My Experience
See what I've learned through a hands-on approach.
CYstarters - Iowa State University Business Accelerator
Casmium, LLC
In spring of 2022, One of my co-founders of Casmium, LLC, Pradyumna Dahal, and I were
accepted into the ISU Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship's CYstarter Summer
Accelerator program: An 11-week bootcamp geared to giving students time, funding,
and resources to continue to grow their
existing business or business idea.
Pradyumna, three other students (who
do not
attend Iowa State), and I created the Casmium business back in 2020 right before the
beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of creating a solution to improve
the use of stats in high school baseball teams (read more at the link below). In
2022, after nearing completion of our minimum viable product, we desired to learn
how to most effectively market our product to our ideal customer and learned about
the CYstarters opportunity. Our final business pitch was a success and our company
gained an abundance of marketing and customer engagement strategies as well as
additional network connections and beta testers.
Technical Specifications
- Program Duration: 11 weeks at 30 hours/week, May-July 2020
- Experiences: Lessons in business pitching, customer discovery, team building, product design, marketing, finances, and sales
Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer - Casmium, LLC
Feburary 2020 - Present
At Casmium, I develop the front-end for Casmium Sports Analytics, a web platform for baseball teams to collect and visualize custom metrics of their team's performance. Casmium allows for real-time data collection in the Casmium mobile app, then instant upload to the Casmium dashboard for generating visuals and predictions based on the data collected by the team.
Code Sensei - Code Ninjas Clive, IA
July 2018 - August 2021
From Summer 2018 to Summer 2021, I was employed at a Code Ninjas franchise: A center for kids ages 7-14 to learn how to create their video games and participate in STEM activities. I assisted kids by teaching coding concepts, led summer camps, and observed kids' progress through a self-guided curriculum as they experienced the joy of coding.
My Education
See my adventure in academics.
Bachelor of Science, Computer
Engineering
Iowa State University
August 2021 - Present
Activities and Societies: University Honors Program, ISU Cyclone Football "Varsity" Marching Band, Creative Development Chair: Friley Hall Niles-Foster House.
High School Diploma - West Des Moines Valley High School
August 2017 - May 2021
Extended Learning (Gifted/Talented) Program, Valley Concert Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band, Iowa ICE Robotics 6419 FIRST Robotics Team, National Honors Society, Iowa Statewide Youth Broadband Advisory (SYBAC) Council Member, ValleyHack