· Overview

· Origin story

· Scious is born

· The process

Presentation goals

1. Communicate my skill set

2. Get connected

· Overview

· Origin story

· Scious is born

· The process

Services

• Market analysis

• Lead generation + marketing

• Real time dashboards

• Algorithm design

• Data collection and analysis

• Digital + physical prototyping

· Overview

· Origin story

· Scious is born

· The process

ANDREW

AGOSTINI

· Overview

· Origin story

· Scious is born

· The process

When I was younger

• Very curious + independent

• In Scouts for 16 years - became an Eagle Scout

• $40k scholarship to Bradley University

• Competed on Battle Bots

• Graduated as Mechanical Engineer

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· Origin story

· Scious is born

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... I built

• Remote control flame thrower

• Rube Goldberg machines

• Wooden race cars (shoe box sized)

• Wooden race carts (human sized)

• Firecracker powered mini canon

• Firework bazooka

• RC boats (miniature Spirit of Peoria)

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· Origin story

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... and a wind turbine

• Few mechanical engineers in my class embraced programming

• Practiced a winning design process: Research, Prototype, Test, Improve, Repeat

• My design was 100% more efficient

• My design cycle was 100% faster

• Don't be afraid to bend (break) the rules

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· Origin story

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AutonomouStuff

• Started in 2013

• Employee #7

• Engineer #1

• Created process to reduce wire harness fabrication time by 33%

• Seamlessly integrated our sensor offering into Polaris off road vehicle

• Did not sleep

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AutonomouStuff

• Solely Managed a $30k project for the DARPA Robotics Challenge

• Courted customer

• Managed time & budget

• Designed restraint

• Established + worked with suppliers

• Integrated fail safe system.

"We made those points because of AutonomouStuff"

Velin Dimitrov, WPI Team Captain

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Caterpillar

• Automated software maintenance tasks for Caterpillar’s MineStar system
• Reduced core task run time by at least 91%
• Redesigned a validation tool reducing its part count by 47% (i.e. 49 to 26 parts)

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· Origin story

· Scious is born

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The struggle

• Worked on really cool things at AutonomouStuff but the pay was poor

• Made great money working at Caterpillar but the work wasn't as cool

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Self employment

• Risky but not that risky: worst case I'd be able to rebound from total failure

• Have the freedom to choose projects

• Able to learn on my own terms

• Pay will be poor in the beginning and potentially for a long time

• Payoff will be big

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· Overview

· Origin story

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Services

• Market analysis

• Lead generation + marketing

• Real time dashboards

• Algorithm design

• Data collection and analysis

• Digital + physical prototyping

· Overview

· Origin story

· Scious is born

· The process

Damn Good Research™

• Beach side consultants can't match my level of curiosity + insight (City of Peoria)

• In vivo consulting (Eat & Evolve)

• Read scientific journals

• Go the the library and check out books

• Call on the experts (compression algo)

• Experimentation

• Scripting

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· Origin story

· Scious is born

· The process

Market Analysis

• Aunt Yogi's Kitchen

• Took 8 hours

• Broke the problem down into 12 smaller problems

• Built financial model

Profit - Revenues + Costs + 0 = 0

0 + Revenues + 0  - [(1 + Food_margin) *  Food_cost] = 0

0 + 0 + Costs - Food_cost =  Lease_cost + Labor_cost

0 - Revenues + (Percent_profit + 1) * Costs + 0 = 0

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Lead generation

• CEFCU

• Took 400 hours

• Broke the problem down into 273 smaller problems

• Lots of challenges in collection, and cleaning of data from three government databases

• Challenges with crowdsourcing

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· Origin story

· Scious is born

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Real time dashboards

• TADA Cognitive Solutions

• Took about 40 hours

• Dash Example

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· Scious is born

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Data collection + analysis

• Tradekeeper (internal project)

• 1000 + hours

• Broke the problem down into 816 smaller problems

• Collected and cleaned over 3 million insider trading documents

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· Origin story

· Scious is born

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Digital Prototyping

• Tradekeeper

• Mealfu

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· Scious is born

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Current projects

• City of Peoria: Mapping (this map got me the job, this one helped), Technical Advisory, Vacant Property Reduction, Mail Automation, Eviction Reduction
  

• Mealfu (internal): Logistics and fulfillment software for meal prep businesses. See isochrone
  

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