jkurtak

- Raised $140,000 USD for Edition Zero of Invisible Garden in Chiang Mai, Thailand. - Outreached, pitched, and onboarded eight sponsors including Push Protocol, Polygon, Chainlink, Brevis, Orbiter, Nethermind, ZKM, and AltLayer. - Secured $35,000 from the Zuzalu Gitcoin and the Ethereum Foundation Community Grant rounds. - Scouted and validated coworking location for our partner pop-up-city Shanhaiwoo. - Scouted, negotiated and secured local accommodations for 65 builders. - Established and executed general operations for the event (admissions, payroll, legal, getting beer for our/others parties!).

- Onboarded as CEO to a pre-founded GameFi project aiming to gamify DAO communities on Discord and Telegram. Pivoted project to use on- chain AI to transform existing NFTs into Tamagotchi-style pets for various co-op minigames (allowing communities to play as their NFTs, participate in "DAO voting through combat" and more). - Raised $500k "pledged capital" from two angel investors as well as securing strategic partnerships with five NFT communities in the space. - Closed the project due to time commitment issues from other founders (whom simply had other projects/responsibilities).

- Advised Hamza/Loadpipe protocol as well as several NDA projects based in the USA, Europe and Asia. - Ghost-wrote three whitepapers and drafted two tokenomic designs for aforementioned projects. - Connected several Angel investment friends with each other as well as several founders within the space.

- Failed as a founder. Learned many valuable lessons, established an expansive SEA/blockchain personal network, understood/navigated different cultural norms, and developed a holistic understanding for the industry and its players. - Lead a four person team to create/audit an Ethereum based smart contract called TuffToken which tokenized/automated under-utilized DAO treasuries. - Oversaw legal entity formation/upkeep and bootstrapped $315k from personal, private and grant sectors (Uniswap). - Managed stakeholder communications, company finances, hiring, vendor contracting, and legal communications while representing our company abroad.

- Built and beta launched a Web 2 indie action platformer game on Steam as a small four person team - Headed level design & served as support programmer, working in Unreal Engine 5 - Hired/instructed external contractors for art asset and multiplayer script generation.

- On-boarded as a full-stack developer in July 2018 for State-government ADA accessibility work. - OCA SE8 Java Certified - Capable of understanding/simplifying "dev talk" into business oriented language and concepts.