Educator · Builder · Founder of Plato's Grove
Over 30 years as an educator and software developer, I've built learning tools for the students most systems leave behind. My goal: launch a comprehensive, free K–12 homeschool academy in 2029 — deeply embedded with AI, classical philosophy, and the inductive pedagogy that took 100% non-white, 92% economically disadvantaged students from 8% to 73% Algebra proficiency — the 10th best score in all of California.
Three Constellations
Mathematics, software engineering, and athletics — united by a commitment to human development and the deployment of tools that actually work in the real world.
M.A. in Education Technology. Created FlexMath, a complete software ecosystem for teaching Algebra to underserved learners. Served as district-wide Math Director, mentor-teacher, and instructional coach supporting schools across CA, WA, and DC. Produced the highest documented NCLB-era achievement gains in California.
Full-stack developer since 1996 (original NOAA/NMFS website). Fluent in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, ActionScript, Unity, and Unreal. Backed by 5 AI certifications (Microsoft, IBM, Google, AWS, DeepLearning.AI) and an agentic AI workflow using Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google tools — shattering the old "Good, Fast, Cheap: pick two" limitation. I deliver all three.
Owner of Evolution Tennis Academy in Meridian, Idaho. Built CourtKraken, a custom CRM platform for managing the academy. Developed the website and software driving the pedagogical experience for our players. USPTA #83949 · PTR #117513.
Featured Work
From algebra classrooms to tennis courts to AI-powered coding education — solving real problems, measured with hard data.
Complete software suite for teaching Algebra to disenfranchised learners. Built with PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS/JS. Generated the greatest achievement gains ever recorded in the NCLB era — 23% to 56% passing at LPS Hayward while the school across the street scored 3%.
Custom-built CRM platform for managing Evolution Tennis Academy operations, scheduling, student tracking, and business analytics. A production SaaS product serving real clients.
Complete computer science curriculum with a character ecosystem deployed at mctweak.ai. Includes a Code Tweaker platform where students learn to code by modifying existing programs presented as learning challenges. Desktop and mobile versions available.
Designed, developed, and deployed the complete web presence and software infrastructure for Evolution Tennis Academy in Idaho. Drives the pedagogical experience for all players.
The FlexMath Impact
California Department of Education STAR Testing data (2003–2013) documents two successive records across multiple Bay Area schools serving 100% non-white, predominantly economically disadvantaged students.
Record 1 · LPS Hayward · 2009
The staircase: 13% when I arrived → 23% in 2008 through team alignment, classroom management, and intensive PD (beating the 20% state average) → then FlexMath landed, and scores exploded to 56% in a single year. Neighboring school: 3%. Top 100 CA high schools in Algebra.
Record 2 · LPS Richmond · 2011 🏆
Kennedy HS & Richmond HS across town: 3% and 5%. LPS Richmond ranked Top 10 in all of California for Algebra.
Source: California Department of Education, STAR Testing Program (2003–2013). Verified across multiple Bay Area schools including Richmond, Hayward, Oakland, and San Jose. Full data in the FlexMath project page.
Forward Deployment Engineering
Bridging the gap between engineering capability and real-world transformation.
A Forward Deployment Engineer operates at the intersection of software development, customer success, and domain expertise. Unlike traditional engineers who work in isolation on product features, FDEs deploy directly into the field — understanding the user's world, building solutions in real-time, and ensuring technology delivers measurable outcomes.
This is precisely what I've done for 20 years: building software tools and deploying them into classrooms, academies, and businesses — then measuring the results with hard data.
Agentic AI Integration. Backed by 5 industry AI certifications (Microsoft, IBM, Google, AWS, DeepLearning.AI), I work with tools from Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, and Google (Gemini) as an integrated part of my development workflow.
Good, Fast, AND Cheap. The old adage that in software you can only pick two — shattered by AI-integrated workflows. I deliver all three: high quality, rapid iteration, and cost efficiency.
Domain-First Engineering. Every product starts with deep domain knowledge — whether it's how 9th graders learn algebra, how a tennis academy schedules courts, or how students learn to code. The technology serves the domain, not the other way around.
The Bigger Vision · Where the Night Meets the Day
"From the Swamp to the Stars"
My career goal is to develop a complete free homeschool academy in the model of Plato's original Academy — the one Justinian forcefully closed in 529 AD. Plato's Grove opens in 2029, exactly 1,500 years after that suppression, to reignite the philosopher's dream of enlightenment through education and self-examination.
Students don't read about the trebuchet — they build one. They don't study the telegraph — they wire one. The Five Ages curriculum mirrors humanity's own journey through knowledge: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Electromagnetism, Quantum Physics — logarithmically compressed, hands-on, and free for every learner.
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