Curriculum Vitae
Professional Summary
Developing regenerative technology approaches using meta-ontological and categorical frameworks to create generalizable solutions. Applied research spans composable technology systems and educational frameworks designed to align technological development with natural principles and wisdom traditions.
Notable Achievements
- “Best Multidisciplinary Approach” from Odyssey Momentum’s Self Sovereign Identity track (Dutch Blockchain Coalition, 2019).
- Facilitated community governance for 25+ person biweekly meetings in delegated proof-of-stake ecosystem
- Coordinated 25-person hackathon teams at Commons Stack with 3/5 teams winning prizes through cross-team facilitation
- Helped scale Pillar Project from 7 to approximately 60 people in first year as Product Manager
Experience
Independent Consulting | 2023 – Present
Consulting on various technology projects with a focus on semantics, knowledge graphs, and neurosymbolic AI while testing intelligence hypotheses through basic implementations. Pro bono facilitation of H3uni study groups on J.G. Bennett’s General Systematics.
Ledger Governance Coordinator | Regen Foundation | 2021 – 2022
Coordinated proposal processes for delegated proof-of-stake community, enabling collaboration between staking DAO delegators, validators, and developers. Developed visual onboarding guides to clarify the roles of markets, science, and technology in relation to people, place, and planet.
- Skills: Community management, Change management, Technical documentation
Independent Consulting | Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Awarded “Best Multidisciplinary Approach” from Odyssey Momentum’s Self Sovereign Identity track sponsored by the Dutch Blockchain Coalition, which led to consulting and further application development. This was one of the worlds lagest and most prestigeous hackathons.
Stewardship, Design and Innovation | LiminalVillage.com | 2019 - 2020
Coordinating a community of practice engaging in permaculture, ecological restoration, systems thinking, event organization, and design work for technical projects like holons.io.
Ecosystems Development | Commons Stack | 2018 - 2019
Catalyzing the launch of the Commons Stack while contributing to Giveth through narrative development based on Elinor Ostrom’s work Governing the Commons which involved hackathon organization, community management and cross-team coordination (3/5 teams won prizes).
Product | Pillar Project | 2017 - 2018
Product management, research, design and development in relation to a cryptocurrency wallet from a first principles perspective. Contributed to scaling organization to approximately 50 people in first year. Worked across transdisciplinary domains including distributed identity & key management, distributed storage, encrypted messaging, and crypto-economic primitives.
Education
H3Uni.org | 2020 – 2025
- Qualitative Systems Thinking
- Facilitating Transformative Journeys
- Art of Creative Collaboration
- Enneagram as Transformational System (VSM)
- Cosmic Ecology I & II
Capital Institute | 2025
Capra Course | 2020 – 2021
University of West London | 2011 – 2013
- MA Audio Technology
- BA Music Technology
BCFE Dublin | ~2010
- BTEC Sound Engineering
Skills & Competencies
Technical
- Rust Programming, JavaScript
- Graph Databases, Semantic Web
- Protocol Design, Distributed Systems
- Crypto Economics, Mechanism Design
- CRDT’s, DHT’s, Directed Acyclic Graphs
Research & Systems
- Regenerative Technology
- General Systematics
- Category Theory
- Semantics
Community & Facilitation
- Community Building & Management
- Governance Coordination
- Facilitation & Creative Collaboration
- Cybernetics
- Event Organization
- Change Management
Creative & Technical Production
- Event Production (Lights, Sound, Media servers)
- Audio Technology & Sound Engineering
- Design & Visual Communication
Continuous Learning
Self-Directed Programming
- Learn Programming
- Learn Javascript
- Easy Rust
Current Research Focus
Implementation of J.G. Bennett’s General Systematics as “Neurosymbolic AI” leveraging categorical systems and semantic knowledge graphs to enable regenerative outcomes.
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