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Launching Harley: A Public AI Chatbot for Every HCISD Stakeholder
How I built and deployed a district-wide AI chatbot across 30+ school websites using a skills-based architecture, Playwright-powered content pipelines, and Gemini 3 Flash. This replaces expensive RAG with an ingenious approach that keeps costs near zero
Adding AI and Leaderboards to the Employee Engagement Dashboard
How I integrated Gemini 2.5 Flash into the engagement dashboard to analyze open-ended responses and built a leaderboard system for healthy campus competition
Building the Employee Engagement Dashboard: Real-Time Analytics for 2,000+ Employees
How I built a district-wide analytics dashboard to track employee engagement in real-time, complete with statistical analysis, interactive visualizations, and plans for AI-powered insights
Building the HCISD AI Application: My Journey
How I went from being a teacher in an innovation pod to building a custom AI application for our entire district
Latest Posts
HCISD Senior Seminar 2025: Where AI Meets Student Success
Reflecting on the inaugural HCISD Senior Seminar, reconnecting with former students, and watching a Googler inspire the next generation
Trust in AI-Generated Emails: A Human-AI Interaction Study
Investigating how disclosure and email source affect trust formation in AI-only, AI-assisted, and human-written communications
MAPPO in Swarm Robotics: Solving the Foraging Problem
Exploring multi-agent reinforcement learning for coordinating robot swarms in the foraging problem using Webots simulation at UTRGV's MARS Lab
Welcome to My Portfolio
An introduction to my journey from AP Chemistry Teacher to AI Systems Architect and my work in educational technology