A Tinkerer's Workbench

The impact

26+ shipped apps, 13 professional tools for product teams and 13 personal projects, all free, all live, all built end-to-end by one person.

These are not weekend prototypes. Each one solves a real problem, has real users, and demonstrates the same product discipline I bring to client work. The professional tools span PM career development, AI adoption diagnostics, and team health. The personal toys cover everything from daily puzzle games to flight search to campus history. All built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Supabase, with AI integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic) where they add real value.

Featured projects

Checkmate

An AI-powered advisory board with 35+ famous thinkers (Annie Duke, Gordon Ramsay, Esther Perel, and others). Describe your decision, pick your advisors, and get AI-generated responses grounded in each thinker's known philosophy. The product challenge was making the AI feel authentic rather than generic, which required deep prompt engineering and per-persona calibration.

ProductType Assessment

An 18-question quiz that identifies your PM archetype, strengths, and blind spots. What makes this interesting is the ecosystem: your ProductType results feed directly into PM Skill Matrix (domain-level skill mapping), PM Interview Kit (personalized practice questions), and Team Shape Analyzer (team composition gaps). Four tools, one shared data model, progressive depth.

Scrambled

A daily hybrid puzzle game with word scrambles, pattern recognition, and trivia, narrated by a sarcastic AI host. Each round uses a different mechanic. Designed for quick sessions under 4 minutes, offline-ready, with daily streaks and share cards. The game design challenge was making each round type feel distinct while keeping the overall session cohesive.

Creami Lab

A recipe browser and guided builder for the Ninja Creami. 21+ tested recipes filterable by dietary need, program type, and flavor profile, plus a step-by-step recipe builder. Essentially the recipe book the Creami should have shipped with. A content-driven product where the UX challenge was making a dense recipe database feel approachable.

118B Campus Time Machine

An interactive map of Virginia Tech from 1872 to today. Drag a timeline slider and watch buildings appear, change names, and disappear across 150 years of campus history. Built from historical records and campus archives. A data visualization and storytelling project that required structuring unstructured historical data into a navigable timeline.

The Last Supper Club

A guided dinner experience for talking about end-of-life wishes with the people you love. The design challenge was handling deeply personal subject matter with warmth instead of gravity, making the conversation feel like a gift rather than a chore. Prompt structure, tone calibration, and pacing all required careful UX thinking.

The full catalog

Professional tools

• AI Maturity Assessment: 6-dimension scoring on where your team actually stands on AI adoption
• AI Health Check: for teams already using AI; measures context discipline and evaluation rigor
• PM Skill Matrix: behavioral skill mapping across 7 PM domains with growth plans
• PM Interview Kit: tailored interview questions with evaluation criteria and follow-ups
• Team Shape Analyzer: map your team's archetype mix against a balanced teams framework
• Do We Need a PM? benchmarked assessment scored against Pinterest, Figma, Slack, and 30+ others
• Meeting Waste Calculator: quantify meeting costs including context-switching overhead
• Get Unstuck: pattern-matched intervention recommendations from 30+ engagements
• Budget Builder: complete monthly budget with downloadable spreadsheet
• Card Sort Maker: drag-and-drop card sorting for IA research and prioritization
• Consulting Rate Calculator: complete rate card generator with hourly, daily, and project pricing

Personal toys

• Game Guru: AI concierge that matches your group to the perfect board game
• Personneagram: multi-framework personality assessment (Enneagram, DISC, Myers-Briggs, CliftonStrengths, Zodiac)
• Packing List: solo trip packing tracker with smart list generation and reusable templates
• The Purge Tracker: room-by-room declutter tracker
• TV Guide: shareable episode and movie release date tracker
• Plane Simple: multi-source flight search with flex dates and deal comparison
• Pokemon Explorer: browse 1,025 Pokemon, build teams, trace evolution chains, collect and compete
• LOST Explorer: interactive TV series reference with spoiler-safe browsing by episode, character, or theme
• SurvivorTribes: fantasy Survivor league platform with scoring, player pages, and episode recaps (survivortribes.com)

Why this matters

Product leaders who can build have a fundamentally different relationship with their teams. I can evaluate technical feasibility firsthand, prototype ideas before writing specs, and ship MVPs without waiting for engineering capacity.

The volume matters too. One shipped side project is a weekend experiment. Twenty-six is a practice, sustained over two years, across domains, with real maintenance and iteration. Every one of these went through the same concept-to-ship cycle I use with clients.

And the interconnected PM tools (ProductType, Skill Matrix, Interview Kit, Team Shape) show how I think about platforms, not just products. Shared data models, progressive disclosure, tools that get smarter when used together.