Projects

CastMate

AI Acting Coach

CastMate is changing the way actors prepare for auditions and roles. As the world's first emotionally-aware AI acting coach, it provides personalized feedback, line reading assistance, and emotion analysis to help actors deliver their best performances.

Key features include:

• Real-time feedback on performance
• Script analysis and character breakdown
• Emotion detection and expression guidance
• Industry-specific coaching for film, TV, and theater
• Accessible 24/7 for practice anytime, anywhere

CastMate is being developed with input from professional actors, coaches and casting directors to ensure it provides valuable, industry-relevant guidance. The platform continues to evolve with new features and improvements based on user feedback. I'm currently heads‐down focused on building and scaling it.

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Screen Treats

Digital Playgrounds

ScreenTreats is a place for designers and developers to experiment with sound, typography, particle physics, and shader-based visualizations. It includes three tools, GlyphGrid, EchoJam and Dusty.

GlyphGrid is a GSAP playground for testing animations. It allows the user to adjust and export the code for use in their project, similarly to CodePen. EchoJam is an audio visualization tool that enables the user to create looped shader-based visualizations of short audio clips. Dusty is an open source interactive hourglass simulation experiment with grid-based sand particle physics.

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Funny Names

Names You Can't Unsee

Funny Names is a lighthearted project that collects and showcases real names that are unintentionally humorous. The site features thousands of verified funny names from public records, historical documents, and user submissions.

Features include:

• Categorized collections of funny names
• Daily featured name with background story
• User submission and voting system
• Name generator for fiction writers
• Mobile-friendly browsing experience

What started as a fun side project quickly gained popularity and now attracts tons of daily visitors. The site maintains a 'respectful' tone while celebrating the linguistic coincidences that create these memorable monikers.

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Verdable

Multi-Brand CBD Wellness

Verdable was a pioneering multi-brand CBD wellness company that I founded and successfully sold in 2021. The company offered a diverse range of CBD products catering to different market segments and wellness needs.

Company highlights:

• Portfolio of over 15 distinct CBD brands
• Product categories including tinctures, topicals, edibles, and pet products
• Thoughtfully‐designed packaging and branding
• Third-party tested, organic ingredients
• One of the first to be accepted into Square's beta program for CBD payment processing
• Successful exit through acquisition in 2021

Verdable was recognized for its commitment to quality and transparency. The company's success demonstrated the potential of the CBD wellness market and established a blueprint for multi-brand strategies in the space.

Sold in 2021