From Flash
to Founder

The early chapter was hands-on and multimedia-heavy: Flash, ActionScript, interface design, games, websites, video, and the kind of practical learning that comes from shipping real work for real people.

• Became an Adobe Certified Expert in Flash Professional CS5
• Built games, custom components, learning tools, and multimedia projects
• Learned to move fluidly between design tools and code

Earned a Bachelor of Integrated Studies from Weber State University with emphases in Computer Science, Multimedia, and Graphic Design. That mix still explains a lot: systems thinking, visual craft, and a bias toward useful products.

• Blended engineering, design, and multimedia instead of choosing only one lane
• Built the foundation for a career across web, games, desktop, mobile, and EdTech

Joined Reading Horizons and moved deeper into EdTech product development: building software for reading instruction, internal tools, games, lesson systems, and the technical foundations behind learning products.

• Built educational games and software tools used in learning workflows
• Created internal tools that saved production time for lesson development
• Grew from individual contributor work into broader product and team influence

The old portfolio is full of useful artifacts from this stretch: children's learning games, HTML5 experiments, WordPress and PHP sites, UI concepts, logos, video work, and design projects. It is not the main pitch anymore, but it is proof of range.

• Built learning games including Dino Drop, Letter Leap, Card Match, and Monkey Run
• Converted Flash-era work toward HTML5 and browser-based experiences
• Designed websites, interfaces, promotional assets, logos, and motion pieces

Stepped into engineering leadership at Reading Horizons, responsible for team direction, product delivery, architecture decisions, technical quality, and helping people do their best work.

• Lead engineering work across product development, QA, and infrastructure
• Partner with Product, Design, Curriculum, and business stakeholders
• Coach engineers while keeping delivery focused and practical

Led and built an internal knowledge platform to make engineering information easier to find, validate, and maintain. The core idea was simple: stale knowledge should be visible instead of quietly dangerous.

• Used Markdown and structured metadata to keep authoring lightweight
• Surfaced validation age so team knowledge had an obvious freshness signal
• Reduced repeated interruptions for answers that should have been findable

Launched the business that became NexSolvo, with BrainFusion Learning as the first major product focus: game-based learning tools for teachers, trainers, and learners who need better retention without more complexity.

• Built BrainFusion Games as a competitive quiz and learning platform
• Started validating pricing, positioning, and early customer demand
• Shifted from only building software to building a business around useful products

The current season is about helping the Reading Horizons team hit a major product launch while pushing NexSolvo and BrainFusion toward real customer traction. It is the bridge between software leadership and full-time founder ambition.

• Support a major June 2026 product launch at Reading Horizons
• Grow BrainFusion toward paying customers and a clearer market wedge
• Keep building with craft while protecting family, faith, and community priorities