What I'm Doing Now

Serves as an Air Traffic Controller with the 235th CAOS, supporting expeditionary and domestic airfield missions across the full tower control spectrum.

Built Event Ops Manager to replace a manual Google Forms and Sheets workflow used during live VR activations, within a 100+ activation program spanning 60+ events per year. Designed the product as an offline-first operations platform for check-in, digital waivers, live player information, and staff coordination, then led it from architecture through production use.

Designed, built, and operate an open-source Discord operations platform for TEST Squadron covering token-based member verification, role management, voice channel orchestration, analytics, and staff workflows. The platform establishes a governance and operations layer for a 40K-member Discord ecosystem tied to a roughly 24K-member Star Citizen organization, with privacy-conscious data handling and role-scoped staff tooling.

Ongoing ShepherdTech advisory and coordination work that turns broad technical goals into practical modernization plans, delivery steps, and business-facing operating improvements.

Technical Producer for Nope Challenge on Meta Quest through the Reality Breach mixed reality rollout. Owned the delivery loop: roadmap planning, Jira priorities, Perforce workflow coordination, developer/designer/QA alignment, community testing operations, and feature prioritization informed by live test feedback. Helped maintain a 4.5+ player rating while shipping mixed reality and hand-tracking features.

Certified as a Landing Zone Safety Officer for the 235th CAOS, providing organic LZSO capability for expeditionary and contingency missions where established airfield infrastructure does not exist. The work applies structured hazard assessment, operational readiness evaluation, and coordinated execution under real constraints: terrain limits, surface conditions, tight timelines, and no established support chain.

Built a Google Sheets operations system for VR Villa staffing schedules, role assignments, event hours, pay calculations, and expense tracking across a live-event program that supports roughly 50 to 60 events per year, events up to 30 staff members, and a staffing model where roughly 70% of staff are contractors.

Completed Air Advisor training in November 2024, qualifying to advise, assist, and train foreign partner nation air forces on aviation operations, airfield procedures, and Air Force standards in support of U.S. security cooperation and capacity-building objectives.

Qualified in June 2025 to manage and deconflict airspace inside a Combat Air Operations Center for deployed and contingency missions.

Serve as the 235th CAOS's informal IT resource, maintaining SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 workflows that support documentation, meetings, permissions, and day-to-day unit operations.

Support recurring 235th CAOS community outreach through volunteer service, parades, Special Olympics events, food drives, and other local activities that connect the unit with the people it serves.

Improved VR Villa staff-focused Discord operations by reorganizing server structure, strengthening moderation workflows, improving event communication paths, and adding practical automation for team coordination and giveaways.

Built and led the TEST Squadron Event Coordinators program as part of a broader leadership operating model for a roughly 24k-member Star Citizen organization and roughly 40k-member Discord. The program organizes overlapping coordination, management, admin, development, and design functions around recurring operations, training, and story-driven events.

Led international operations planning for Bar Citizen events and community activations, creating repeatable structures for organizers, partners, and on-site teams across regions.

Launched and manage an on-demand Fourthwall storefront for TEST Squadron as part of a broader operations strategy, creating a sustainable fundraising channel while giving members access to 50+ custom community products, including items made by community creators.

Led end-to-end Discord governance for a partnered TEST Squadron community of roughly 40,000 members as Director of Operations & Community Strategy, setting the policy, permissions, onboarding, and moderation model that keeps member experience and staff execution consistent at scale.

Organize and host 4 to 5 Bar Citizen meetups each year across North Carolina, creating recurring in-person events where Star Citizen players can connect, plan future activities, and build local community momentum.

Support ShepherdTech endpoint and workplace IT operations by deploying Windows and Linux machines, configuring Microsoft 365 collaboration environments, and rolling out core security tooling for daily business use.

Built this portfolio platform to solve a core problem: a typical resume does not capture the real scope of my work across multiple simultaneous projects. The goal was to create a clean, fast site that shows who I am, what I have worked on, and gives people a clear way to connect and collaborate with me.

Lead production and event operations for VR Villa's free-to-play live activations across the United States, coordinating staffing, logistics, partner alignment, attendee experience, and staff-facing workflow design across a 100+ activation program spanning 60+ events per year.

Use GPT, Claude, Ollama, and GitHub Codex to accelerate coding, documentation, resume and portfolio iteration, operational tooling, and workflow delivery across personal projects. The work is practical applied AI: reducing friction in program management, documentation, status/reporting, and software delivery with human review.