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Experience

  1. Oct 2026 – present

    AI Assistant Setup / Independent

    Duvall, WA · Remote

    • Offers a paid setup of Claude desktop, ChatGPT desktop or Claude Code on the client's own computer, connected to their email, calendar and files.
    • Never types, stores or asks for passwords, sign-in codes or API keys. The client types each one.
    • Before the offer, built with Claude Code: the GRC Fleet Auditor, about 4,500 lines of Python and over 200 tests, and two public Claude Code plugins. The clear-not-compact plugin shipped and is now deprecated, and the autonomous-workflows plugin has seven skills.
  2. Sep 2026 – present

    Incident Response Volunteer / WA CIRT, Washington Military Department

    Tacoma, WA · Hybrid

    • Volunteer on Washington's state cyber incident response team (Emergency Management Division), part of the responder pool the state calls on to detect, contain, and recover from cyber incidents.
  3. Jun 2025 – Mar 2026

    AI Technician / AIM Intelligent Machines

    Redmond / Monroe, WA

    • First-line monitor on a two-person watch across 2–5 prototype autonomous machines, triaging a live operational alert feed and escalating genuine and safety-critical faults to senior engineering.
    • Verified ambiguous deviations against the defined operating plan to validate true anomalies and filter false alarms.
    • Owned incident ticketing in Linear, authored procedure docs (SOPs), reported status directly to senior engineering leadership, and assisted with new-hire IT provisioning and cabling.
  4. Dec 2024 – May 2025

    IT Support (contract) / Pirean Gallery

    Moscow, ID

    • Independent on-site technical support across a mixed Windows and macOS environment, troubleshooting hardware, software, and network issues root cause first.
    • Traced a live-event connectivity outage to incorrect switch-port cabling and restored service under time pressure.
  5. Summer 2024

    Commercial Fisherman (greenhorn deckhand) / Silver Bay Seafoods

    Dillingham, AK

    • Worked ~19-hour shifts, seven days a week, for five consecutive weeks during peak salmon season, sustaining reliable, safe performance across an eight-week run.
  6. Feb – Apr 2024

    Data Annotation Intern / Vantage International

    Moscow, ID

    • Labeled and prepared transcript and image datasets in Excel used to train large language models, with strong attention to detail.