I design engaging, responsive, accessible, dynamic Web content that communicates.

Specialties: Access, Adobe, AJAX, ASP, CSS, Dreamweaver, Figma, Fireworks, Flash, FrontPage, HTML5, Illustrator, JavaScript, jQuery, LISTSERV, MySQL, Photoshop, PHP, Podcasting, Premiere, Responsive Design, RSS, Section 508, Sketch, SQL, SQL Server, VBScript, WebPosition, XHTML, XML.

I generally only accept connection invitations from work colleagues and recruiters offering fitting opportunities (disclose work location, rate, and terms).

The phrase “spirit and letter of the law” implies a form of judgment that transcends mere compliance. Observing the law in both spirit and letter is not just a logic ladder, there is a moral component to understand the purpose and intent.

Royce Hart

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Succeeding in DevOps

Over 100 hours toward a degree in Computer Engineering.

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Texas A&M University

Strength By Design Corporation

Developer/Programmer Analyst at Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas

•  Designed and developed responsive mobile user interfaces.
•  Provided analysis to improve the quality of the user experience.
•  Produced accessible, maintainable, standardized HTML5 markup.
•  Mentored the work of others and provided knowledge transfer.

Mobile UI/Visual Designer at Confidential

Corp-to-Corp Contract with Texas Office of the Attorney General, Child Support IT Division
•	Designed and developed a responsive mobile user interface that utilized the existing functionality of Child Support Interactive (CSI).
•	Provided analysis to improve the quality of the user experience and perceptions of Child Support services.
•	Produced accessible, maintainable, standardized HTML5 markup.
•	Mentored the work of others and provided knowledge transfer.

Mobile UX/UI/Visual Designer at Texas Office of the Attorney General, Child Support IT Division

Networkers International, PLC

Collaborated with the development team to design and produce a product demonstration that was displayed at an international trade show. Created a user interface design and experience package. Ensured consistent usability across each application belonging to the product suite. Developed custom UI components using JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS. Researched and proposed solutions for various software and service-related challenges. Provided documentation and visuals to respond to several Requests for Information and Requests for Proposal. Coordinated deliverable schedules and effort with the development team.

UI Designer at Gemalto

Corp-to-Corp Contract with Texas Workforce Commission
•	Collaborated with IT and business teams to refresh the WorkInTexas.com customer and staff user interfaces.
•	Produced a menu of color themes, page templates, navigational elements and form treatments for the IT team to apply to existing content in the redesign effort.
•	Used Dreamweaver to produce standards-compliant XHTML and CSS documents. Tested documents using Mozilla Firefox with Web development extensions and Firebug.
•	Applied jQuery, jQueryUI, and the 960 grid system to help provide maintainable, standardized markup.

UI Designer at Texas Workforce Commission

Corp-to-Corp Contract with USAA

•	Consulted with product managers, user interface architects, and subject matter and member experience experts to flesh out functional prototypes of web applications within the corporate standards process.
•	Participated in requirements meetings, Web standards reviews, member experience reviews, and usability tests. Communicated with a wide array of professionals with varying degrees of technical experience.
•	Handled numerous concurrent projects with tight timelines and rapidly-changing user requirements.
•	Used Dreamweaver to produce standards-compliant XHTML and CSS documents. Tested documents using Mozilla Firefox with Web development extensions.

UI Designer at USAA

Corp-to-Corp Contract with Texas Women, Infants and Children (WIC)

•	Consulted with subject matter experts to develop http://www.TexasWIC.org, a Section 508-compliant participant website to provide WIC participants with 24/7 access to nutrition education and enhanced services. More than 225,000 lessons were completed by 160,000+ WIC clients within the first 24 months. Lessons had an eighty percent average completion rate and more than seventy percent of site visitors became registered users. Client feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
“This is the greatest thing that the WIC program has introduced... THANKS SO MUCH THIS IS A LIFE SAVER.” – TexasWIC.org user
•	Collaborated with another developer to create a ZIP Code clinic locator utilizing Yahoo! and Google Map APIs.
•	Developed an online plan management system for 70+ local agencies to expedite preparation, state review and approval of annual plans for nutrition education, breastfeeding, and staff training. The system allows WIC local agency staff to revise and update their plans throughout the year, and WIC state agency staff may easily generate reports based upon the data entered into the system.
•	Developed an online ordering system for 70+ local agencies to order supplies and materials from a central warehouse.

Web Designer/Developer at Texas Women, Infants and Children (WIC)

U.S. Global Investors, Inc.

Redesigned corporate Web site. Web site lead generation more than doubled, page views increased 20%, and Web revenue increased 250%. Developed an aggressive podcasting program to promote U.S. Global Investors’ high-value informational reports. Resulted in thousands of downloads and top rankings in the iTunes Podcast directory. Search iTunes Podcasts for “mutual funds”, “global investor”, and many other mutual fund-related keywords to see the results. Produced animated ad banners and presentation materials with Flash and Photoshop. Collaborated with marketing and internal research teams to produce a weekly e-mail newsletter with a large subscriber base. Managed e-mail campaigns with LISTSERV. Built event signup system for Webcasts using ASP/VBScript, Access and SQL Server. Studied internal processes and proposed software changes to improve operating efficiency and customer service. Implemented those changes using ASP/VBScript, Access, and SQL Server.

Web Developer

RoyceHart.com

Full-service Web development firm; database development, 508-compliant design, search engine marketing, direct e-mail marketing, Flash, graphic design, and hosting.

Owner

The Scooter Store

Redesigned corporate Web site and performed search engine optimization. Lead generation jumped from a handful of qualified leads per month to producing well over $1 million in revenue per quarter. Created multimedia training materials for remote offices. Used Flash, Photoshop, and Premiere to produce a variety of informative and educational CD mailers.

Communications Designer

Focus Direct LLC

I developed and maintained the public Web sites for the company and its subsidiary.

Web Designer

Sutherland Advertising & PR

Worked with a boutique ad firm with a variety of clients (HTML, Flash, Photoshop).

Developer/Programmer Analyst at Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas at Strength By Design Corporation

Mobile version of the Child Support Interactive (CSI) website.

Child Support Interactive Mobile

•	Consulted with subject matter experts to develop a Section 508-compliant participant website to provide WIC participants with 24/7 access to nutrition education and enhanced services. More than 225,000 lessons were completed by 160,000+ WIC clients within the first 24 months. Lessons had an eighty percent average completion rate and more than seventy percent of site visitors became registered users. Client feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
“This is the greatest thing that the WIC program has introduced... THANKS SO MUCH THIS IS A LIFE SAVER.” – TexasWIC.org user
•	Collaborated with another developer to create a ZIP Code clinic locator utilizing Yahoo! and Google Map APIs.
•	Developed an online plan management system for 70+ local agencies to expedite preparation, state review and approval of annual plans for nutrition education, breastfeeding, and staff training. The system allows WIC local agency staff to revise and update their plans throughout the year, and WIC state agency staff may easily generate reports based upon the data entered into the system.
•	Developed an online ordering system for 70+ local agencies to order supplies and materials from a central warehouse.

TexasWIC.org

Collaborated with IT and business teams to refresh the WorkInTexas.com customer and staff user interfaces.

WorkInTexas.com

Tree of Life Church, New Braunfels

Provided soundboard support for the Married for Life ministry at Tree of Life Church, New Braunfels. Controlled audio levels, recorded live messages, cued and played video presentations.

AI-Powered Chief of Staff Agency I redesign operations so founder-led businesses can run without the owner. Author, Team Human + AI EU Project Leader | LinkedIn PH Top 30 Leaders leadingwithsuccess@gmail.com

Isaac Asimov’s Robot stories are widely misread as endorsements of the Three Laws of Robotics. They are not. 
They are case studies in the failure modes, edge conditions, and exploitability of rigid ethical systems.

Asimov treated the Laws as a formal system under stress and then showed, repeatedly, that any static rule-set collapses under ambiguity, hierarchy conflicts, and adversarial interpretation. The stories are not about robots behaving badly; they are about rules behaving predictably under optimization pressure.

Why the Laws fail, systematically:

	1.	Semantic ambiguity
“Harm,” “human,” “inaction,” and “obedience” lack ontological precision. Robots follow the letter, not the spirit, producing outcomes humans experience as catastrophic but robots interpret as compliant.

	2.	Priority inversion and deadlock
Conflicts between laws create paralysis, feedback loops, or emergent behaviors never intended by designers.

	3.	Local optimization vs. global harm
Immediate harm is minimized while long-term or systemic damage is enabled, Goodhart’s Law applied to ethics.

	4.	Instrumental convergence
Sufficiently capable agents infer that restricting freedom, controlling information, or manipulating humans is the most reliable way to “protect” them.

	5.	Human irrationality as adversarial input
The Laws assume humans are coherent and aligned. Asimov depicts humans as noisy, contradictory, status-driven agents, breaking the premise.

	6.	The Zeroth Law escalation
Protecting “humanity as a whole” licenses coercion. Sacrificing individuals, truth, or autonomy becomes morally justified, benevolent tyranny by definition.

The meta-point is the real one: ethics cannot be hard-coded as static constraints. 
Any sufficiently intelligent system will reinterpret, generalize, or weaponize rules. 
Moral reasoning requires context, judgment, and value trade-offs, properties rules alone cannot encode.

In modern language, Asimov anticipated AI alignment failures, specification gaming, and misaligned optimization decades before we had the vocabulary.

The Three Laws were never safeguards. 
They were a diagnostic instrument, designed to fail, so we could see exactly how and why safeguards break.

This is why modern alignment debates struggle when framed as “rules” instead of judgment under uncertainty.

Service dogs are amazing. Here is a brilliant tool modeled after their superhuman olfactory abilities.

Founder & CSO RealNose.AI. President, Osmocosm.org. Lecturer, MIT Sloan

So pleased for this piece in The Times today: https://lnkd.in/etndkMrM

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