YL Group LLC

Chief Technologist

Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs

Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs (HAE) is dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship, the promotion of innovation, and the ideals of leadership and learning. We are a 501(c)3, volunteer-run, Shared Interest Group of the Harvard Alumni Association. Since our beginning, HAE has served as a meeting place for entrepreneurial Harvard alumni, students, faculty and staff.

Board Member

FAU Tech Runway

Mentoring start-ups in FAU's Tech Runway program (start-up incubator)

Start-up Business Mentor

Nourish And Bloom Market

I oversaw the development and dissemination of technology within automated grocery stores and containers for external customers and fostered relationships with teams of contractors and third-party vendors.

Chief Technology Officer

Wasted, llc

Wasted was a B2B marketplace solution connecting businesses with waste haulers to reduce environmental impact of industrial materials over supply.

Co-Founder

Krupnick Campbell Malone

Krupnick Campbell is one of the preeminent litigation firms in South Florida.  Its attorneys represent businesses and individuals suffering from various types of damages.  In 2010 Krupnick Campbell made a strategic decision to represent clients who lost revenue and wages as a result of the BP Oil Spill.  I was promoted to be the Program Director of the firm's BP Oil Spill litigation representing over 1200+ clients.

Program Director

Hagen & Hagen, P.A.

A boutique law firm operating as a general law practice offering legal services in a variety of fields, including real estate, corporate and business relations, bankruptcy, tort claims and commercial litigation.

Associate Attorney

m-Qube

Mobile channel enabler that developed, delivered, and billed for mobile content, messaging, and applications in the US.  Purchased by VeriSign for $250M in 2006.

Consultant

Bayon Technologies, Inc.

Boutique digital marketing startup focused on user experience and leveraging multiple platforms to suit client needs.

Website Analyst

Harvard University Health Services

Multi-specialty medical practice dedicated to caring for members of the Harvard community — students, faculty, staff, retirees, and their dependents.

Business Operations Analyst & Contract Administrator

Purveyor of Possibilities. Strategic Advisor. Technologist. Builder. Dot Connector ⚫️-🔵-🔴-⚪️

Innovative problem-solving professional with progressive experiences in scale-up and startup ventures.  
Excels in establishing performance management processes and optimizing resources—human and otherwise.  Skilled in contract review and application, analytical, and creative solution-based, team leadership.

Jason W.

FarmdOut

FarmdOut introduces the power of location intelligence and geospatial data to democratize food security. FarmdOut is an agritech startup solving the real problem of agriculture ecology, farmer burnout, food deserts, and next gen farmer attraction.

Founder

Medium

(SOURCE: FOOD EMPOWERMENT PROJECT) Food deserts can be described as geographic areas where residents’ access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or nonexistent due to the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance.  According to a report prepared for Congress by the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, about 2.3 million people (or 2.2 percent of all US households) live more than one mile away from a supermarket and do not own a car. [1] In urban areas, access to public transportation may help residents overcome the difficulties posed by distance, but economic forces have driven grocery stores out of many cities in recent years, making them so few and far between that an individual’s food shopping trip may require taking several buses or trains. In suburban and rural areas, public transportation is either very limited or unavailable, with supermarkets often many miles away from people’s homes. 

About me: I grew up in the grocery store business - we owned Bodegas.  For further historic information, my grandmother was the first woman to open the first grocery store in Garrochales, Barceloneta, Puerto Rico in the 1940's. My Father opened his first grocery store in 1962 at 1500 N. Paulina in Chicago, Illinois. My brother and I opened our first store in 1993 at 2738 W. North Ave., in Chicago, Illinois and continued to open other stores throughout Chicago.  Each of our locations were considered to be located in a food desert.  My goal with these interviews is to create the connection between food deserts and food insecurity.  To expose the champions in this fight and to further define food deserts, food mirages and food swamps.

Medium Contributing Writer and Interviewer - Food Deserts/ Food Insecurity Series

In this innovative, futuristic, and totally rad concept, I get to play in a space that is near and dear to my heart - Grocery-tech Or tech-grocery! Whatever way you say it, Nourish + Bloom Market has created the first black-owned frictionless grocery store to be set up in Fayetteville, Georgia in the Trillith area - store number 1, that is!  

My role is Angel investor, technology and innovation. 

If you want to ask us how we got started - reach out, because we want to share the story of Nourish + Bloom, promote our partners, and increase the opportunity of ownership in the future of grocery.

CBO and Angel Investor  - Innovation and Technology  (Town of Trillith -  Fayettville, Georgia)

Winner Partners

My passion is to make an impact in peoples lives. I enjoy discovering talent and coaching people to achieve their potential.  My formula for creating success in hiring diverse emerging and executive talent consists of the following best practices:

- Partner with top executives to define vision, strategy, and direction.  Devise initiatives that align strategic priorities to engage stakeholders, cultivate inclusive mindsets, and drive business outcomes. 

- Be an adaptive leader focused on people development and supporting business transformation through applied understanding of team dynamics and stakeholder complexities. 

- Leverage expertise and relationships to connect diverse talent pools through data driven recruitment and communications strategies.

- Develop actionable insights to inform diversity and talent acquisition use cases, and decision making,

- Cultivate opportunities to learn through appreciative inquiry, respect for others and the resilience to learn from and respect differences.

Partner, Technology and Inclusion Strategy 

Allen Associates LLC

20 years of Diversity Consulting experience helping clients build a Diversity & Inclusion Recruiting strategy that defines goals, accountabilities, action items and success measures for attracting, engaging, assessing, and hiring of diverse talent.

Inclusion Specialist

NBCUniversal Media, LLC

Hired as a contractor to support the full service internal Executive Search agency at NBC Universal across the entire portfolio of businesses, including Digital to Consumer, Sky, OTT, and corporate functions.

My focus is on recruiting SVP to C-level in data sciences and advanced analytics, digital technology, Enterprise technology, and software development.

Senior Executive Search Lead - CONTRACT

DHR International

Specialty: Diversity, Technology, Innovation and Economic Development

Partner, Diversity and Economic Development (JOBPLEX)

Talent Solution Partners

Talent Solution Partners is a boutique Executive Search firm with best in class global network, contacts and market mastery, specializing in the placement of professionals and Executives in senior level to C-level roles in the Beauty, Pharmaceutical and Retail Industry.

Diversity and Technology

iWeev

Recruiting Technology startup using matching algorithm to access early stage candidate identification and talent mapping.  Built affordable job boards, offered full design and implementation, partnership strategies and tactics including branding and customer experience consulting.

 Professional Diversity Network

Job board offering partners and corporate clients a streamlined approach to candidate identification and selection.  As part of the founding team, I led strategic Partnership engagement and product design, development and implementation streamlined to serve the business objectives and opportunities of many of the leading U.S. Hispanic membership organizations. Partnerships included the National Society of Hispanic MBA's (Prospanica), the National Hispanic Business Association and Telemundo Television that were integrated into a, single source, one stop shop, online career site powered by iHispano's technology.

Co-Founder iHispano.com now PDN

I am a connector, a career coach, a master networker, a startup junkie, and a geek.  I am full of ideas and research, an entrepreneur, an inventor, a startup investor and advisor, a mentor and on occasion I advise corporate leadership teams on recruiting strategy and design to maximize diverse talent pipelines.

I would further describe myself as resourceful and relentless in the pursuit of building sustainable and effective diversity recruiting strategies and optimizing opportunities for workforce innovation.

I’m passionate about helping people get out of their own way. Through Executive Search, I can help companies understand their hiring responsibility and engage communities in understanding the potential and power of being hired, but my passion lies in Diversity and Inclusion and holding us all accountable for more than just our numbers.  

I am and will always be an entrepreneur. These days, I get the privilege of also being an Angel Investor and startup advisor.

I am forever tinkering. So ask me what I’m working on these days.  I will share my network, so ask me to connect you. If you have ideas but don’t know how to move forward on them - ask me for help. #weareinthistogether

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