a more impactful movement, provide for the defense and welfare of our planet, secure the environment for our children and future generations, and transform our concern into a political.

The Tego Adventure Kit is the world's first bag designed BY you, FOR you. It has seven sections (for now) that you slide together to create hundreds of carry options for your stuff. Every bag is made from 2.7 post consumer recycled PET bottles. Our third campaign, launched in August 2021, was fully funded in 9 minutes, raised close to $200,000 and was a.

San Francisco, California, US

In my second year as a FUSE fellow, I worked with the Alameda County Library and the City of Fremont to explore how the library can be a catalyst for innovation in the community. Among other projects, I led an Innovation Team to design a culture and processes to increase the success of library, city and county initiatives, designed an innovation space.

Oakland, CA, US

I was (am) a founding member of the design team for Urban Montessori Charter School, a public charter school that combines the Montessori curriculum with Design Thinking and arts integration. We think Superwoman (http://www.urbanmontessori.org/superwoman-was-already-here) was already here and that this combination could revolutionize education in the US..

Mirus is a design studio that lives at the intersection of innovation, the maker movement and education. We partner with schools and other learning organizations to create spaces and experiences that encourage creativity, wonder and learning. Here is a sampling of recent projects:How might we integrate design thinking into the curriculum and culture of the.

Alexandria, Virginia, US

With my partner David Yakos, I invented a building toy called MakerStudio that is licensed and distributed by ThinkFun. MakerStudio contains all of the hard parts to create something that moves-the wheels, axles, gears but encourages builders to upcycle a cardboard box, a potato chip can or some other household object to complete their project. In a first.

Santa Rosa, CA, US

I led the DARPA-funded MENTOR Makerspace program, the first official program to create makerspaces in schools. My team of five created a Makerspace-in-a-Box and introduced it to our schools with a playbook of projects, created in-person and online events for professional development and wrote the first Makerspace Playbook documenting everything we learned.

Mountain View, California, US

• Designed an exclusive online marketplace that leverages $2 trillion spending power of Intuit's 4 million SMB customers.
• Created game-changing product road map that won top-level support across the organization
• Sourced ecommerce partner to leverage supplier relationships and integrate their value-added features to Intuit's online marketplace product. Collaborated with board of directors and CEO of this 700-person partner.
• Assembled and led a talented engineering team to design easysaver.intuit.com and integrate it into QuickBooks.
• Drove "startup-style" iterative release model, rolling out beta version to 20% of QuickBooks users to leverage them as partners in development. THE NEXT BIG THING…Accessing decades of "big data" from millions of.

• Plastic Jungle was the leading destination for buying, selling and donating gift cards. This enabled consumers to unlock some of the $40 billion in cash currently stored in unused gift cards. I was the first product.
• Drove a 1000% increase in monthly revenue and a 600% increase in Web traffic in 14 months, including launching an online affiliate program with 2,400 affiliates generating 47% of company revenue
• Designed and built a front and back office system using NetSuite and open source software that will support the company's growth to millions of users
• Conceived of, negotiated, and executed a private-label mini-site for New York–based charity Donors Choose, taking it from concept to delivery in 4.5 months and making them the first nonprofit to accept gift cards as a.
• Executed a private-label mini-site with Amazon.com as part of an effort to make Amazon gift cards a new currency, guiding the process from concept to delivery in 5 months.
• Raised $6M in VC funding as part of a 3 member leadership team.

I built a 2-seat Van's Aircraft RV-8 from a kit and flew it all around our beautiful country, including across the Rockies, the Great Plains, Oshkosh, Death Valley, New York City, Florida, the Bahamas and everyplace in between. It was the adventure of a lifetime. I sold the plane to find my next venture, ShredFirst. Three years later, after selling.

• Launched a first-of-its-kind green-certified document destruction company, designed a 3-year business plan with an exit strategy, hired a team of 10, built a warehouse destruction system, and sourced 6 biodiesel.
• Capitalized on the opportunity for "green paper shredding" after extensive research around eco-friendly B2B services.
• Powered marketing campaigns, partnerships, and business development initiatives that differentiated Shred First as the only green solution available.
• Sold company for 3x revenue, closing the deal with Cintas in 60 days.

Dublin 2, IE

- Led a 20-person cross-functional team to consolidate and organize all of Accenture's thought capital about starting and growing companies. I designed the information framework and gathered material from interviews, existing resources, and publicly available information. The result was a web-based Venturing toolkit that was used by all of Accenture's 21.

Ba, Computer Science

Mba, Managing The High Tech Enterprise