Projects and work

We operate numerous businesses, ventures and experiments; some pseudonymously, some not. Explore the tip of the iceberg via these featured projects:

Selected work

MMS

Medical Massage Specialists. Lead developer and core stakeholder. 2023 to present. Ithaca, NY.

An extant client and landmark project, and a pilot for proving GloriousFlywheel concepts in a real business stack.

My bounded hardware and cluster shaped the requirements and architecture. Those constraints motivated the compute-once, O(1) lifecycle goal and the scheduling work.

The entire business stack for MassageIthaca.com, grown through four business expansions over three years.

Stack: SvelteKit, Skeleton (we are a core sponsor and contributor to Skeleton UI), hosting on-prem hardened Kubernetes, Zod validation + svelte-superforms (for which we are a core contributor), OTel stack.

Bespoke accounting middleware and CLI tools for tax and accounting, written in Python interacting with GnuCash and Acuity Scheduling.

Business operations moved 4 times into larger facilities; multiple rebrands and advertising campaigns. Mailgun + on-prem mail IO; code and infra wholly owned by MMS, with the project serving as a GloriousFlywheel pilot.

Four business expansions
Bespoke hiring pipelines
Transactional mail and the email stack
SEO, Google integrations and G Suite enterprise
Bespoke edge network and geozone optimization
Accounting middleware and CLI tools for tax and accounting

massageithaca.com

GFTB

Great Falls Tool Bus. Lead developer and core stakeholder. 2026 to present. Lewiston, ME.

An extant client and landmark project, and a pilot for proving GloriousFlywheel concepts at the edge.

My bounded hardware and cluster shaped the requirements and architecture. Those constraints motivated the compute-once, O(1) lifecycle goal and the scheduling work.

Entire bespoke mail stack, user ontology, inventory system and membership lifecycle fully hostable inside a recycled bus on solar power, proofing GloriousFlywheel concepts under the project's physical constraints.

Bespoke mail stack
User ontology
Inventory system
Membership lifecycle

greatfallstoolbus.org

Merlin Sound ID

Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Macaulay Library. Computer vision software engineer. 2019 to 2021. Ithaca, NY.

Developed and launched Merlin Sound ID, a production fine-grained audio classification system used by millions worldwide.

Built the annotation tooling, the model evaluation web APIs and the MLOps pipelines behind it, and co-launched The Machine Learning Blog at the Macaulay Library.

Fine-grained annotation tooling for audio classification
Model evaluation web APIs
MLOps pipelines

merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ www.macaulaylibrary.org/machine-learning/transscendsurvival.org/cv transscendsurvival.org/blog/tmpui-the-merlin-sound-id-project

GIS contracting

National Park Service, Foundation for Healthy Communities, GP RED, Northern Border Regional Commission, and the New Hampshire towns of Franklin, Manchester, Berlin and Haverhill. Web GIS developer, through Columbari.us LLC. 2017 to 2021. New Hampshire.

Through the Plymouth State University connection, web services and GIS software support for projects with the National Park Service and the New Hampshire towns of Franklin, Berlin and Manchester.

Invoice-backed work for the NH Youth Photovoice project in 2018 and 2019: Google map hosting for Manchester, Berlin and Haverhill, site updates, and media and project report downloads.

Presented at the 2019 Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Washington, DC, with the partners named above.

Web GIS tools for the National Park Service, in R, ArcGIS and the Google Maps API
A GIS project website and data cleaning scripts for the Foundation for Healthy Communities and GP RED, in R, Bash and ArcGIS Online
A web GIS data service for the Northern Border Regional Commission, in R and the Arcade expression language
Google map hosting, site updates and report downloads for the NH Youth Photovoice project in Manchester, Berlin and Haverhill

Berlin passed a resolution to apply for a grant of up to $800,000 for 1,700 feet of new sidewalk after the youth presentation
The work was presented at the 2019 AAG annual meeting in Washington, DC

transscendsurvival.org/aag

All work

56 entries. Contracts, products, open source and research, in file order.

Columbari.us LLC

Columbari.us LLC. Owner. 2017 to 2021. New Hampshire and New York.

An independent contractor business in the GIS and machine learning space, fully insured and registered in both New Hampshire and New York.

Structured to negotiate contracts with municipal works in New Hampshire and, later, with Cornell.

transscendsurvival.org/cv

Cornell CALS Landscape Architecture Makerspace

Landscape Architecture Makerspace, Cornell CALS. Fabrication laboratory manager. 2021 to 2022. Ithaca, NY.

Developed and taught rapid fabrication curricula for DLA students and faculty.

Contributed to the makerspace's lightweight and responsive web dashboard.

Ithaca Generator

Ithaca Generator. Membership chair and 3d printing captain. 2020 to 2022. Ithaca, NY.

Led a local 501(c)3 non-profit makerspace through a period of rapid growth, profitable outreach and massive educational expansion.

Coached hundreds of students through a public-facing Fusion 360 for 3d printing class series throughout New York.

ithacagenerator.org transscendsurvival.org/about

D&M Makerspace fellowship

D&M Makerspace, Plymouth State University. First fellow. 2017 to 2020. Plymouth, NH.

Taught advanced GIS programming and intro to electromechanics at Plymouth State University.

Coordinated the development and manufacture of ventilators, shields and positive pressure masks with makerspaces throughout New England at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.