David Shaheen

ClickUp Client Intake Process

As Operations Manager at a financial firm, I built out their client intake process in ClickUp. I performed the following actions:

• Outlined detailed instructions (including Loom videos) for VA to accomplish tasks
• Automated contract creation using Google Sheets script to merge data, saving 5-10 mins per submission
• Designed systematic proposal and followup process

When God Wrecks Your Romance

As Project Manager for this independent book launch, I performed the following actions:

• Managed successful Kickstarter campaign, raising over $12k
• Created author contract after consulting with legal team
• Produced book trailer
• Coordinated with content/line editors, proofreaders, and typesetter on 53,000 word manuscript
• Oversaw photography and graphic design
• Secured vocal coaching & studio
• Distributed book in 3 formats worldwide

My Life Was Calmer Without You

As Executive Producer for this song and lyric video, I performed the following actions:

• Coordinated with international producer and local audio engineer
• Negotiated graphic artist contract
• Relayed artistic vision from artist to animator
• Distributed song and lyric video worldwide
• Registered song with publishing admin

Book Review App

This is a CRUD app that allows users to submit and manage book reviews. The application uses PostgreSQL for data persistence and features sorting, star ratings, and dynamic book cover fetching from the Open Library API.

As developer and product manager for this app, I built the following features:

• Submit new book reviews with title, author, ISBN, and personal rating
• Edit or delete reviews
• Line break support in reviews
• Responsive design
• Dynamic book cover images fetched using Open Library API
• Star ratings for each review
• Character count for review input (max 1000 characters)

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Weather App

This is a weather application that fetches and displays a 5-day forecast for any U.S. zip code using the OpenWeatherMap API. It includes responsive styling and dynamic icon rendering based on weather conditions.

As developer and product manager for this app, I built the following features:

• Search weather by U.S. zip code
• Toggle between Fahrenheit and Celsius units
• 5-day forecast including high/low temps, conditions, and weather icons
• Responsive design for desktop and mobile
• Modular Express routing with EJS templating

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Personal Blog App

This is a fully functional blog application built with Express.js and EJS. It allows users to create, view, edit, and delete posts, with a mobile-friendly interface and thoughtful UX enhancements like line break preservation and clean post previews.

As developer and product manager for this app, I built the following features:

• Create, view, edit, and delete blog posts (full CRUD functionality)
• Responsive Bootstrap-based design with custom CSS tweaks
• Preserves user-submitted line breaks in blog content
• Clean homepage layout showing only blog titles and dates as links
• Modular Express architecture using EJS templating

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