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Engineering Projects

What I Build

Each project started as a problem I needed to solve. They are engineering explorations: built to work, shared to be useful, and continued as long as they remain interesting. None of them are products. They are tools.

Active Projects

The Work

Five projects in varying states of development. Two are live and open. Two are in active development. One is an ongoing home lab.

PLEX: Power Load EXaminer
Division 27 & 28 Power Planning  ·  Free & Browser-Native
Live · Open
Why I Built It
Telecom room power coordination was a repeated pain point: sizing UPS, generators, PoE budgets, and cooling loads by hand from scattered references on every project. No reliable tool existed for the limited energy community that wasn't buried inside expensive software or dependent on a spreadsheet that required manual maintenance.
What It Solves
A single browser-native calculator that handles UPS sizing, generator sizing, PoE budget, and cooling demand for telecom rooms and equipment rooms. Aligned to BICSI and TIA standards. No login, no server, no data transmission. Output is for preliminary coordination, not construction documents.
Where It's Headed
Continued refinement to reduce the class of power coordination errors that happen when engineers estimate UPS and generator requirements from memory or incomplete references. Additional room types and standards alignment improvements are on the roadmap. The tool will remain free.
Technologies
HTML CSS JavaScript Client-Side BICSI Standards TIA Standards
Launch PLEX → No login · No data transmitted · Runs entirely in the browser
The Estimator
BICSI WBS  ·  Limited Energy Job Costing  ·  Free & Browser-Native
Live · Open
Why I Built It
Limited energy estimating relies heavily on general-purpose spreadsheets that were never designed for Division 27/28 scope, BICSI work breakdown structures, or the overtime math that governs how crews are actually priced on commercial jobs.
What It Solves
A complete job estimator built around BICSI WBS codes. Configurable crew roles, workweek patterns, and federal or California overtime rules. Generates a customer-ready proposal and an internal bid report with financial roll-up, bid health indicators, and auto-generated risk flags. No account required.
Where It's Headed
Expanding scope coverage and improving the bid health and risk flag logic: the indicators that surface problems before a job is priced wrong and the cost falls on the contractor downstream. The tool will remain free.
Technologies
HTML CSS JavaScript Client-Side BICSI WBS Federal OT Rules California OT Rules
Launch The Estimator → No login · No data transmitted · Runs entirely in the browser
Purple Rainmaker
Local Network Security Awareness  ·  Home & Small Office
In Development
Why I Built It
Local networks accumulate unknown devices, exposed ports, outdated services, and unnoticed configuration drift. Most home and small office environments have no repeatable way to see what is actually running on the network, let alone whether anything has changed since the last time someone looked.
What It Solves
A local-first network awareness and vulnerability assessment tool that discovers devices via ARP, scans ports, checks for known CVEs using nmap scripts, tracks device baseline changes between scans, assigns a triage-level risk rating, and generates a PDF report with findings, CVSS scores, and recommendations. Results stream live to a browser dashboard as the scan runs. Designed for authorized networks only: no exploitation, no credential testing, no lateral movement.
Where It's Headed
Improving baseline comparison, differential analysis, and remediation guidance so small environments can identify weak points and track improvement over time before those weak points become security or operational problems.
Technologies
Python Flask Flask-Sock HTML Shell nmap arp-scan WeasyPrint CVE/CVSS Linux / Kali Purple
Authorized networks only · No exploitation · No credential testing · No lateral movement · Local use only
VolTex
A Volley of Intelligence  ·  Built in Texas
In Development
Why I Built It
Modern AI assistants each have unique strengths and limitations. Relying on a single model means inheriting its blind spots. VolTex was built to coordinate a structured volley of analysis between independent AI agents so that recommendations reflect genuine consensus, not a single perspective. You make the final call.
What It Solves
A local-first multi-agent AI orchestration platform that coordinates independent agents through a structured consensus workflow. Each agent brings different strengths and perspectives. Ideas are exchanged, challenged, and refined through a bounded process until the agents converge on a recommendation. One designated execution agent can interact with approved local and remote tools: Git, Desktop Commander, Chrome MCP, and future integrations: while the remaining agents focus on independent reasoning and review. The consensus recommendation is presented to you for approval. Your data stays local. You stay in control.
Where It’s Headed
Expanding beyond software engineering into a general-purpose collaboration platform supporting engineering reviews, technical writing, documentation, planning, research, and design critiques. Any domain where multiple independent AI perspectives improve decision quality while preserving human oversight and bounded review loops.
Technologies
Multi-Agent Orchestration Git Integration Desktop Commander Chrome MCP Structured Consensus Protocol Local Inference Discord Operator Interface Future MCPs
See the project → Human approved · Local first · Structured consensus · Built in Texas
Home Automation & Inference Stack
Local Inference  ·  Home Assistant  ·  Private Lab
Home Lab
Why I Built It
Cloud-dependent home automation creates single points of failure, data exposure risks, and subscription lock-in. Local inference enables private AI tooling without transmitting sensitive information to external services. The home lab is where engineering ideas get tested before they influence production design decisions.
What It Solves
A dedicated home server running a private inference stack and home automation platform. Sensor network covers environmental monitoring, energy monitoring, lighting control, appliance integration, and access management. Dashboards built in Grafana against InfluxDB time-series data. All VolTex private engineering tools run here.
Where It's Headed
Deeper integration between the inference stack and automation triggers, and improved energy visibility through Tesla Powerwall and solar data, building toward a home that maintains capability when normal infrastructure degrades rather than one that depends on it remaining stable.
Technologies
Docker Ollama Open-WebUI Home Assistant