Community, Education, and Ecosystem
Projects building communities, educational programs, and ecosystem initiatives.
What It Is
Teaching is the practice of helping others acquire knowledge or skills. 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/Teaching
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.
Breaking Down the AI Agent Term
A practical framework for decomposing the term "AI agent" into twelve distinct dimensions so vague conversations about agentic systems can become precise ones.
What Drives Me (and how to work with me)
The four drives underneath my work, the operating philosophy that shapes my decisions, and the practical rules for collaborating with me well.
Capital Innovators — Startup Accelerator Participation
Participated in a 6-month startup accelerator in St. Louis as CEO/Founder of Lumate, refining business model and go-to-market strategy with mentorship from...
Computer Vision & Control Model for Robot (NI Vision + LabVIEW)
A vision-based robot control system using National Instruments hardware and LabVIEW — the robot sees, decides, and acts — with lessons that transferred directly to later data pipeline and real-time processing work.
FIRST Robotics FRC VPN for On-Device Testing
Built a VPN system for remote programming and testing of actual FRC RoboRIO hardware — not a simulator — and learned as much about networking latency as robotics in the process.
LabVIEW Data Acquisition — Solar Thermal Electric Panel
A LabVIEW and CompactRIO data acquisition system to measure a novel Solar Thermal Electric Panel against commercial systems — results published on ResearchGate.
LEGO-Based Standard Robot Testing Framework
A standardized test robot built from LEGO for repeatable, reconfigurable multi-motion and vision testing — because having a reliable test platform is the difference between debugging code and debugging hardware at the same time.
Lessons I have learned
This page is for lessons that have earned their place through experience.