A Race To Success took place on June 19, 2014 in Irvine, CA. 

Elance partnered with Southern California's fastest growing angel investor organization, Private Capital Network (PCN), UPS and SendGrid to bring a fast-paced and fun-filled A Race To Success.

It's where ten lucky startups were invited to K1 Speed, where they raced go-karts alongside prominent angel investors and reps from OC incubators, accelerators & co-working spaces. The winning startup got to pitch to influential PCN members, win $1000 of Elance credits and ultimate bragging rights!

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In June 2016 Silicon Labs invited me to a secret workshop to learn about their new IoT Dev board. It was amazing to see so many sensors squeezed into such a small board with so much functionality.

My first hack was to communicate with the sensors and eventually I was able to use the Ambient Light sensor to display different LED colors. To see the video click here.

I connected Google Analytics to different social media pages to do some A/B Testing and better understand which platforms drive more traffic and where it is coming from. Some interesting add-ons include SEO, SEM, Adwords and it's affect on search.

Information here can be ordered and categorized through data flows and later visualized. I often like to start breaking problems down through a brainstorm followed by mapping. This data can later be imported into IBM's SAS / SPSS software and coded in R to provide meaningful business analytical visuals for to better understand value at a glimpse. 

Question. Green. Innovate. Technology Science.

In 2012 Co-founded QGITS.org a startup under OCHackerz incubator and became a journalist reporting on the Hacker / Maker movement in the local community. Raising awareness of advancements in:

Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM)

Science Technology Engineering Art and Math (STEAM)

In 2014 we independently produced the first OC Hackerz #OpenHack Hardware Hackathon. We engaged the community in collaborative team building exercises, learned about new hardware technologies, brainstormed ideas through pitches and used Agile/Scrum principles to work within teams. Click to watch Video

This is a StopMotion Animated video produced using the Vine App. We dissected an orange and paper logo cutouts into multiple layers and took short video clips animating them through a sequence to create a short video to create awareness through the vine social media community.

With everything going mobile, I decided to research platforms, devices, technologies, architectures and start my own mobile app design agency. Excited to polish up on some of my Photoshop design skills. I had fun creating the WirelessApps brand, logo, branding and threw a QR code in to make it interactive whilst doing some user research.

I also enjoyed designing the OC Hackerz logo and experimenting with different copywriting approaches to simplify awareness.

Bringing back the Bartering System with www.Trade-off.co. Small Business with limited budgets can now exchange services with other local businesses in the area to provide value and build community.

My role on our 4 person team was to create a simple explainer video to help communicate our project to a larger audience and can also be used for marketing a future campaign.

This was my first time working with illustrators and writing a script to produce this video working under extreme time constraints. 

Since 2010 My team and I have produced and co-organized 5 minimakerfaires throughout the years. We plan to invite our community to produce a Makerfaire event each year to showcase our projects.

In 2014, My friends and I at RVSherpa hosted an RV camping experience during SXSW to connect festival goers, musicians and artists unable to find accommodation. We barbecued, shared stories and a seven year old girl sang one of her favorite songs.

We decided to do a Thanksgiving themed hackathon and decided to name it Hacksgiving. The goal was to come up with an project idea to help the homeless feel connected to society again. 

In 12 hours we designed and launched a website where donations raised provided a gourmet meal for the homeless.

Through the introduction of Open Source Hardware, my team and I hosted the first Hardware Hackathon in the local community.

This was one of my most challenging project management accomplishments to date, managing attendees, volunteers, logistics, teams, whilst working on a hardware project #realtime #live

The intensive marketing campaign paid off and we had a lot of fun.

Our organization was featured in the front page of the OC Register local media in recognition for our work providing opportunities in the local community.

Our community and events would not have been possible without building sponsorships and partnerships with local organizations. These are some of the early organizations that supported us.

One of my challenges at Stanford was to connect with a celebrity, I reached out to Ashton Kutcher and we even organized a Music Hackathon at his space in LA.

#HackForLA - A Civic Hackathon event allowing citizens to collaborate on technology projects that can solve problems in the local community.

This weekend I won first place for designing a geolocation based mobile app that allows non-profits to connect to volunteers through SMS messaging.

During my time volunteering at Boys and Girls club, I worked with numerous underserved kids and also held a couple of workshops educating youth on design thinking, mobile application design, wireframing, prototyping and robotics.

At my first Startup Weekend event, I designed an emergency response app and worked with my team of developers to demo our prototype. It allowed any user to report their GPS location and alert family members at the touch of a button. 

I decided to call it 912 Alerts. Because it's 1 step ahead of 911 given that we provide 2 critical pieces of information requested whenever someone reports an emergency. 

A 3D model to house the SiliconLabs Pulse Sensor designed for the wrist.

SiLabs launched the BTLE sensor puck v2.0, I used it to prototype a music recommendation engine based on your heart-rate using Spotify API.

When your heartrate is high, it recommends upbeat music, when it's low, it recommends calm soothing music and visa versa. 

100+ Students gathered together to collaborate on Hack projects exploring Virtual Reality and Hardware Technologies.

Through 6 years of Hacking and producing Hackathon events, We will be hosting Hackathons throughout the year for teams to collaborate and innovate.

This is the first ever Bitcoin Hackathon in 2015, Austin TX, We worked on a Bitcoin rideshare service.

This is Tom Soderstrom, CTO at JPL we discussed opportunities in Augmented Reality and his prototype of the Mars Rover ipad app.