Dallas, TX · Available

Hi there —

I'm Thomas.

Nice to meet you.

I work in enterprise sales at Impac Fleet, and I run a small college sports site called The Sideline in my free time. Based in Dallas. Aggie. Always building something.

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A bit of history.

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01 / 07Present · 2022 →

SeniorAccount Executive

Dallas, TX · On-site · 2022 → Present

Joined as the first BD hire while still in college. Grew with the team across four roles — from BDA to Senior AE. Currently leading enterprise pipeline development.

— Roles

01Senior Account ExecutiveJan 2026 → Present

02Account ExecutiveSep 2023 → Feb 2026

03AnalystJan 2024 → May 2024

04Business Development AssociateJun 2022 → Aug 2023

The team · It's never been a solo effort.

impacfleet.com↗

the sideline✦college football✦college basketball✦NIL tracker✦transfer portal✦retro bowl✦forums✦shop✦the sideline✦college football✦college basketball✦NIL tracker✦transfer portal✦retro bowl✦forums✦shop✦the sideline✦college football✦college basketball✦NIL tracker✦transfer portal✦retro bowl✦forums✦shop✦

02 / 072024 → Present · thesideline.co

Founded & built by

Thomas Harden

Solo founder, full-stack developer, content engine

Founder &full-stack dev

Independent college sports platform. 200M+ organic views. Coded, scaled, and automated solo.

200M+

Organic Views

10+

Interns

100%

Solo Built

50+

Accounts

— Live NIL Rankings

Live widget from The Sideline — embedded NIL rankings data used by ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Yahoo Sports. One line of code, anywhere on the web.

— Coverage

College Football · College Basketball · NFL · NBA · MLB · NHL · NIL · Transfer Portal

Visit site↗

03 / 072020 — 2024 · College Station

TexasA&M University

B.S. Economics · Minor in History

Studied economic trends and market analysis at one of the country's largest universities. College Station shaped the analytical thinking that now drives every deal, every territory, every play.

Economics Degree

Market analysis, trend forecasting, statistical modeling

History Minor

Long-term pattern recognition and strategic context

Aggie Network

Lifelong brotherhood and professional connections

Community Service

Ronald McDonald House, Young Men's Hearts of Servants

Graduation Day · 2024

Aggie football Saturdays

Gig 'em, Aggies.

04 / 072021 — 2022 · Richardson, TX

Nonprofit · Business Development

Network ofCommunity Ministries

Business Development Associate

Modernized IT workflows and outreach at one of North Texas's largest nonprofits. Coordinated PR, social media, and grant funding.

— 01

Modernized IT workflows

Built automated spreadsheet systems and mass email infrastructure for donor outreach and operations

— 02

PR & social media campaigns

Coordinated content strategy to increase community engagement and donor retention

— 03

Grant funding research

Researched and secured grant funding to support organizational growth and food bank operations

"Service rooted in systems. The foundation for everything that came next."

05 / 07Summer 2020 · COVID Response

National Service · Richardson, TX

AmeriCorpsVISTA

Volunteers in Service to America

Managed logistics for a large-scale hunger relief program in partnership with the National Guard during the height of COVID-19. Coordinated food distribution at unprecedented scale.

— What I did

Partnered with the National Guard for hunger relief logistics

Coordinated food distribution operations during pandemic

Built systems to scale community impact under pressure

families served during COVID-19

During the most urgent stretch of the pandemic, coordinated logistics that put food on hundreds of thousands of tables across North Texas.

before all of this✦before texas a&m✦before everything✦there was richardson✦before all of this✦before texas a&m✦before everything✦there was richardson✦before all of this✦before texas a&m✦before everything✦there was richardson✦

06 / 07The Beginning · 2016–2020

Richardson, Texas · Est. 1967

JJ PearceHigh School

Home of the Mustangs

Class of 2020 · Pearce

Royal Blue

Pearce Red

"Where the foundation was laid — a competitive spirit, a love for community, and the curiosity to chase the things I cared about."

— Activities

— 01

Theatre

Shakespeare in Love — Best Production in the U.S.

— 02

Choir

Vocal performance and ensemble

— 03

Track

Mustang varsity athletics

— 04

Soccer

Competitive varsity play

— Stage to Screen

Theatre taught me to sell.

— Origin

Shakespeare in Love at Pearce — recognized as the Best Production in the U.S.

Years of theatre, improv, and choir taught me how to read a room, hold attention, and respond on my feet.

— Still doing it

Recently appeared on Taylor Sheridan's Landman (Paramount+, 2025).

Background role across multiple episodes. Same instincts as the Pearce stage — show up, do the work.

View on IMDb ↗

— Why it matters

Improv is just sales without a script.

Acting gave me the muscle for cold calls, live demos, pitching execs, and reading buying signals. Every meeting is a scene.

— Class of 2020

Featured as the cover photo across multiple news outlets covering Pearce's COVID-era graduation parade.

Coverage 01 ↗Coverage 02 ↗

● National Blue Ribbon School · Class of 2020

07 / 07Before all of it · Richardson, TX

Born Dallas · 2002

Where thehustle started.

Parish Episcopal → North Junior High → JJ Pearce

Entrepreneurial since middle school. Two businesses, one self-taught coding journey, and a lifetime of figuring it out.

— Hustle 01

$7 → eBay phone empire.

In middle school I bought beat-up cell phones on eBay, cleaned them up with better lighting, photo editing, and a careful eye — then flipped them for serious margins.

Started with $7 in my pocket. Eventually shut it down — turns out asking your mom to drive to the post office every day doesn't scale.

— Hustle 02

Minecraft server, YouTube growth.

Built a Minecraft server, advertised it through YouTube videos, and sold in-game items. Cheap to run, high margins, real revenue.

Taught myself to code along the way — hundreds of plugins, logins, in-game transactions, server design. The first time I really shipped software.

"Worked through every summer of high school. Worked through every semester of college. Entrepreneurial in spirit, always."

— About · Off the clock

I'm Thomas — a senior account executive at Impac Fleet by day, founder of The Sideline at all other hours, and a husband + dog dad in downtown Dallas.

I live with my wife Cassidy and our Siberian Husky Athena. I believe there's always a better way to do things — whether that's automating a marketing workflow or keeping my balcony garden alive in the Dallas heat.

Entrepreneurial since age 12. Self-taught, self-funded through college, and still figuring out the next thing. In middle school, I built a Minecraft game server that generated tens of thousands in revenue with thousands of active players and thriving communities. Then came the chargeback scheme: a single player purchased nearly $10,000 in virtual items over months, and then requested a refund on all of it. PayPal not only reversed the charges but hit me with $7,000 in additional fraud fees—effectively bankrupting me at 14. When Minecraft later made it technically impossible to host independent servers on that platform, the community dissolved. That experience taught me more about business, resilience, and risk than any classroom ever could.