Selected work
Capture
Work records + photos
Keep locally
Durable SQLite outbox
Sync
Retry + deduplicate
Review
QC + program reporting
In delivery · team project
Field capture, durable sync, and dispatch for disaster recovery.
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Installed · integrations ongoing
A Raspberry Pi command center connecting sensors, maps, and trip history.
Read the case studyLearning project · V2 incomplete
A recorded simulator flight, with the engineering decisions behind it.
Explore the flight replayI'm a geospatial engineer who builds spatial data pipelines: sourcing, transforming, and delivering authoritative spatial data into tools people actually use.
I started in GIS because maps are more than visuals; they're interfaces for understanding the real world. Over a decade, that evolved into building full systems: data pipelines and dashboards relied on by decision-makers, mobile field data collection platforms, IoT command centers, and operational tools for working businesses.
AI tooling is part of how I work every day. I use Claude Code and the Anthropic API to generate, optimize, and automate spatial workflows, from geoprocessing scripts to full pipeline code, always with human review on the output. The common thread in everything I ship is making systems clearer, faster, and more actionable.
I'm most excited by problems where software, data, and the physical world intersect, and where the network can't be trusted: everything I build assumes you'll lose signal. Off the clock I'm an overlander, mountain biker, and upland hunter. I build the kind of geospatial data I depend on in the field.
The same methodology, applied from federal programs to commercial products to my own field projects.
Sit with the users. Feel the friction. Understand what's actually happening, not what's documented.
Watched guards struggle with paper logs and text-based reporting: no structure, no accountability.
Break the problem into solvable pieces. Identify what's core vs. noise.
Separated flood inundation data from legal interpretations: automated the former, preserved the latter for experts.
Prototype fast. Use the simplest tools that work. Don't over-engineer before validation.
Started with spreadsheets, evolved to custom tracking software only after validating the data model.
Get it in real hands. A dashboard no one uses is worthless; adoption is the metric.
Field-built operations dashboard received thousands of views and was handed to a dedicated maintainer.
Measure what matters. Listen to feedback. Improve based on reality, not assumptions.
Continuously refined label generation based on actual store workflows and edge cases.
10+ years building geospatial data pipelines and solutions across federal, defense, and commercial products.
Esri
Configured ArcGIS apps, tools, workflows, and information models for defense and intelligence organizations
Operational workflows solved with product configuration instead of one-off custom development
Worked with defense customers and industry teams to translate real operational workflows into solution patterns
Customer needs carried from discovery through design, documentation, and release
Designed and executed manual and automated test cases across solution releases
Release readiness assessed against real defense workflow requirements
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Built real-time dashboards tracking Corps-owned fee and non-fee real estate assets
Used daily by Seattle District leadership for management and planning decisions
Developed multidistrict dashboard for Formerly Used Defense Sites operations
Enabled teams to identify and prioritize UXO remediation on private lands
Automated geoprocessing workflows converting inundation rasters into actionable polygons
Reduced manual processing from hours to minutes with standardized outputs
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Designed map-centric dashboard for EDCA infrastructure projects across the Philippines
Thousands of views during active ops; handed off to a dedicated full-time maintainer
Provided field GIS support for engineering, logistics, and infrastructure planning
Enhanced situational awareness for combatant commands and foreign military partners
Harris Govern
Developed Python scripts and ModelBuilder tools for geospatial data processing
Automated cadastral data processing, geocoding, and map production workflows
Provided training on CAMA software and property valuation mapping
Guided county officials in GIS data integration and property mapping
GS-07 → GS-12 in 2 years. Sustained recognition across deployments.
From Texas county parcels to Pacific operations and back. Scroll to follow the route.
GIS Analyst, Harris Govern
Sep 2015 – Sep 2019
Where it all started. Four years of county-scale cadastral mapping: COGO boundary construction, legal description analysis, and the first Python scripts that turned days of manual map production into minutes.
Lead Cartographer / Knowledge Manager, USACE
Sep 2019 – May 2026
Seven years as GIS administrator for the district Real Estate program, with Portal for ArcGIS administrator rights on both the Seattle District and Northwestern Division instances: enterprise geodatabases on PostgreSQL and SQL Server, takings-analysis automation that cut hours to minutes, and dashboards leadership used every day.
Geospatial Engineer, FEST / CENTCOM
2021
First rotation with a Forward Engineer Support Team. The operations dashboard prototyped here became the blueprint that later scaled across an entire theater.
Geospatial Engineer, ARSOUTH Support
2021, 2023
Two rotations supporting U.S. Army South: cross-agency coordination and field GIS operations in the Andes.
Geospatial Engineer, EDCA Infrastructure Program
2023, 2024
Two rotations supporting EDCA facility construction. Built the INDOPACOM operations dashboard that drew thousands of views during active operations and was handed off to a dedicated maintainer, a rare outcome for a field-built tool.
Geospatial Engineer, JTF Bravo / CERTEX
2025
CERTEX rotation providing geospatial engineering support to Joint Task Force Bravo in the Honduran highlands.
Geospatial Engineer, CREST / Missile Defense
2025
Not a deployment: supported remotely from home station in Seattle. Built the CREST Operations Dashboard for the Missile Defense Agency's Flight Experiment Mission, supporting contingency real estate work in the Pacific.
Beacon team contributor · Full-stack engineering
2025 – Present
Home base. Helping build Beacon with a small team for disaster recovery, with a homelab full of field hardware on the side: an instrumented citrus tree, a voice-and-vision bench assistant, and a travel trailer that maps its own trips. I build the kind of geospatial data I depend on in the field.
Operational tools, hardware integrations, and learning projects. Each case study covers the problem, the engineering decisions, and what comes next.
Offline-First Field Operations
In delivery · team project
Field capture, durable sync, and dispatch for disaster recovery.
IoT & Embedded Systems
Installed · integrations ongoing
A Raspberry Pi command center connecting sensors, maps, and trip history.
Vision-Only Autonomy
Active learning project: built heavily with AI assistance, V2 incomplete
A recorded simulator flight, with the engineering decisions behind it.
Security Operations SaaS
Built a cloud-based, multi-tenant security operations platform with an Admin Web Dashboard for managers and a Mobile Collector App for guards to submit GPS-tagged incident reports with photos.
Voice + Vision Edge AI
Built a voice-and-vision AI lab partner on a Raspberry Pi 5: wake word, speech-to-text, and speech output all run locally, with Claude as the reasoning brain, an overhead 16MP camera for vision turns, and AI-drawn wiring diagrams on a touchscreen HUD.
Outdoor Sensing & Telemetry
Instrumented a calamondin citrus tree with an outdoor-hardened ESP32 sensor node (air, light, soil moisture, root-zone temperature) streaming into Home Assistant on a self-hosted Proxmox server, with a custom React dashboard that computes plant health from the physics.
Workflow Automation
Built a full-stack SaaS web application with companion mobile app that lets retailers design professional shelf labels with a WYSIWYG editor, manage product inventory, and batch-print to both sheet labels (Avery) and thermal printers.
AgTech Operations
Built a full-stack operations dashboard that tracks mushroom cultivation from sterilization through sales, with role-based access for farm owners, technicians, and sales staff.
An operational, map-centric dashboard supporting U.S. infrastructure projects under the EDCA agreement, tracking project locations, status, and operational context across the Philippines during active deployment operations.
The dashboard became a primary situational awareness tool for leadership, receiving thousands of views during active operations. Its operational value was underscored when it was handed off to a dedicated full-time maintainer, a rare distinction for a field-deployed tool.
After the dashboard was adopted across USACE, INDOPACOM, and Army leadership, Field Force Engineering asked me to build an eight-hour technical training course and the supporting documentation for the team taking it over. The system transitioned to a dedicated full-time maintainer.
"Designed and deployed an operational dashboard for INDOPACOM that provided real-time spatial awareness of EDCA projects across the Philippines. The system was used by USACE, INDOPACOM, HQ, and Army leadership."
Core competencies spanning spatial data pipelines, geospatial analysis, and application development.
Claude Code as a daily development driver for generation, refactoring, testing, and documentation; Anthropic API tool use; prompt design for repeatable technical workflows.
See it in the Jarvis case study →Cadastral maintenance; parcel mapping and splits; deed research and processing; COGO; legal-description analysis; base map maintenance; land ownership and title data; CAMA and property appraisal support; real property and real estate records; county data conversion and migration.
I've built operational systems under real constraints:for military commands, for enterprise products, and for my own ventures.
I'm looking for roles where I can deploy into ambiguous environments, work directly with operators, and build systems that matter.
Working instruments and a few easter eggs, all running in your browser. Field tools should reward the curious.
Press the backtick key anywhere. Try 'whoami', 'deployments', or 'sudo hire'.
Drag any .gpx file onto the page. Your track renders on 3D terrain with stats, parsed locally.
Type 'voice' in the terminal and speak. Local recognition, just like my bench assistant.
Type 'sky' in the terminal for the space station's live position and distance from basecamp.
Live viewshed and grade-profile analysis, computed in your browser from open elevation data. Click here or type 'lab'.
Mouse over the Journey map for a live MGRS grid reference, magnetic declination, and USGS ground elevation under your cursor.
Lose your connection. The site keeps loading from cache, like everything I build.
There's a flyover authorized for those who know the classic code. Pilots will figure it out.