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Technical documentation, guides, and notes on AI, machine learning, and educational technology.

Trust in AI-Generated Emails: A Human-AI Interaction Study

2025-11-16 • Research

Investigating how disclosure and email source affect trust formation in AI-only, AI-assisted, and human-written communications

Human-AI InteractionTrustAI CommunicationHCIDispositional TrustResearch

Adding AI and Leaderboards to the Employee Engagement Dashboard

2025-12-04 • Projects

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

AIGeminiAnalyticsNext.jsFirebaseEducationEdTech

Launching Harley: A Public AI Chatbot for Every HCISD Stakeholder

2026-04-08 • Projects

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

AIGeminiVertex AIFirebasePlaywrightEducationEdTechSkills Protocol

Building the HCISD AI Application: My Journey

2025-10-27 • Projects

How I went from being a teacher in an innovation pod to building a custom AI application for our entire district

AIEducationFirebaseVertex AIReactEdTech

The HCISD Dashboard: Role-Based Workflows for the Business Office

2026-06-12 • Projects

How I built a scalable district dashboard for forms, approvals, and receiving report workflows, with Harley extracting invoice data and matching documents to purchase orders

HCISDNext.jsFirebaseGeminiEducationEdTechWorkflowsBusiness Office

Building the Employee Engagement Dashboard: Real-Time Analytics for 2,000+ Employees

2025-11-26 • Projects

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

AnalyticsNext.jsSharePointAzure ADStatisticsData VisualizationEducationEdTech

HCISD Senior Seminar 2025: Where AI Meets Student Success

2025-11-21 • Events

Reflecting on the inaugural HCISD Senior Seminar, reconnecting with former students, and watching a Googler inspire the next generation

HCISDEducationAIGoogleStudent SuccessSenior Seminar

MAPPO in Swarm Robotics: Solving the Foraging Problem

2025-11-16 • Research

Exploring multi-agent reinforcement learning for coordinating robot swarms in the foraging problem using Webots simulation at UTRGV's MARS Lab

Reinforcement LearningSwarm RoboticsMAPPOMulti-Agent SystemsWebotsAI Research

Welcome to My Portfolio

2025-10-27 • Introduction

An introduction to my journey from AP Chemistry Teacher to AI Systems Architect and my work in educational technology

AIEducationCareer TransitionEdTech