Businesses
From my first job in sales to owning a bar to my first technology company, where, in 1985, I won Georgia's FastTec 50 award, I've always been fascinated by the challenges of business. My two current projects, TapToReport and GetToKnowMe, both feed my two greatest passions: keeping people safe and helping people find healthy romantic relationships. You can learn more about each project below.
TapToReport
TapToReport Imagine an app that gives teachers a one-button call for help or can send an alert to place a school on lockdown. When minutes matter, getting notifications out as fast as humanly possible saves lives. When a police department in South Florida first approached me with this idea, they came at it based on their needs in covering a shopping mall. Their problem was that gangs of marauders would...
GetToKnowMe
GetToKnowMe After some time consulting with several of the big dating app companies, I realized a couple of things: They really don't want you to find a match. Your staying single is profitable for them. Mind you, they do want you to be hopeful because hope is what keeps you coming back. When we're dating, we all tend to miss or dismiss those red flags. Heck, if we're young, we may not even recognize...
Carezle
Carezle! Carezle is a product idea that sprang up partially during COVID and later refined by a group of my "elderly" friends. Currently, the product is in exploratory development. What does that mean, you ask? Well, every product needs a core set of features, so the question is, given the current state of technology, do we have the tools needed to implement those features? Some features are quite...