I design learning experiences
and build AI tools for the future
of higher education.
Decades in higher education designing the systems students move through: courses, programs, and the services around them, grounded in real students instead of assumptions. AI closed the gap between designing a tool and shipping one, so the tools here I took from problem to a working tool myself.
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Dial Your Coursecourse-quality toolDrop in a Canvas course and nineteen checks run against it, from seat hours to accessibility to AI resistance, then the fixes come back.
Student Journey Gap Analysis10-college UX studySynthetic-student agents walk the real student journey across ten Maricopa colleges to find where students hit barriers, ranked into prioritized AI pilots.
AI-Assisted Course DesignAI build researchTesting whether a panel of AI agents can draft and check a full course to a real quality standard, with a human owning every decision.
Advanced Data Sciencegraduate STEM courseA 15-week graduate course built entirely from open educational resources, drafted by an AI expert-agent panel in a field I don’t teach.
Light and Laserscommunity college STEM courseA hybrid photonics course for Rio Salado: an online physics track paired with six required, safety-gated in-person laser labs.
UX Design for Interactive Mediacurriculum & course designA new Digital Media Arts course I designed and own as subject-matter expert, backward-designed from eleven industry competencies and authentically assessed.
CopaMigostudent-support toolA multilingual AI triage tool that answers in the student’s own language and routes their problem to the right human service with a warm handoff.
RenderAI career-launch toolAn AI career-launch environment students build across the capstone, graduating with a portable career agent of their own.
Authentic AssessmentAI-resistant simulationsReplace the AI-cheatable exam with an authentic task the student performs and defends, including a built suite of graduate data-science simulations.
Syllabus Checkercompliance-check toolA submit-and-check tool that verifies syllabi against MCCCD and program requirements, replies to faculty instantly, and logs every submission.
Cultivatepersonal learning environmentMy professional-development hub and curated AI news feed. My first AI build, the experiment that started all of this.
Design Self Promotiononline capstone courseAn end-to-end capstone: nine scaffolded modules taking design students from AI literacy to a portfolio, a career plan, and a portable AI agent.
Intro to Digital Artscourse redesignMy program’s highest-enrollment, lowest-success course, redesigned around student support and grounded in retention data.
Design Historystudent-designed and taught projectStudents research a design era, become the class expert, and teach it back in the visual language of the period.
Project DashboardScrum project boardEvery active project on one board, ranked by stage, with its next action and who each one is waiting on.
Rough Cutrecruitment newsletterOutreach for all four digital media programs, aimed by AI research at the specific teachers and advisors at every high school in our zone.
Internship Programwork-based learningPlacing every student with a host employer, so they finish the degree with real client work, references, and a portfolio piece.
Stackable Microcredentialsprogram redesignAnimation and Digital Media Arts credentials redesigned into stackable blocks, so students earn a real credential early on the way to the degree.
Program Designcurriculum strategyThe Animation and Digital Media Arts programs, backward-designed from what industry hires for and streamlined with enrollment data.
Digital Media Discordstudent communityA closed community where students already are, for critique, group work, and tutoring, with an AI agent that posts entry-level jobs daily.
Design Studioclient-work courseReal clients, real briefs, real deadlines. Students took live campus work and shipped it, from a 90-foot mural to motion and publications.
The Travelerstudent-designed publicationthe college’s award-winning student literary and visual arts publication. I advise the student design team through each production cycle.
Campus Cares Hubbrand systemThe full brand and marketing system for a new campus basic-needs hub, built as a live project with a paid student design intern.
Wayfinderroad-trip plannerA living road-trip planner with live weather, fuel strategy, and mapped stops, plus a generator that builds one for anyone.
Soardaily aerospace agentA daily agent that rebuilds an aerospace dashboard for a college-bound engineer: space news, launches, clubs, and internships.
Focusdaily photo-gig agentA daily agent that surfaces real, verified job leads for a working photographer, checked live on employers’ own sites.
Devan Does Travel Stuffgap-year plannerA gap-year travel planner with an interactive map, a savings plan, and a work-exchange model that makes a year abroad fundable.
Summer Workdaily gig-work agentA rolling agent that finds high-paying, flexible summer gig work, verified live on employers’ own sites and refreshed each morning.
Find Your Flowdaily career agentA gentle career-exploration agent serving one realistic, low-school career path a day, with a real open job showing the true pay.