Makai HurstPixel World

Networking Student + Builder

Networking student building practical web tools.

I build practical web experiences, automation tools, and app prototypes across networking, IT, content systems, and small-business workflows.

Networking studentIT systems builderWeb and app developerCreative technologist

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Resume

Education

  • Networking and information systems student focused on practical infrastructure, business systems, and software that solves real workflow problems.
  • Hands-on builder across web apps, iPhone prototypes, dashboards, automation, and interactive UI.

Strengths

  • Turns fuzzy ideas into working prototypes quickly, then improves them through feedback.
  • Comfortable moving between customer-facing presentation, technical implementation, and business operations.
  • Can explain technical work clearly to hiring managers, clients, and non-technical stakeholders.

Current Work

  • Building Site House client websites and internal tooling.
  • Developing Dyo, a media-to-content app concept.
  • Supporting SecureCell outreach for student AI/cybersecurity hackathon and workforce development initiatives.
  • Maintaining public and private experiments across backtesting, eBay automation, and interactive portfolio design.
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Projects

Real work and active builds, written like resume bullets but with action buttons for demos, videos, GitHub links, and case studies as they become public.

Orb Studios logo / commission gallery slot

2019-2021+

Orb Studios

Roblox graphic design company that grew into a broader game studio.

  • Created paid Roblox graphics, game assets, commission work, and studio branding for clients and community projects.
  • Helped ship or support games with large player reach, with legacy proof and portfolio assets to be added.
  • Built early business experience around pricing, delivery, revisions, and creative client communication.
RobloxGraphic DesignGame AssetsStudio Operations

DevForum portfolio and legacy asset archive pending.

Dyo phone demo video slot

Working demo

Dyo

App and website concept that turns daily life media into ready-to-post content.

  • Prototype captures photos or video from everyday moments and explores turning that raw media into edited content.
  • Working phone demo exists; public demo will likely ship first as a video walkthrough.
  • Designed around creator workflow speed: capture, generate, edit, post.
Mobile AppAI ToolingCreator WorkflowPrototype

Screen recording and GitHub link pending.

Backtester dashboard screenshot slot

Public work in progress

Backtester

Backtesting website for futures-focused strategy testing and research workflows.

  • Public website focused on testing and information, not financial advice or trading instruction.
  • Current scope supports regular futures testing while future work explores options and day-trading support.
  • Built as a practical research tool with a clear disclaimer boundary.
Web AppBacktestingData UIResearch Tool

Public URL and screenshots pending.

Campus app screen mockup slot

Prototype

Oakwood Campus ID Prototype

iPhone app prototype imagining what a useful school ID experience could feel like.

  • Started as an app-building experiment and grew into a broader campus-life product idea.
  • Explores how student identity, campus access, and daily school utilities could live in one mobile experience.
  • Helped prove that building iPhone app prototypes can become a repeatable skill.
iOS PrototypeCampus TechStudent Experience

Screenshots or video pending.

Automation dashboard screenshot slot

Private/internal

Self-Hosted eBay Automation Dashboard

Local AutoDS-style dashboard for importing, pricing, tracking, and preparing eBay dropshipping listings.

  • Imports Home Depot product URLs and captures source data through a browser extension when direct scraping is blocked.
  • Calculates eBay pricing using configurable fees, risk buffers, shipping, subscription discounts, minimum profit, competitor pricing, and margin rules.
  • Tracks source refresh needs, price history, profitability, import stats, listing readiness, and orders before any live write workflows are enabled.
  • Built to replace expensive subscription tooling with a controlled local system that can scale toward thousands of monitored products.
AutomationeBayBrowser ExtensionPricing RulesInternal Tool

Private build; sandbox/API and browser-macro listing workflows are planned with live writes gated.

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Experience

Current

Initiative Ambassador

SecureCell

Sponsor and partner outreach for student AI/cybersecurity hackathons and workforce development initiatives.

  • Research target organizations and identify relevant contacts across workforce development, community relations, talent acquisition, and innovation roles.
  • Draft personalized LinkedIn and email outreach while maintaining follow-up records for potential partnership conversations.
  • Escalate warm leads to SecureCell leadership for formal sponsorship or partnership discussions.

Current

Founder / Web Builder

Site House

Website business serving clients with launch-ready sites and practical web systems.

  • Managing two active client projects that cannot be publicly shown until launch.
  • Scope includes client communication, responsive frontend implementation, launch planning, and post-launch maintainability.
  • Public case studies will be added once client permissions and launch timelines allow.

2021-2022

Operations / Shipping / Store Systems

eBay Store

Shipping and store operations business with more than $90,000 in revenue across the operating year.

  • Handled daily shipping, listing workflow, customer operations, and repeatable store systems.
  • Built practical experience around logistics, cash flow, fulfillment, and business process improvement.
  • Revenue proof can be added as a sanitized screenshot or short case study.

2019-present

Graphic Designer / Presentation Media

Church and campus media work

Design work across Roblox commissions, church graphics, and presentation media.

  • Created graphics for Plantation Seventh-day Adventist Church.
  • Planning PowerPoint and ProPresenter graphics work for Oakwood University Church.
  • Combines visual communication, service context, and fast-turnaround design work.

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Contact

Professional links only here. Personal and creator-forward links stay inside Pixel World.

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