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Things I’ve built.

Training that had to stick, and AI tools with a human check designed in. The same habits I bring to your session.

Training

Courses and guides for real workplaces

Course · Hawaiʻi workplace safety

Mālama Workplace Safety

HIOSH safety training for Hawaiʻi property management, built around mālama, to care for. Eight interactive screens, knowledge checks, and progress tracking.

Course · Business AI

Business AI Modules

Eight modules that take an owner from “what is this” to deciding where AI belongs in the business: operations, customers, ethics and governance, and whether it paid off.

Guide · Property management

Property Manager Mentor Guide

An onboarding and mentoring framework for new property managers: what to teach first, how to check it stuck, and who owns each step.

Training · Compliance

Preventing Workplace Harassment

Harassment-prevention training written for behavior change, not a checkbox. Same approach as a session: practice on real situations, then write it down.

AI builds

Tools where the check is part of the design

AI build · Course production

AI course-generation pipeline

Turns a cited research file into an eight-module course. Anything unverified is flagged before the model runs, and every module passes a human review before it ships.

AI build · Private by design

Real-time speech assistant

Speech recognition and matching that run entirely on the computer. No audio or text leaves the machine, and low-confidence answers are marked unsure instead of shown as fact.

AI build · Oʻahu

Neighborhood comparison guide

A plain-language guide to Oʻahu neighborhoods. Every answer is grounded in Census and local market data supplied with the question, not the model’s memory.

Record

Twenty-five years, briefly

  • 2025 to presentAI training and evaluation, Mercor. Evaluating model output, writing the rubrics that define “good,” and leading a six-person team of domain experts building AI training environments.
  • 2024 to presentInstructional design advisor, Manati.ai.
  • 2025Certificates: AI: Business Strategies and Applications, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. No Code AI and Machine Learning, MIT Professional Education.
  • 2004 to 2025Instructional designer, supervisor, and senior e-learning developer, Academy of Art University. More than 200 university courses, and remote workflow systems still in use.
  • 2000 to 2003E-learning developer, Bechtel Corporation and Vitesse Learning. Industrial safety and pharmaceutical compliance training.

Online at this address since 2001. Full history on LinkedIn ↗.

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