(My friends call me Andrew, Drew, Piispo, or even Doug.)
I’m a scrappy, energetic, slightly-scatterbrained entrepreneur from Boston, MA who now lives close to Central PA. I'm a graduate of Babson College, Class of 2018 and an incoming graduate student at UC Berkeley where I'll be working part-time towards a Masters in Data Science.
(I regret nothing.)
Direct Machines
Pruve
(Internships included AIG, Performance Motion Devices, Accorin and shoveling rat dung out of attics in high school)
Biohacker Project
A mood tracker, logging my mood daily and combining it with phone and personal data.
(Turns out I'm pretty cranky most days)
Github Repo
Streamlit Webapp
Medium Post
Berkeley Bootcamp Repos
Although I'm now attending grad school there for 2 years, I did have a lot of cool projects that I undertook while at their 6-month bootcamp.
Major Wildfire Predictors (Final Project)
Neural Network Analysis
Linear Regression Modeling
My General Skills
(Click to see list)
Please, ask me about Webscraping.
Drag and drop analytics? Done.
Wordpress DBs were my specialty.
Ahem, again: Wordpress DBs were my specialty.
I think the site should act as some proof.
How do you think I integrated the fade effects?
Custom plugins and databases are... tricky.
SeeDirect Machinesfor this maddess.
You really think I went to business school and didn't excel in this? (pun intended)
Issued in March 2018 - which means it's totally expired.
Issued in November 2017 - definitely expired by now.
Disclaimer: Most of this was self-taught; any terms and names may not be known by my dumb head.
Do you need me to brag?
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a startup that has exceeded over $1MM in Revenue
over $5MM in Procurement and Freight spend for a multi-national cannabis beverage company
freight spend by 40% at Cann while single-handedly running a (now) 4-person supply chain solo for almost a year
the launch of over 20 new SKUs into brand new markets with the largest cannabis beverage company
2 web-based Businesses, with 1 successfully still intact (directmachines.com, built from scratch by myself and a small team with Magento 2)
my family's businesses by getting them over 1MM organic search impressions
on a legal case halting the implementation of a natural gas pipeline in Virginia due to my natural gas capacity allocation work
Disclaimer: Most of this was self-taught; any terms and names may not be known by my dumb head.
I play In a band
Jimmy Laser and the Robots
I play drums and sing... But Phil Collins would laugh if he watched me play.
I like attending Concerts
List of Concerts I've attended:
First concert I saw was at the age of 12 - Coldplay.
Travel is fun, too
List of Countries I've been to:
(Basically, I have a lot to see in both the Eastern and the Southern Hempispheres)
Here are Kesha songs I like
(Makes for great small talk - click one to learn more)