Work

Problems, decisions, evidence, and limits

These case studies cover workflow design, technical documentation, software and hardware troubleshooting, and small automation systems. They are ordered from newest to oldest.

system2026-08 – present

An Approval-Bound Job Application Workflow

A file-driven system that reviewed 539 listings across 13 batches while tying every approval and archive to an exact set of source files.

System designer and maintainer

  • Python
  • Markdown
  • JSON
  • JSONL
  • Git
documentation2026-08 – present

Documentation for a Safety-Critical Workflow Template

Documentation that turns a safety-sensitive workflow into explicit sources of truth, lifecycle states, approval checks, privacy boundaries, and recovery steps.

Documentation designer and maintainer

  • Markdown
  • Git
  • Python
  • TOML
troubleshooting2026-07

Tracing a macOS Photos EXIF Date Failure

A controlled investigation that traced incorrect Photos dates past valid EXIF data to user-level date-format state, then verified a reversible fix.

Investigator and technical writer

  • macOS Photos
  • Lightroom Classic
  • ExifTool
  • osxphotos
  • Shortcuts
troubleshooting2021-03

Isolating USB Wake to S3 on an MSI B460 Motherboard

A BIOS configuration investigation that combined wake-event and power-state settings to allow keyboard wake from sleep without enabling it from hibernation or shutdown.

Investigator and technical writer

  • MSI UEFI/BIOS
  • Windows power states
  • PC hardware
troubleshooting2020-05

Replacing the Default RDP Certificate on Windows Server

An end-to-end certificate workflow that replaced the default Remote Desktop warning with a locally trusted server certificate.

System administrator and technical writer

  • OpenSSL
  • Windows Server
  • PowerShell
  • macOS Keychain
system2019-12

Automating Captive-Portal Login on a Padavan Router

A router-side shell workflow that reconstructed a dynamic HTTP login request, detected authentication state, and retried after WAN startup.

System investigator and script author

  • Shell
  • curl
  • HTTP
  • Chrome DevTools
  • SSH
  • cron
  • Padavan