Being a homeowner can be an awfully stressful job. There’s routine maintenance, home improvement projects, keeping track of all the items in the home, and a slew of other things to keep up with.

Oddly enough, all of these tasks and items are usually locked inside the head of a homeowner. Surely, in this age of information, there would be a more succinct way of keeping track of the plethora of things that come along with owning one’s own home.

HomeZada co-founder, John Bodrozic, outside Notre Dame

John Bodrozic, who graduated from Notre Dame in 1989, certainly thought so. Along with Elizabeth Dodson and David Ing, he came up with the idea for HomeZada, a website and app that puts all the things a homeowner needs to keep up with in one place.

“We help homeowners manage their largest asset,” says Bodrozic. “When you think about a house, we see it as pockets of money.”

This way of thinking makes perfect sense. There’s the home itself – typically worth hundreds of thousands of dollars – then the contents within the home, the value of proper, regular maintenance and the added value of improvement projects.

HomeZada provides a cloud-based system for keeping track of all of these things on a single platform. It has a calendar for keeping up with regular home maintenance, like changing air filters or flushing hot water heaters.

“We’re basically becoming the tool that reminds homeowners,” says Bodrozic. In addition to regular reminders for all these various tasks, HomeZada provides videos and other content on how to complete these tasks.

And if a homeowner wants to do an improvement project, like a kitchen remodel or an addition, HomeZada has tools for that. Not only does it offer home improvement templates and how-to content, it has the ability to shop any e-commerce website, assemble a wishlist, compare the products and manage a budget.

This aspect of HomeZada can keep track of project costs, receipts, help manage contractors and even catalog before and after photos. It can literally help a homeowner manage home improvement projects from the very first idea through completion and beyond.

Then there’s keeping track of all the valuables inside the home. Homeowners insurance typically only covers items which are claimed. Unfortunately, there a numerous items in a home, some of which a homeowner may not even think to claim.

“We try to make it easy to do a home inventory,” says Bodrozic. HomeZada breaks down the home inventory room by room, and gives homeowners tools for taking pictures of possessions and fixed assets and cataloging them appropriately.

It’s remarkable how concise HomeZada is; it’s really a one-stop shop for all of a homeowner’s needs. “All the things we thought would be valuable to a homeowner,” says Bodrozic. Furthermore, some of these basic tools are free, and premium services, like the ability to manage multiple house, costs a mere $5.95 a month.

For a guy with a degree in mechanical engineering and a background in commercial construction, a tech company like HomeZada might seem like an unlikely fit for Bodrozic. However, he has a passion for improving technology and being an entrepreneur.

After graduating from Notre Dame, Bodrozic moved back to his native California and began working for Turner Construction, building high-rise buildings in Los Angeles. “I was frustrated with the lack of technology to do my job,” he says.

Along with a “self-taught tech guy,” Bodrozic founded Meridian Systems in 1994. By creating useful software, the company grew globally and gained customers all over the world. “It was quite a rewarding experience,” he says.

Meridian was sold to a public company in 2006, and Bodrozic left in 2010. HomeZada was founded later that year and has really taken off. “We’re getting tremendous growth,” says Bodrozic.

His success as an entrepreneur brought Bodrozic back to his alma mater last week. Each year Notre Dame’s Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship puts on the McCloskey Business Plan Competition, and Bodrozic is one of the judges.

“I wanted to see what I could do to contribute: coach, mentor, provide advice,” he says. Bodrozic and the other judges reviewed nearly 200 business plans from Notre Dame students, faculty and alumni. Last week judges chose 12 finalists.

Finalist will compete for a grand total of $300,000 in prizes, and, hopefully, found useful ventures, much like Bodrozic did with HomeZada.