Co-founder of ElevatEd Automotive Solutions, where we build AI tools for the people who fix things and the people who teach them. I'm also a full-time automotive instructor and lead for the Mopar CAP program at Dakota County Technical College. It started with a practical problem: prep work was eating my evenings. So I started building AI tools to handle the parts that were repetitive but not thoughtless — drafting task sheets, structuring labs, building assessments, mapping out a semester. That work eventually became ShopCommand, along with a set of AI diagnostic and training tools now used in shops and dealerships. I'm not interested in AI as a novelty, and I'm skeptical of most of what gets sold as one. What I care about is what gets a student to competency faster, what gives an instructor their evenings back, and what makes a first-year tech useful on the floor instead of expensive. What to chat with me about:
- AI that actually saves prep time — task sheets, rubrics, practical exams, semester maps, and assessments, and how to get them out of AI in a form you'd actually hand a student
- Building your own tools — you don't need to be a developer anymore; happy to walk through how I got from prompts to working software
- AI on the shop floor — diagnostic mentoring and guided troubleshooting that coaches a trainee instead of handing over the answer
- Where AI gets it wrong — the confidently-wrong problem, the guardrails that help, and teaching students to verify instead of trust
- Program operations — inventory, tool depreciation, fleet tracking, budgets, and the administrative load nobody trained us for
- Industry alignment — building pipelines with dealer groups, independent shops, and OEMs so what we teach matches what they need on day one
Let's talk If it involves smarter teaching, better diagnostics, or getting more done in a week than the week has room for — find me. I'd rather trade ideas with a room full of instructors than talk at one.
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