Steve Ward · Kansas City, MO
Fifteen years teaching at universities and training rooms across two continents, now applied to healthcare IT by day and AI-powered learning tools by night. I design the whole stack: the curriculum, the product, and the code.
CS 250
Clinical pronunciation scoring for a second-language nurse: voice drills in, phoneme-level scores out, coaching feedback in between. Consumer dictation tools erase accents by design; this pipeline measures where speech actually differs.
CS 260
Five AI assistants, one house, hard boundaries: separate agents for separate people and jobs, siloed containers, restricted backup keys, and a watchdog that phones me when a backup fails. The measure of the project is that nothing in it needs me anymore.
LRN 401
A multi-app learning ecosystem that takes aspiring amateur radio operators from first question to licensed, including an AI tutor that refuses to just give away the answers.
ENB 210
A self-service guidebook for a two-unit hospitality operation that answers guest questions before they become 2am messages, with live weather and translation built in.
CRT 150
A game that teaches kids to spot logical fallacies by playing, not by memorizing definitions.