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The best technology fades into the background.

I build the systems that let advisors, faculty, and staff do their best work — then get out of their way.

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hours / year
1,000+
staff hours saved annually
nodes
4,600+
nodes in an institutional knowledge graph
efficiency
90%+
reduction in database reads
correctness
20
conflict types caught before a degree plan broke
Philosophy

Most institutional software asks people to adapt to it. I build the opposite — tools that meet staff inside the systems they already use, absorb the complexity, and quietly hand back time, accuracy, and confidence.

The measure of the work isn't the code. It's whether an advisor, a faculty member, or a student ever has to think about it at all.

Flagship

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01 · Degree audit

CatalogOps

A conflict engine that catches 20 real catalog contradictions before a student ever feels them — surfacing the why, who, and fix behind each one.

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CatalogOps sequence view — program terms laid out as swimlanes with prerequisite arrows and a flagged course
fig.01 — term swimlanes + prerequisite flowflagged: why · who · fix
AskAC app-checker modal flagging two validation issues on a registration entry screen, using sample test data
AskAC Accelerator validation-rules panel with per-screen checks toggled on, overlaying the registration entry screen
fig.02 — the app-checker in place · configurable validation rules
02 · Browser extensions

The Accelerator

The same idea solved two very different problems: extensions that live inside the tools staff already use — no new system to adopt, no retraining.

1,000+
hrs saved / yr
90%+
fewer reads
16
cloud functions
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Secondary
Metabase planning dashboard — aggregate KPI cards and weekly trend charts over program-level data
03 · Self-hosted analytics

The Analytics Stack

A self-hosted analytics stack turning fragmented source systems into one queryable picture — 645K rows in the analytics table across 366 catalogued source tables.

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Populated institutional knowledge graph — entity clusters and relationships rendered in Memgraph Lab
04 · Knowledge graph

Institutional Knowledge Graph

4,600+ interconnected nodes — the institution's policies, systems, screens, and processes rendered as one navigable map.

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Also shipped

Residency Form

A guided residency-determination form that walks staff to a defensible answer, step by step.

Gecko CRM Automation

A script collection that automates the recurring CRM data pulls the team used to run by hand.

SMS & Automated Voice Outreach

SMS and automated voice calls built on Twilio, with the per-message and per-call cost modeled to the cent before launch.
Keegan Ried
The person behind the work

Technology is the easy part. People are the point.

Alongside the builds, I coach. As a Gallup-certified Strengths coach and founder of Ethos Coaching & Consulting, I spend as much time developing the people around a system as I do designing the system itself — because adoption is a human problem before it's a technical one.

Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach Ethos Coaching & Consulting
Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator Salesforce Certified
Platform Administrator Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach
Ethos.
Coaching & Consulting

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