Ishan D.

Experience

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  SpongePets

  Mar 2019 - now

  Co-Founder

  Mission-based online retail store that provides unique bath related accessories for children with a portion of the proceeds being donated to St Judes Children's Hospital. Led business case development and implementation of the website, sought out strategic vendor partnerships, built bundles, executed order fulfillment and executed social media marketing and advertising across Facebook and Instagram for lead generation.- Managed site design and development using Shopify templates- Took marketing and product photographs and videos used in sites and promotions- Directed proceeds towards charity partners (St Jude Childrens hospital)- Worked with suppliers to find the best products at targeted price points Show less

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  Academies of Loudoun

  Sept 2019 - now

  Student

  Application based magnet program with focus on Engineering and Technology. The purpose of the curriculum is to provide advanced academic math and science courses for students interested in STEM. These courses include Advanced Placement courses, as well as classes devoted purely towards scientific research.- Co-Founder of BeatProdigy- Courses: AP Calculus, AP Psychology, AP Physics, Computer Science, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Spanish, World History, JavaScript, Python, HTML

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  Beat Prodigy

  Apr 2020 - now

  Co-Founder

  BeatProdigy was a quarter-finalist in the 2021 INCubatorEDU National Pitch contestBeatProdigy is an online music learning platform that won the state level Incubator EDU competition and competed nationally at the IncubatorEDU competition. Along with the co-founders, created end to end product offering from inception to implementation. Solely responsible for business plan and marketing plan for offering and created website for the business.

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  QOMPLX

  Jun 2021 - Sept 2021

  Technical Product Manager Intern

  - Learned important skills under an experienced product management team and learned effective processes to develop products- Developed an idea of the infrastructure of an organization and how different roles in an organization collaborate- Introduced to cybersecurity framework, multi-dimensional risk management using external and internal processes, and data analytics

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  University of Miami Herbert Business School

  Aug 2023 - now

  Undergraduate Student

  Majoring in Business Technology and Computer Science

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  BudgetAI

  Jan 2024 - May 2024

  Chief Financial Officer

  - Co-founder of AI-powered Financial Advising and Budgeting platform as part of semester-long Business Technology class project- Created and presented Website and App MVP in front of University of Miami Business School Board and received a superior rating on the project- Calculated costs, potential growth, and analyzed market trends and forecasts as Chief Financial Officer

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  Gaingels

  Jun 2024 - now

  Internship

  Gaingels is a top venture investment firm approaching $1 Billion in invested capital with a portfolio of over 2,000 companies. - Researched Portfolio companies and created summaries and synopsis briefs for investment analysts- Used internal company database information to create financial models and predictions- Used organization and modeling tools such as online visual data processing platform Airtable to better visualize and sort through data and develop automated queries to automate analysis of data. Show less