The only way to learn in this world is by reading, experience and interacting with other people. As such, I have tried to advance myself by doing all three. There are some amazing people who I have had the privilege of meeting and even more people I owe thanks to for helping me become who I am today.

Employment

 

Launch.it (If it’s new, it’s here first), August 2011 – Present
President 

  • Launching soon :)

iFluencePR (Creating understanding for a complex world), June 2010 – October 2011
SVP and Co-founder

  • I did strategic PR for NYC based tech companies. I headed up all communication and PR efforts for comiXology, the leading distributor of digital comics, as well as running and executing their social media initiatives.

Brand-Yourself.com (Personal Professional Branding for Students), September 2007 – December 2009

  • Started this company out of my dorm room at the age of 19.
  • As the Chief Marketing Officer it is my responsibility to do market research and create effective marketing campaigns. Our goal is to help facilitate the hiring process and make it more efficient by allowing employers to get more information about a potential employee.
  • Manage and maintain the company blog at http://blog.brand-yourself.com, which receives over 15,000k unique visitors a month and was one of the top 60k most trafficked sites in the world.
    • Oversaw the writing and editing of 10+ guest bloggers.
  • Kairos Society- Recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Innovative College Startups in the U.S.

 

Internships

 

Visible World (Emmy award-winning Company), June 2008-August 2008

  • Visible World is a unique company that allows it’s customer to customize a nationally televised commercial up to the second that it airs. This allows them to update stats and the number of users currently using a specific platform to inform anyone watching.
  • As the sales and marketing intern I worked closely with the marketing department on sales calls and was in charge of direct marketing. As it is a premium service we worked directly with major house hold names like Sony, Walmart and IBM.

Hearst Publications (Diverse Media Company), June 2007- August 2007

  • With the advent of social media sending quakes through the publishing world, Hearst realized that they need to be ahead of the game. It was my responsibility to set up focus groups to help with product development and testing of the new E-Ink products for future alternatives to newspapers. The goal of these were to get as much information about the thought process of Gen-Y as to the type, form and platform for which they will read their news in the future.

BurnLounge (Retail Music Distribution Company), May 2007 – June 2007

  • Burnlounge was a music selling community that relied on others to sell music to make a commission. As I have a passion for music, this internship suited me well as I loved to listen to new up and coming artists while helping to promote them and increase their sales.
  • I specifically worked with artists and their license agreements to promote and sell their songs on our servers. This gave me an in depth view of the music industry world and allowed me to interact directly with the bands at the same time.

AngelSoft (Collaborative software developers), June 2006 – August 2006 

  • Angelsoft is an online collaboration software to help Angels and VC’s alike to manage and syndicate their investments. Working directly with David Rose – the president of the New York Angels- I got my first taste of the investment and entrepreneurial world.
  • To expand their market size, I researched and developed a database of over 6000 venture capitalists, schools of higher education and government venture organizations as potential customers that could use their software as well. More and more people are looking to make investments outside of the accredited VC world and Angelsoft is allowing them to do so for free.