Selected Work

What I've Shipped

More than a decade shipping results at an enterprise scale, plus a lifetime building things on the web for real users. Names stay broad here when they should, but the work and the outcomes are real.

  • Enterprise Systems
  • Live Products
  • AI Work
  • Incident Response
  • Security & Risk
  • Teaching

Fortune-50 Entertainment Company · 2019 to present

Enterprise Signage Refresh

I oversee the digital signage and audio-visual technical strategy for thousands of devices and displays across resort environments, serving as the bridge between business needs, technical delivery, and long-term sustainment.

  • AV Strategy
  • Program Delivery
  • Stakeholder Alignment
What I Owned

I led the technical and operational shape of the work end to end: intake, vendor coordination, implementation planning, financial alignment, deployment, and sustainment. That included aligning enterprise roadmaps with what individual resort and line-of-business partners actually needed on the ground.

What Changed

The flagship refresh modernized 137 digital touchpoints across 18 resort properties, covering wayfinding, food and beverage menus, lobby boards, and tip boards through a more centralized content delivery model. It turned a scattered operational space into something much easier to govern and scale.

Founder, Creative Director, Lead Engineer · 2022 to present

Online Gaming Platform

This is a founder-led web gaming platform where I own both the creative direction and the technical architecture, from gameplay feel and event design to database scale and release cadence.

  • Live Ops
  • Game Design
  • Platform Engineering
What I Owned

I direct the gameplay loops, visual identity, economy design, progression systems, and live operations, while also steering the technical backbone across Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Node.js, and Phaser. I lead creative reviews, own the product vision, and help keep weekly shipping sustainable.

What Changed

The platform grew into a living product with 50+ shipped interactive titles and 2,500+ daily active users. Seasonal events, limited-time activations, and world-driven narrative beats gave the experience a reason to feel alive instead of static.

Hackathon Recognition · 2017 and 2019

AI Dining Chatbot

A fast-moving prototype built during a 24-hour hackathon to turn natural-language dining questions into a clearer reservation flow.

  • Chatbot
  • NLP
  • Rapid Prototyping
What I Built

The bot used Azure Bot Framework, Node.js, and natural-language processing to interpret guest intent and surface availability across a high-volume dining workflow. The point was not novelty for novelty's sake, but a smoother entry point into an experience people already wanted.

Why It Mattered

It was recognized in two consecutive Hackathon competitions because it showed how conversational AI could reduce friction in a practical, guest-facing scenario instead of feeling abstract or bolted on.

Fortune-50 Entertainment Company · ongoing

Slack Signage Monitoring

A monitoring workflow for digital signage endpoints that turns health data into structured, timely alerts for the people who need to act on it.

  • AWS Lambda
  • Monitoring
  • Incident Flow
What I Built

I engineered a Slack-integrated monitoring system using AWS Lambda, Node.js, AWS Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch. It watches health checks across a large fleet and routes structured notifications into the on-call flow without making people dig through tooling first.

What Changed

The result was less manual checking, faster awareness during issues, and a lighter war-room footprint when incidents hit. The system helped shift support from reactive spotting to more proactive response.

Fortune-50 Entertainment Company · 2017 to 2019

Executive Comms Tool

A simple internal-use tool built in the middle of real incident pressure to make executive updates faster, cleaner, and less mentally expensive during outages.

  • Incident Response
  • Internal Tooling
  • JavaScript
What I Built

While leading major incident response across 100+ business-critical applications, I built a browser-based communications helper that templated impact summaries on the fly. It gave responders a cleaner way to generate executive-ready language without reinventing the message during peak stress.

Why It Worked

It saved time, but more importantly it reduced cognitive load in high-pressure moments. That meant faster briefings, more consistent messaging, and a little more room for the incident lead to focus on resolution instead of wording.

Fortune-50 Entertainment Company · 2017 to 2019

High-Priority Incident Command

Operational leadership work from the middle of live outages: coordinating technical teams, keeping stakeholders aligned, and restoring business-critical applications when every minute mattered.

  • Incident Leadership
  • SLA Recovery
  • Business-Critical Systems
What I Led

I led high-priority incident bridges for 100+ business-critical applications across parks, resorts, commerce, property management, POS, ticketing, dining, and RFID systems. The work meant turning scattered technical signals into a shared response plan while keeping the business impact visible.

How I Operated

My role was part triage lead, part translator, and part pressure valve. I coordinated support teams, pushed for root-cause clarity, communicated impact, and kept resolution moving without letting the room spin into noise.

Tulane University · MS Cybersecurity Management · 2024

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

A full NIST-aligned security assessment: evaluated an organization's risk posture end to end and turned the findings into a prioritized, executive-ready report with clear remediation guidance.

  • NIST
  • Risk Assessment
  • Security Controls
What I Did

I ran a structured assessment of an organization's cybersecurity posture using the NIST framework, covering control gaps, governance weaknesses, operational risk exposure, and the remediation priorities that would actually move the risk needle.

What I Delivered

A formal report built for decision-makers: prioritized findings mapped to business impact, remediation recommendations scoped to realistic execution, and language calibrated for both technical and executive audiences.

University Instruction · 2024 to present

Curriculum Modernization

Teaching work that brings web development, cybersecurity, and AI topics closer to how real product and engineering work actually feels.

  • Curriculum Design
  • Full-Stack
  • AI-Augmented Learning
What I Changed

I teach full-stack web development, selected cybersecurity topics, Python scripting, and machine learning and NLP topics, but a big part of the work was restructuring how the learning experience felt. I rebuilt fragmented coding exercises around a fictional company narrative so students could connect assignments to a more believable product arc.

Why It Mattered

That shift made the material feel less like isolated homework and more like real-world problem solving. I also modernized the labs to include AI-assisted workflows that reflect how people actually build, debug, and learn now.