Highlights

2026

🏭 Graduated from the Central Texas Food Bank Warehouse Operations Program — receiving, inventory, forklift certification, food safety compliance, WMS (CERES 5)
🎙 Austin Public Studio Crew certified — live multi-camera production, control room operation, pre-shoot setup
📷 Outside Is Free — ongoing documentation of Austin's public land and green spaces as urban infrastructure
🌳 Austin Parks Foundation — 25+ native trees planted at Bartholomew Park and Gus Garcia Recreation Center; It's My Park Day mulching at Festival Beach Food Forest (spring).
🌊 Austin Youth River Watch — trash collection from Buttermilk Creek.
🗑 Keep Austin Beautiful Day / Earth Day — Lady Bird Lake shoreline cleanup (upcoming).

2025

🥤 JuiceLand — shift management, inventory, demand-adjusted ordering
🌳 Austin Parks Foundation — It's My Park Day: mulching at Zilker Botanical Garden (spring), inventory reconciliation (fall).
🗑 Keep Austin Beautiful — thousands of pounds of waste removed from Lady Bird Lake shoreline and East Austin corridors. SXSW season cleanup with Austin Resource Recovery.

2024

🥤 JuiceLand — promoted from crew to shift manager within 4 months. Workflow redesign cut average fulfillment time 43%+. Contributed to record-breaking 2024 location profitability.
🔐 Emerald P.I. contract ends May 2024 — fourteen months of overnight solo patrol, spatial pattern analysis, structured incident documentation.
🌳 Austin Parks Foundation — It's My Park Day: new fence installation at Austin Nature & Science Center (fall).
🚲 Yellow Bike Project — repaired and refurbished donated bicycles for redistribution.

2023

🔐 Emerald P.I. — Security Guard II. Commercial properties, Austin. Solo 12-hour overnight shifts. Redesigned patrol routes around observed facility patterns across three long-term placements.

2022

2021

🌡️ World Event: Texas Snowpocalypse — the grid failed. The city failed. The infrastructure was not maintained.
💻 ClearCGI Room Configurator — multi-tenant product visualization platform, Airtable backend, four active client configurations.

2020

🌍 World Event: COVID-19 — everything went remote. Some systems held. Many did not.
🎓 MIT Innovation One — three-role student placement platform deployed institution-wide. Airtable backbone, WordPress/Kerberos SSO, bidirectional sync. Several hundred students.

2019

🤝 Co-founded Deytah — three-person contract agency. Billing consolidation for cross-referral work that led to institutional-scale clients.
🏛 Congressional Hunger Center — full platform redesign. $16,500 contract. 40+ page sitemap, 13 Figma templates, four-dimensional publications library, interactive global partner map
🤠 LBJ Foundation — Liberty and Justice For All Award archive and Summit on Race in America post-event site. Both still live
🐴 Parelli Natural Horsemanship — migrated 6,000+ student records and 13,500+ assessments from a single-machine Access database into Airtable. Built purchase-to-credential automation across Shopify, Gravity Forms, Infusionsoft, and Memberium
📣 First podcast — BuiltOnAir S03E08

2018

📍 Relocated: Albuquerque, NM → Austin, TX
🌑 Super Blue Blood Moon Total Eclipse — Albuquerque, NM. January 31. Trifecta: supermoon, blue moon, total lunar eclipse
🌐 Google Fiber arrived. A real before/after moment in what was possible to build remotely

2017

🌑 Great American Total Solar Eclipse — drove to North Platte, NE to be in the path of totality
📷 "Illuminate" — first photo featured on Unsplash and added to the Mac app wallpapers
💼 Easy Agent PRO — Business Intelligence & Project Manager. Real estate SaaS, 1,200+ customers. Built BI system consolidating 13 data pipelines, eliminating 1,000+ hours of annual manual work. Launched SVG mapping product generating $25,000 in new ARR
✈️ Travel — Fort Lauderdale, Weston, Clearwater, Melbourne (FL) · New York City (NY) · Newark (NJ)

2016

🏅 NAPW VIP Woman of the Year — Multimedia. Featured in Women 360: Member Spotlight

2015

🖥 Built Media Labs — resource platform for Distance Learning faculty at CNM
📊 Presented: "Beyond PoisonPoint" and "Augmented Video — It's More Than Pressing Play" — CNM faculty conference

2014

🎓 BS in Anthropology, University of New Mexico — cum laude. Named Superior Undergraduate Student. Recognized in the UNM Anthropology Newsletter
⛏ Fieldwork — Alaska: Gateway to the Americas II, NSF-funded. Multi-beam sonar, GPS data processing, underwater survey of the Alaskan continental shelf. Under Kelly Monteleone, Ph.D. and Dr. E. James Dixon
📊 Presented: "Inked — A 5,000 Year Old Tattooing Tradition Among Us" — AGSU Graduate Student Conference, UNM
🎓 Certifications: Blackboard Admin — Course Delivery and Content Management

2013

🥽 Became a Google Glass Explorer
⛏ Fieldwork — 🇧🇿 Belize: Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project — San Ignacio. Maya lowland archaeology
⛏ Fieldwork — New Mexico: Geoarchaeology — San Luis de Cabezón. Bureau of Land Management and Office of Contract Archaeology

2012

📍 Relocated: Round Rock, TX → Albuquerque, NM
🇲🇽🇧🇿 Travel — Doomsday Circuit: archaeological site-hopping across the Yucatan Peninsula and Belize for the end of the Maya Long Count Calendar. The sites did not end
🔭 Transit of Venus — Round Rock, TX. The last one visible from Earth until 2117
📖 Published first issue of Origins + archaeological research in The Silo and AncientPlanet Online Journal
🎪 Coordinated ACC's 1st Annual Social Media Communication Forum
📣 Press: The Daily Lobo ("Plying Their Craft") and Paper.li ("Digital Indiana Jones")
🏅 Awards: Public Anthropology · National Excellence in Leadership · Amigo Transfer Scholarship — University of New Mexico
🛠 m2creates consulting practice founded — January 2012. Still active

2011

⛏ Fieldwork — 🇧🇿 Belize: Ethnoarchaeology, Orange Walk
⛏ Fieldwork — 🇺🇸 Texas: Colonial-period archaeology, Rancho de las Cabras
🎓 Certified: Site Recognition and Documentation
💼 Internship: The Dream Tree — database management and social media for a student startup program

2010

🐬 Internship — Key Largo, FL: Dolphins Plus — trained dolphins and sea lions using positive reinforcement. Marine mammal conservation and animal psychology
🎓 Certified: PADI Open Water Diver

2009

✈️ A plane from Mexico City to Austin. An idea for a blog about human origins. Started Origins somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico. Everything else unrolled from there

2008

🌍 World Event: Global financial collapse. The infrastructure of assumption failed faster than anyone modeled