Selected technical writing, architecture work, open-source software, shipped products, and technical evaluations spanning artificial intelligence, cloud architecture, infrastructure, and systems engineering. Each entry links to the full article, with source code where it exists.
AI, GenAI & Agentic Systems
Rene — An Open Source Fact Checker · 2025
Designed and released an open-source fact-checking browser extension, published to the Chrome Web Store, that evaluates a page or a highlighted passage and returns an accuracy rating, a credibility judgment, and linked references. Built on OpenAI models with retrieval through the Brave Search API; the write-up documents the architecture, the per-user cost model, and the alternatives evaluated and rejected, including a local Llama model via Ollama.
Article · Source Code
FactCheck · 2025
A productionized derivative of Rene, expanded with backend infrastructure so users no longer need to supply their own API keys, while still supporting bring-your-own-key operation and user-selectable models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Ships as a single codebase — a browser extension plus native iOS and Android applications published to the Apple App Store and Google Play — and analyzes websites, social posts, science articles, email, PDFs, and video including shorts.
AI as a Local Service — Why, What, and How (plus benchmarks) · 2023
Deployed large language models locally rather than through a hosted API, and benchmarked them: eight test runs across four fixed prompts on both CPU-only and GPU hardware, charted in Tableau. Documents where local inference is viable, at roughly two tokens per second for a 13B model on CPU, and where it is not.
WhereTo · 2026
A location-intelligence application on the Apple App Store and Google Play, combining civic, environmental, and public datasets — 1,400+ US datacenters from IM3 Atlas and PNNL, EPA Superfund areas, air quality, weather, crime, politics, and OpenStreetMap data — over a rebuilt map engine with layers that can be toggled on and off. An AI chat layer performs in-app functions, and voice chat moves the map and turns layers and filters on and off, with speech-to-text handled on device rather than through an outside API call.
Fact-Checking Short-Form Video · 2026
Extending automated fact-checking from long-form video to short-form content, where the audio track and the on-screen text frequently carry different messages. Combines speech-to-text transcription with optical character recognition so both channels are analyzed, returning a confidence result in roughly twenty seconds.
Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture
Demystifying the Cloud — AWS: Why, What, and How · 2021
A full on-premises versus cloud total-cost-of-ownership model for a virtualized estate of roughly 1,600 TB, pricing EBS, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, EFS, and FSx side by side and factoring in hardware refresh, power, and staffing. Includes a burst-capacity model showing a ten-fold holiday scale-up costing 14% more than running that capacity year-round, plus a hands-on migration using the AWS Server Migration Connector.
Using Cloud Storage as Local Storage · 2021
Hypothesis, cost model, and measurement: whether low-cost object storage could replace tiered local storage and dedicated backup. Models the economics against real enterprise backup spend of roughly $8,000 per month for 1.5 PB, then measures actual throughput across four storage providers mounted as local drives, ranging from 36 MB/s to 1 GB/s.
Multi-Cloud Services — Analyze and Build Across Two Clouds · 2021
Comparing the always-free tiers of Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS, then building working infrastructure across two providers with authoritative DNS and master/slave replication between them. Includes timed provisioning across both clouds and a debugging walkthrough of a DNS failure traced to a malformed SOA record.
Tracking Physical Assets and Improving Software Metering · 2021
A campus asset-location and license-utilization dashboard joining endpoint management data, directory records, and network subnet mapping onto a topographic map in Tableau. Surfaces where physical assets sit, who uses them, and where software licenses are over-provisioned.
Speaking & Published Case Studies
CIO Digest — Rice University Customer Case Study · 2009
Featured as Frank “Trey” Gammon in a Symantec CIO Digest customer case study on endpoint virtualization, covering Rice University’s rollout of Symantec Workspace Virtualization and Workspace Streaming to reduce the cost and complexity of managing lab images, with deployment underway at press time toward a target of 500 student-lab desktops.
Symantec Vision Conference — Las Vegas · 2013
Workspace Streaming and Clustering
Co-presented with Juan Ramos on the same Rice University application virtualization and streaming program four years on, focusing on clustering for high availability and disaster recovery, application provisioning and delivery, precaching, license compliance and usage reporting, and platform limitations including driver and antivirus compatibility.