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Products, prototypes
& experiments.

Products, prototypes and experiments I've built, each labeled for what it is and where it stands.

Prototype / ExperimentIn development

Scheduling and route planning for mobile service businesses, starting with dog groomers.

Problem: Mobile service businesses such as dog groomers lose productive time when appointments are booked without considering geography, drive time, service areas, cancellations, and customer scheduling preferences.
What I built: Designed RuffRoute as a scheduling and route-optimization prototype for mobile service businesses. The concept combines appointment availability with geographic constraints, area-based scheduling, travel time, and intelligent waitlist handling so open appointments can be filled without creating inefficient routes.

Product / ExperimentLive

A daily salary-guessing game built on real labor-market data.

Problem: Salary information is usually presented as static data, making it difficult for people to develop an intuitive understanding of what different jobs actually pay or discover careers they might not otherwise consider.
What I built: Created Payshok, an interactive salary-guessing and job-discovery game using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics compensation data. The experience turns labor-market data into a simple game that lets users guess salaries, see the answer, and discover different occupations along the way.

ExperimentIn development

Pick two: cheap, fast or good. A snarky way to remind stakeholders which one they're giving up.

Problem: Projects keep getting asked to be cheap, fast and good at the same time, and explaining why that's impossible, again, rarely lands well.
What I built: Built Cheap Fast or Good, a tool where you pick your two priorities, describe the situation, and get a verdict card to paste into Slack, send to a client or forward without comment.

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