30+ engineers
Consultancy scaled to
20+
Platform engagements delivered
TWC-certified · 6-month
Academy program
5 of 20+ vetted
Incubator → market in year 1
The Venture
Three operating lines under one roof.
Co-founded an Austin-area tech venture that operated three lines simultaneously: a custom-software consultancy, a workforce-certified coding academy, and a product incubator. As founding partner I owned product, brand, and operating responsibility across all three.
Consultancy: scaled to 30+ engineers delivering 20+ platform engagements over the first operating window. Academy: 6-month curriculum, Texas Workforce Commission certified, with student-loan providers arranged so career-changing students could enroll. I taught multiple cohorts and graduated 50+ engineers. Incubator: vetted 20+ early-stage founders and took 5 of them to market in year one as CPO. Plus the developer-education product line — HTML / CSS / Git cheat sheets and a 30MB K-12 robotics curriculum.
What I Owned
Brand, curriculum, instruction, incubation, and the deliverable craft.
Designed all the branding for the parent venture and the academy — identity, marketing surfaces, conference booth design, classroom collateral. Architected the academy curriculum (5+ technical modules + a final capstone) and taught it in person across multiple cohorts. Coordinated the loan-provider relationships that made the academy financially accessible. Authored the developer reference series and the K-12 robotics curriculum framework. As CPO of the incubator, vetted founders, scoped early-stage products, and took five through to market in year one.
Why It Matters For Lvl Up
The synthesis discipline that runs the AI Audit was forged here.
Education products are pure synthesis exercises — take everything, ship the right thing. The cheat-sheet series didn't enumerate every spec; it organized the standard so a developer could find what they needed at a glance. The robotics curriculum didn't survey every concept; it built a progression a teacher without a robotics background could deliver. That's the same motion the AI Operations Audit runs — and the discipline I built across cohorts, founders, and printed deliverables is the discipline that built the Lvl Up audit template.