<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidmh0dHBzOi8vdGhld2VzdC5jb20uYXUvYnVzaW5lc3MvcHVibGljLWNvbXBhbmllcy9taW5lcmFsLWNvbW1vZGl0aWVzLWJhY2staW4tYWN0aW9uLWF0LW5vcndheS1ncmFwaGl0ZS1wbGF5LWMtMTIxNjMwNTbSAXpodHRwczovL3RoZXdlc3QuY29tLmF1L2J1c2luZXNzL3B1YmxpYy1jb21wYW5pZXMvbWluZXJhbC1jb21tb2RpdGllcy1iYWNrLWluLWFjdGlvbi1hdC1ub3J3YXktZ3JhcGhpdGUtcGxheS1jLTEyMTYzMDU2LmFtcA?oc=5" target="_blank">Mineral Commodities back in action at Norway graphite play</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">The West Australian</font>

Mineral Commodities back in action at Norway graphite play - The West Australian

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Mineral Commodities appoints Scott Lowe as new CEO - The West Australian

Y Combinator

University of Oklahoma

Founder & CEO @ TakeoffDB 

San Francisco, California, United States

TakeoffDB

Cofounder & CEO

Venture For America

Alumni Board Chair

Leading a team of designers and developers to deliver a best in class user experience for Mynd's customers: residential real estate investors with portfolios of single-family properties and small apartments (under 50 units). We operate on the front lines of real estate tech, innovating at the intersection between people, process, and pixels.

Mynd – Property Management

Product Manager

We are reinventing property management, making it simple to rent and own real estate.

Frontend Architect

Launched a property management tech startup to manage rental homes in Southeast Michigan for landlords using automation and on-demand labor•	Lead the data, product & engineering teams in growing the Castle web application (AngularJS and Node.js) from the very first line of code to over 5K monthly active users•	Managed feature development over dozens of Scrum sprints to build a property management platform used to process over 10K maintenance requests, 40K rental applications, and $8.5M rent payments•	Filled roles across the entire product development lifecycle including Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Software Architect, Full-Stack Engineer, DevOps Engineer, QA Engineer, System Administrator & Data Analyst•	Accepted into the Y-Combinator startup accelerator (W16)

Castle

Cofounder & CTO

Raised and deployed over $200k to transform an abandoned 3,500 square foot Detroit mansion into a home for future Venture For America fellows•	Evaluated dozens of potential investments across the city before acquiring in the Wayne County Tax Auction•	Managed relationship with general contractor through rough construction•	Saved tens of thousands of dollars by completing much of the demolition, painting, and floor restoration ourselves during nights and weekends

Rebirth Realty

Cofounder

Built the tech team of a high-growth ecommerce startup from scratch while leveraging technology to impact the business's bottom line•	Worked alongside one creative and three developers to design and build Chalkfly's first mobile-responsive storefront•	Designed, documented, and implemented software development processes including version control, code reviews, issue tracking, and code deployment•	Customized the Magento framework to meet business needs by developing custom extensions for internal notifications, per-client payment method controls, and dynamic remarketing tags•	Implemented Salesforce and supporting services to formalize and streamline the management of the sales process

Chalkfly

Software Engineer

Helped create software with a social impact•	Redesigned the user experience of Digerati's web-based internship marketplace•	Created analytics reports for data stored in a MySQL database•	Built a proof-of-concept tool that cross-referenced public data sets for interesting trends

Digerati, Inc.

Analyst

Grew the Venture For America brand by joining the inaugural class of fellows in 2012•	Built a web-based, mobile-responsive two-sided marketplace using the Laravel 4 and Bootstrap 3 frameworks to streamline the mission-critical process of matching new fellows with VFA companies•	Served as Detroit Recruitment Liaison by fostering relationships with Michigan's top entrepreneurial talent pools

2012 Fellow

Led a team of 11 students from diverse backgrounds on 2 projects over the course of one semester•	Created an iPad application to improve education in Oklahoma by facilitating the walkthrough data collection process for school administrators •	Performed an impact assessment for the adoption of Google Apps at the University of Oklahoma in conjunction with  OU IT

The Ronnie K. Irani Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth (I-CCEW)

Team Leader

Worked directly under the Vice President to continue progress on the creation of a Rare-Earth Research Institute at OU•	Organized a lunch with 14 faculty members from several disciplines across campus and the Vice President for Research to gauge interest in the proposed research institute•	Maintaining relations with an interested donor who has given over $5 million to OU while fostering connections with several key public officials in the Department of Energy in an effort to obtain funding •	Researching key Rare-Earth topics including Japan’s recent deposit discovery for shareholders

OU Strategic Planning and Economic Development Office

Student Assistant to the Vice President

Collaborated with three interns on three separate projects simultaneously throughout the summer•	Promoted to the position of Student Assistant to Vice President after successful summer internship •	Researched the feasibility of creating a rare-earth element research institute at OU through analysis of the current supply chain and research landscape, recent economic trends, and OU’s expertise and equipment culminating with a recommendation to pursue funding and work towards establishing the institute•	Recommended against further development of an academic CV databasing and reporting software based on market research and competitive analysis ultimately saving the university over $30,000•	Created a micro-lending joint venture between OU and a community development private equity fund with the vision of lending to otherwise unbankable candidates in Oklahoma in the range of $2,000 to $100,000

Full-Time Intern

Scouted Oklahoma and surrounding areas for potential loan or grant candidates•	Recommended four candidates to lending managers based on mission fit and financial need including a non-profit devoted to eradicating inter-generational poverty and a for-profit focused on carbon sequestration •	Accepted as a fellow despite the requirement of being currently enrolled in a relevant graduate school program

RSF Social Finance

Regional Social Finance Fellow

Studied advanced topics in nonlinear ordinary differential equations•	Designed and produced a MATLAB program which implements the undetermined Gauss-Newton method to solve for periodic solutions of nonlinear ODEs

University of Oklahoma Department of Mathematics

Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Nikola Petrov

Worked with three other interns and a team leader to advise inventor on optimal commercialization pathway•	Performed market research and competitive analysis for a fiber-optic intrusion monitoring technology concluding with our recommendation to stop patent application, saving the university approximately $10,000

Student Intern

Modeled experimental data and built electronic equipment for specific tasks in the MBE laboratory•	Modeled experimental data from magneto-electric quantization experiments using Mathematica•	Designed and built two electronic units that would remotely control a valve on the Molecular Beam Epitaxy equipment and signal the emergency phone of critical power failures in the MBE room