Sustainable Catalyst Portfolio

Portfolio

Selected products, research systems, policy work, technical education,
community programs, and documentation demonstrating how complex ideas
become usable public infrastructure.

The portfolio connects current Sustainable Catalyst platform development
with earlier professional work in engineering education, community-led growth,
technical storytelling, product documentation, and public-interest research.

Portfolio standard:
show the work, explain the system behind it, preserve the evidence,
and connect the output to the audience or decision it was designed to support.

Portfolio overview

Proof across products, research, education, and public knowledge

The work spans open-source product development, content and knowledge architecture,
technical education, policy analysis, community programming, documentation,
responsible AI, sustainability intelligence, and decision support.
The common thread is systems translation: making complex subjects easier
to understand, evaluate, participate in, and improve.

Build

Working products and infrastructure

Public applications, plugins, services, repositories, schemas,
and workflows that move beyond concept into implementation.

Explain

Technical education and storytelling

Webinars, documentation, demonstrations, and learning programs
that help technical audiences evaluate and adopt complex technology.

Engage

Community and participation systems

Design challenges, voting, quizzes, panels, and feedback loops
that turn audiences into active contributors.

Ground

Research and evidence discipline

Policy briefs, source-aware analysis, documentation,
and public methodology designed to remain reviewable.

Browse portfolio

Selected work by system and outcome

Start with the current Sustainable Catalyst platform,
then explore policy work, technical education, community programs,
foundational writing, and professional materials.

Current work

Platform and product systems

Open-source knowledge, research, analytical, scientific, support, and engagement products.

Research

Policy and governance

Public-interest briefs on sanctions, platform accountability, and institutional design.

Education

Engineering webinars and workshops

Technical programs across AI, embedded systems, FPGAs, robotics, IoT, and edge computing.

Participation

Community programs and writing

Design challenges, interactive learning, product documentation, and educational content.

Current platform work

Sustainable Catalyst as a connected public product ecosystem

Sustainable Catalyst is the most complete expression of the work:
a growing open-source platform connecting public knowledge, research guidance,
scientific computing, public intelligence, decision support, product support,
and private engagement through shared evidence and documentation standards.

Knowledge architecture

Knowledge Library

A structured document and reference layer for converting source materials
into searchable knowledge documents with collections, metadata,
source attachments, pathways, and publication history.

Documents · Collections · Sources · Metadata · Discovery · Publishing

Research guidance

Research Librarian

A site-scoped research environment for title-aware retrieval,
source discovery, grounded synthesis, research routing,
related-title discovery, and structured research journeys.

Retrieval · Source discovery · Research pathways · Grounded synthesis

Modeling and computation

Workbench

A reusable analytical environment connecting symbolic math,
unit-aware calculations, graphing, code, domain studios,
technical documentation, and exportable reports.

Symbolic analysis · Graphing · Code · Domain calculators · Reports

Scientific environment

Research Lab

A connected scientific and engineering workspace for experiments,
notebooks, visualization, instrumentation, scientific feeds,
provenance, validation, and cross-domain research.

Science · Engineering · Experiments · Instruments · Validation

Public intelligence

Site Intelligence

A public observatory for country intelligence, thematic dashboards,
earth observation, live events, source registries,
comparisons, methodology, and briefing exports.

Indicators · Maps · Events · Countries · Sources · Briefs

Decision governance

Decision Studio

A structured environment for evidence, scenarios, assumptions,
tradeoffs, uncertainty, review states, approvals,
and traceable Decision Packets.

Evidence · Scenarios · Tradeoffs · Review · Decision Packets

Public support and feedback

Product Support and Feedback Platform

Documentation, guided resolution, known issues, releases,
feature suggestions, voting, surveys, and product-improvement intelligence.

Support · Knowledge base · Releases · Ideas · Voting · Surveys

Private coordination

Contact and Engagement Platform

Private inquiries, sender communication, documents,
proposals, approvals, collaboration, support cases,
and engagement analytics in one controlled workflow.

Intake · Private records · Documents · Proposals · Collaboration

Shared systems

Platform Core and Infrastructure

Common entity records, knowledge-graph relationships,
evidence ledgers, APIs, service gateways, source controls,
trust records, and typed product handoffs.

Entities · Evidence · APIs · Handoffs · Provenance · Trust

Policy and governance

Policy briefs and institutional analysis

Selected public-interest work focused on sanctions, development constraints,
platform accountability, technological governance, harm reduction,
and institutional design.

Policy brief

Sanctions, Oil, and Justice Under Siege

Analysis of sanctions-driven financial isolation, oil-rent dependence,
and constraints on SDG-aligned policy capacity in Venezuela.

December 22, 2025 · UCD

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Policy brief

Peace Through Platform Governance

Proposal for arms-like end-use controls and tamper-evident audit trails
for AI, cloud, and ISR platforms to support accountability and harm reduction.

October 19, 2025 · UCD

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Engineering webinars and technical education

Technical storytelling for engineering audiences

Selected webinar production, technical education, and engineering content
across edge AI, embedded systems, robotics, machine vision,
FPGAs, memory, IoT, LoRa, and scientific computing.

Webinar

Machine Vision with the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit

End-to-end webinar production with AMD covering KR260, ROS 2,
machine vision, the Kria Robotics Stack, Ubuntu, and industrial connectivity.

May 18, 2023

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Webinar

Smart Agriculture: Pest Monitoring with AI and Arduino

Produced and hosted a session on vineyard pest monitoring using
Arduino Nicla Vision, LoRa, Arduino IoT Cloud, and machine-learning detection.

April 27, 2023

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Webinar

AMD 7 Series FPGAs and SoCs Live On

Lifecycle-extension webinar covering device selection,
value and performance tradeoffs, and roadmap updates through at least 2035.

April 5, 2023

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Webinar

Constrained Object Detection with Edge Impulse

Practical explanation of detection, classification, segmentation,
and Edge Impulse FOMO for low-power microcontrollers.

September 6, 2022

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Webinar

Machine Learning and Sensor Fusion Make Smart Cities Smarter

Webinar lifecycle ownership for embedded machine learning,
sensor-fusion use cases, Nordic Thingy:91 demonstrations, and live Q&A.

February 9, 2022

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Expert panel

Getting Started with FPGAs

Program-managed panel on when to choose FPGA versus ASIC,
MPU, or GPU, including learning paths, tools, and practical tradeoffs.

July 22, 2021

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Workshop

Build Powerful Wildlife and Livestock Trackers

OpenMV and Edge Impulse workshop covering dataset import,
TensorFlow Lite training, image classification, and deployment to OpenMV Cam.

May 12, 2021

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Webinar

Introduction to LPDDR4 and LPDDR5

Technical education on LPDDR4 and LPDDR5 fundamentals,
selection considerations, market trends, and adoption examples.

February 24, 2021

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Webinar

Introduction to TinyML

End-to-end TinyML webinar covering embedded machine learning,
Edge Impulse, Arduino Nano 33 BLE, and rapid model development.

December 16, 2020

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Webinar

LoRa Meets Arduino

LPWAN fundamentals with LoRa and LoRaWAN,
Arduino ecosystem applications, and dashboards in Arduino IoT Cloud.

June 10, 2020

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Webinar

Using Python Overlays to Experiment with Neural Networks

Explanation of Xilinx PYNQ, programmable-logic overlays,
and binary and quantized neural-network demonstrations.

April 8, 2020

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Programs and interactive content

Community activation and participatory learning

Selected program leadership, interactive learning, design challenges,
and community experiences designed to turn audiences into participants.

Design challenge

Photonics

End-to-end challenge leadership covering launch, participation,
submissions, judging, prizes, and delivery.

February 6, 2020

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Interactive quiz

Arduino Fundamentals

An interactive quiz that turned technical learning into participation,
discussion, and repeat engagement.

February 15, 2020

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Design challenge

Recycle and Retrofit: Reduce Waste in Style

Upcycling challenge covering theme development, rules,
community activation, judging, and prize administration.

October 14, 2020

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eBook

Finding a Successful Career in Engineering — Part 1

Engineering careers panel transformed into an evergreen resource
for students and early-career engineers.

October 13, 2020

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eBook

Finding a Successful Career in Engineering — Part 2

Follow-up resource focused on long-term growth,
culture fit, resilience, and measures of professional success.

November 13, 2020

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Program proof:
the broader Project14 record demonstrates recurring program design,
community voting, participation, user-generated content,
technical education, and product insight over multiple years.

Foundational technical writing

ActiveCampaign documentation and educational writing

Early technical and educational work focused on onboarding,
deliverability, research design, measurement, product understanding,
and customer support.

User guide

ActiveCampaign Email Marketing — Help Documentation

Product help documentation covering onboarding, list management,
automation, tracking, reporting, administration, and support workflows.

May 7, 2004

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Deliverability

Where Does Email Go When It Isn’t Delivered? Part 1

Explanation of inbox filtering and operational practices
that protect deliverability, including opt-in, list quality, and volume.

March 10, 2007

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Deliverability

Where Does Email Go When It Isn’t Delivered? Part 2

Continuation covering reputation signals, list hygiene,
authentication, domain configuration, RFC alignment, and bounce management.

June 10, 2007

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Research design

Validity in Research Design

Explanation of internal, external, construct,
and statistical validity and how they affect research credibility.

October 9, 2007

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Measurement

Understanding Levels of Measurement

Explanation of nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio measurement
and how each level affects appropriate statistical methods.

October 1, 2008

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Proof framework

How the portfolio demonstrates capability

The portfolio is strongest when each item is understood as evidence
of a repeatable capability rather than as an isolated artifact.

Products

Concept to implementation

Public applications and repositories demonstrate product architecture,
technical execution, information design, and operating discipline.

Programs

Audience to participation

Webinars, design challenges, panels, and quizzes demonstrate
community activation and technical education.

Research

Question to evidence-backed argument

Policy briefs and public methodology demonstrate research,
source discipline, synthesis, and narrative governance.

Documentation

Complexity to usable guidance

Manuals, knowledge articles, release notes, and support systems
demonstrate translation and operational clarity.

Resume and CV

Professional materials

Use the professional resume for hiring and role evaluation.
LinkedIn provides a broader view of experience, projects,
public work, and current professional positioning.

Next step

Connect the work to the broader system

Expertise explains the capabilities. The Platform shows the products.
Research and the Library show the knowledge base.
Advisory shows how the same methods can be applied to external work.

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