Creative & Entrepreneurship
Kesper Design
2020-Present
Since 2020 I've been running my own graphic design business primarily through my Instagram page, @kesperdesign. I've created over 500 designs for high school athletes committing to college, graphics for sports teams and organizations, and logos and YouTube thumbnails. I have been managing order requests, communicating with clients, and creating designs every day since 2020.
Digital Template Shop
Spring 2023-Present
I design and sell Canva and Photoshop templates on Etsy and my official website for teams to use as basic social media graphics. These include schedules, player spotlights, Gameday announcements, tryouts/event flyers, and other necessary promotional posts. Since starting my store in Spring 2023, I've become a top seller in the sports graphics niche, increased monthly revenue by 400% since August 2023, and sold to over 2000 teams.
GivNGo (Founder)
Summer 2024
After learning React early in Summer 2024, I spent the final two months using my skills to develop a free resource library for sports graphic designers called GivNGo. I conducted user interviews with designers to find their pain points, and launched the website at the end of August 2024. Coding the entire website from scratch, I learned Firebase (Firestore, Analytics, Databases), authenticating and signing up users, data fetching and filtering through an API, and UX/UI design techniques.
Pixar Rebrand Project
Fall 2024
To learn Adobe Illustrator and Figma, I created a modern rebrand for Pixar, designing a bold, tech-inspired logo and redesigning their website. This passion project let me explore my love for storytelling and design while learning new skills in branding, typography, and UX/UI design. I wanted to give Pixar a fresh, updated look that still captures its playful spirit.
Big Red Sports Network
Fall 2023-Present
I joined Cornell's Big Red Sports Network fall of 2023, doing graphic design for their following on Instagram and X. I did designs for sports such as football, hockey, basketball, field hockey, and wrestling, and loved working with other Cornell students passionate about creative sports media.
Big 4 HHH Lacrosse Club Rebrand
March 2024
I dove into branding, logo design, merchandise design and social media content with this rebrand project for a Philadephia Club Lacrosse Team.
After Effects Video Edits
Summer 2023-Present
To get comfortable with Adobe After Effects, I pulled clips from my favorite action movies and edited them to music during Summer 2023. I learned the basics of keyframes, time markers, transitions, and combining multiple clips into one composition. I also created a short edit for FCA Maryland Lacrosse using similar techniques, and learned to animate my Photoshop graphics through a Cornell BRSN New Years video.
Technical Projects
ReUse Ithaca App Design/Development
Spring 2025
While on the Software Development team at Engineers Without Borders, I helped design and build a mobile app for managing donations and inventory. I created the full UX/UI in Figma, then learned React Native to implement key components. Our team followed a ticket-based workflow with weekly meetings to align on progress and design consistency.
Web-App Sensor Data Visualization Tool
Spring 2025
For my Ubiquitous Computing course, I led a semester-long project to build an open-source, browser-based web app for real-time sensor data visualization. I contributed to the full stack using p5.js, Node.js, and Python to stream data from Arduino-compatible sensors via Bluetooth, WiFi, or Serial. The tool is designed to help Ubicomp researchers rapidly prototype and analyze sensor input without any setup or coding required.
Jean Catalog Website
Spring 2024
For my Design and Programming for the Web class, I created an interactive, data-driven site via PHP and the MYSQL database for a jean shop in a two-person team. I learned to process HTTP requests, dynamically render HTML, populate and store web content in a relational database using SQL, and securely implement login/logout sessions through server-side scripting.
An Analysis on Flight Delays and Cancellations
Spring 2024
To answer questions and create predictions for flight delays in the US, I worked with three other group members to create a report from Kaggle's "Flight Delays and Cancellations" dataset. I worked with Tableau and SQL to create initial visualizations such as average delays for each airline, and the breakdown of delay type and cause. I then performed linear regression and forecasting in Python to create a model for delay minutes based on when flights depart.
Backend Development for AppHub
November 2023
I worked on the backend for a college club application app called AppHub. Using what I learned in Intro to Backend Development, I worked on a team of two Backend Developers, two IOS Developers, and one Product Designer to develop the app start to finish. I had to plan the SQL schema, code the Backend of the app in Python, design the Postman requests for the IOS Developers, and work with our designer to create a seamless user interface.