Résumé

PROFILE

Media and technology educator with more than twenty years of university teaching and a prior career in web development, design, and film and video production. Builds and ships multi-agent AI systems on local infrastructure, and designs the curriculum, policy, and disclosure practices that put generative tools into classrooms and creative workflows responsibly. Works at the intersection of AI capability and the humanities questions it raises, and is completing an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AI Trainer – Media and Design Specialist
Contract, remote

2026 – present Handshake AI Fellowship. Evaluate AI-generated slide decks and documents for accuracy, clarity, and overall quality, assessing writing, visual design, and layout against defined criteria.
2024 – 2025 RWS Group. Crafted theory-of-mind benchmarks testing how well AI models understand characters’ beliefs, motivations, and assumptions in narrative film scenes, and evaluated AI-generated music for sound quality and musicality.

Associate Professor, Media Communications & Technology (2016 – present)
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. Teaching since 2005; tenure-track since 2010. Courses include American Cinema, World Cinema, Media Aesthetics, Media Design Foundations, Preproduction Planning, Professional Practice, Degree Project Studio, and Applied Media Methods.

eMedia Coordinator, Metro (Cincinnati Public Transit) (2008 – 2010)
Produced training video and television commercials; maintained the public website and social media presence.

Web Designer / Developer, freelance and agency (1999 – 2008)
Clients included Paramount Parks, Cincinnati Metro, Lang Financial, IO Productions, F+W Publishing, and the University of Cincinnati Department of Surgery. Concept, copywriting, design, programming, and scripting.

Film and Video Production Assistant, freelance (2001 – 2004)
Art, office, casting, set, and grip/electric departments for Levi Strauss, Humana, Speedway, LaRosa’s, and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

AI PROJECTS

Das Mich / Project Psyche — Creator and Developer (2026 – present)
Multi-agent system modeling the Freudian structural apparatus as interacting agents running entirely on local hardware with no cloud transmission. Python, local model serving via Ollama, vector storage in ChromaDB. Every functional requirement is mapped to a named theoretical mechanism with dual-edition source citations, a specification discipline that makes the system’s behavior auditable against the theory it implements.

Havenpass — Creator and Developer (2026 – present)
Narrative engine in which a Director agent frames scenes and Actor agents perform them against a shared, append-only event-sourced blackboard, compiling played sessions into a finished manuscript. Python, local and hybrid cloud model serving. Architecture derived from a synthesis of twenty-three papers in the agent-architecture and interactive-narrative literature, with each design decision attributed to its source.

Beta Tester, BearcatGPT — enterprise LLM pilot (2024 – 2026)
Digital Technology Solutions, University of Cincinnati

Beta Tester, Adobe Firefly Video Generation (2025)
Adobe

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages and data:

Python
SQL
HTML/CSS
JavaScript
JSON/YAML
git

AI and ML:

multi-agent orchestration
retrieval and memory architectures
prompt engineering
local model serving (Ollama)
vector databases (ChromaDB)
hybrid local/cloud deployment
evaluation and disclosure design

Creative and production:

Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
Firefly
Canva
video and audio production
pre-production planning and crew management

Practice:

curriculum and program design
project management
technical writing and specification

SPEAKING AND PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT

Member, Enterprise Technology Association (2026 – present)
Cincy AI Week community

Computational Creativity Reading Group (2025 – 2026)
Association for Computational Creativity

Recent AI conferences (2025 – 2026)

Ai4 2026, Las Vegas, Nevada (in person, August 4–6, 2026)
AAIRC: Applied AI Research Conference (Ai4), organized by California State University, Las Vegas, Nevada (in person, research summit day, August 2026)
Adobe 99U Conference, Adobe, online (2026)
SHIFT: The Creative AI Summit, Superside, online (2026)
Cincy AI Week, Enterprise Technology Association, Cincinnati, Ohio (2026)
Canva AI Vision 2026, Canva, online (2026)
Google Cloud Next, Google, online (2026)
AlgoRhythms: Exploring Human-Centered Creativity in Music & AI, Jacobs School of Music Innovation, Indiana University Bloomington, online (2026)
Adobe MAX 2025, Adobe, online (2025)
Mindvalley AI Summit, Mindvalley, online (2025)
Ethical AI Symposium, UC Libraries Research & Data Sciences, University of Cincinnati (2025)
AI & Emerging Technology Symposium, Digital Technology Solutions (DTS), University of Cincinnati (2025)

Invited and conference presentations (2010 – 2025)

Popular Culture Association National Conference
Kentucky Philological Association
Cambridge University
J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo
Sapientia University, Romania
University of British Columbia Okanagan

AI IN TEACHING AND CURRICULUM

Exploring GenAI in Creative Workflows — course under development (Spring 2027)
Applied Media Communications majors and non-majors produce real creative work with generative tools under per-assignment rules on permitted use, scheduled checkpoints, and two-way disclosure: students document their AI use as graded work, and the instructor documents his in the course materials.

Chair, Curriculum Review Subcommittee (2025 – 2026)
Media Communications & Technology, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash

Generative AI Community of Practice · Generative AI Learning Circle (2024 – 2025)
Community of Practice: CET&L, University of Cincinnati · Learning Circle: University of Cincinnati Blue Ash

B.A.S. in Web Content and Communications — program proposal (2021 – 2025)
Four-year cross-departmental curriculum design effort; authored the proposal documents and presented to the University Academic Committee

EDUCATION

M.S., Artificial Intelligence — Udacity Institute of AI and Technology (Degree conferred through Woolf) (2026 – present, in-progress)

M.A., Humanities — Xavier University (2008)

B.A., Electronic Media — Xavier University (2007)

Dual B.A., Communication and English — University of Louisville (2000)

Graduate certificate, Asian Studies — University of Cincinnati (2012)

AI CREDENTIALS AND COURSEWORK

Certifications (2024 – 2026)

Python for Everybody Specialization, University of Michigan (Coursera)
The Complete Prompt Engineering for AI Bootcamp (Udemy)
Google AI Essentials (Coursera)
Google Generative AI for Educators (Skillshop)
AI & Instructional Design (LearnWorlds)
Google Project Management Specialization (Coursera)
Adobe Creative Educator Level 1 (Adobe)

Intensives (2026)

Outskill AI Mastermind Weekend: Generative AI Bootcamp, two days (Outskill)
Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School, two days (Centaur AI)

AI workshops and labs (2026)

Virtual Claude Code Workshop and Claude Coworkshop, Anthropic with Tenex
Claude Skills 201, Custom Skills 101 and Build and Run Your Ad Creative Strategy with Claude, The Rundown University
Code with Claude and Maximizing Value from Claude Code, Anthropic
Multi-Agent and Hybrid AI with Intel AI Builder and OpenVINO Model Server, Intel
Responsible AI for Literature Reviews, SciSpace
Using AI Across the Research Workflow, Elsevier
AI x Instructional Design Mini Summit, LearnWorlds
From Vibe Coding to Agentic Development, CGPro
Effective AI for PMs, Udacity
Gemma 4 Build and Learn, AI Builders and Learners
AI Ready Ohio Virtual Training Day and Town Hall

University coursework, University of Cincinnati (2025 – 2026)

Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Tools
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Computer Programming I and II
Programming with Python and R
Digital Technology Programming
Database Management
Cognitive Psychology
Sensation and Perception