Educator, scientist, and learning consultant. I train engineers on industrial automation for Siemens, teach anatomy, physiology, and statistics at Franklin University, and build AI and robotics programs for learners.
Projects I lead or built. The first four have public pages you can visit.
My framework for using AI while keeping your own judgment: verify claims, recognize uncertainty, and reflect on how you reached a conclusion. The book was published in 2026, and a free self-paced course for professionals is online.
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A Georgia nonprofit that places robotics hardware and mentorship with high school students. The first scholarship cycle is open to students nationally.
accesstorobotics.org
The public site of Georgia Citizens for Integrity in Science Education, with resources and curated news on science education in Georgia and on how AI is affecting classrooms.
georgiascience.org
Two Reachy Mini robots I configured for teaching and outreach. Aiden runs a cloud conversation stack with a custom persona; Rose runs locally for classroom demonstrations.
Watch Aiden and Rose in conversationHow large language models produce text and how to evaluate what they say. Premiered at the Atlanta Freethought Society in August 2026. Talk details
TIA Portal, S7-1500, and SINAMICS drive courses for about 1,000 engineers and technicians a year, including the SIMIT simulation setup for an updated programming course.
A local AI assistant with document retrieval (RAG) on my own hardware, so student submissions never leave my machine.
Short videos on how we come to believe what we believe, and how intellectual humility helps people disagree without doing harm. YouTube channel
A book expansion co-authored with Dr. Robert M. Price, with a planned chapter on the neuroscience of afterlife belief.
An extension of STEM that brings the health sciences into the same framework.
Tools I built or integrated and released as open source, with setup guides so others can run them on their own hardware.
Experience across industry, higher education, and public science education.
Designs and delivers TIA Portal and industrial automation curriculum for engineers, technicians, and dealer networks. SITRAIN Level 2 Certified Instructor.
Teaches anatomy and physiology, statistics, and scientific literacy, and serves as methodologist on dissertation committees.
Leads the board, the scholarship program, and outreach.
Records household task demonstrations through haptic teleoperation, producing training data for robots being developed for the home.
High school science teaching, the Skeletons Museum, Hewlett-Packard technical consulting, federal corrections, and media production.
Critical Thinking in Science Education
In progress, expected 2027
Magna cum laude
I am open to roles in AI enablement and literacy, responsible AI education, learning and development leadership, and faculty development, and to speaking invitations.