I lead AI strategy and design learning experiences for the future of higher education.
My work sits at the intersection of emerging technology, human-centered design, and helping organizations put new tools to real, practical use. I start with the people and the problem, never the technology.
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Student Journey Barriers StudyTen-college usability studySynthetic-student agents walk the real student journey across ten Maricopa colleges to find where students hit barriers, rated by severity and ranked.
Gemini Access StudyExamples of what Gemini blocks for students under 18Twenty-seven course assignments run in an under-18 account and an 18-and-older account, to show a district exactly what younger students cannot do.
AI Community of PracticeCampus early adoptersAdoption by example: thirty early adopters from faculty, staff and administration show colleagues what works. It advises the campus and the district on AI.
Career Exploration AgentFind Your FlowOne realistic career at a time, with verified pay, an affordable Colorado path and one real open job. Built to take the overwhelm out of choosing.
First-Year Engineering AgentSoarA scheduled dashboard for a first-year engineering student: aerospace news and clubs, scholarships, internships, campus jobs and housing.
Pre-Health Pathway AgentNext StepsA scheduled board of deadlines, paid patient care, shadowing, scholarships and study abroad, so the next step on a long path is always clear.
Local Job Board AgentFocusA scheduled board of real, open jobs near home for a working photographer, each verified on the employer’s own site and held to a firm pay floor.
Career Launch ToolRenderTraining wheels for building agents: students build a career-launch environment by hand and graduate owning the agents. Includes the scheduled agents built on the same pattern.
Student Support RoutingCopaMigoIn pilot in the program’s Discord. A multilingual AI triage tool that answers in the student’s own language and routes the problem to the right human service, with answers supplied by the staff who do the work.
Course Review ToolDial Your CourseChecks a Canvas course for quality, accessibility, workload against the credit hour, and assessments AI could complete, then returns it with approved fixes.
Syllabus Compliance CheckSyllabus CheckerA submit-and-check tool that verifies syllabi against MCCCD and program requirements, replies to faculty instantly, and logs every submission.
Authentic Assessment SimulationsAI-resistant assessmentReplace the AI-cheatable exam with an authentic task the student performs and defends, including a built suite of graduate data-science simulations.
AI-Assisted Course DesignSynthetic SMEsA panel of AI agents drafts a course against a fixed checklist of quality standards, and the faculty member who would teach it signs off before a student sees it.
Personal Learning EnvironmentCultivateA connectivist hub for professional development and a curated news feed. The first AI build here, and the experiment that started the rest.
Campus LMS AdoptionDiscover, evaluate, adoptFive options weighed, one chosen, a pilot with early adopters, and nearly all faculty on one platform.
Student CommunityDigital Media DiscordA closed community where students already are, for critique, group work, and tutoring, with an AI agent that posts entry-level jobs twice a week.
eCourses CoordinatorFaculty developer, Art and HumanitiesFaculty developer for online teaching in a department of more than 45 faculty: training requirements, accessibility, every LMS change, and the move of the whole department online during COVID-19.
Single Point of Contact HelpdeskOne phone number, one emailFour separate places to ask for help became one, with requests routed to functions, not to individual people. Recognized with an OIT technology award.
Student-Designed PublicationThe TravelerThe college’s award-winning student literary and arts magazine, made by students for decades. The newest edition adds augmented reality: point a phone at the printed art and the piece appears in 3D.
Brand SystemBasic Needs Support HubThe GCC Cares brand, art directed by a student designer: identity, wayfinding, a brochure, and five open house towers built in two weeks.
Client-Work Design StudioDesign StudioReal clients, real briefs, real deadlines. Students took live campus work and shipped it, from a 95-foot mural to motion and publications.
Work-Based LearningInternship ProgramPlacing and mentoring students in real work with local businesses and industry partners.
Digital Media Arts and Animation ProgramsAI and XRDesign, animation, UX and gaming, with real client work and the new STEAMworks XR lab.
Intro to Digital ArtsAVC 100Once the program’s lowest-success course, redesigned for retention, belonging and connection, with student success built into every module.
Multimedia StorytellingAVC 150Students build an AI storyteller from an archive, then interview it to pull the story out.
Graphic DesignAVC 183Type and meaning, grids, working inside a real city’s brand, building your own, and a design history unit students teach each other.
Introduction to Web Design and UXAVC 190Students take a brand from a style tile to a published, accessible website for a fictitious client, tested with real people.
UX Design for Interactive MediaAVC 2xxOne UX course for multiple disciplines, from game design to sound design, ending in a capstone in each student’s own field.
Design Self PromotionAVC 248The capstone career course, where students build their own career agents inside the course.
Graphic Design 2AVC 283A full visual identity system for a client, documented in an accessible brand guidelines book, and headed toward a brand generator.
Applied Data ScienceSample course built by Synthetic SMEsA graduate course the Synthetic SMEs agents built with no subject-matter expert, then reviewed by an outside data science expert. Her estimate: about 78 percent usable as built. A demonstration of the tool, not a course I teach.
Program Recruitment OutreachRough CutRecruitment outreach for all four digital media programs, designed end to end with AI and aimed at the teachers and advisors who already have future students in their classrooms.
Road-Trip PlannerWayfinderA 15-day road trip with my son, planned with AI in a few hours around three nights at Yosemite. Its campground finder got us beach sites at Lake Tahoe three days before departure.