Personal Projects

HID SIPS is an innovative product design and manufacturing company with one mission in mind; to hydrate better.

HID SIPS first product, the HydraLamp™, helps customers never wake up without water again. HydraLamp is an elegant and modern table lamp with discreet features that allow the user to store, chill, filter, and dispense water conveniently with the push of a button. 

I founded the company as a solo venture and procured a patent pending on the product and created an MVP. Since then, I've strategically contracted partners to assist in furthering the design and brought on founders for sweat equity. In it's young lifetime, HID SIPS has generated facilitated a six-figure valuation in the first round of funding,  raised nearly $20k via Kickstarter, and generated over $50,000 lifetime

Lady Bird Lake Rentals is a small watercraft recreational rental company based out of Austin, TX. I co-founded the business in February, 2021 with nothing more than a 14 ft jon boat. We re-invested profits from renting the boat to grow a fleet of paddleboards and procure a custom trailer to transport and store the boards effectively. As a company we added multiple revenue streams by leasing the boards to instructors who wished to use them for their paddleboard yoga, fitness, meditation, and pilates classes. One of my biggest accomplishments with the business was securing a partnership with the largest yoga studio chain in Texas, various meditation studios, and a paddleboard instruction certification school. Additionally, I partnered the business with various private residences that bordered the local lakes, and various pools where paddleboards can be used for classes. 

I exited the business in July of 2022 with my partner by selling it to a private investment group for a profit.