AI ENABLEMENT LEADER · BUILDER · EDUCATOR · PHYSICIST
I make hard technology, and make it usable.
Over a decade building and teaching across physics, space, immersive reality, robotics, and AI across university labs, small business, and enterprise scale. Now AI Enablement Lead at Zillow and founder of Chaotic Curiosity. Underneath it all: human factors and HCI, how people interface with technology.
What changed because I was there.
Four places where my work changed how an organization operates. Each card opens the full story.
AI adoption across 2,700+ people
Built Zillow's AI enablement program: training, a champions network and an internal hub, with adoption measured by what people actually do, not by surveys.
Read the case →Decentralized XR across the company
Took VR and AR out of one lab and into every vehicle program, so engineers, technicians and safety teams could review hardware in 3D on their own, inside ITAR.
Read the case →AI-driven engineering, from requirements to part
One connected pipeline where LLMs, systems models, AI-generated CAD, simulation and XR review hand work to each other: a transformation priority on the CEO's radar.
Read the case →Hands-on physics for 3,000+ students a semester
Ran the labs behind ASU's physics courses for six years, then designed and taught a graduate studio on XR and AI.
Read the case →And much more.
Four cases don't cover a decade: an AI character for a museum dome, VR construction-safety training, robotics, courses and a studio with paying clients. Ask me about any of it.
Side builds and experiments.
What I build to learn, test an idea, or make one true thing felt. A few favorites:
Your Powers of Ten
The universe pulled back from your own doorstep, in real data, to the star whose light left the year you were born, then down to a proton.
My studio: Chaotic Curiosity
A boutique studio building XR, AI, robotics and media for museums, universities, startups and research labs. Client work lives there; here's the latest.
Visit chaoticcuriosity.io ↗
Afrobotica, the Earthlight Historian
A live generative-AI character under a planetarium dome, running local speech recognition and a local language model on one workstation.
Space Grid AI
Architecture for an AI-native shipyard logistics platform, now with paying customers.
VR rigging-safety worlds for Kiewit
Rigging scenes rebuilt from site photos, plus a procedural Blender toolkit that generates whole pipe-rack sites for Unity.
Pooladvand Lab research
VR, EEG and eye-tracking research on construction safety and automation. Publication in preparation.
Teaching a humanoid to move
Walking, a cartwheel and a backflip for a simulated Unitree G1, trained on a DGX Spark and written up as a 15-chapter guide.
For the benefit of Earth and the diversity of its inhabitants.
AI is powerful enough to change everything. I choose to use it for good causes.
It is not enough to focus on building alone - we must share what we build with others.
Keep the human at the center - the more capable the machine, the more it rides on the person using it.
Let's build something.
Open to roles where I help organizations adopt frontier AI safely and well (enablement, customer success, technical program and engineering leadership, and the hands-on building behind them) and to a good conversation about hard problems that matter.