Portfolio

Here’s a small selection of the things I’ve been working on recently :) PitchFriendly Designed and built a press list sharing and management tool using Rails and Javascript used by PR teams. Lists can be imported from CSV or Excel files. Scraped articles from thousands of publications into Elasticsearch using Python. Detected reporter name and categories using scraping tools and NLTK. Built classifiers and used several other methods to quantify how much reporter will like a pitch. ...

October 17, 2022 · 2 min · Paul

Privacy Policy

Nextmarvel Match Game apps collect information about app usage and error reports only. None of this information is personally identifiable. The app behavior is not tailored in any way based on the information collected. The information collected is used only to fix bugs and to understand how users are interacting with the app in order to improve the app for everyone. No advertising is employed in any Nextmarvel Match Game app. ...

September 24, 2013 · 1 min · Paul

Jungle Match

A match game for iPhone and iPad that features real photos of jungle animals. Screenshot Attributions The following images were used in some form during the development of this game and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Not all of them made it into the final version of the app. Jaguar flickr.com/photos/chesterzoo/3618953409/ flickr.com/photos/chesterzoo/3611274764/ Cougar flickr.com/photos/harlequeen/2975144846/ flickr.com/photos/fritzmb/4722592373/ Leopard flickr.com/photos/npmeijer/5665472571/ flickr.com/photos/mdu2boy/5719894526/ flickr.com/photos/mdu2boy/5719894396/ Tiger flickr.com/photos/mkengstrom/77367321/ flickr.com/photos/kevenlaw/2955709886/ Crocodile flickr.com/photos/luc/393899755/ flickr.com/photos/crafterm/39166019/ flickr.com/photos/davidgardinergarcia/49766540/ ...

September 11, 2013 · 1 min · Paul

Ocean Match

A match game for iPhone and iPad that features real photos of ocean animals. View in the app store - $0.99 Screenshot Attributions The following images were used in some form during the development of this game and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Not all of them made it into the final version of the app. http://www.flickr.com/photos/puuikibeach/5869036092/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/42507736@N02/5435112145/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/stacyblackman/4226091646/sizes/z/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/1607007790/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulspace/3337667204/sizes/o/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketboom/2813643265/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigdog3c/2270000185/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/497530163/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/marufish/2681472468/sizes/o/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sackton/6030829727/sizes/l/in/photostream/ ...

September 11, 2013 · 1 min · Paul

About

I live and work in beautiful Cary, North Carolina. Since we moved in Summer 2016 my kids and I have enjoyed exploring Raleigh and Durham. I built PitchFriendly with Joel Andren in October 2013 to help startups manage their own PR. As PressFriendly it launched in February 2014 with a system that uses machine learning to decide which reporters should be pitched for a particular story. Since then the software has shifted into helping PR reps be more organized and efficient. ...

July 9, 2013 · 1 min · Paul