Sky Mayhew
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Boston - New York City
As an entrepreneur , product manager , and web developer I've had the opportunity to lead a brilliant team, work with outstanding companies, and build products I am passionate about. I code, I sell, I iterate, I love what I do, and I am always looking for a challenge.
Products
Alex & Eli
Re-Imagined the web presence and e-commerce vision for this amazing NYC based women's fashion brand.
marginLeft
A boutique rails consultancy where I had the opportunity to lead a brilliant team and work with some amazing clients.
AccelGolf
Techstars backed and Angel funded startup building tools to help Golfers improve their game and compete with friends. Leveraged mobile and web tech to make traditional rangefinders and scorecards obsolete.
Sky Mayhew
Feel free to contact me anytime about anything. I'm always thrilled to meet new people and discover new possibilities.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence
A few of the awesome companies & startups I've worked with:
Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
Russell Warren
I'm a guy that gets stuff done.
As anybody who follows me on twitter knows, I'm motivated by the mantra #JFDI. I believe in moving fast, taking calculated risks, and putting yourself and your company out there. I live for the excitement of the first 20% of the project and have the drive to push through the final 20% to get products shipped. I believe in perfectionism when it matters, and laziness in the right ways. Most importantly I believe in people and I put my team and my customers first.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
Product: Alex & Eli
Alex & Eli is a fantastic women's fashion brand located in NYC. I was drawn to this company because of their creativity, scrappy nature, and honest focus on quality in everything they do. This is a team that really groks lean startup principles in an industry that has never heard of boot strapping or agile.
I came onboard to help redefine the
e-commerce vision, and launch stage one of their new web presence. What resulted was a fascinating look into the inner workings of the NYC fashion scene and a manufacturing based web-business.
The Deets:
- Redesigned www.alexandeli.com from scratch, handling design, coding, and analytics.
- Proudly launched The Tailor Shop
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Gen. George Patton
Product: marginLeft
marginLeft started as two college students with giant dreams and blossomed into a full service Ruby on Rails consulting firm working with clients spanning industrial and geographic borders.
As CEO For five years I've helped businesses large and small build innovative web solutions and businesses. Our specialty is helping funded startups bridge the gap between prototype and mass market. Our team of brilliant developers have tackled myriad problems in web, mobile, and operational platforms. We've also had tons of fun while doing it.
Some of our accomplishments:
- Awarded Grants from MIT & Libra Foundation
- Built Accessible Educational software used at the University Of Maine
- Profitable since day 1.
- Hosted the Maine Ruby Users Group
Website: www.marginleft.com
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Product: AccelGolf
In late 2007 we new something big was coming. The iPhone had just launched, and the age of the smartphone was on the horizon. We had a hunch early on that GPS would be there, and the app technology would soon make crazy things possible. Believing this, we started developing AccelGolf (formerly mCaddie), a mobile replacement for the golf scorecard, rangefinder, and club house. After an amazing development run we had a social network that integrated with iPhone, Blackberry, and Android mobile applications. The AccelGolf platform was one of the first to market with mobile phone based range-finding, scorecards, and improvement-based statistics.
2009 was a big year; we were awarded the prestigious Maine Technology Institute development award to help fund the company, and were invited to participate in the TechStars Boston Inaugural program. TechStars was a thrilling opportunity that taught me life long lessons about diligence, hard work, and perseverance. We capitalized on TechStars by scaling from 3k to 75k active users and raising over $700k in angel investment.
My Role at AccelGolf
- Co-Founder, Product Manager, QA, Ruby Dev, and everything in between.
- Wrote the Grant Proposal that won us the MTI Dev award for $235k.
- Built a custom Mechanical Turk system for sourcing course maps.
- Was blessed to talk daily with customers and stakeholders and provided amazing support.
