Selected work

Data products, field tools, and interactive websites.

Selected projects across ecology, operations, sports analytics, and creative web development.

01 · Flagship platform

EcoPlot Mobile

Offline ecological collection → cloud sync → office review → reporting.

I architect and build this progressive web app for Desert Data Labs. It supports standardized and custom protocols, on-device storage, concurrent-edit detection, GPS, photos, maps, and an Azure-backed office workflow.

PWA
Azure SQL
Offline sync
Product design

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02 · Sports data product

Power-4 Girth Index

Recruiting data becomes a live roster-intelligence lab.

A transparent dashboard shows data freshness and coverage before body maps, position profiles, team reach, and Talent Origins reveal how rosters are built—and where high-school talent comes from—across all 67 ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, and SEC programs.

R Shiny
Data pipelines
Plotly
Geospatial analysis

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03 · Ecological analytics

NEON Small Mammal Tracker

National monitoring records, made personal and explorable.

Site maps, individual capture histories, home-range heatmaps, diversity profiles, detection-corrected abundance, and transparent method notes turn a large public dataset into a useful field guide.

R
Ecological stats
Mapping
UX

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04 · ETL + QA/QC

VGS Batch Importer

Historical spreadsheets become structured, checked field records.

An R pipeline parses multiple vegetation protocols, resolves metadata, flags data-quality problems, and loads clean records into a local SQLite field database.

R
SQLite
Excel
QA/QC

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05 · Data storytelling

Plants in Movies

Which U.S. flora best matches three imagined worlds?

A size-adjusted botanical comparison of Arrakis, Middle-earth, and Isla Nublar, built from roughly 250,000 USDA PLANTS records and compressed into a fast interactive experience.

R Shiny
USDA data
Visualization
Storytelling

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06 · Desktop utility

VGSLite

Practical database maintenance without asking users to write SQL.

An Electron-packaged R helper for repairing links, moving events, clearing deletion caches, converting databases, and reducing common support work in VGS 5 Desktop.