About Me
Hello, my name is Kennedy. I am a entrepreneur at heart, a lead UX strategist by day, and a hacker on the weekends. My focus is UX design and front-end development for web, tablet & mobile applications. I live in the worlds largest small town in this crazy place called New York City with my wife Sara and two morbidly obese cats. When I am not being a geek I enjoy surfing, swimming, longboard skateboarding, and traveling. Fun Facts: I stand tall at 5' 18" and I am ambidextrous.
Events & Hackathons
I attend a lot of tech events, mostly here in NYC. You can often find me at Hacker Townhall, Hackers and Founders, Creative Mornings and NY Tech Meetup. I also work part time for 48 Hours Apps, a Root member for Hacker Union (fka NYHacker), and help lead the front-end development for StartupBus.
Here is a list of other events and hackathons that I have attended.
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Reinvent Local (November 2011)
Designed the overall look of the project for our team Midpoint. Spent most of my time hacking away in the terminal on the xml.
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Photo Hack Day (August 2011)
Designed the overall look of the project for our team Voronoi Diacam. I won the food eating contest and the team won best use of Flickr's API.
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TimesOpen - HTML5 and Beyond (August 2011)
I had a front seat to listen to in-depth talks about HTML5 and related technologies. The speakers included Pete LePage, Jeremy Ashkenas & David Padbury.
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NYC Intel AppUp Application Labs (August 2011)
Learned a lot about MeeGo OS and the Intel AppUp Store. Dissuced with a few friends and hope to have a MeeGo based project in the works.
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Google's HTML5 Web App Hackathon (August 2011)
Designed the logo and layout for our team Transit Trainer.
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TechCrunch Disrupt Conference (May 2011)
It was nice to see a lot of highly respect individuals such as Tony Conrad, Ron Conway, Dennis Crowley, Paul Graham, Scott Harrison, Arianna Huffington, and much more.
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TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon (May 2011)
Designed the logo and Android UI for our team My CRM in New York City.
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TechCrunched (April 2011)
I have always looked up to TechCrunch and always wanted to be apart of it somehow. I never thought I would be on the front page.
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Hack of the Mont (April 2011)
We where honored to be Hack Of The Month at NY Tech Meetup for our impressive technical achievements for Lemonade Stand. Check out the video of us on stage in front of over 770+ people for Hack of the Month.
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Forrst Podcast (April 2011)
I was a guest on the show, I also talked a little about the StartupBus and some projects that I have been working on.
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eBay Hangover Party and Speed Hack at SXSW (March 2011)
We intergrated eBay's API in the newly created Lemonade Stand app for Android. We took home some pocket change for our hack.
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Startup Bus (March 2011)
Designed the logo and both Android & iPhone UI for our team Lemonade Stand while on a bus traveling from New York City to Austin, TX. All the hard worked help the team reach the semifinals, finishing in the top 12 of 38 teams. Fun Note, I was so excited I did not take my first nap until I hit 50 hours, I was nicked named "The Machine."
The History
The original Kennedy’s Garage was open by my grandfather Theron Kennedy, in Lake of the Ozark, Missouri on February 29th, 1941. Granted 1941 was a different time and the business was building cars, nothing has changed as far as working hard. The key to his success was the relationships that he developed with his customers and the community.
Today I still value those traditions and enjoy the old fashion handshake. The original Kennedy’s Garage was shut down after the passing of Theron. I later reopened the name and wanted to keep the same values of my grandfather. Since then the family has moved away from building cars, we still have a deep passion for them, but now I build amazing ideas surrounding the internet.
