TL;DR

ANDY
LEWIS

Creative Director | Real Estate Investor

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🤝 Opportunities

Real estate nerds and startup junkies—let’s talk.If you're building big things (or buying them in bulk), we should probably chat. Worst case, we swap stories. Best case, we make something awesome happen.

Adequate vibes only.

• More About Me

⌨️ Current Role

Most of my time goes into real estate and an interior design venture. But I’m always cooking up new ideas I probably don’t have time for, but might build anyway just to see what happens.

I'm a side project vending machine.

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💡 Project Ideas

Here are a few problems I'd love to solve. Straight from the “this could totally work” section of my brain.

🏆 Achievements

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a pizza delivery guy. Because, in my head, they delivered happiness.
Never chased that dream (pretty sure my parents were relieved), but I’ve been lucky enough to do a few things I’m actually proud of. No uniform required.

Delivering happiness is my mantra.

• Previous Employment

🌍 Living Abroad

Living abroad completely changed how I see the world.There’s nothing quite like experiencing a new culture… or butchering the local language in public. I’ve lived in Lisbon, Prague, and even did a summer stint in Stockholm (if we’re counting summer flings).Safe to say, it’s been a pretty wild education. And not the kind you get in a classroom.

🧠 Y Combinator

Got accepted into Y Combinator’s Startup School.Years ago, I worked on a presentation-building app for writers who couldn’t design to save their life. The early versions got some traction, but honestly… it was basically a less-good Google Slides. Eventually, I shelved it, but I learned a ton about launching a product.These days there are plenty of apps that do exactly this, so maybe I was onto something after all.

🎥 Dating Show

I almost had a show on MTV where I’d go on dates with people I met online and propose.It didn’t pan out (probably for the best), but weirdly enough, it landed me my first advertising job with the people who did those “Got Milk?” commercials.Sometimes I wonder what could’ve happened if I stuck with it. Maybe reality TV stardom, maybe a restraining order. Hard to say.

🏈 Super Bowl Commercial

Wrote a Super Bowl spot that some people thought was funny.It’s one of those career moments a lot of creatives chase forever, so I’m genuinely grateful I got the shot. But if I’m honest… it felt like every other commercial I’d done, just with a much bigger price tag.Well, except for the part where Steve Harvey rolled in with an entourage blasting his entrance music. Now that was a Super Bowl moment.

↩️ Previous Employment

I’ve been a creative director, copywriter, biologist, banker, sales manager, and (briefly) a video game tester. All of them taught me something, even if it was just “never work in banking again.”

I collect job titles like Pokémon.

• Education

🐝 IBM

This job saved my dog's life.He needed surgery and we needed an apartment in an elevator building for his recovery.Also wanted to break into tech, so it felt like a win-win. It was an incredible experience working in AI and cybersecurity.I left when I moved out of the country. The job was fully remote, but apparently “across an ocean” was a little too remote.

👗 Parsons School of Design

This job gave my wife a free education.Never expected to fall in love with the people there, but here we are. And spoiler alert, we still keep in touch.Actually did marketing for all six colleges at The New School, but Parsons stole most of the glory (and my time).FYI don’t ask them about Project Runway. They got burned, made zero money, and are still salty about it.

🎓 Education

My academic choices were heavily influenced by television. Like how I chose French over Spanish (living in California) because Bart Simpson took French. Was it practical? Absolutely not. Did it make sense to my teenage brain? Oui.

I am S-M-R-T!

• Hobbies & Interests

📺 Master's in Advertising

I should've gone to portfolio school.Told myself a Master's would open more doors. Like teaching or, I don’t know, respect. Why spend all that money for a certificate when you can have a degree?Joke’s on me: you don’t even need a degree to get into advertising.No one even looked at my résumé. They just wanted to see the work. Fair enough.

🧬 Bachelor's in Biology

I was pre-med (whatever that means).Thought I wanted to be a doctor, but really I was just watching too much E.R. and Nip/Tuck.Considered switching to business, but I wasn’t about to turn a four-year degree into a six-year saga.So I powered through, got the degree, and kept the television bingeing strictly recreational.

🏀 Hobbies & Interests

When I was younger, I kayaked from Wisconsin to Canada and canoed back on a separate trip. That pretty much maxed out my outdoors quota for life. These days, I’m more into chillaxing. Preferably somewhere with snacks.

I prefer my adventures to have Wi-Fi.

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🎮 Video Games

Casual PS5 gamer that loves a good story.I just want a good plot, a decent weapon, and maybe a dog companion who doesn’t betray me. Is that too much to ask?Currently wandering through Fallout 76, making questionable choices in the Wasteland.

📚 Comics

I read comics like it’s a second job.Mystery? Superheroes? Indie weirdness? I'm into all of it. If Ed Brubaker writes it, I’m reading it.Tell me what you’re into and I’ll throw you a comic rec that’ll ruin your weekend in the best way.