Twenty-six years teaching the Navy how to teach.
Now designing learning for the civilian side, built on a career of instructional-design mastery and the speed of modern AI production.
Courses and case studies
A sample of designed learning, built to real instructional standards, not filler. Start with the live course.
After the Uniform
Three beliefs quietly stall a lot of military transitions. This short course names each one, shows why it feels true, and hands the learner the move that beats it, with objectives, knowledge checks, a scenario, and a graded quiz.
Launch the course → Case studies · AI capability Four projectsAI-Assisted Development
Four builds where AI compressed production without cutting instructional rigor: a video-production engine for educational content, a hands-off publishing system, a full multi-tier curriculum produced solo, and an AI second-brain operating system. Measured by output, not hours.
Read the case studies → Teardown · visible process Marked upRaw AI vs. Designed
A raw AI-generated lesson marked up section by section against the same lesson after real instructional design. Five intro blocks collapse into one, four objectives trim to three, the flashcards get their missing payoff back, and the one part the AI got right is kept. This is what the craft adds.
See the markup →I design and build the systems that teach people.
I design and build learning systems, and I have spent a career proving they work. I hold a Master of Education in curriculum design and the Navy's Master Training Specialist qualification, a boarded, master-level standard in the full instructional-design lifecycle: analyze the real need, design to it, build it, test it, and evaluate whether it actually changed performance. One is the theory. The other is proof I did it under evaluation, at scale.
I built and ran Navy training across a 1987 to 2026 span of service, twenty years in uniform and nineteen as a Department of the Navy civilian. That is not just time at a podium. It is analysis, courseware, assessments, and instructor standards, all held to a system the Navy audits. Today I pair that foundation with fluency in AI production tools, so I design and ship high-quality learning faster than a traditional pipeline.
I also founded Rhynowerks LLC, where I turn subject-matter expertise into structured courses.
What I do
Full instructional-design lifecycle, from analysis to a published, standards-based course.
Let's talk
Open to instructional-design and eLearning-development roles, remote or in the Pensacola area.