Operations & learning leader / AI-native builder
I run online education at enterprise scale, and I build the AI products that move it forward.
Fifteen years leading learning and production operations at Academy of Art University, where I am AVP of Online Education Production and Innovation. Alongside that, I design and ship AI products, consumer and institutional.
Perspective
Two versions of AI in education
The first version of AI in education replaces the expert: it generates a course from a syllabus or hands a student an answer. The second version amplifies the expert. It gives a subject matter expert pedagogical scaffolding, gives a parent the teacher's method and language, and meets a learner at the exact moment they are stuck. Those are very different tools, with very different implications for the field.
Everything I build follows the second path. Keep the expertise at the center, check for understanding instead of handing over the answer, and let AI carry the scale.
More of this thinking on LinkedInShape, not generate.
The whole idea, in three words
Featured product / built independently
Methodwise
A live AI product that helps parents support learning the way teachers teach it. A parent enters a subject and grade level, gets a clear explanation, and works through the homework step by step, with a quick knowledge check that surfaces gaps before they compound.
Usage tells me where parents are stuck. Math dominates and grade 8 generates the most questions, so that is what the next blog posts and videos cover.
- Claude Code
- Next.js
- Supabase
- Stripe
- Anthropic API
New product / on the App Store
Earnling
A playful, parent-guided app that shows kids exactly when their earrings, cookies, or pottery start turning a real profit. A child logs what they make, what they sell, and what supplies cost, and a meter fills as they earn back what they spent, then turns green the moment real profit begins.
My first mobile app, designed and built end-to-end on my own. It is now live on the App Store, after a launch waitlist of 175 people.
- React Native
- Expo
- Supabase
- Claude Code
Institutional AI / Academy of Art University
Systems I built inside the institution
The Course Development Coach
A structured instructional design coach for subject matter experts, grown into a reusable platform pattern with adjacent applications for pre-build outlining and rubric generation now in use.
Read the case study In useContract automation
A Claude skill that generates contracts from knowledge files and templates, plus a custom Adobe Sign MCP connector that drafts, personalizes, and sends them end-to-end after I approve.
Read the case studyOperations at scale / Academy of Art University
Building the systems that let learning operations run
I rebuilt the operational backbone of a 23-department online education program: faster production cycles, centralized contracts, and a clean migration of thousands of courses with no content lost.
Scaling course production with new workflows
Redesigned a 30-week course production cycle across 23 academic departments into a 15-week cycle, pairing the new schedule with revised contract terms and Agile practices.
Digitizing contracts and building a tracking system
Replaced fragmented, paper-based agreements for 200+ annual subject matter experts with a centralized system that gave leadership visibility into builds, utilization, and cost.
Large-scale LMS migration and content governance
Directed the migration of more than 3,000 courses into a new learning management system, designing a custom version-tracking layer to cover a gap the new platform did not handle.
Press / Featured in
