Projects

Everything I've been building

33 projects in all — teaching tools, planning aids, and apps I built for myself. Each one is written up the same way: the problem, what I did about it, and how it turned out.

AI for Learning & Education

The work I did at the Joint Forces Staff College: a GenAI course, faculty workshops, and tools that make students reason instead of retrieve.

2024-2026

Active

JFSC AI Initiative

My two-year effort to bring AI into the Joint Forces Staff College. I ran an AI literacy program for faculty and students and built the custom learning tools that went with it.

  • AI adoption
  • curriculum design
  • PME
  • education technology
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2024-2025

Active

GenAI 101 for Professional Military Education

A practical introduction to generative AI for PME students and faculty, built around real coursework and planning tasks. I built it using AI itself, on purpose, as a way to test whether the idea held up.

  • AI literacy
  • instructional design
  • PME
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2025-2026

Active

Reflections GPTs

Interactive reflection systems that replace static journals with guided Socratic dialogue, challenge, and quick feedback, and produce measurably deeper student engagement.

  • reflection
  • socratic dialogue
  • formative feedback
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2024-2025

Active

World Leaders Persona Platform

A set of AI personas modeled on senior world leaders, built to help military students understand the strategic environment by engaging directly with how different actors see and reason about the world.

  • strategic education
  • persona simulation
  • geopolitical reasoning
  • PME
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2024-2025

Active

PMESII+ INDOPACOM Analysis GPT

A structured analytical tool that helps students build rigorous PMESII analysis of the Indo-Pacific strategic environment.

  • strategic analysis
  • PMESII
  • INDOPACOM
  • analytical frameworks
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2024-2025

Live

Operational Approach Mapper

A classroom-ready JP 5-0 operational approach builder with a live one-slide visual, built to help students learn and apply joint planning doctrine.

  • operational planning
  • JP 5-0
  • joint doctrine
  • PME
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2024-2025

Concept

PME Case Study Developer

An AI-assisted tool for generating structured PME case studies, built as a concept experiment to cut the time and friction of developing new curriculum materials.

  • curriculum development
  • case study design
  • PME
  • AI workflow
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2025

Prototype

AI Lesson Planner App

A web app concept that helps faculty turn lesson goals and institutional guidance into workable, AI-assisted lesson plans.

  • lesson planning
  • faculty support
  • web app
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Decision Support & Planning

Tools for staff work and planning — red-team GPTs, wargaming aids, and the enterprise planning I do now for Navy Reserve aviation.

2025-2026

Active

CNAFR Enterprise Planning and Force Development

Enterprise planning and force development for Navy Reserve aviation, a large and spread-out organization where the hard part is keeping a lot of moving pieces pointed in the same direction.

  • enterprise planning
  • force development
  • distributed operations
  • Navy Reserve
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2026

Active

AI Knowledge Capture Interview System

A concept and prototype for an AI-guided interview that draws the hard-to-document knowledge out of long-serving people before they leave.

  • knowledge capture
  • institutional memory
  • AI interviewer
  • knowledge management
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2026

Active

Commander's Update Dashboard

An operations dashboard prototype that replaces static briefing slides with a browsable, update-friendly view of location, timeline, and mission data.

  • dashboard
  • briefing
  • map visualization
  • workflow design
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2025

Active

Strategic Guidance Analysis GPT

A document-bound AI concept for analyzing strategic guidance and planning documents without pulling in unbounded outside knowledge.

  • strategy
  • document analysis
  • planning
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2025-2026

Active

Navy Logbook Digitizer

A local-first pipeline for turning Navy paper flight logbooks into auditable electronic records, with AI-assisted transcription, Navy-to-civilian conversion rules, and a careful approach to uncertainty.

  • document processing
  • AI workflow
  • logbook
  • local-first
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2025-2026

Active

Xi Jinping Red-Team GPT

A persona-based GPT that brings a credible PRC senior-leadership challenge into strategic wargaming and planning.

  • Xi Jinping
  • red team
  • wargaming
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Products & Personal Systems

Things I built because I wanted them to exist: iOS apps, an agent runtime, and a few household tools my family actually uses.

2025-2026

Active

Morning Brief / AI(de)

A mobile-first daily briefing app concept that pulls calendar, reminders, weather, traffic, and AI synthesis into one launch screen.

  • daily brief
  • mobile app
  • iOS
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2025-2026

Active

Department of Curious Notions

A local-first AI idea workspace presented as a living, animated government office, with a structured docket system, AI-assisted development, and a full agent runtime under the hood.

  • AI workspace
  • personal productivity
  • agent runtime
  • local-first
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2025

Prototype

Daily AI News Brief App

A mobile-first app concept that turns the day's AI news into one short brief and one useful thing to learn.

  • AI news
  • summarization
  • mobile app
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2025-2026

Live

Family Trip Ops Center

A production-ready family travel planning app with AI-powered itinerary ingestion. You paste text or upload images and PDFs, and AI turns them into a structured, shared trip plan.

  • AI workflow
  • travel planning
  • document ingestion
  • Next.js
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2025

Active

AI Meal Planning App

A meal-planning app concept built around pantry awareness, family preferences, and realistic weeknight decisions.

  • meal planning
  • household tool
  • iOS
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2024-2025

Live

MealFlow

A finished iOS meal planning app that uses AI to generate recipes, build personalized meal plans, and make grocery lists from your preferences, dietary needs, and what is already in the kitchen.

  • iOS
  • Swift
  • AI recommendations
  • meal planning
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2025-2026

Active

WearAgain

A mobile-first wardrobe app that uses AI to identify clothing from outfit photos and build a searchable catalog from real wear history.

  • AI image analysis
  • personal productivity
  • Claude API
  • Supabase
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2025-2026

Active

AI Portfolio Site

A full-stack portfolio and CMS built with Astro, Supabase, and Vercel, with owner-only admin editing, authenticated content management, and a public project catalog.

  • web application
  • full-stack
  • Astro
  • Supabase
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2024-2025

Live

Lawn Care App

A finished iOS app that uses AI to generate personalized lawn care schedules, treatment recommendations, and seasonal guidance from grass type, location, and conditions.

  • iOS
  • Swift
  • AI recommendations
  • personal productivity
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2025-2026

Concept

Pulsar

An observable, budget-gated agent runtime for personal automation, built on the idea that every AI action should be inspectable, reversible where it can be, and explainable to the person running it.

  • agent runtime
  • AI infrastructure
  • personal automation
  • observability
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