Hi, I'm Jimmy
I'm a creative person who uses AI to build things.
I make music, films, artwork, and software.
Ghost Writer is an open-source desktop application writing tool designed to leverage the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) through Ollama.
It aims to provide a streamlined writing experience for creating articles, essays, novels, and various other content types.
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I built a custom retail chatbot system reducing Show of Hands online product entry from 30 minutes to 30 seconds.
This 98% efficiency gain scaled inventory and successfully transformed operations. A proven real-world business application of my AI automation knowledge and skills.
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SeedPhrase is a web-based word puzzle game where players are recruited by the fictional hacker zeroXcool to help decrypt nefarious cryptocurrency wallet seed phrases.
Players must crack encrypted words using a proprietary Variable Shift Caesar Cipher.
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Professional Summary
I build internal AI-powered tools that automate workflows, reduce manual effort, and make teams more productive. My background as a filmmaker taught me to direct specialists toward a unified outcome. Now I apply that discipline to AI systems, orchestrating LLMs, APIs, and automation frameworks to deliver working products.
I am a practical builder: I break problems down, define constraints, validate output, enforce quality, and ship. I have experience integrating models into real software workflows, designing system behaviors, and ensuring reliability at scale. I use AI as leverage, not a shortcut, and continue growing my programming depth so that every product I build is maintainable and production-ready.
Previously, I designed and animated motion graphics for brands like Nike, HBO, Apple, and Bank of America. Today, I direct AI systems to build internal tools, automation platforms, data pipelines, and interactive software with a focus on tangible business value, not hype.
Core Competencies
Generative AI & Agentic Engineering
System Architecture & Automation Design
Web3 & Blockchain Systems / Token Economies
Prompt Engineering & Multimodal AI
UX / UI Design (Google UX Certified)
AI-Assisted Full-Stack System Development
Motion Graphics & 3D Visual Design
Responsible AI Workflow Optimization
Selected Projects
Ghost Writer
Minimal desktop writing environment with built-in local LLM assistance.
- Built a cross-platform Markdown editor with native Ollama integration, enabling offline AI-assisted writing with zero API costs and full data privacy.
- Designed a distraction-free drafting interface and inline prompt token system that allows documents to function as executable AI writing surfaces without chat-style workflows.
- Directed development through an agentic engineering workflow using multiple AI coding agents, structured implementation plans, iterative audits, and manual validation to ship a packaged desktop application under 5MB.
Show of Hands Denver
AI automation platform for a retail business built on the CustomBots framework.
- Implemented a multi-agent pipeline that generates product descriptions, SEO tags, HTML formatting, and metadata.
- Reduced product publishing time from about 30 minutes to about 30 seconds per item, a 98% reduction.
- Enabled autonomous daily store operations without additional staff or content management overhead.
Ghostnet
Interactive simulation of a full crypto economy including trading, staking, and token flow.
- Designed a simulated blockchain environment featuring DEX trading, staking pools, and a unified transaction ledger.
- Integrated live crypto pricing data from CoinGecko to drive market behavior.
- Built dashboards and APIs that visualize token movement and model decentralized economic systems.
Hollywood Stocker
Data-driven celebrity stock market game powered by real-time cultural signals.
- Created a market simulation where celebrity values fluctuate based on Wikipedia traffic and TMDb popularity data.
- Built automated data pipelines and real-time dashboards to track market movement and player positions.
- Integrated the game economy with the Ghostnet token ecosystem.
SeedPhrase
Cryptography-inspired puzzle game that blends wordplay with blockchain mechanics.
- Developed dynamic puzzle generation and difficulty scaling.
- Implemented GPT-powered hint logic that adapts to player progress.
- Connected gameplay rewards to a Web3 wallet system tied into the Ghostnet ecosystem.
Film Diary
Fully automated personal film-tracking and analytics system.
- Built a pipeline that monitors Letterboxd RSS feeds and enriches entries with TMDb metadata.
- Implemented a three-tier caching architecture and incremental updates, reducing processing time from hours to under one minute.
- Developed an interactive analytics dashboard visualizing genre trends, viewing habits, and watch history.
Movie Lists and Targets
Large-scale film recommendation aggregation and analysis engine.
- Consolidated more than 600 curated film lists into a unified structured database.
- Developed the Targets consensus algorithm to identify the most frequently recommended films across sources.
- Built advanced filtering tools with TMDb integration and watch-history cross-referencing.
Professional Experience
Motion Graphics Designer / Director - Octagon & Freelance
- Delivered animation, visual identity, and motion-graphics campaigns for brands including Nike, Apple, HBO, YouTube, Reebok, and Bank of America.
- Contributed motion graphics to Super Bowl campaigns, designed interactive installations, edited VR experiences, and animated large-scale broadcast projects.
- Successfully managed remote and highly secure intensive video pipelines, showcasing adaptability and proficiency in handling complex technical setups.
Film Projects
"INCUBATOR" (2010)
Writer, Director, Editor, Composer
- Featured in more than 50 international film festivals and won 13 awards.
"EAT" (2014)
Writer, Director, Editor, Composer
- Sitges Film Festival New Visions nominee.
"MOBILITY" (2016)
Director, Visual Effects
- Telly Award for Best Production Design.
"RENT-A-PAL" (2020)
Producer, Visual Effects, Composer
- Released theatrically by IFC Midnight.
Education
University of Colorado Denver
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing & Directing for Theatre, Film, & Television | Minor in Music Industry Studies
- Graduated Cum Laude | Awarded Outstanding Graduate.
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Recognition & Awards
- Top 1% Cursor user in Denver, invited to hackathons.
- More than 13 film festival awards including Sitges, Fantasia, and Fantastic Fest.
- Telly Award for Best Production Design for Arrow "Mobility."
- Films distributed via IFC Midnight and 1091 Pictures.
Technology & Tools
- Languages / Frameworks
- JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Next.js, PHP
- AI Tools
- Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Ollama, Cursor, Cline, Suno, Midjourney, Gemini
- Version Control
- GitHub
- Design & Motion
- Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Cinema 4D, After Effects
- Blockchain / Web3
- Tezos (SmartPy), Beacon SDK, Taquito.js
- Data / APIs
- CoinGecko, TMDb, Wikipedia, JSON pipelines