Good Fortune

Writing about sustainable startups and interviewing Impact Founders to inspire your next impact project, startup, or side hustle. 

Good Fortune will help you:
🌱 Discover sustainable businesses
🧠 Learn from Impact Founders
🌍 Meet likeminded change makers

Founder

Swinburne Design Factory Melbourne

Developing new products, services, and experiences for the innovation world.

Working with Industry, Government, and Individuals to better understand their world and design new solutions to make it a better one.

Senior Product Development Manager

Create Kaizen

I design tools, workshops, and learning programs for tech leaders to:
- Build innovative teams
- Improve creative collaboration
- Build human-centered organizations
- Create systems to navigate uncertainty
- Develop creative problem solving practices

Strategic Designer & Facilitator

Designit

- Lead discovery research, persona building, and journey mapping for transformation projects
- Designed and facilitated AI enablement workshops for exploration and implementation
- Partnered with BizDev to identify customer needs across partner orgs
- Implemented Design Thinking to tackle creative business transformation problems

Strategic Design Lead

NOBA

NOBA partners with companies to build and launch new products, services, or business models.

I supported digital, innovation, and marketing teams in different stages of the development and launch of new products:
- Defining the value propositions and business model for new products and services
- Testing and learning through business prototyping - building and launching an alpha version of the business, gathering metrics, and iterating with real customers
- Driving a soft market launch to start growing the customer base before scaling

Business Designer

NerdWallet

- Software development planning and visibility at all levels of management
- End to end quarterly planning for cross-functional pods
- Manage communication touchpoints between Product, Engineering, Design, Data
- Agile coaching for NerdWallet feature teams
- Program Management for Content Design team

NerdWallet is on a mission to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. We provide consumers with expert, personalized, and actionable guidance across a range of personal finance topics. Whether you’re shopping for a new credit card or mortgage, hoping to refinance a student loan, interested in learning more about investing, or just want to stay on top of your money, we do the homework for you, simplifying complex ideas so you have the information and tools you need to make the right decision for you.

Backed by IVP, RRE Ventures, iGlobe Partners and Silicon Valley Bank, among others, NerdWallet has been certified a Great Place to Work and named one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ 2020 by Fortune. We’ve been recognized for our stellar benefits, too, from world-class health, vision, and dental insurance to our matching 401(k) program to our generous time off and parental leave policies. 

Based in San Francisco, we have more than 400 passionate “Nerds” around the country, and we’re growing every day. Whether you’re committed to helping consumers or  excited about working for a profitable tech company or interested in growing professionally—or all of the above!—we’d love to hear from you. Check out our job openings here: http://www.nerdwallet.com/careers

Program Manager

- Project manager for Content Design team, creating graphics, illustrations, animations and editorial videos
- Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance
- Refine and streamline department processes to maintain efficiency and scalability in a fast growing startup environment
- Facilitate projects for a stakeholder team of 90 Content Strategists, Assigning Editors, Copy Editors, and Writers in team operations and communication
- Develop and oversee quantitative success metrics and key performance indicators for Content and Content Design teams
- Advise Content team on institutional knowledge, the fluid inner workings of startup company operations and their position in it

Content Operations and Project Management

Interscope Records

- Coordinated photo shoots and graphic design work for 100+ artist roster
- Oversaw and refined end to end project portals for photographers, stylists, graphic designers, etc.
- Created and resolved photography and art contracts for all creative services provided to Interscope artists
- Organized and facilitated all travel, setup and production operations  for Interscope directors, photographers, producers, and stylist  teams
- Refined organizational strategy, including artist archiving, scheduling, and soliciting promotional materials

Creative Marketing

Opus Bank

- Consulted high net-worth banking clientele, managing accounts $500k-$1mm in balances
- Spearheaded sales team who aquired $50mm in deposits since inception 10.17.2011
- Integral part of opening and growing de novo banking office
- Integrated new sales, appointment, and follow up pipelines for Opus Bank de novo offices
- Generated qualified large acquisition meetings for VP/Retail Banking Manager

Client Services

Want to build a business that makes money AND makes a difference?

I break down exactly how successful impact founders are doing it.

Through conversations with founders and detailed case studies, I uncover the strategies and tactics that actually work in social impact.

At Good Fortune, I'm creating:
🎙️ Deep-dive conversations with impact founders sharing their playbook
📧 Weekly newsletters breaking down successful impact businesses
🛠️ Free, actionable tools for bootstrapped teams (like our Tactic Cards)

Everything I make is designed to help you:
- Validate your impact business idea
- Find and connect with your first customers
- Grow sustainably while maximizing impact
- Navigate the unique challenges of social enterprise

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A bit more about me and why I love doing this:
🏄 I've always been an "experience channel surfer" (look at my work history)
💭 I love finding the overlap between creativity, strategy, and impact
🙏 I want to create things that enable others to do their best work

Give me a follow 🔔 for free content and learnings shared daily, or reach out if you want to talk strategy and social innovation (whatever that means to you).

Jake Carroll

HII Technical Solutions, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries

Engineering Technician 3

Currently Seeking New Opportunity

Currently Seeking Systems Engineer New Opportunity

TFC Recycling

I assisted the Production Supervisor in the operation of the plant sorting facility. I led a crew of production employees.

Production Lead

I sorted material on one of the production lines and performed cleaning and other duties as required.

Sorter

The Lee Group

I was assigned as a Sorter to TFC Recycling.

Temp

Uber

I drove customers to their desired destination in a safe and prompt manner.

Driver

Newport News Shipbuilding, A Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries

•	Procedure Writer for USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Propulsion Plant Lead Design Yard—January 2010 to September 2015
o	Wrote nuclear mechanical Reactor Plant and Steam Plant Baseline Test Procedures and Shipboard Use Test Procedures.
o	Reviewed Reactor Plant and Steam Plant Baseline Test Procedures and Shipboard Use Test Procedures from fellow procedure writers.
o	Updated procedure cross-reference database.

Engineer Systems Test

•	Electrical Test Engineer for USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) New Construction, Steam Generator Chemical Cleaning Facility, and Radiation Services Facility—November 2007 to December 2009
o	Performed test procedures for electrical, electronic, and mechanical systems.
o	Coordinated with Trades, Quality Inspection, and Planning personnel to complete testing, troubleshooting, maintenance (preventative and corrective), and normal operations.
o	Wrote and routed work permits, work authorization forms, and tagouts.
o	Performed weekly tagout audits.
o	Volunteered to take on the task of installing the Damage Control Wirefree Communication (DC WIFCOM) System on CVN 77. This was the first DC WIFCOM installation for a New Construction aircraft carrier. Coordinated work with Trades, Reactor Plant Planning Yard, and installation subcontractor personnel.

Senior Nuclear Test Technician/Technician 3/Engineer Nuclear Plant Ops 1

US Navy

USS Enterprise (CVN 65)
•	Ships Portable Electrical/Electronic Test Equipment Requirements List (SPETERL) Command Test Equipment Manager and Radar/Navigation Technician
o	Managed test equipment for over 50 work centers in 9 departments throughout the ship.
o	Created and maintained Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft Access databases to track test equipment inventory and disposition.
o	Supervised the removal of over 140 pieces of rejected, unauthorized, excess, and obsolete test equipment worth over $400,000 from the ship and returned the items to the Navy supply system for disposition or disposal.
o	Developed and conducted on-the-job and in-service training for over 20 technicians in the division.
o	Maintained, operated, troubleshot, and repaired numerous radar and navigation systems.
o	Served as Electronic Systems Supervisor (ESS) and Combat Systems Officer of the Watch (CSOOW)-Under Instruction.

Electronics Technician

Center for Surface Combat Systems
•	Instructor for the AN/URN-25 and AN/SPS-67 (V) 1/3 courses
o	Contributor to the team that introduced the Lockheed Martin Canada AN/URN-25 VISTA (Visual Interactive Simulation Training Application) simulator into the Navy. Duties on this project included writing point papers and taking signals and data from equipment test points for insertion into the simulation.
o	Trained U. S. Navy, U. S. Coast Guard, and Spanish Navy students in the classroom and simulated shipboard and shore-based environments.
o	Maintained, troubleshot, and repaired classroom navigation and radar systems.
•	Course Supervisor of the AN/SPS-67 (V) 1/3 course
o	Oversaw 4 instructors and trained and evaluated new instructors.
o	Updated and maintained course curriculum and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
o	Developed the apprentice, journeyman, and master skills listing for the AN/SPS-67(V)3 radar technician for use by NKO (Navy Knowledge Online).

USS Carney (DDG 64)
•	Radar and Navigation Technician
o	Maintained, operated, troubleshot, and repaired numerous radar and navigation systems.
o	Qualified as Electronic Systems Supervisor (ESS) and Combat Systems Officer of the Watch (CSOOW).
o	Served as Assistant Work Center Supervisor.
o	Material Maintenance Management (3M) qualified up to Division Officer.
o	Used Gold Disk to troubleshoot subsystems, circuit cards and components from equipment throughout the ship.

Systems Engineer | Systems Thinker | Strategic Thinker | Maintenance | Training | Leadership | Supervision | Management | Problem Solving | Continuous Improvement | Lifelong Learning | U.S. Navy Veteran

I possess a unique combination of U. S. Navy Electronics Technician experience (including Maintenance, Training, Supervision, Leadership, and  Management), Physics/Mathematics and Systems Engineering education, and Test Engineering (including prodedure writing, reviewing, and performing) experience. 

I demonstrate a systems thinking approach to troubleshooting with attention to detail when analyzing and resolving complex problems to successful conclusion.

I have proven technical writing and documentation capabilities. I am capable of visualizing and implementing solutions. I have previously possessed Secret (U.S. Navy) and Confidential (Newport News Shipbuilding) security clearances.

Gallup/Clifton Strengthsfinder (TM) Signature Themes
   *Learner
   *Achiever
   *Focus
   *Deliberative
   *Intellection

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