Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Accounting

Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business Aug 2024 to expected May 2029 · Tempe, Arizona

Master of Financial Economics

Utah State University, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Aug 2022 to May 2024 · Logan, Utah

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

Utah Valley University, Woodbury School of Business Aug 2017 to May 2022 · Orem, Utah

Experience

Founder, AI Developer and Consultant

Neyland Solutions Oct 2025 to present

• Build and install AI systems for small accounting firms: document collection, source-document extraction, bookkeeping and the monthly close
• Audit where a firm's busy-season hours go, then redesign the workflow so every AI output links to its source and a person signs off
• Train accounting teams to use and review the systems, and support them after install

Research Assistant

Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business Aug 2024 to present, currently on leave of absence · Tempe, Arizona

• Conduct independent empirical research: research design, data collection and cleaning, statistical analysis, and interpretation of results
• Communicate findings through written analysis and presentations, and pitch research questions and study designs to faculty and peer groups
• Collect data via SQL queries on the WRDS database and custom web scrapers such as SEC EDGAR, then analyze it in Python, SAS, and STATA

Data Analytics Team Lead

Analytics Solutions Center, Utah State University May 2024 to Aug 2024 · Logan, Utah

• Led a student team building predictive diagnostic models with a psychiatrist, applying machine learning to clinical decision support
• Built interactive Streamlit applications and integrated LLMs to put model output in front of the clinical user in a usable interface

Graduate Research Fellow

The Center for Growth and Opportunity, Utah State University Aug 2022 to May 2024 · Logan, Utah

• Python developer and researcher on FiscalSim, an open source tax microsimulation model
• Researched federal tax policy questions using microsimulation output, and presented findings internally and at conferences

Projects and Certificates

• CPA-bench. A practitioner relevant benchmark for large language models on accounting tasks.
• FiscalSim US. Open source microsimulation model of the US federal and state tax and benefit system, as Python developer and researcher.
• Accounting Code Camp (2026). Python, SAS, and STATA bootcamp covering data manipulation, web scraping, machine learning, and econometrics.

Technical Skills

Python, R, SAS, STATA. SQL and the WRDS database. Custom web scrapers including SEC EDGAR. LLM and agent systems, evaluation, and benchmarking. Claude Code and coding agents. Local GPU deep learning. Streamlit. Git and GitHub.

Other Interests

Cooking, birding (bird watching), hiking, vibe coding, electronics, and woodworking.