# Nicolas Picon

> Portfolio of product, technology, business, and research commercialization work.

## Overview
- [Home](/): Experience, volunteering, education, interests, and projects.
- [About](/about): Profile and approach.
- Contact: nicolas.picon@hotmail.com · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/npicon)
- [Structured portfolio](/portfolio.json): Same public summaries and experience highlights as the website, in JSON. Relative URLs resolve against this site.

## Experience
- [TheraT · University of Washington](/experience/therat): Commercialization Lead. Oct 2025 – Aug 2026.
- [Runic.AI](/experience/runic-ai): AI GTM Automation Consultant. Mar – Jun 2026.
- [Uber](/experience/uber): Senior Product Operations Manager Intern. Jun – Aug 2025.
- [Voyager Capital](/experience/voyager-capital): Venture Capital Fellow. Jan – Jun 2025.
- [Microsoft](/experience/microsoft-student-consulting): Student Consultant. Jan – Mar 2025.
- [Empire Bio Diagnostics](/experience/empire-bio-diagnostics): Product, operations & engineering. 2020 – 2024.

## MBA experience
- [My MBA at Foster](/education/foster-mba): My Foster MBA combined product work, venture investing, research commercialization, and student leadership, and I used each one outside the classroom. I participated in UW’s intramural VCIC competition during both years of my MBA at Foster.

## Leadership
- [Global Business Association (GBA)](/leadership/global-business-association): Co-President. 2025–2026 · Second year of MBA. Co-led GBA’s marketing, fundraising, and cultural programming, built its finance tracker, and led Latin Carnival’s venue, vendor, and event operations.
- [Foster LatinX MBA affinity club](/leadership/foster-latinx): Co-President. 2025–2026 · Second year of MBA. Co-led Foster’s LatinX MBA affinity club.
- [MBA Tech Club](/leadership/technology): VP of Special AI Events. 2025–2026 · Second year of MBA. Organized AI building experiences for Foster MBA students, from redesigning a cross-program hackathon to leading a hands-on vibe-coding session.
- [MBA Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Club](/leadership/entrepreneurship): VP of Entrepreneurship. 2025–2026 · Second year of MBA. Served as VP of Entrepreneurship for Foster’s MBA Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Club.
- [Foster MBA trip to Colombia](/leadership/colombia-trip): Trip Organizer. Foster MBA class trip. Organized a trip to Colombia for my Foster MBA classmates. The trip was cancelled, but planning it took a lot of project management.

## Volunteering
- [Nucleate](/volunteering/nucleate): Volunteer leadership. . Leadership volunteering with Nucleate.
- [UW community leadership](/education/foster-mba#leadership): Student club leadership. 2025–2026. Co-led Foster’s Global Business Association and LatinX club, served in technology and entrepreneurship leadership roles, and organized a class trip to Colombia.
- [FIFA World Cup 2026](/volunteering/fifa): Ceremonies Volunteer. June 2026. Participated in on-pitch ceremonies with the flags at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
- [AI Spark · Foster AI Day](/events/ai-spark): Committee Member · Hackathon Lead. May 15, 2026. Led the hackathon effort within Foster’s student-led day of AI speakers, workshops, networking, and hands-on building.

## Awards
- [$75,000 Innovation Gap Fund award](/experience/therat): UW CoMotion · Spring 2026 cohort. TheraT · team award.
- [$10,000 WRF Capital Second Place Prize](/experience/therat): Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge · 2026. TheraT · team award.
- [People’s Choice Award and Creative Destruction Lab Talent & Impact Award](/experience/therat): Nucleate PNW Demo Day · 2026. TheraT · team awards.
- [Most Innovative Idea](/experience/therat): UW Science & Technology Showcase. TheraT · team award.
- Summa Cum Laude: B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. New York Institute of Technology · 2021.
- Full-ride scholarship: University of Washington · The Consortium. Scholarship recipient.
- Best Employee Award: Empire Bio Diagnostics. Employee recognition.

## Events
- [AI Spark · Foster AI Day](/events/ai-spark): May 15, 2026. Led the hackathon effort within Foster’s student-led day of AI speakers, workshops, networking, and hands-on building.

## Projects
- [Ditto](/projects/ditto): UW Foster MBA · Technology commercialization. A UW Foster commercialization project exploring a recruiting business for Microsoft Research’s Ditto technology, including company-culture screening as a key hypothesis.
- [ShiftSpark](/projects/shiftspark): Health innovation · Business strategy. A clinician-led concept for support during nursing shifts, with a business strategy connecting nurse adoption to hospital workforce needs.
- [Mentem.Lab](/projects/mentem-lab): A depression-anxiety care navigation platform for primary care providers.
- [Angel Investing Practicum](/projects/angel-investing-practicum): UW Foster MBA · Academic practicum. Reviewed around 30 startups and led due diligence on OneCourt and Waku, evaluating opportunities for a potential $25,000 university investment during a year-long MBA practicum.
- [HeyLily](/projects/hey-lily): An AI assistant that screens scam calls for older adults. Our team built an Android app and a plan to reach users through senior-care organizations.
- [Career Ally resume-tailoring skill](/projects/your-career-ally#resume-tailoring): Standalone Claude skill adapted for GPT; prototype integration planned. [Download public adaptation](/skills/resume-tailor.md).
- [Sticker Buddy](/projects/world-cup-sticker-tracker): A free World Cup 2026 sticker tracker I built in Lovable and used to fill my own album, with collection tracking, parallel variants, and tools for trading.
- [Blue Ember · Animated mascot](/projects/blue-ember): A custom blue flame companion, refined through AI-assisted character design and animation.
- [Grokbot Agent Organization](/projects/grokbot-agent-organization): In progress · Multi-agent experiment. An AI agent organization spanning research, development, security, operations, and marketing. I am building toward a social-media content workflow that brings people to an e-commerce store.
- [AI Trading Bots](/projects/ai-trading-bot): In progress · Two investing experiments. Two current AI trading experiments: a Grokbot bot connected to Robinhood with $100, and @musetrader in Muse paper trading $10,000 and publicly sharing its picks and reasoning.
- [Trackline](/projects/trackline): Concept · Landing-page experiment. A trading-strategy marketplace concept I turned into a landing page to test early interest before building the platform.
- [Your Career Ally](/projects/your-career-ally): In progress · Career-support prototype. A career-support app in progress that combines application tracking, personal memory, AI-assisted writing, and interview-story preparation.
- [AI influencer · Muse](/projects/ai-influencer-muse): In progress · AI content experiment. An experiment using Muse and Higgsfield to create a fictional AI influencer and explore what makes entertainment posts go viral.

- [GTM AI lead discovery engine](/experience/runic-ai#lead-discovery): Built at Runic.AI. A weekly pipeline that finds, scores, and enriches leads, then emails Runic’s founder the top 20.

## Project previews
- [AI Co-Chef](/projects/ai-co-chef): Placeholder; project details coming soon.
- [Gym buddy app](/projects/gym-buddy): Placeholder; project details coming soon.

## Reading context
The Husky Hackathon dossier is an unfunded proposal, not secured sponsorship. AI Day attendance covers the whole event; student prototypes are summarized anonymously. TheraT is experience, not a project listing. Its work later became paid. The Angel Investing Practicum is academic. Projected savings and proposed investments are not realized results. Source documents and contact details beyond the public profile are not available through this directory.