Concept, financing, operations, cocktail menu, and more for CitySearch's Best Small Plates restaurant of 2006. Cuisine by Chris Lim (Town, Daniel, BLT Steak) and interior design by Karim Rashid.
Website with custom-built CMS back-end for Badger & Winters, an elegant boutique branding and marketing agency focusing on the upscale fashion and beauty industries.
Website with custom-built CMS back-end for the designed-in-New-York, handmade-in-Italy luxury sneaker secret project from the creative director of one of the largest names in fashion (hint: you know at least one girl with one of their bags, and they did over $4B in sales last year).
Complete system architecture and back-end development (and a fair amount of front-end help) for an ambitious recipe sharing and wine pairing social network. Developed and implemented a proprietary algorithm to automatically pair wines with user-uploaded recipes. Also enabled users to automatically generate custom-formatted cookbooks from their online recipes and seamlessly get them printed by Blurb.com.
Created a social investing platform that aims to transform the way startups are discovered, funded, developed, and traded. With the regulatory changes introduced by the JOBS ACT of 2012, Flip Venture is pioneering the ability for anyone to invest in startups.
Developed a service providing consumers with fast fashion advice while they shop, enabling them to get personalized feedback on any item from any brand. Picked up development and UX duties in the middle of prototyping and delivered it through its current beta release.
Built a mobile app prototype for one of the most exciting new sportswear brands to come along in recent memory. Mirroring the struggles of the favelas, users can join in inspirational "fights", using community and social networking as sources of motivation for success.
Ninja-for-hire for surgical strikes. Developed and presented an automated "startup matchmaker" service at SXSW 2012.
Turned around operations for a pioneering design retailer/gallery/cultural force that introduced the work of Karim Rashid, Marc Newson, Ross Menuez, and many others to New York and the larger American market. Improved net profit margin by 70% and threw ridiculously fun opening parties for every exhibition we did.
Custom e-commerce solution for Swiss-made, California-designed luxury watch company.