Sensitive information still lives in silos and hinders collaboration. LION is a web platform to organize and structure intelligence issues. Analysts sift through larges volumes of information from a variety of sources to find leads and generate reports. Our platform brings together entity extraction tools with a graph-based knowledge base to focus the analyst's attention on relevant inforation saving time and ultimately lives.

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More social than LinkedIn and more professional than Facebook, 99circles uses trust, instead of degrees of separation, to determine relationship strength. When I started this project back in 2005 social networks had little traction. A year of development had past and I still didn't think the app was "ready" for the public. I received great feedback during the beta with 1000+ users, but was no match for the already well established social networks--regardless of the new angle I was trying to take. I folded my cards on this one in 2007.

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A restaurant portal where students can order food online. I built this in college and started by targeting students at the University of Maryland. Once the company got some traction around campus, and through the local newspapers, we were able to sign deals with the local restaurants to provide this service for a small monthly fee. In less than 3 months Menuocity was placing over 100 orders per day!

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Problem
Cornerstone is a popular college bar and restaurant. All the restaurant's specials have been effective in increasing alcohol sales, their food sales have been steadily declining. The recent launch of popular restaurants, such as Chipotle and Noodles & Company, has taken business away from Cornerstone. Many customers are unaware of special events and the various food and drink specials offered by Cornerstone throughout the year.

Solution
We established a web presence by leveraging existing food and drink specials. We designed a content management system that automated 95% of the work involved with maintaining a web presence.

In 2000 I developed an auction site similar to eBay, but focusing on music and memorabilia. I teamed up with a band manager who was connected in the music industry with several record labels. The site had initial success, but failed shortly after this. I was in high school at the time and knew little about security. At the time credit cards were not yet trusted, and we didn't have a big name that consumers could trust. Users started creating fake bids which saturated our listings. It was sold in 2002.

Problem
Subscriber's Choice has been providing personalized subscription services to businesses since 1911. However, the company had little to no web presence, inventory and customer lists all lived in silos, and data was stored in a variety of proprietary formats.

Solution
We quickly improved company processes and saved hundreds of man hours. First, we migrated all the disparate data to a single MySQL database. Second, we built a dynamic front-end web presence that replaced the old, static web pages. Third, we automated the administrative tasks that were once done manually. Subscriber's Choice was able to free up time once spent in maintenance that is now focused on pursuing new business

The first web site dedicated to the underground music scene. Started in 1997, BandIndex.com included interviews, reviews, and music samples from over 1000 artists, both mainstream and underground. It was sold in 2000.