Illinois State · Class of 2029

Marketing student and compulsive builder

I make videos, build things I want to use, and learn a lot by putting them out into the world.

Selected projects

Redbird Fuel

An app I made to help students hit their fitness goals by creating & tracking meals across all of our campus dining halls. Currently serving 50+ users.

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Almanac

An AI assistant that organizes my life and saves me 3+ hours per week. It connects my calendar, bank transactions, assignments, email, and messages, finding patterns across thousands of data points to suggest ways to improve my productivity.

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Video Portfolio

A collection of my favorite & best performing freelanced video projects.

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QsCables

An ecommerce business I founded and operated selling artisan keyboard cables.

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More of me

Things I’ve made, places I’ve been, and what’s next.

Open to work · Summer 2027GA4 certifiedHubSpot Content Marketing certifiedAdobe Student AmbassadorJesse W. Fell ScholarDean's List ×2
Blake Stall

Trifilm

At the start of the summer, I packed up in Chicago and moved to Seattle to join Trifilm. I had made plenty of videos on my own, but this was my first chance to spend a whole summer around a production team. Over 400 hours of shooting, editing, shadowing, and asking questions later, I came home with a much better sense of what goes into the work.

Blake at the Trifilm office in Seattle

One of my favorite parts was making something with my fellow intern. I brought in an idea for a video podcast about Trifilm. It took a few conversations with the leadership team to get it going, but we got to make the pilot together. Having an idea turn into a real production, with people trusting us to carry it through, meant a lot.

The smaller moments taught me just as much: working through revisions with senior editors, seeing how people solved problems on set, and figuring out where AI actually helped with an edit. I even built a little tool to keep track of clip lengths and runtime. I left thinking less about having all the answers and more about being someone a team can count on to figure things out. I'm grateful they let me learn by doing.