Traction and Marketing Strategy Campaign Development

The Big Leaf has an exciting project for you! Our client in MedTech is revolutionizing safety in the operating room, and they need your help. The company is called SafeStart Medical, and to pilot the platform with surgery centres and hospitals, we need awareness! This is where you come in. Help the SafeStart Medical team and their advisors at The Big Leaf to develop marketing and traction campaigns. This can be digital and traditional media, AI or hand-made, and most importantly, your creative touch matters most!

AI-Enhanced Front-End Reporting Tool

About The Client: We are a cutting-edge technology company providing innovative solutions for the restaurant and hospitality industry. Our products include AI-powered kitchen display systems and real-time reporting tools that enhance operational efficiency. We are now looking to develop a web-based reporting tool that leverages generative AI to provide intelligent, data-driven insights from our ClickHouse database. Job Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and creative Front-End Developer with experience in designing interactive, intuitive user interfaces for reporting tools. This role will focus on developing a web-based reporting tool using .NET Core, integrating with our ClickHouse backend, and utilizing generative AI to enable dynamic querying of complex data sets.

KnowQuest Consumer Feedback Platform UI/UX Enhancement

Knowquest Inc. is developing an advanced consumer feedback platform called KnowQuest. The goal of this project is to enhance the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) of the platform to ensure it is intuitive, engaging, and user-friendly. The current design needs refinement to better meet user needs and expectations. The project will involve analyzing the existing UI/UX, gathering user feedback, and implementing design improvements. Learners will apply their classroom knowledge of front-end development, design principles, and user research to create a seamless and visually appealing interface. The project will focus on both web and native application interfaces, ensuring consistency across different platforms. Key tasks include: - Conducting a UI/UX audit of the current platform. - Gathering and analyzing user feedback. - Designing wireframes and prototypes. - Implementing design changes using front-end technologies. - Testing the new interface for usability and performance.

Knowquest Learning Platform Enhancement

Knowquest Inc. aims to enhance its existing learning platform by developing new features that improve user experience and engagement. The project involves both front-end and back-end development using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js). The primary goal is to create a seamless and interactive interface for learners to access course materials, track progress, and participate in discussions. The project will also include the integration of a notification system to keep users informed about updates and deadlines. This enhancement will provide learners with a more intuitive and efficient way to manage their educational journey. Key tasks include: - Designing and implementing new user interface components. - Developing back-end APIs to support new features. - Integrating a real-time notification system. - Ensuring the platform is responsive and user-friendly across different devices.

Capstone in Digital Forensics

DELIVERABLES Cybersecurity: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Digital forensics : Collect, analyze and present digital evidence such as user activity and system data. Attempt to uncover the facts about what happened on a computer system, network devices, phones or tablets for internal company investigations, criminal activity and other types of digital investigations. Incident response : investigate computer systems by collecting and analyzing data. Then develop a response to a security incident. Cybersecurity: Risk Management Build a Cybersecurity Risk Management Framework for the Organization Cybersecurity: Information Assurance: Develop an Information Assurance (IA) plan that can identify the potential risks to that data throughout the development, use, storage, transmission, and processing of an application. The plan can help guarantee the availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation of information and information systems.

Branding Upgrade

KnowQuest.net needs a new update to its branding! Our current branding guidelines and media kits are lacking in creativity and flair. We need your help in taking the current version and taking it to the next level. We need to be investor, client, and customer ready by Fall and we need your help.

Graphic Design - Web and Native App

Your role will be to pick up where our previous design student left off. Redesigning KnowQuest.com (the previous students' designs are not yet implemented but you will have access to the figma, etc.). KnowQuest is an advanced feedback platform that is changing the way we get consumer feedback! Learn more at www.knowquest.net (a simple wordpress pitch deck) and contribute to www.knowquest.com (the platform)!

Front End Development (HTML, CSS, Java Script)

Help develop the user interface for users on this exciting new platform that makes research faster, easier, and more effective than ever! The platform is based Odoo, but uses HTML, CSS, Java Script for the front end. Work with experienced professionals on a disruptive new start-up that will change research forever!

Project Management: Attracting new investors

We are looking to bring on students to be our learner-consultant in a project management role. We are a data startup focused on advanced consumer feedback. We're going into various industries and doing credibility checks, security checks, breakdowns feedback in different aspects of the business and so much more. We're looking for a project manager to help us identify, attract and obtain new investors. As a project manager we'll look to you to help us identify opportunities, analyze our current processes, and then come up with solutions and strategies to implement and help us attract new business. In this role you'll help with assessing and identifying needs/issues and provide actionable recommendations while performing result based tasks. We need to attract the Right investors from Canada and/or the United States to make our dreams of taking KnowQuest to new heights a reality.

Project Management / Business Development Project

We are looking to bring on students to be our learner-consultant in a project management role. We are a data startup focused on advanced consumer feedback. We're going into various industries and doing credibility checks, security checks, breakdowns feedback in different aspects of the business and so much more. We're looking for a project manager in business development to help us attract new businesses and clients. As a project manager we'll look to you to help us identify challenges and opportunities, analyze our current processes, and then come up with solutions and strategies to implement and help us attract new business. In this role you'll help with assessing and identifying needs/issues and provide actionable recommendations while performing result based tasks. Help us find the RIGHT strategic partners; businesses that believe in what we do, can benefit from the KnowQuest platform, and will help us garner attention, gain new users, and grow!

Project Management: Help us get from alpha to beta

We are looking to bring on students to be our learner-consultant in a project management role. We are a data startup focused on advanced consumer feedback. We're going into various industries and doing credibility checks, security checks, breakdowns feedback in different aspects of the business and so much more. We're looking for a project manager to help us get our program from alpha to beta! As a project manager we'll look to you to help us identify challenges, analyze our current programs, and then come up with solutions and strategies to implement and help us get to that next level. In this role you'll help with assessing and identifying needs/issues and provide actionable recommendations while performing result based tasks. Work with our tech, executive, security, and marketing team to help us get to our Beta Launch in 2024! You choose how you want to help as a project manager for one of the following: IT: back end development, front end development, data science, design, deployment, cybersecurity Marketing: product development, business development, copywriting, partner acquisition Investment: presentation/pitch development, investor search and qualification

Mulitple Projects: Pitch Competition Event (Management and Planning)

We are looking to bring on students to be our learner-consultant in one of many potential roles including but not limited to: project management, marketing, planning, research, etc. We are in the last stages of planning an innovative new Pitch Competition and need your help to make it great. We want this event to be fun, interactive and memorable. The event will take place in Toronto or Niagara falls and we people who can help us turn our vision into reality and produce and execute a great investor conference. The main goal is to create an event that is sustainable financially, and that is in demand for annual recurrence. Let's work together to make it fun, informative, and engaging!

Project Management: Scaling and Operations for a start up

We are looking to bring on students to be our learner-consultant in a project management role. We are an ethical home health care start up and prioritize the proper treatment of our workers so that we can retain staff, have happy customers and in turn grow the business. We're looking to run a pilot and make sure that there are no bugs in our operations as we look to scale. As an operations manager we'll look to you to help us develop processes, analyze our methods, and then come up with solutions and strategies to implement. In this role you'll help with assessing and identifying needs/issues and provide actionable recommendations while performing result based tasks. We want your help to make our Ethical Home Healthcare Start-up a success from day 1. What makes us different? We pay better, we treat care workers better, and we demand better care for clients. It's that easy! Help us determine what works, what doesn't, and how to improve operations so that we can afford to pay our care workers what they deserve!

Mobile App: UI/UX Development

Background Panion - a Big Leaf project that is in development: It consists of an App-based platform (android/iOS) that matches Care Workers with their Clients. Nurses, PSWs, physical therapists, phlebotomists, companions, etc. create are matched with clients based on key factors, which are customizable for each party. Care Workers create online profiles with Key Factors like Education, Experience, Language(s), Specialties, Certifications, Vaccines, Geographical and Temporal Availability, etc. Clients and their families or caregivers fill out a profile with requirements such as times and days, expertise, experience, language, education, vaccinations, etc. The system matches Client to Care Worker, or manual matches can be made by users, and Panion takes only 15% of revenues per transaction; one-half of what many agencies take. What makes Panion different? We are focused on Care. Quality Care is something that is a result of a concerted and collaborative effort. We know that Care Workers are often underpaid, underappreciated, mismatched with clients, and required to travel great distances without remuneration. We also know that Care Workers almost never have access to Benefits, Insurance, and Pensions from the agencies to looking which they dedicate their life. Panion offers Care Workers benefits, insurance, and pension plans, takes less revenue, and makes better matches. Panion also lets users Rate each interaction for both parties, via our sister company KnowQuest (using KnowQuest's API). How can you help? We need your help in developing, improving, and optimizing our Panion platform! From design to databasing, security to deployment, this is a new endeavour and you can make a real meaningful impact on the project, the company, and the many many caring people in the industry that we will be able to give better lives and opportunities to! What is Required / Goals:

Better Stakeholder Management / Relationships

Work with our team at KnowQuest to create the ideal employee / union member feedback mechanism. KnowQuest is an evolutionary step in feedback. We are launching our beta this Fall, and want to add more categories to our list of feedback. Currently, we have Academic (higher education) Feedback -the only one in the world!, Movies, TV Shows, Video Games, and Veteran's Affairs / Political Policy in the queue for Fall's Beta. We want to add employee / union member feedback as well. KnowQuest is a different feedback platform because it was built from the ground up to include the very features that reviewers asked for (after 3 years of research into online feedback). Credibility Checks - are you an employee? did you buy the product? did you buy the service? Anonymity - No names, no user IDs, no way to see individual feedback - all ratings aggregated Security - No personal information is every sold, stored, or collected Homogeneity - We break down ratings into standardized components to better empower reviewers to accurately convey their experience(s) - no more comments and singular 5-star overall ratings...now it is comparable, detailed, and customizable

Native App Development

KnowQuest.net and .com will soon launch their beta in ReactJS/MongoDB/NodeJS/HTML etc. The platform is the next evolutionary step in feedback. It is built from the ground up to deal with and eliminate the weaknesses of other rating platforms like Google Reviews, YELP, Feefo, Trust Pilot, etc. This means we check credibility prior to ratings being given. This means we anonymize users and aggregate ratings. This means we do not take, store, or sell personal user information! This means we break down ratings into standardized likert and binary scales to add depth and meaning to each rating (no comments to deal with and no singular 5-star ratings which lack information). Your role, is to start the planning and development process of the ReactNative version of KnowQuest! We do not plan to launch it until late 2024/early 2025 so the only pressure will be for students to meet/exceed learning objectives!

Mobile App: UI/UX Development

Required: Design a Full UI/UX for a new App that better matches Care Workers with Clients [profiles, manual matching, GPS, scheduling]. Preferred: React Native Background Panion - a Big Leaf project that is in development: It consists of an App-based platform (android/iOS) that matches Care Workers with their Clients. Nurses, PSWs, physical therapists, phlebotomists, companions, etc. create are matched with clients based on key factors, which are customizable for each party. Care Workers create online profiles with Key Factors like Education, Experience, Language(s), Specialties, Certifications, Vaccines, Geographical and Temporal Availability, etc. Clients and their families or caregivers fill out a profile with requirements such as times and days, expertise, experience, language, education, vaccinations, etc. The system matches Client to Care Worker, or manual matches can be made by users, and Panion takes only 15% of revenues per transaction; one-half of what many agencies take. What makes Panion different? We are focused on Care. Quality Care is something that is a result of a concerted and collaborative effort. We know that Care Workers are often underpaid, underappreciated, mismatched with clients, and required to travel great distances without remuneration. We also know that Care Workers almost never have access to Benefits, Insurance, and Pensions from the agencies to looking which they dedicate their life. Panion offers Care Workers benefits, insurance, and pension plans, takes less revenue, and makes better matches. Panion also lets users Rate each interaction for both parties, via our sister company KnowQuest (using KnowQuest's API). How can you help? We need your help in developing, improving, and optimizing our Panion platform! From design to databasing, security to deployment, this is a new endeavour and you can make a real meaningful impact on the project, the company, and the many many caring people in the industry that we will be able to give better lives and opportunities to!

Project Management and Operations Support 2024

This project is an Umbrella project that covers many real-world Operations Management and Project Management opportunities at The Big Leaf and our partners/clients. The Goal: Support our team of expert consultants in Operations and Project Management on a given project Additional/Optional Goals: Support our team in any of the following areas/ways: Marketing (including management, planning, campaign development, branding, research, etc.) Operations (including management, planning, etc.) Strategy (including planning, development, research, etc.)

Application Development - Build an MVP

Project Overall into :   We are seeking a team of diligent students to help us build a comprehensive reservation application aimed at simplifying restaurant operations and enhancing customer experiences. This app will offer a live view of the restaurant's floorplan, enabling customers to book available tables and pre-order their meals. Upon arrival, their orders will be relayed directly to the kitchen, ensuring efficient service. Furthermore, the application will allow restaurants to manage seating statuses and streamline their day-to-day operations. An intuitive pre-order system will include a dynamic menu, a user-friendly cart feature, and a secure payment gateway. Requirements:  User Authentication: The app should support secure user registration, login, and profile management features. Real-time Floorplan View: Users should be able to view a live, simplistic representation of the restaurant's floorplan, showing the current status of tables (available, occupied, needs cleaning, etc.). Reservation System: Users should be able to reserve available tables, with their reservation reflected in real-time on the floorplan. Pre-order System: An intuitive interface should allow users to view the restaurant's menu, select items, add them to a cart, and pay in advance. Upon the customer's arrival, these orders should be automatically sent to the kitchen for preparation. Restaurant Management Interface: Restaurants should have a separate interface allowing them to update table statuses, manage the menu, and view incoming orders and reservations. Secure Payment Gateway: A reliable and secure system should be implemented for handling transactions. Notifications: Users should receive confirmation and reminder notifications for their reservations and updates on their pre-orders. Front End: For the front end, we suggest using ReactJS. Its component-based architecture will enable the team to build a highly interactive user interface. React Native can be used if a mobile application is also planned. Back End: Node.js is recommended for the back end due to its efficient handling of asynchronous requests and good performance in real-time applications, which will be critical for the live floorplan feature. Express.js can be used as the server framework.

Cybersecurity Plan and Execution

The Assessment: Assess the current cybersecurity status of KnowQuest, an advanced consumer and academic feedback platform. The Solution: Recommend policy changes, new technologies and solutions, and any other required resources, tasks, or strategies to get the Cybersecurity capabilities of KnowQuest up to (and if possible) above industry best practices. Execution: Implement new solution and ensure our CEO is an integral part of the entire process. KnowQuest uses ReactJS with MongoDB and Java Script, HTML, CSS, and is hosted on a VPS (Linux w WHM and CPanel [CENTOS 7.9.x]) and also used AWS/EC2.

ReactJS / MongoDB Website Development

Work with the great students at Humber College, who are developing the next generating of Consumer and Academic Feedback Platforms. Your main function: To include an AI-powered Suggestions tool! Given that our feedback platform breaks down ratings into constituent components, the system will have the data to make accurate suggestions. We need YOU to help us with the AI Module. That is your MAIN area of focus! The site is in Beta, and the new version will have improvements to the UI/UX and back end, and admin functions. Students will be working in ReactJS/MongoDB (MERN)

React JS Website Deployment (EC2/AWS/MongoDB - MERN)

Help our team of non IT Professionals deploy a new website built by students like yourself! The site is setup in EC2 AWS and uses React JS with MongoDB (MERN). We have a VPS already (Hostinger.com VPS4 package), but I think we need to stay with AWS. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to walk us through how to deploy the site, deploy it with us, and create the necessary documentation to manage and maintain it!

Marketing, Awareness & Sales

KnowQuest.net is getting a fresh new UI, UX, and a sister site: KnowQuest.com KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform, while KnowQuest.com is one of the most advanced feedback platforms in general. Both are getting an overhaul of their UI and UX, and we need your help to: 1. Create the right marketing materials 2. Help us create meaningful awareness 3. If time: Help us with sales of the e-commerce services KnowQuest.net is focusing on higher education and does not need Sales support at the moment, but can use help with marketing materials and awareness. KnowQuest.com is focusing on validating the benefits of launching with either Rate my Real Estate Agent, or Rate my Wine, or Rate my Coffee, or Rate a Movie/Show. It DOES need marketing, awareness, and sales support. You can choose to help us with marketing strategy, campaign development, or investment preparation strategy/execution!

Project Management and Operations Support 2023

This project is an Umbrella project that covers many real-world Operations Management and Project Management opportunities at The Big Leaf and our partners/clients. The Goal: Support our team of expert consultants in Operations and Project Management on a given project

Business Strategy Consulting

The Big Leaf is running several projects that can use your students' consulting skills: 1. The Big Leaf itself - a Management Consulting firm looking to expand its reach and customer base 2. KnowQuest.net - an evolution in online feedback that is relaunching in May 2023 and needs a new Business Plan, including Industry Analaysis, Market Analysis, Opportunity Analysis, Marketing Plan, Operations Plan, and Financial Plan 3. MyPanion - an Ethical Home Healthcare start-up that will focus on bringing dignity and respect to care workers. MyPanion also needs a new Business Plan, including Industry Analaysis, Market Analysis, Opportunity Analysis, Marketing Plan, Operations Plan, and Financial Plan 4. Events - from our Italian Luxury Conference outside Milan, Italy in May, to our Investor's Conference in the Fall, or our Healthcare Worker and Educators' Awards, we have several events that students can contribute to, in terms of consulting: competitive analysis, opportunity spotting, etc.

Project Management and Operations Support 2023

This project is an Umbrella project that covers many real-world Operations Management and Project Management opportunities at The Big Leaf and our partners/clients. The Goal: Support our team of expert consultants in Operations and Project Management on a given project

UI UX Development

We have two projects that need a UI/UX Intern. 1: KnowQuest - Advanced Feedback Platform for academia (the only academic feedback platform in the world!), and Movies/TV/Video Games (superior to IMDB/IGN/Netflix ratings and more informative!). 2: MyPanion - Ethical Home Healthcare. Both platforms are using React. Both platforms are being developed by Arizona State University's and Humber College's students in the January-April semester, but we want them to focus more on the back end. We want you to focus on the front end, so you can all shine! Develop or improve the wireframe, graphics, interface, user experience, and imagery!

Ethical Home Healthcare DBA Consulting Opportunity

MyPanion will be the next evolution in home healthcare: Ethical! It's motto is: Better Access to Better Care How can you help? Build a foundation of Knowledge in home healthcare, ethical home healthcare (including best practices), and help our startup in one of the following two ways (we can accept up to two DBA students - one for each): 1. Web Development of our simple platform. Work alongside Arizona State University and Humber College students who have already started the platform's development (they only contribute 1 semester), and take the platform to the next level. (built w React) 2. Help our executive team as a consultant in determining the best start-up launch strategy: Acquisition or Organic Growth...including opportunity spotting, industry/market analysis, validation, and business planning.

Conference Interpreter Needed (Italian-English)

The 2nd Annual Italian Luxury Conference is taking place this May in Piacenza (Lomardia) Italy at the Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore! We need an interpreter to help our English speaking guests (and our future online viewers [highlights]) with an interpreter, as the conference will take place in Italian! The 2023 Italian Luxury Conference is a luxury-focused, market-driven annual event that brings together global brand leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, retailers, policy makers, and innovators in Luxury and Fashion. The themes for this year’s conference are Sustainability, Innovation, and Technology The conference will leverage research, experience, collaboration, and cooperation to empower attendees, promote innovative approaches, open a dialogue, and foster Sustainability and Technology to create meaningful value and new opportunities.

UI UX Development

We have two projects that need a UI/UX Intern. 1: KnowQuest - Advanced Feedback Platform for academia (the only academic feedback platform in the world!), and Movies/TV/Video Games (superior to IMDB/IGN/Netflix ratings and more informative!). 2: MyPanion - Ethical Home Healthcare. Both platforms are using React. Both platforms are being developed by Arizona State University's and Humber College's students in the January-April semester, but we want them to focus more on the back end. We want you to focus on the front end, so you can all shine! Develop or improve the wireframe, graphics, interface, user experience, and imagery!