Ventures & Projects
- Founder & CEO, Check Im Here
- Founder, Reuben and Hunter
- CoProfessor, USF, Creativity & Innovation
- CoFounder, 1 Million Cups, St. Petersburg
- CoFounder, Project GenYes!
- Head Geek, St. Pete Geek Breakfast
- Hack St. Petersburg
- CoWork St. Petersburg
- Learning, Ruby on Rails
- I Love Tampa Bay Shirts
Organizations
- Founder, Swings Tampa Bay
- Dean of Awesomeness, Awesome St. Pete
- Board, Sustainable Entrepreneurship Alliance
- Board, The Studio@620
- Advisory Board, St. Pete Greenhouse
- Organizer, Startup Weekend Tampabay
- Faculty, Creative Pinellas Academy
- Patron, Creative Pinellas Patrons Program
- Board, St. Petersburg First Night
- Fellowship Professor, Black Mountain SOLE
- Board, USFSP + Dali: Center for Innovation
- Committee, TBTF Entrepreneurs Network
- Advisory Board, Tampa Bay Wave
- Board, Creative Tampa Bay
Press
- USFSP, Entrepreneurship Program Graduate Honored
- 83 Degrees, Creative Duo Exude Energy, Ideas
- Huffington Post, Swings! Tampa Bay
- Creative Loafing, 10/100/1000 Awards: Swings!
- Tampa Tribune, Front Page, USF Entrepreneur..
- Tech Crunch, Now that's what I call startups
- Tampa Bay Times, Awesome St. Petersburg
- WaVE: St Pete's First Entrepreneurial Scholar
- Tampa Bay Times, Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs
- Good.is, Swings Tampa Bay Puts a Whimsical Spin
ACHIEVEMENTS, SPEAKINGS, AND PAST WORK
- Winner, Tampa Bay Technology Forum's, Rising Star
- Winner, Gazelle Lab Student Pitch Competition
- Winner, Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay
- Winner, Creative Tampa Bay's 10/100/1000
- Winner, Best Work on a Project, Student Government
- Intern, Gazelle Lab
- Board, USFSP College of Business Student Advisory
- Board, USFSP Business Building Committee
- Board, USFSP Student Center Committee
- Board, College of Business Building Committee
- Board, Keep Saint Petersburg Local
- Board, Community Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg Together
- Panelist, HCC Dale Mabry Leadership Speaker Series
- Panelist, 83 Degrees: Not Your Average Speaker Series
- Judge, S East Entrepreneurship Conf. Pitch Comp.
- Judge, UT CREATE Business Pitcha
- Judge, USFSP Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition
- Speaker, TEDxTampaBay 2012
- Speaker, USF St. Petersburg Commencement
- Speaker, Pecha Kucha v9 & v10
- Speaker, Eckerd College Entrepreneurship Organization
- Speaker, Contribute
- Speaker, Tampa Bay Technology Meetup on Pitching
- Speaker, Non-Profit Social Media Marketing
- Speaker, SPC Principals in Entrepreneurship
- Speaker, SPC Midtown "Start a Business" Workshop
- Lobbyist, USFSP Student Center in Tallahassee
- Founder, Kngroo
- Founder, Spoken Threads
- Founder, Bulls in the Burg
- Graduated, Entrepreneurship @ USF St. Petersburg
- Vice President, USFSP Student Government
- Creative Director, USFSP Student Government
- Marketing Director, USFSP Student Government
- President, Student Amabassadors @ USFSP
- Graphic and Web Designer, USF St. Petersburg
- Creative Director, Synergy Hub
- Buspreneur, Startup Bus
- Team Leader, Mayor's Hackathon: GreenScore
- Coach, Startup Weekend Tampa 2012
- Coach, Startup Weekend Tampa 2011
- Facilitator, Creative Problem Solving
- Learning, Mandarin Chinese
- Web Project, Kickstarter Calculator
- Web Project, Tampabay Tech Map
- Web Project, Now That's What I Call Startups
- Web Project, Not Sure If You Should Do It, The Game!
- Web Project, 2nd Saturday Art Walk, St. Petersburg
- Writer, Philanthrogeek
PEOPLE & THINGS I LOVE
- Jami Compton
- HunterMadeIt
- Shannon Kalahar's Food Blog
- Bob Devin Jones
- Studio@620
- Kyle Eschenroeder
- Tampa Bay 6/20 Plan
- 2nd Saturday Art Walk
- Bluebird Books Bus
- Awesome St. Petersburg
- Swings Tampa Bay
- Tampa Bay WaVE
- For the Love of Cities
- Hampton Arts Management
- Venture Compound
- Creative Clay
- Friendship Trail Bridge
- MyBike
- Article: Must Read Startup Books
- yCombinator
- Ok Focus
- Gregg Fraley
- Chris Sacca
- Jack Dorsey
- Alexis Ohanian
- Nathan Schwagler
- Brent Britton
- Sharon Britton
- John Morrow
- Daniel James Scott
- Nate Najar
- Steve Jobs
- Eric Ries
- Simon Sinek
- Steve Roggenbuck
- Kickstarter
- Hacker News
- Social Merch
- Ruth Noller's Creativity Formula
- Make something beautiful, before you are dead
- Gordon Ramsay
- The Refinery
- Taco Bus
This List is Always Growing