Projects

Ongoing

MBA, IT Management

Western Governors University, expected 2026. Pursued in the margins of full-time surgical work, which is its own course in time management.

Flight training

Working toward a private pilot certificate. Flying taught me checklists, weather respect, and the value of a three-second breath, and it keeps teaching both.

Languages

Spanish (fluent), Italian (intermediate), Mandarin (beginner, actively studying). Language is access; every new one changes what the world will tell you.

This site

One essay a month, kept honestly, for a long time. The longest-horizon project on the page.

Built & continuing

The Florida ALPR Transparency Project

An ongoing, records-based research project on how Northern Florida counties procure, govern, and oversee automated license plate reader systems, built from public records, vendor documents, and Florida statutes. I’ve presented findings to local officials, and the goal is constructive: clear rules, informed residents, and accountable adoption of a technology that can genuinely help law enforcement when it’s governed well. Additional county records are pending, and presentations to county commissions are scheduled for July and August 2026. Volume I is published here.

Research

Scientific research permanently changed how I evaluate evidence.

Pending co-authored abstract with the American College of Surgeons (#5345) on lateral extraperitoneal positioning of the renal allograft vein in human kidney transplantation.

• UF Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery Research Laboratory (Dr. Ali Zarrinpar), 2020–2022
• Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Liver Transplant Laboratory (Dr. Justin Nguyen), 2023–2025
• UF Honey Bee Research Laboratory, IFAS/Extension, 2020–2021

SCOPE

An eCommerce and contracting business I founded and operate remotely, built and scaled while I worked surgical call and finished an MBA. It runs on automation, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows, and on the conviction, formed the hard way, that your ability to practice your craft shouldn’t depend on someone else’s letterhead.

Trauma kits in every school in Alachua County

At eighteen, after the Parkland shooting, I researched trauma survivability data, consulted emergency physicians and sheriffs across multiple counties, and presented the case to the Alachua County School Board. The board approved trauma kits for every public school facility in the county. It was my first real lesson in how evidence becomes policy: someone has to do the unglamorous translation work.

Federal advocacy on organ procurement policy

Traveled to Washington, D.C. to brief U.S. Senate and Congressional offices on a CMS final rule governing organ procurement organization performance metrics, translating regulatory language into plain terms for policymakers. A one-day schedule became two.