What’s my story?

What I’m doing:

• I’m in charge of “Hacker Relations” at Startup Weekend. I help run pre-event bootcamps to teach people about cool platforms and APIs that they can use in their Startup Weekend projects.
• Organizing the wildly successful monthly Hacker News: Seattle monthly meetups.
• Vice-chair of the Board of Parkour Visions, the first parkour 501(c)3 non-profit.
• Co-running The Neverending Fast, a collaborative fasting and self-discovery project.
• Helping to organize and run Ignite Seattle.

What I’ve Done:

• Founded and ran Rochester Parkour. I ran beginner workshops drawing over 100 people, attracted media coverage of our organization multiple times, and developed a sustainable, friendly, and positive parkour community.
• Ran the American Parkour web presence, including daily news posts, social media, forum moderation, Youtube contests, Editor in Chief of the monthly newsletter, and Google Ads strategy and execution.
• Planned and took a trip around the country to teach and spread parkour, and to learn more about other parkour communities. 8 weeks, 21 cities.
• In High School I worked as a programmer for the National Security Agency doing [redacted] with [redacted] on the [redacted]. Was NOT involved with [redacted], [redacted] and definitely had no connection to [redacted].
• Worked as the lead analyst for Parallels, one of Banyan Branch’s biggest clients.
• Helped produce funny videos for LaughPong, a comedy Youtube channel.
• Co-founded an Android gaming company called Happy Monster Games. We released one game called TrickyLeaks. The game lampooned Wikileaks, got coverage from some significant gaming blogs, and even got mentioned in a tweet from the official Wikileaks account!
• Graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree that combined two years of Computer Science with two years of business/marketing.