Co-founder, President – New York, NY

• Founded company with a mission to streamline engagement ring design and purchasing process for individuals, leveraging expertise in fine jewelry manufacturing.
• Created one of a kind, interactive engagement ring customizer for consumer use online including directly creating all visual and mechanical elements.
• Managed a team of developers to create a back-end database to organize in excess of 50,000 variations and allow for easy addition of additional variations and large-scale pricing updates.
• Designed thousands of individual 3D models and digital renders using Rhino and Keyshot.
• Built a comprehensive SKU system to enable integration with e-commerce software and a system to allow for immediate price updating and easy addition of new designs.
• Pioneered concept, mechanics and visual design behind proprietary diamond search function, which has recently been awarded both a utility and design patent from the USPTO.
• Compiled and cleaned multiple data sets to synthesize diamond availability and pricing information leveraging complex Excel macros, algorithms and present market data in a way that is approachable and actionable for consumers.
• Oversaw development of the company website, including directly working with and managing developers, copy writers, social media team, and content creators.

Vice President of Operations – New York, NY

• Oversaw modernization of entire inventory management system, creating complex Excel spreadsheets that enabled:
  • Easy price lookups to reduce time servicing customers.
  • Immediate inventory wide pricing updates which became essential to us and our customers ensuring fair pricing without exposure to loss as the gold market experienced greater short-term variability and long-term increases.
  • Ability to generate immediate custom piece quotations without needing any jewelry expertise as business transitioned from predominantly stock inventory to specializing in custom design.
• Oversaw and maintained multiple 3D Printers to reduce cost and increase efficiency by eliminating superfluous functions needed to execute each custom design project.
• Developed extensive expertise in Rhino CAD to transition established designs from physical molds to digital files, allowing for more efficient storage, cheaper and faster reproduction, and the ability to easily alter designs and iterate new ones from them.
• Worked directly with customers to deliver bespoke and one-of-a-kind pieces based on their requests, synthesizing jewelry expertise and rapidity of CAD development to quickly bring ideas to life.
• Managed relationships with jewelry and production suppliers and vendors.

• Extensive experience in 3D Design, Rhino CAD program and Keyshot Rendering.
• Proficient in Python, SQL, and Microsoft Excel including development of complex pricing formulas and macros.
• Working experience with Quickbooks Accounting Software, Hubspot CRM, Stripe, Paypal, Wordpress and WooCommerce.                                                                      

Bucknell University, Lewisburg Pa

Bachelor of Arts, Economics and Philosophy