Maumee, Ohio
Eagle Scout · team trainer · building with AI
For three and a half years I was the Scout the others learned from—the troop’s elected top youth leader by sixteen. These days I do that job on a restaurant line, training new kitchen hires. I’m studying business and finance after starting in computer science, and I’m pointing both at building useful things with AI.
I was made Assistant Senior Patrol Leader at fourteen and elected Senior Patrol Leader at sixteen—three and a half years straight of running meetings, planning activities, and teaching younger Scouts how to do things I’d just learned myself. I do a version of the same job now at Red Robin, where I train new kitchen staff and was picked for the management-development track. I started college in computer science and moved into business and finance, which left me comfortable around the technical side and clear-eyed about how an organization actually runs. Right now I’m pointing that at AI, through Anthropic’s AI Fluency and Claude 101 courses.
Off the clock I head west: hiking, camping, and long days on a motorcycle. Scouting made the outdoors a habit; the bike made the distance part of the appeal. It also means relocating for the right work reads to me less like a cost than a road trip.
Elected by my troop, promoted into a trainer role at work. Three and a half years developing younger Scouts, and I now onboard new hires on a high-volume kitchen line. Teaching people who don’t yet know the thing is the work I’ve done longest.
I put a 1930 historical marker back up after a car took it down—scoped it, funded it, and led ten volunteers through it. Before that, nearly seven years of conservation volunteering with Toledo Area Metroparks: habitat building, cleanups, and whatever the parks needed that weekend.
I began in computer science and moved into business and finance on purpose. Enough of the first to be comfortable around the technical side and pick up a tool fast; enough of the second to understand budgets, operations, and why an organization adopts a tool or doesn’t.
In the summer of 2022 a car hit the cast-aluminum marker for the Maumee Indian Mission and knocked it down. The marker had stood since 1930, one of a series the Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Commission set across the state; it records the first Presbyterian mission in the Maumee Valley, established in 1822. The sign itself survived. Three of its four mounting pins and both of its posts did not, and the owner of the land it fell on didn’t know what to do with it.
I went looking for the rest of the series first. I read up on the Commission, pulled maps, and drove around Wood County trying to find the other markers—and found that they were gone. One survivor was still standing at the Maumee Public Library, held in an H-frame, so I measured it and photographed it and used it as my model. That killed my original plan: rather than weld new pins into 92-year-old cast aluminum and risk cracking it, I built the sign an H-frame. Then I directed ten volunteers through the dig and the install, and paid for the build out of my savings.
The sign went back up at Otsego Park on 7 February 2023—three miles upriver from where it fell, on park land where people can actually walk to it. The next day, the museum and I worked out the inscription for a brass plate on the new frame. 115 service hours across everyone involved. Most of its series has vanished; this one hasn’t.
Train and onboard new Heart-of-House team members on stations, food safety, and speed standards—roughly 50 hours of one-on-one training delivered so far. Run high-volume line service through peak rushes, where the constraint is always time and the plan always changes.
Began in computer science, then focused into business and finance.
Elected the troop’s top youth leader for fourteen months (Dec 2021 – Feb 2023), after twenty-seven months as ASPL. Ran weekly meetings, planned activities, directed service projects, and trained younger Scouts through rank advancement.
Order fulfillment and customer service in a fast-paced restaurant.
Conservation projects, wildlife-habitat building, and park cleanups.
Panther R.O.A.R. Award for Open-Mindedness (2022). First-chair alto saxophone, marching band, 2019–2023.
I completed Anthropic’s two foundation courses, and I use AI assistants every day for coursework and projects. This site is one of the things I’ve built with them.
Both certificates completed, 2026.
I’m not a programmer, and I don’t pretend to be. I took HTML at Owens and started college in computer science before moving into business—enough to be unafraid of the technical side and to learn a tool quickly, paired with an operator’s read on how work actually gets done.