Jan 2026 – Present · 2 mos · United Arab Emirates · Remote

• Collaborate with global leaders across various sectors, including commerce and finance, to shape innovative strategies.
• Provide insights as a futurist and tech influencer to address the challenges posed by rapid technological advancements.
• Engage in policy discussions to contribute to potential solutions that benefit society and industry alike.

Jan 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Hybrid

• I’m a Growth & GTM Strategist on Uptales, where I work 1:1 with founders, creators, and product teams to clarify positioning, sharpen go-to-market bets, and move ideas into market with speed and confidence.
• Uptales is where I bring focused, hands-on strategy sessions designed to cut through noise and drive real execution.

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Aug 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chicago, Illinois, United States

• As a cofounding executive at LovingIs… A.I. I have been part of the vision, architecture, and launch of our product, the world’s first A.I. trained with love at its core (heart).
• A fine-tuned engineer that serves as an inference layer with ILM (individual language models), HITL (human-in-the-loop) outcomes, test-time compute, process-based-rewards and more, we are humanizing the experience and eliminating the need for human users to learn the various tools, manners or prompting etc.
• Our goal is to overcome fear of the technology with loving technology. We aspire to help onboard the next 250M to safely and effortlessly to A.I. enthusiasts.

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Remote · Remote

• Early tester of Google DeepMind Gemini Diffusion for several research programs. Trusted Tester Program early adopter.

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Cincinnati Metropolitan Area · Remote

• WeJ came to me as a download to marry blockchain and generative AI to “read the room” in public places to play music people who are actually there actually want to hear, and was fortunate enough to assemble to perfect cofounding team, who challenged my premise that it should be a tech platform and helped us pivot to building a community for DJ (and producers and musicians) to leverage and learn new technologies to earn more, “work less”, play more (and harder) and to finally own their industry using blockchain and AI.

Dec 2023 – Nov 2024 · 11 mos · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Hybrid

• After serving on the Board of Directors at World Game Changers for some time and learning how powerful their work and team are, completely buying into the vision and initiatives, and deeply understanding how emergent technologies can help the organization further our commitments and humanitarian work, I humbly accepted the appointment to President, and sought to continue the incredible and much needed work this organization has been facilitating for years.

Oct 2023 – Apr 2024 · 6 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Hybrid

• I was co-creator and editor-in-chief at AI Logs weekly AI newsletter, as well as CES correspondent. Interesting Engineering is an online media company with tens of millions of followers across every platform, including several million here on LinkedIn. I helped raise awareness about engineering feats, engineers, new technologies, and are in a mission to make the world a better place.

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

• We are solving for decentralized ownership and custody of individuals’ data, privacy and reputation on the blockchain: YOUR INFORMATION, YOU’RE IN CONTROL. Our NFT marketplace and minting engine, snifty.io is doing things “the right way” as we seek to make the world a better place for us each, and us all!

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Remote

• Lattitude is an employee engagement, retention, and superior communication tool helping companies from corporates to startups with retention, productivity, and more. Lattitude is a tech-empowered platform and framework that is unlike anything I’ve seen on the market, and something I’d needed many times in my career. Learn what a “personal board of directors” and Lattitude can do for your organization.

Jan 2023 – Nov 2023 · 10 mos · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Remote

• Uppey is an amazing platform connecting experts and thought leaders with companies and organizations to learn specific knowledge. I am the resident ChatGPT expert and enjoy teaching companies from around the globe in a plethora of industries how to use, leverage, and position themselves for success with the phenomenon that is ChatGPT by OpenAI.

Oct 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Serving the underserved youth in communities that need it the most. Changing lives through sports, sportsmanship, mentorship and more, I am proud to serve on a diverse board of visionary philanthropists and leaders I admire and respect greatly.

Oct 2022 – Dec 2022 · 2 mos · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• We are building the next wave of technology, addressing fundamental problems in software and replacing the old framework with the new and patented concept of wantware instead. Carbon neutral. Intuitive. Being adopted by several of the largest companies in the world already and getting ready for mass adoption.
• I personally had my mind blown by the founders and team, and especially the tech. This technology will change the way humans live life, and for the better. Security, creativity, ownership, entertainment, freedom — it’s all been redesigned with YOU in mine. Learn more at https://mindaptiv.com

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · Hybrid

• DCRBN and DCRBN Labs is a carbon-neutral web3 launchpad and venture studio helping build, scale, fund, ISO certify and incubate blockchain and A.I. based projects with amazing founders, potential, opportunity, and differentiation.
• Cofounder as we as partner and portfolio company myself, I help build product, GTM and GTF (get to fundable) strategies, viral growth hacking and more.

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Featured at 2025 Oracle AI World and backed by Oracle, AWS and NVIDIA, Phyll is digital intelligence for the physical word. We make sense of all the data the surrounds us all all the time, so that it can lead to actionable insights that power actual action.

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Global

• Contributing as a thought leader, visionary and strategist in education in and implementation of technologies in web3, blockchain, DAOs, NFTs, decentralization, mining and data privacy.

Nov 2021 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Indiana, United States

• Helping democratize fundraising and taking it from two small coasts to the entire world! Tech meets vision meets strategy meets innovation. There may be an occasional Silicon Valley (on HBO) reference or two too!

Aug 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Nairobi County, Kenya · Hybrid

• GYF has been helping uplift the youth of Kenya and throughout Africa for years, with our Football4Peace and other initiatives to teach youth transferable skills and then help them use them to gain employment. It has been incredible seeing the lives this is impacting and the change this organization effectuates.

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

• Founder, host of podcast, namesake, & chairman at #Coryconnects - the forward thinking tech-forward organization helping many thousands worldwide upskill, get placed into amazing new roles & opportunities, and to best leverage social media to network & get ahead in this world. #Coryconnects people, opportunities & ideas for the greater good! https://coryconnects.tech.

Jan 2020 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• AMA

Nov 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• ShedWool has helped revolutionize the way businesses in over a dozen industries connect their employees to each other and their work schedules through our customizable web and mobile apps. I came up with the idea to solve a pain point, and out of a void I experienced as a 20-year restaurant veteran. By assembling a team of brilliant engineers, developers, and business specialists, we launched ShedWool cross platform at the beginning of 2017. 5K downloads later, we have published 250K shifts, and saved hundreds of companies thousands of hours and dollars. My team is always available for customer support, and we proudly offer customized free trials to all, and free services to nonprofits. 4.7 stars on Capterra, the App Store and Google Play - find out how #ShedWool can help your team today at www.shedwool.com.

Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos · Chicago, Illinois

• 3X “Mentor In Excellence” (2019, 2020, 2024); Chicago. I assist founders in refining their pitch/decks, business models and go-to-market strategies while facilitating high-level introductions and teaching them how to leverage social-media to bootstrap their ventures in addition to helping them launch products and raise capital.

Oct 2010 – Feb 2017 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Greater Chicago Area