Synthesis
This is not a standard tech background. I am the first in my family to attend college. My technical education didn't begin in a university lab; it began by reinstalling MS-DOS from 5¼-inch floppy disks, navigating hardware IRQ conflicts, and running an FTP server from a 1998 dorm room.
Below is the braided timeline of that journey. It traces three tracks over thirty years: the experiential grit of early labor, the analytical rigor of a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, and the technical thread of self-taught engineering that recently converged into building production-grade autonomous systems.
The timeline defaults to the most recent era (The Convergence). Click any point on the braid to explore the foundation beneath it.
The threads converge. Tenured mathematics professor developing online pedagogy while simultaneously building production software. The logic of the PhD, the grit of early labor, and the architecture of code are now inseparable.
Roles
Associate Professor of Mathematics Tenured
Kenai Peninsula College · University of Alaska
Calculus I, Applied Calculus, Applied Statistics. Online course development and pedagogical technology.
Software Engineer
Happy Patterns LLC
Full-stack development, AI integration, mobile applications. Production systems for industrial clients.
Current Projects
Dicee
Live family multiplayer application. Rust/WASM engine, Cloudflare Durable Objects, SvelteKit, WebSocket.
ScopeCam
Alpha-stage (v0.1) Android app for USB microscope cameras. Vendored native stack via JNI/NDK, six Gradle modules with ArchUnit, 1,790 tests.
Research Foundations
Research-foundation projects exploring agent coordination, distributed architecture, and host capability boundaries. Concurrent with teaching.
Technical Proficiency
The Convergence
2024 marked an interdisciplinary publication in the Journal of Pediatric Physical Therapy-collaboration with nursing researchers applying statistical methods to clinical outcomes. The same year, an Android app for USB microscope cameras took shape, requiring native-code architecture and USB-protocol expertise across the Kotlin-to-native boundary.
This is what thirty years of continuous work produces: the ability to move between domains, to see systems clearly, to build things that work.
International
This is not a standard tech background. I am the first in my family to attend college. My technical education didn't begin in a university lab; it began by reinstalling MS-DOS from 5¼-inch floppy disks, navigating hardware IRQ conflicts, and running an FTP server from a 1998 dorm room.
Below is the braided timeline of that journey. It traces three tracks over thirty years: the experiential grit of early labor, the analytical rigor of a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, and the technical thread of self-taught engineering that recently converged into building production-grade autonomous systems.
The timeline defaults to the most recent era (The Convergence). Click any point on the braid to explore the foundation beneath it.
Associate Professor of Mathematics at the American University in Cairo. Taught calculus and upper-division mathematics to an international student body. Continued research in functional analysis, attending a multi-day conference on Lineability in the Czech Republic.
Two years of navigating cross-cultural academic environments, adapting pedagogy for students from dozens of countries, and maintaining research productivity while teaching a full course load.
Deep Theory
This is not a standard tech background. I am the first in my family to attend college. My technical education didn't begin in a university lab; it began by reinstalling MS-DOS from 5¼-inch floppy disks, navigating hardware IRQ conflicts, and running an FTP server from a 1998 dorm room.
Below is the braided timeline of that journey. It traces three tracks over thirty years: the experiential grit of early labor, the analytical rigor of a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, and the technical thread of self-taught engineering that recently converged into building production-grade autonomous systems.
The timeline defaults to the most recent era (The Convergence). Click any point on the braid to explore the foundation beneath it.
PhD in Mathematics from the University of Montana, specializing in commutative Banach algebras. Published research in Communications in Mathematics and Applications. Presented at conferences. Six years of deep immersion in abstract mathematics.
Teaching assistant for Applied Statistics, Applied Calculus, and Calculus III throughout the program. Postdoctoral lecturer in 2014-2015, coordinating large lecture sections and managing teaching assistants.
Summer programs included the AARMS mathematics institute in Fredericton, New Brunswick- algebraic topology and topological combinatorics.
Service
This is not a standard tech background. I am the first in my family to attend college. My technical education didn't begin in a university lab; it began by reinstalling MS-DOS from 5¼-inch floppy disks, navigating hardware IRQ conflicts, and running an FTP server from a 1998 dorm room.
Below is the braided timeline of that journey. It traces three tracks over thirty years: the experiential grit of early labor, the analytical rigor of a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, and the technical thread of self-taught engineering that recently converged into building production-grade autonomous systems.
The timeline defaults to the most recent era (The Convergence). Click any point on the braid to explore the foundation beneath it.
Peace Corps education volunteer and teacher trainer. Project management workshops, community improvement initiatives, and daily classroom teaching. Secured a Dell Computers Success Grant for a partner school-one of the early programs bringing technology to rural South African education.
This is where teaching became more than a job. Two years of learning how to communicate complex ideas to people with entirely different frames of reference. The human experience taking precedence over abstraction.
Identity
This is not a standard tech background. I am the first in my family to attend college. My technical education didn't begin in a university lab; it began by reinstalling MS-DOS from 5¼-inch floppy disks, navigating hardware IRQ conflicts, and running an FTP server from a 1998 dorm room.
Below is the braided timeline of that journey. It traces three tracks over thirty years: the experiential grit of early labor, the analytical rigor of a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, and the technical thread of self-taught engineering that recently converged into building production-grade autonomous systems.
The timeline defaults to the most recent era (The Convergence). Click any point on the braid to explore the foundation beneath it.
Moved 2,000 miles from family at 21. BA in Mathematics from Humboldt State University, 2004. Entered the graduate program in Mathematical Modeling of Environmental Systems- stochastic processes, dynamic systems, abstract algebra. Left before thesis work; pure mathematics was the real draw.
- Teaching assistant, remedial courses and MathLab tutor
- First formal exposure to mathematical proof and rigor
- Continued Linux administration and self-hosting
First Proofs
This is not a standard tech background. I am the first in my family to attend college. My technical education didn't begin in a university lab; it began by reinstalling MS-DOS from 5¼-inch floppy disks, navigating hardware IRQ conflicts, and running an FTP server from a 1998 dorm room.
Below is the braided timeline of that journey. It traces three tracks over thirty years: the experiential grit of early labor, the analytical rigor of a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, and the technical thread of self-taught engineering that recently converged into building production-grade autonomous systems.
The timeline defaults to the most recent era (The Convergence). Click any point on the braid to explore the foundation beneath it.
University of Minnesota Duluth. First exposure to higher mathematics-the moment when abstraction clicked. Full-time student, part-time worker: midnight stock shifts at Kohl's, summer landscaping, evenings at Pizza Hut.
- First higher mathematics coursework
- Linux servers and self-hosting begins in earnest
- Working nights to pay for school
Work Ethic
This is not a standard tech background. I am the first in my family to attend college. My technical education didn't begin in a university lab; it began by reinstalling MS-DOS from 5¼-inch floppy disks, navigating hardware IRQ conflicts, and running an FTP server from a 1998 dorm room.
Below is the braided timeline of that journey. It traces three tracks over thirty years: the experiential grit of early labor, the analytical rigor of a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, and the technical thread of self-taught engineering that recently converged into building production-grade autonomous systems.
The timeline defaults to the most recent era (The Convergence). Click any point on the braid to explore the foundation beneath it.
Six years of continuous employment before graduating high school. Farm work, restaurant kitchen (mower to dishwasher to prep cook to line cook), landscaping with heavy equipment operation. First in family to attend college. Built first computer in 1996. Co-system operator for the high school BBS, 1996-1997.
- Blue-collar foundation
- Heavy equipment certified before driving age
- First computer build, age 16
- Technology interest begins-and never stops