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Projects
A selection of projects built at hackathons and beyond — from AI-powered platforms to surgical robot dashboards.
Scholar Shield
Pitched a scholarship protection insurance product to CSAA Insurance Group and Guidewire executives as part of Team dreamZ — winning 1st place and a $10K prize among competing HBCU teams nationwide
Iterated the pitch through multiple rounds of live coach and executive feedback, carrying it from customer discovery through a Business Model Canvas and 10-section business plan (BP10) to the final judged pitch
PitchPad
Built an AI-powered pitch practice platform as deployment & infrastructure lead; architected a Next.js/Vercel frontend and FastAPI/Railway backend serving real-time AI feedback for the Lenovo "Ideation to Impact" challenge
Integrated OpenAI Whisper for live transcription and GPT-4o to auto-generate pitch decks in under 60 seconds; used Groq for low-latency coaching scored on a 1–10 scale
Wired Supabase (PostgreSQL + pgvector + Auth) supporting 2 user roles (Creator/Reviewer) and shareable pitch deck export
I Got Next
Full-stack pickup basketball platform scaled to 500+ active players and 120 courts across 3 cities — 18 routes including a live player map, facility dashboard, admin panel, and public profiles
B2B Stripe pipeline for YMCAs and parks & rec departments with 3 facility pricing tiers ($199–$699/mo) and a $5.99/mo player Pro tier; Airtable-powered facility lead capture and CRM
Forte
Built a browser-based financial literacy platform with 5 interactive games (salary negotiation vs. live AI, job offer math, budgeting, freelance taxes, 30-year portfolio sim); shipped zero-login product with Gemini 2.0 Flash + server-side scoring in under 24 hours
Aggie Aid
Developed a student resource platform for North Carolina A&T students to access campus tools and information
SurgiControl Robot Arm Dashboard
Sole developer on a 4-person team — designed, architected, and built the entire technical solution end-to-end while teammates focused on research and presentation
Built a real-time 3D surgical robot arm dashboard for Johnson & Johnson enabling users to save and replay precise arm positions
Engineered CSV export to log exact arm placement coordinates, enabling data-driven motion pattern analysis