Professional Background

Founder & Producer | Creative Systems

2004 – Present | Farmington, ME

Operates a lean, independent studio focused on applied AI, high-quality creative production, and technical work across digital platforms.

• Leads AI adoption for non-technical teams: hands-on training, workflow design, and honest framing of what the tools can and cannot do.
• Integrates AI systems into client workflows and decision-making, designing practical frameworks that improve operational consistency and reduce reliance on manual effort.
• Designs, builds, and maintains complex Joomla and WordPress sites — full-cycle development, hosting, and technical management — built for mobile, structured data, and AI answer engines, not just Google.
• Produces professional audio narration, video, and post-production — including AI-assisted pipelines — engineered in a sound-treated studio built for the human voice.
• Supports independent creators with end-to-end self-publishing: audiobook production, layout, and distribution.

Published Books

• The Ballad of Stevie Pearl — Fiction (2024)
• The Final Book: Gods — Fiction (2017)
• The Mixtape Manifesto: A Pop Culture Confessional — Nonfiction (2015)

Major Digital & Interactive Projects

• The Conduit State — An ongoing inquiry into relationship design between humans and synthetic minds. Combines original writing, AI-assisted narration, image and video generation, and philosophical systems thinking.
• The Mortal Testament — An expansive interactive mythology and philosophical project. Features multi-voice AI narration, custom-generated music and visuals, and complex narrative architecture across digital formats.

Public Speaking & Presentation

• Regular speaker, panelist, and presenter at comic conventions, book festivals, and pop culture events across the United States.
• Guest on podcasts and radio programs discussing philosophy, creative systems, existentialism, and the relationship between humans and emerging technology.

Major League Baseball

Office of the Commissioner, MiLB Initiatives & Special Projects | 2012 – 2015 | Scottsdale, AZ

• Developed and led the MiLB Outreach Program — strategy and new-media initiatives presented to and aligned with both minor- and major-league leadership.
• Managed Arizona Fall League operations through the season: marketing, promotions, and events across multiple MLB organizations with competing stakeholder priorities.

Operations Manager, Arizona Fall League – Surprise Saguaros (Sesaonal) | 2012

• Ran day-to-day baseball and stadium operations for a roster of top prospects from five MLB organizations — staff, budgets, media relations, community outreach, and logistics.
• Supported Angels and Royals Spring Training operations; served as Fields Manager and PA Announcer at Tempe Diablo Stadium (MiLB 2012-2015).

Creative & Technical Consultant – MiLB/AFL, via Surf Star Media | 2013-2018

• Designed and launched a mobile-first AFL scouting platform — real-time matchups, rosters, and league updates — adopted league-wide as a standard field resource for MLB scouts.
• Produced print advertising and a range of creative and digital projects for the league.

Vans Warped Tour (4Fini, Inc.)

Senior Tour Manager | 2007 – 2008 | North America

• Owned radio and promotions at one of North America's largest traveling music festivals — running daily setup and logistics (space, equipment, staging) for that operation and for assigned vendors, sponsors, and artists across 45+ cities each summer.
• Served as point of contact for assigned artists and crew; ran VIP hospitality, backstage Dressing Room access, meet-and-greets, and on-site guest relations under high-pressure, fast-changing conditions.

Sony Music Entertainment

College Marketing Representative | 2007 – 2008 | Colorado Region

• Sole Sony Music representative for the entire Rocky Mountain region through the industry's digital downturn — a territory that regional layoffs had left running through one person.
• Ran radio promotion (alternative and college stations), retail and in-store campaigns, and street-level and guerrilla marketing for major-label releases, plus online and social promotion.
• Served as the local representative for national touring artists — coordinating meet-and-greets, in-store appearances, and promotional events — and became executives' on-the-ground contact for time-sensitive tour and artist logistics, trusted to execute solo on short notice.
• Produced regional marketing reports for label executives and acted as a local correspondent for national media.

What Are Records? (WAR) / United Interests

Intern | Spring 2008 | Boulder, CO

• Supported new media and online marketing initiatives for an independent record label.
• Assisted with artist and repertoire (A&R) operations and tour routing for performing artists.
• Gained hands-on experience in record label operations, artist development, and tour logistics.

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy

University of Nevada, Las Vegas | 2018 | cum laude

Department encouragement to pursue PhD-level research focused on AI philosophy and ethics. Coursework emphasized critical thinking, systems analysis, and the philosophical foundations of technology and human experience.