Thirty years in higher education. Now building AI tools for learning, civic transparency platforms, and a screenplay about a man who fixes everything except himself. Pittsburgh.
AI-powered skill mapping for higher education. Maps every skill in a course, identifies what each student is missing, before the first exam. Because early alert systems that fire after the damage is done aren't early.
Helping struggling colleges avoid closure. Community-based approach: employer-funded seats, credential stacking, campus repurposing. Don't close. Transform.
Civic transparency across America. AI-summarized legislation, meeting minutes, and council activity for Pittsburgh, Newark, Columbus, Seattle, and growing.
A 76-year-old vintage BMW motorcycle dealer, estranged brothers, and a woman who won't let him hide. 91 pages. Dialogue 9/10. 99th percentile. First ten pages free.
Free AI career exploration for high school students. Fifteen pathways, no signup, no data collection. Because most career tools are built for people who already know what they want.
AI career coaching for formerly incarcerated individuals. Reentry needs real support, not a pamphlet.
The university, rebuilt from learning up. AI instruction engine, six guide types, peer marketplace, evidence-based everything. What happens when you unbundle the $45,000 degree.
57 shows streaming, song database, playlist popups. Built the entire site for a Pittsburgh jazz DJ. Because musicians deserve better than a Facebook page.
Interactive knowledge graph for Human Communication. 57 nodes, 100+ edges, six branches, misconceptions, AI-powered concept analyzer. Built from a single conversation.
Per-assignment readiness checks for professors. Students prove they did the work before class. Responses compiled automatically. No LMS required.
I'm a retired educator with a Ph.D. and thirty years in higher education. I've watched institutions promise students they'd help them succeed and then lose them to a gateway course nobody diagnosed. I've watched colleges close when the community around them had the will but not the framework. I decided to stop watching and start building.
I play guitar every day and in a band called The Analog Dogs — playing music that makes people happy is a big thing for me. I ride motorcycles out of Pittsburgh in any direction. I wrote a screenplay that took eleven years and earned a 9/10 on dialogue from professional coverage. I enjoy movies, music, and I built seven websites because I don't wait for permission.
Pittsburgh has become home from away — originally from New Jersey, and I love NJ, but this is different. I live here with my wife, Kate Borger, our dog, and a kitchen we both use. I cook for us. We walk outside. Short adventures and occasional travel — Chile, Brazil, Spain, Costa Rica, Cape Cod. Always looking for great food.
I keep up with the New York Times brain twisters and the news and opinion. Everything I build is informed by the belief that people deserve to know where they stand — whether that's a student in College Algebra, a community facing a college closure, or a citizen trying to understand what their city council just voted on.