I build software and help people find their way through it.
I’m a software engineer and writer working across financial operations, booking systems, community discovery, and AI-assisted data analysis. I connect product design, databases, APIs, and interfaces into usable tools, then write the guidance that helps people understand them. My wider practice includes research essays, interactive data stories, visual design, and creative writing.
Every workplace asks experienced people to become beginners again in small, consequential ways.
My work asks how a system can help someone understand what is happening and move forward. I work from the shape of a product through its database, services, and interface, with the writing and visual design developing alongside the software.
At Hawaii Life, I work inside the reservation and accounting processes I’m trying to improve. An invoice can arrive by email, its property information can live elsewhere, and the next step can depend on a note someone has to find again.
I build software to bring those pieces together, then put short, skimmable guidance where someone needs it. Fuller tutorials explain the process; a clear label, review step, or brief reminder helps a colleague return after an interruption.
My technical writing starts with understanding how a system behaves: what information it needs, which decisions it makes, and what those decisions let someone do. That same attention shapes my product walkthroughs, research essays, and interactive data stories.
Screenwriting, songwriting, photography, and design are also part of my practice. They have made me attentive to pacing, emotional specificity, and the way a reader’s understanding develops. I bring that attention into technical work without losing the detail it needs.
I work across product design, database modeling, backend services, interfaces, and documentation. These projects range from complete business applications to focused tools for analysis, scheduling, and daily operations. The case studies explain what each system does and how its parts work together.
An accounting platform for teams managing funds on behalf of property owners, connecting bills, payments, bank reconciliation, and owner distributions through a shared ledger.
A customer booking flow and business workspace connected by one backend. Scheduling, staff availability, customer records, Stripe payments, and notifications stay tied to the same appointment.
A shared booking engine connects listings, available nights, guest records, and agreed prices with the work of preparing each property for arrival.
A discovery app for Kauaʻi events and community groups, bringing scattered listings into feeds, swipe cards, maps, and calendars.
Focused work in data, automation, web development, and interactive systems.
From free-text encounter notes to a structured dataset for studying COVID-19 patient patterns.
A service website that helps Kauaʻi business owners recognize a problem, understand the available help, and get in touch.
Guest-specific refund emails and matching receipts, assembled in Gmail for accounting review.
A team project connecting student club discovery, memberships, and events at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
A Godot wave defense game connecting character movement, timed abilities, and persistent upgrades.
An interactive comparison of global events, stock market movements, and GDP trends across regions.
A Python tool for recording microphone or network audio and inspecting its waveform and frequency content.
Automation that brings payment records and client locations into a shared dashboard for a construction company.
A browser tool that turns player sign-ups into appointments for a three-day game event. It models availability, shared resources, and appointment limits together, seeking the highest estimated points before applying slot-filling and fairness priorities.
Members can import a Microsoft Forms export, review the schedule and notes, and download an Excel workbook. A Python version supports the same workflow, including existing assignments in a template.
A Next.js prototype connecting property search, map exploration, listing details, a Kauaʻi area guide, and buyer and seller inquiries. A mortgage calculator lets visitors explore how financing assumptions affect a monthly payment.
The prototype uses fictional listings behind a common data interface. Live property data and CRM delivery are future integrations; the current build develops the browsing experience, form handling, and reusable design components.
At Hawaii Life, accounting work reveals where information gets separated: an email, a spreadsheet, a document, and an entry in another system. I build tools and write guidance that reconnect those steps, with clear points for staff review.
An email-to-accounting dashboard retrieves messages, identifies invoices, and brings extracted details, draft accounting memos, and source files into one table.
Staff can compare the prepared information with the original invoice before copying it into Escapia. The workflow supports that review and entry step; direct integration is planned around future platform updates.
Email processing · AI extraction · Review interface · Accounting memos
An Apps Script workflow connects property insurance records, a curated outreach list, and personalized owner correspondence. Multiple affected properties can be grouped into one request for the same recipients.
The message puts the required document, upload portal, and passcode instructions together. Preview and draft modes support staff review, while a contact ledger helps prevent duplicate outreach within a mailing.
Apps Script · Google Sheets · Upload portal · Owner correspondence
The Refund Builder maps each guest to a Gmail draft and the matching receipt in Drive. The email explains the refund while keeping its supporting document attached.
Batch labels bring the prepared messages together for accounting review. The system handles the repetitive assembly so staff can focus on the recipient, amount, and evidence.
Invoice processing also needs consistent language. I develop AI-assisted workflows for normalizing document names and accounting descriptions, supported by practical staff guides.
The instructions explain how to prepare the information, what to check against the source, and where a judgment still needs a person. Short references make those standards easier to return to during the work.
I follow a subject from its underlying mechanisms and evidence to what it means for the reader. These pieces bring research, explanation, and interactive data into the same story.
A walkthrough of the scheduling algorithm behind my Whiteout community tool. It starts with the problem of fitting competing requests into limited appointments, uses a flow network analogy to explain the model, then develops the constraints, ranked objectives, and implementation for a technical reader.
A data story tracing how renewable electricity drew level with coal, and the decades of change behind that moment. An interactive timeline gives the reader a way to examine how the balance shifted.
An article tracing falling U.S. overdose deaths through local differences and possible explanations. Its interactive companion combines CDC charts, a state map, and a policy timeline, giving the national trend a more detailed context.
An examination of the assumptions connecting scarcity, efficiency, and control in accounts of advanced AI. The essay asks how those arguments change if intelligence can expand what counts as an available resource.
A study of what game economies and AI agents can contribute to economic research. Historical examples lead into a proposed methodological standard, with attention to the limits of simulation and the difference between a useful experiment and a convincing imitation.
An argument for examining a broad field of economic data before deciding what a model can safely leave out. The essay connects representation learning with economic modeling, then separates the demands of prediction, explanation, and causal inference.
At Hawaii Life, I write instructions around the documents, decisions, and review steps staff need to handle. The format depends on the moment: a fuller walkthrough for learning a process, or a brief reference for finding the next step.
| Workflow | What the writing helps someone do |
|---|---|
| Invoice preparation | Name documents consistently, prepare accounting memos, and check entries against the source. |
| Document collection | Understand what to provide, where to upload it, and how it connects to an insurance renewal or property record. |
| Product walkthroughs | Follow a task through the interface and understand the meaning of its choices, statuses, and review steps. |
Tutorials, walkthroughs, and brochures are available on request.
My software work draws on the operational detail of accounting and the communication required in writing, project management, and hospitality.
My toolkit spans application engineering, AI and data work, automation, and communication. The projects above show how I use these tools together.
I work across the language and visual form of a project: product interfaces, brand materials, photography, pitch decks, and motion. That range helps me carry an idea from its initial explanation into a coherent experience.
My creative work spans screenplays, lyrics, and a children’s picture book. The attention to rhythm, voice, and emotional detail also carries into how I explain an idea and shape a reader’s experience.
The two short films include scripts and pitch decks above. Other manuscripts and writing samples are available on request.
Experiments with charts, motion, and illustration, exploring how a visual choice changes the way someone encounters a subject.
An interactive data illustration that gives the rise and fall in U.S. overdose deaths a physical form through the movement of a syringe plunger.
An animation study using the movement of a plunger to explore collective effort and change.
An editorial illustration exploring public health work through an isometric scene of a syringe being taken apart.