Tag Fantasy Sports

Experience

Chief Fantasy Sports Officer at The Post Sports Bar & Grill

2018 – 2022

Product Development · Fantasy Sports · Application Development · Entrepreneurship

Blog Posts

The Picks Project: Building an NFL Pick'em Platform from ScratchOct 2025

How I built a full-stack NFL pick'em platform from scratch to learn the modern JavaScript stack — my first project delivered 100% solo, now at 150+ users.

Highlights

Hosted Fantasy Football Draft for the San Diego Padres2017

Client Event·End of Regulation Studios·St. Louis, MO

Hosted a live fantasy football draft experience for the San Diego Padres organization in 2017 through theDraftNight app — one of the standout real-world activations of the platform.

theDraftNight Reaches #22 in U.S. App Store SportsAug 2017

Milestone·End of Regulation Studios

During the height of fantasy football season, theDraftNight climbed to #22 in the paid apps category under Sports in the U.S. Apple App Store. Watching a product I built from scratch rank nationally in real time was one of those validating moments you don't forget.

Landed First Major Partnership: The Post Sports Bar & GrillJan 2016

Milestone·End of Regulation Studios

Secured an initial $35,000 advertising partnership with The Post Sports Bar & Grill — billed as the world's first fantasy sports bar, with two St. Louis locations at the time. This was the first real external validation of theDraftNight as a business, giving us a physical venue and a committed partner. We went on to host 300–400 live fantasy drafts together, and the app was eventually sold to The Post. A second $30,000 investment followed roughly a year later.