Work
Online course design and learning experiences, AI tools, and agentic builds for how people learn next.
AI tools & strategy
RenderAn AI career-launch environment taken from a blank page to a working pilot. Students build it across my capstone and graduate owning a portable career agent and learning plan.
District barriers studyA 10-college UX study of the student journey, mapping barriers and turning them into prioritized, human-in-the-loop AI pilots. My League for Innovation Fellows project.
CopaMigoA bilingual AI triage tool that routes a student’s plain-language problem to the right human service with a warm handoff card.
Course AuditorBuilt an AI-assisted tool that reviews a whole Canvas course for competency alignment, consistency, and accessibility, then returns a checkable fix list.
Syllabus CheckerBuilt a submit-and-check tool that verifies syllabi against MCCCD and program requirements, replies to faculty instantly, and logs every submission in one place.
CultivateMy own connectivist learning environment: a hub for professional development and a curated news feed. My first AI build, the experiment that started all of this.
Learning design
AVC 248 course buildAn end-to-end online capstone I designed and built in Canvas: nine scaffolded modules that take design students from AI literacy to a portfolio, a career plan, and their own portable AI career agent.
Intro to Digital Arts redesignLed the redesign of my program’s highest-enrollment, lowest-success course around student support and connection, grounded in retention data and measured by change in success rate.
Design history, taught by studentsStudents learn design history by teaching it, each pair building an interactive tool for their era. The extra-credit version is an AI vibe-coding challenge, no coding required.
Current research
Agentic & personal builds
WayfinderA living road-trip planner with live weather, a fuel strategy, van-clearance awareness, and mapped stops, plus a generator that builds one for anyone from their interests.
SoarA daily agent that rebuilds an aerospace dashboard for a college-bound engineer: news, launches, clubs, and a live internship watch.
FocusA daily agent that surfaces real, verified job leads for a working photographer, published to a private board.
Devan Does Travel StuffA gap-year travel planner with an interactive map, a savings plan, and a work-exchange model for a fundable year abroad.
Summer WorkA rolling agent that finds high-paying, flexible summer gig work, verified live on employers’ own sites, refreshed each morning.
Find Your FlowA gentle career-exploration agent that serves one realistic, low-school career path a day, with a real open job showing the true pay and day-to-day.
Experiential learning
The TravelerGCC’s award-winning student literary and arts magazine, designed end to end by students. Advised through Volumes 44 to 58; a multiple CMA Pinnacle winner.
Campus Cares HubThe full brand and marketing system for a new campus basic-needs hub, built as a live experiential project with a paid student design intern.
Murals & client projectsReal design work my students take on for real campus clients, from a 90-foot mural to web, print, and video campaigns, now a grant-funded studio that pays students.
Internship programPlace every student in our programs with a host employer, so they finish with real client work, references, and a portfolio piece.
Rough CutA feeder-school outreach newsletter built on a research spreadsheet covering 36+ regional high schools, reaching future students before for-profit colleges do.