Twenty-five years, three acts.
From telecom platforms at scale, through applied-ML entrepreneurship, to autonomous AI systems I build and operate solo.
Autonomous AI platforms
Designed, built, and operate Chimera and Prescient solo by directing AI coding agents under a formal governance framework, pre-registered validation gates, adversarial verification, full audit trails. 500+ deterministic tests, 20/20 integration validation, 24/7 self-healing operation.
Applied ML entrepreneurship
Founded Dusty Nook, a profitable e-commerce business; architected the ML stack (XGBoost, Prophet, K-Means, Bayesian optimization) that delivered 88% lower SaaS spend and drove +31% YoY sales. CPMAI-framed, Docker/CI-CD on AWS (→ case study).
Telecom platforms & program leadership at scale
50-engineer cross-functional teams across 3 countries, $6M operating budgets, 6,000+ projects at 98% on-time. Built and monetized two generations of an encrypted internal platform: NISMagic at MasTec (Spark SQL analytics, $1M/yr saved, $400K+ ARR, 98% breach-incident reduction) and, after MasTec acquired QuadGen, NISPi in the QuadGen RAN group (encrypted Raspberry Pi field tool on NISMagic’s database, 4h→1h, $2M/yr). Led a field-logistics optimization that lifted trip success 70%→85%.
M.S. Artificial Intelligence, University of Colorado Boulder Candidate Deferred · B.S.B.A., Management & Operations, University of Florida · PMP · SAFe 6 POPM · SAFe AI-Empowered PO/PM.
Community engineering
San Marcos Academy Alumni Database: A standalone Windows desktop application built for the volunteer alumni coordinators of San Marcos Academy (est. 1907), designed from the ground up for non-technical users: large-print typography with adjustable text sizing, and light/dark themes styled after the school’s official crest and forest-green branding. The system is a zero-install package: unzip, double-click, run, bundling a portable Python 3.12 runtime with a CustomTkinter interface over a SQLite datastore, pre-loaded with a fully cleaned and de-duplicated roster parsed from decades-old volunteer spreadsheets. Member data is protected with AES-256-GCM envelope encryption: a random master key secures the database, wrapped separately by a scrypt-derived password key and by a one-time recovery code issued on a printable “Top Secret” card, so a forgotten password never means lost data; the decrypted database exists only in memory, every save is atomically re-encrypted with a fresh nonce, and the automatic rotating backups are encrypted as well. Around that core sits a full reunion toolkit: an intelligent Excel importer that previews adds, updates, and conflicts before touching a record; filtered exports and print-ready rosters; Avery 5160 mailing labels; one-click BCC email lists; a photo gallery per member; a printable directory booklet with an In Memoriam page; a per-class dashboard tracking contact-info coverage and a “still hunting” list of classmates yet to be found; and an integrated School & Hall of Fame center featuring all 29 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees, the Wittliff Lecture Series archive, award nomination links, and a one-click tool that fetches the school’s logo and Hall of Fame portraits from smabears.org and attaches them to matching alumni automatically.
KTCP-LP 98.7 FM, “The Voice of Bell County”: A 501(c)(3) nonprofit community radio station serving 500,000 residents of Bell County, Texas; I designed and built a complete replacement for the station’s subscription website, eliminating their platform fees entirely while delivering features the old site couldn’t support. The new site is a custom, framework-free build: a zero-dependency Python static-site generator renders 18 pages from a plain-text content layer (JSON and Markdown), so station staff, or an AI assistant, can update schedules, shows, and news by editing simple files rather than wrestling with a drag-and-drop editor. The front end delivers a “retro-fresh” identity designed around the station’s contest-winning logo (restored and remastered to 4K): a persistent Listen Live player that keeps the Icecast audio stream playing while visitors browse, live now-playing metadata pulled from the stream server, a programming grid that automatically highlights what’s on the air, a skeuomorphic radio-console listen page, three switchable color modes (light, grey, and dark), and modern motion design throughout, all responsive and WCAG-conscious with full reduced-motion support. Behind the scenes, an automated news-wire aggregator gathers attributed headlines from local Bell County outlets, and self-service portals let listeners submit community events and independent musicians upload tracks for airplay into a staff moderation queue. The site deploys through a custom Python pipeline written for Cloudflare Pages’ direct-upload API, giving the station global CDN hosting, automatic HTTPS, and ten-second deployments at a total recurring cost of $0.