Stuff I've Actually Built

The evidence pile that proves I occasionally finish what I start

2025
  • clutterr.ai — I helped build an AI platform that finds your junk a better home than a landfill. Yes, we basically made your old IKEA desk feel less guilty about its carbon footprint. Urban mining, second-hand markets, carbon credits—all the buzzwords that make environmentalists swipe right.
  • MuseMedia.ai — Remember when publishing companies would throw content at the wall and see what stuck? We built the AI that tells them which wall to throw at. Market research, trend insights, and quality metrics that actually make sense. It's like having a crystal ball, except it runs on code instead of mystical hand-waving.
  • Networkerr — For people who know they should network but would rather watch paint dry. This AI finds networking events that won't make you want to fake a family emergency to leave early. It even works around your "busy schedule" (we know you're just watching Netflix).
  • Helix Co — We made project management software for the restoration industry that doesn't feel like it was designed in 1997. InsurTech that actually helps people rebuild after disasters instead of just adding more paperwork to their already terrible day. Revolutionary concept, I know.
  • Exchange Industrials — I built an AI that analyzes industrial equipment sales. Sounds boring, right? It is. But it saves companies millions, which means I get invited to holiday parties where they serve the good champagne, not the stuff that comes in plastic cups.
  • mySORS — A platform that helps business owners sell their companies without getting completely screwed over. Valuation tools that don't require an MBA to understand, profile creation that doesn't make your business look like it's on life support, and communication tools that filter out the tire-kickers. Plus coaching from people who've actually sold businesses before, not just read about it.
2024
  • WattWiseAI — An AI that makes utility pricing less painful than explaining crypto to your grandparents. It prevents billing errors (you're welcome, everyone who's ever received a $10,000 electric bill), makes sure salespeople get paid correctly (revolutionary, I know), and streamlines customer registration to be merely annoying instead of soul-crushing. I'm not saying we're heroes, but we've prevented countless customer service rage incidents.
  • Talent Marathon — Dating app logic, but for jobs. We match candidates with companies using actual data instead of the traditional "this person reminds me of me" approach to hiring. Turns out computers are less biased than that one VP who only hires people who played the same college sport as him. Who knew?
  • In The Wild — A dating app for people tired of texting for six weeks only to discover their match is actually three raccoons in a trench coat. We push people to meet in real life (gasp!) at public places (double gasp!) to see if they actually like each other before investing in a therapy session's worth of message exchanges.
  • MatchTx — A machine learning platform that makes cancer drug development slightly less impossible. We streamlined the clinical trial process for cancer treatments, which means potentially life-saving drugs might actually reach patients before we all upload our consciousness to the cloud. This is genuinely important work that could help countless people, but I'm sandwiching it between dating apps and M&A firms because emotional vulnerability makes me itchy.
  • Trusted Business Transaction Advisors — A full service mergers and acquisition firm.
2023
  • Dube International — Yes, I named a company after myself. No, I don't have a giant portrait of myself hanging in the office. (It's more of a medium-sized portrait.) We build custom software for businesses that saves them from doing soul-crushing manual tasks, replacing spreadsheet hell with automation that actually works. The real magic? Our business intelligence dashboards that finally let decision-makers see what's actually happening in their company instead of just nodding along in meetings while secretly checking fantasy football stats. Turns out when executives can actually understand their data, better decisions happen. Revolutionary concept.
2022
  • Kent State Silver Foxes — A virtual senior center that proves your grandparents can absolutely destroy you in online bingo. Created with the Kent, Ohio Department of Health and KSU Department of Public Health during that time we all pretended our homes were offices. Turns out seniors are way better at adapting to technology when the alternative is not seeing another human for months.
2021
  • MINT.Box — A visual debugging tool for servo motors that made robotics engineers make those little chef-kiss gestures. Created with the KSU Advanced Telerobotics Lab, it's basically the robot equivalent of an MRI scanner that tells you why your expensive machine is doing interpretive dance instead of following instructions.
  • Computer Vision with Supplemental Reference Models — I taught computers to see things better, and it won second place at the KSU 3M Presentation. Would have been first place if the winning team hadn't brought actual robots that did backflips. Hard to compete with backflipping robots. Still bitter about it.
2020
  • Embrace — A knee rehabilitation device presented at the KSU Fashiontech Hackathon that proved fashion and function can coexist. Created during that magical time when pulling an all-nighter for a project seemed heroic rather than a sign of poor planning. Less effective than surgery, more effective than "walking it off"—the sweet spot of medical technology.
  • The Pockets Project — We won first place at Global Cleveland by "discovering" something every woman already knew: women's clothing needs actual functional pockets. The male judges were absolutely blown away by this groundbreaking revelation. I've never seen so many women simultaneously roll their eyes in solidarity. The real innovation was quantifying exactly how pathetically small the average women's pocket is (answer: can barely fit a chapstick, let alone the latest iPhone Max Ultra Whatever).
  • Pear Power Hour — A radio show with Black Squirrel Radio where I pretended to know about music while playing whatever wouldn't get us in trouble with the FCC. Our listenership peaked at what I estimate was dozens of people, most of whom were probably just leaving their browser open to be supportive. My mom still has recordings, which is both sweet and deeply concerning blackmail material.
2019
  • Probabilistic Shortest Time Queries Over Uncertain Road Networks — Fancy academic way of saying "we tried to make GPS not send you into lake." With the KSU Big Data Analytics Lab, we built algorithms to find the fastest route when traffic conditions are as unpredictable as a season finale plot twist. Mainly so you could get to meetings on time without having to leave an hour early "just in case."
  • Interpersonal Stress Management App — An app that promised to reduce your stress about other people but actually just gave you new tech-related stress instead. Presented at the KSU Undergraduate Research Symposium to a room of people who were primarily there for the free cookies. Still, it looked great on grad school applications, which was the real point anyway.
  • Identifai — AI that could tell whether that dense academic paper you're reading is about computer science or philosophy (turns out the key indicator is the number of times "paradigm" appears). Created with the KSU Artificial Intelligence Lab, it was basically Shazam for research papers. Saved grad students precious minutes they could instead spend questioning their life choices over coffee.

This is what I remember building when I wasn't binging Netflix or questioning my career choices. There were probably other projects, but they've been mercifully erased from my memory, along with most of 2020.