The founder’s mindset (and why it matters when you work with me)
What I mean by “founder mindset,” why it’s valuable, and the receipts across my ventures that show I’ve run the full business cycle — repeatedly.
What It Is
Proposal Writing is the preparation of structured documents to secure work or funding. On this site, it matters because it transfers across technical, operational, and venture work instead of staying trapped in one narrow context.
Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposal_(business)
Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC): the student-run incubator that seeded everything
How a student-run LLC at Missouri S&T became my first real operating system for shipping interdisciplinary work — years before Lumate.
Defense, Government, and Federal Work
Projects operating under federal compliance requirements, government contracts, and defense contexts.
EPA SBIR Phase 1 — Residential Energy Optimization Algorithms
Won a $66,890 EPA SBIR grant to develop adaptive energy management algorithms using sensors and machine learning for residential HVAC optimization — an early...
SBIR Proposal Portfolio — Winning Federal Grants as Undergraduates
Wrote over $3M in federal proposals for EPA, DOD (Army), NIST, and DARPA as undergraduates — winning $75K as what we believe was the youngest team ever to...
Six-Month Turnaround of Stalled Defense Projects
Brought in under NDA to assess defense-related software projects blocked for over a year despite significant investment. Within six months, diagnosed the...
Soft Query Engine (Druid, GKE, Airflow)
Researched and added a query viability layer to a geospatial analytics product used by the US federal government, reducing analytics costs by pre-evaluating...
Solar House Team at Missouri S&T
A university solar energy engineering team where I worked on energy systems and applied research.