About me
I’m Trent, based in Winter Garden, Florida. My background is in operations and HR, and I’ve spent a lot of that time figuring out how work actually happens once you get past the process on paper.
I like finding where things break down, understanding the people and constraints around them, and then building a better way through.
What I’m working toward
These days I can build much more of the solution myself. AI has taken me further into agents, software, automation, and the systems around them, while the underlying work has stayed pretty familiar.
AI writes a meaningful amount of my implementation code. I define what I need, work through the requirements and architecture, connect the pieces, test the behavior, and keep changing what doesn’t work.
I’m looking for roles around AI implementation, systems, and process improvement.
Outside work
I play music with friends and family, play games*, spend time with my partner and our three cats, and spend probably too much time working on my home lab. Some of that does somehow turn into software.
*I made Top 500 in Overwatch for a season, which I promised myself was going on my résumé. This is close enough.
I’ve played music for about fifteen years, mostly teaching myself. Joining a community orchestra led to the sheet-music converter. Sharing Elden Ring with my partner led to GuidanceOfGrace. Sebastian brings together the agent, dashboard, models, and services we use at home.
I don’t think I build these things because I need software and automation in every corner of my life. It’s more that the barrier between “I wish this worked differently” and “I can probably make that” has gotten surprisingly small. If something is getting in the way and I can build my way around it, why wouldn’t I?
Explore my personal projectsNeurodiversity at work
A lot of the way I think about work is shaped by neurodiversity, including my own experience with ADHD. It has influenced some of the things I build, but also how I think about systems more broadly: the same process can work very differently depending on the person using it.
At Taxwell, I founded Minds in Motion, our neurodiversity employee resource group, secured executive sponsorship, and developed sessions and resources around neurodiversity at work. Our Communications team later described it as the company’s largest ERG by membership.
The part I care about most is making that understanding practical. Better awareness matters, but so does asking how hiring, communication, tools, meetings, and everyday processes can work for people who don’t all think or work the same way. Minds in Motion gave me a place to do that at Taxwell, but it’s work I plan to keep doing wherever I go next.