Values & Philosophy

Free Culture

Free Culture

We thrive when knowledge is open. I champion open-source software, transparent governance, and shared innovation to create a more connected and empowered world.

Health & Lifestyle

Health & Lifestyle

Balance fuels creativity. I support initiatives that promote mindfulness, movement, and nutrition—because a sharp mind starts with a strong foundation.

Arts & Humanities

Arts & Humanities

Creativity shapes culture. From music to photography, I believe in amplifying artistic voices and fostering spaces where expression can flourish.

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity

Education is a catalyst for change. Open learning initiatives can break barriers, level playing fields, and unlock potential for all.

Open Government

Open Government

Transparency drives progress. I support projects that leverage open data and technology to create accountable and accessible governance.

Ecology

Ecology

Sustainability starts with awareness. I explore and support eco-conscious living, from small daily choices to larger systemic shifts.

Projects

AI Models (aimodels.org)

A curated directory empowering open-source AI innovation and community collaboration, leading to its acquisition in 2024.

  • Founder & Lead Developer: Drove significant growth and adoption of open-source AI through strategic development, SEO, and community engagement, culminating in the 2024 acquisition.
  • Strategic Growth & Community Building:
    • Open Neuromorphic (open-neuromorphic.org):
      • Identified and leveraged a community ready to contribute content, resulting in a thriving open-source resource.
      • Rebuilt the website with a focus on SEO optimization, achieving top search engine rankings alongside industry leaders like Intel and Nature Journal for key neuromorphic terms.
      • Developed branding and visual assets, including YouTube series thumbnails, to enhance community engagement.
      • Provided expert guidance on Discord server configuration to foster a collaborative community environment.
    • Foundation Models Cheatsheet (fmcheatsheet.org):
      • Developed the web implementation of the foundation model cheatsheet, enabling the publication of a concise and accessible resource for the community.
  • SEO and Content Strategy: Implemented a comprehensive SEO strategy that significantly increased organic traffic to aimodels.org, contributing to its acquisition.
  • Community Engagement: Fostered a vibrant community around open-source AI, driving collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Change Lives. Change Organizations. Change the World.

Our mission is to create ideas that deepen and advance our understanding of management and with those ideas to develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world.

Role: Collaborated with the marketing team to redesign the website, focusing on enhancing storytelling through the implementation of the "Voices" functionality. This initiative aimed to showcase the diverse journeys of GSB students, serving as a powerful recruitment tool and providing a platform for students to share their impactful experiences.

Site Redesign for Storytelling: The redesign emphasized visual storytelling, integrating student narratives and achievements to create a more engaging and personal connection with prospective students and the wider community.

"Voices" Functionality: Developed and implemented the "Voices" feature, a platform for students to share their personal stories, highlighting their unique paths to GSB and the significant work they are pursuing. This feature addressed the need for authentic student perspectives, enriching the website's content and improving its appeal to potential applicants.

Stanford Bug Bounty Contributions:

Proactively identified and reported multiple high-severity vulnerabilities across Stanford's web infrastructure, including cross-site scripting (XSS) and code injection flaws within the Stanford infrastructure, as well as unvalidated API endpoints. These findings were instrumental in enhancing the overall security posture of Stanford University.

Worked closely with the Data Security office to track down, reproduce, and resolve these vulnerabilities, ensuring comprehensive remediation. Received commendation from the CISO's office for contributing to the university's improved security posture.

Contributed to the security of Stanford University through responsible disclosure.

Four Kitchens: Global Academy for Continuing Medical Education

Provides doctors and medical professionals with the latest news and activities to sharpen their skills and keep abreast on the latest medical technologies and techniques.

Role: Selected to accelerate the project launch, I focused on resolving critical pre-launch issues. This included performing complex data migrations, implementing crucial bug fixes within the project backlog, and developing comprehensive Behat tests to ensure site stability and functionality.

ArdentMC: Homeland Security Enterprise - Geospatial Concept of Operations

Part of the GeoPlatform, an effort which embodies the principles and spirit of Open Government, emphasizing government-to-citizen communication, accountability, and transparency.

The GeoPlatform supports open formats, data standards, and common core and extensible metadata.

Role: Successfully delivered the project within a highly compressed timeframe, navigating significant time constraints to ensure timely completion.

MapLight: Revealing money's influence on politics

MapLight seeks to shine a light on our money-dominated political system so citizens can be more informed about the potential financial influences that affect their representatives’ votes.

Why? We believe that democracy works best when it is the public’s interests that are at the forefront of their representatives’ minds when voting on policies – not the interests of a select few whose resources may eclipse the interests of many.

Role: Developed and implemented interactive data visualization interfaces that presented campaign finance data, enabling MapLight's journalists to uncover and report on financial influences in politics. Utilized Javascript libraries and data APIs to create these interfaces.

Design Reactor

HP & DVF Experience Lounge

A three-day, multi-media event to celebrate the second anniversary of Fashion’s Night Out.

“Fashion’s Night Out was such an amazing success last year that we wanted to come up with a concept that would take it into the digital universe” ~Diane von Furstenberg

Role: Developed and deployed modular content management tools, such as the touch kiosk application, that streamlined event content delivery. These tools were later re-themed and reused by other clients, demonstrating their ease of maintenance and flexible configuration.


HP Experience Demonstration Center

The Experience is a one-stop facility that accommodates both small discussions and large briefing groups combining collaboration rooms, capability demonstrations and tours. The Experience provides our clients, prospective clients, and industry influencers with a unique interactive journey which helps them understand our people, our innovative spirit, and the powerful tools and best in class processes we use to help our clients operate at their agile best, anytime and anywhere.

Role: Engineered the backend content management system, built with PHP and a MySQL database, which categorized data by industry and enabled seamless content entry and delivery to interactive touch screens. This system provided a robust framework for clients to explore HP’s offerings.

Aflorecer Art School and Retreat Center

At Aflorecer we will do more than meet each other. We will sing and dance and play. We will share meals, tell our life stories, and become friends. Above all, we will experience what it means to flourish.

Role: Provided technical consultation, presented template options and delivered website

KeyFax New Media: Digital Sound Factory

Digital Sound Factory was established in 2007 with a mission to provide high quality license free audio sound downloads for computer software synthesizer users.

Founder Timothy Swartz is a 20-year veteran producer of the E-mu Systems and Creative Technologies sound libraries. The successful Emulator and Proteus sound products were a result of numerous recording sessions, sound processing, and programming to achieve the ultimate musical results.

Role: Launched initial version of the site in 2007 in OsCommerce. The company has thrived over the last 12 years.