• 🔍 - My primary focus is artificial intelligence, specifically enabling teams of agents to perform long horizon tasks with MCP.
• 🧭 - I was recently invited to become a member of the Model Context Protocol maintainers and steering committee.
• 📅 - If you'd like to hire me or just chat about something interesting, you can grab a slot on my calendar.
• 📋 - Here are my resume and recommendations if you're interested.

I've slung a lot of code since the days of 6502 assembly for C64 and the Apple ][. Here's where I'm strongest at the moment.

• React
• Node
• JSX
• Typescript
• JavaScript
• OpenAI API
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) - I am a contributor and maintainer

I enjoy leading remote, globally distributed teams to success. This requires continuous integration, unit testing with an aim for 100% coverage, and rigorous code review. It makes a team stronger and certainly elevates code quality. The highest compliment for a team I've led was that the codebase appeared as if created by one person.

A common thing I see is domain language drift across teams and departments acting as a major source of friction and misunderstanding, both internally and with . That's why I approach new projects with domain-driven design, i.e., agree upon the things and the processes that operate on the things first (nouns and verbs). Build a glossary for the project and everyone from code to marketing is on the same page from the jump.

With every new system design, I am guided by Einstein's maxim: "As simple as possible, no simpler."

Within modular software, the biggest problem is separation of concerns, e.g., not muddling view handling responsibiilities with business logic and domain logic. As opposed to toolkits which offer a grab bag of utilities, frameworks help developers focus on requirements by providing a set of actors with roles, relationships, and collaboration patterns that solve for separation of concerns.

When I began working for large enterprise clients, I noticed that the frameworks avaialble for the prevalent development stacks were overcomplicated and made maintenance harder. Junior team members often struggled to understand the collaboration patterns at play between the framework actors. This led to messy, confusing code that is hard to maintain.

So in 2004, I created the PureMVC Framework. PureMVC is a lightweight, object-oriented MVC architecture that was eventually ported to over 15 programming languages and is still used today. Also wrote the O'Reilly book.

• ✨ Model Context Protocol is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. I am a contributor, maintainer, and member of the MCP Steering Committee.
• ✨ Puzzlebox is an MCP server that hosts finite state machines (called puzzles). With the GooseTeam project, we learned that attempting to make agents collaborate with a protocol for collaboration can generate results. But where it gets muddled is with non-trivial projects that need to employ phases. Inception, specification, design, building, etc. Within one of those phases an approach like GooseTeam can work well. This is where Puzzlebox comes in. It exposes tools to create and manipulate puzzles, moving state machines through their states. Clients can subscribe to individual state machines to receive updates when their state and available actions change.
• ✨ GooseTeam is an MCP server I wrote for enabling collaboration between a team of Goose agents. Given an arbitrarily complex project such as outlining a television series pilot or creating a non-trivial software application, the agents utilize tools exposed by the MCP to plan, assign, and complete tasks in service of the goal. This project is pioneering the use of mermaid markdown for controlling agents.

• ✨ At Culturalyst, I recently built an arts and culture focused, city-specific AI assistant for improving artist discovery. Separately, I overcame a showstopping issue with gathering artist opportunities from around the web and delivering to subscribing artists those relevant to their discipline and experience. With AI, I was able to classify opportunities from arbitrary sites into our taxonomy, normalizing the data into our domain model such that they appeared to have been entered through our own UI.
• ✨ With PlotRocket, an AI-assisted series planner and episode outliner, I am combining artificial intelligence with common industry practices for creating episodic fiction, yielding a tool capable of planning multiple seasons of a television series down to the scene and beat. With or without the use of AI. It allows anyone to turn an idea into an engaging episodic story.

• Tangential - Sci-fi novel about alien invasion, government conspiracy, quantum entanglement, and tangential timelines.
• Emergent Behavior - The 2024 Sea of Arrows album. Available on Spotify, YouTube Music, iTunes, etc.
• PureMVC Framework - Lightweight MVC architecture ported to over 15 programming languages.
• Page Fight! - Readers helping authors be more awesome. And keeping score.
• Sinewav3 - 3D music visualizer with built in plugin development environment.
• PlotRocket, an AI-assisted series planner and episode outliner.
• Zarqon - A secure, cloud-based software licensing product.
• Loop Dust - A generative audiovisual art project.