William "Hawke" H.

**Human-First: Human Expertise Enhanced with Strategic AI Tools for Transformative Learning** Built patent-pending AI infrastructure from scratch—enabling organizations to capture, amplify, and share collective wisdom. Our platform proves AI's greatest value: empowering humans, not replacing them. **Technical Excellence:** • Custom ASR/NLP/LLMs: 150% faster than Google, 30% more accurate • Infrastructure: 100s→60,000+ users, 99.999% uptime • MLOps: Custom-trained models learning from human expertise • Architecture: Hybrid cloud/on-prem, 90% cost reduction, 10x performance **Human-AI Convergence Model:** ClimbHigh.AI pioneered crowdsourced learning—internal experts create content 10x faster with AI assistance, their knowledge preserved and amplified across organizations. We don't automate teaching; we give teachers superpowers. Result: TikTok-style microlearning with 150% retention improvement, culturally-aligned training, and measurable ROI. **Community-Powered Innovation:** • Subject matter experts become content creators • Peer learning scaled through AI • Collective intelligence preserved • Human mentorship amplified 1000x **Cross-Domain Leadership:** My convergence—Enterprise Architecture+AI/ML+Neurotechnology+Healthcare+Education—enables breakthrough solutions. Built streaming saving WorldCon/GenCon during COVID. Created BCI accessibility tech. Led 200+ across 6 continents. This mirrors ClimbHigh.AI's philosophy: innovation through convergence. **The Future We're Building:** Organizations where every employee's expertise matters, where AI amplifies rather than replaces, where learning happens in communities. Scaling through Microsoft Founders Hub-backed and Nvidia Inception AWS platforms and hybrid on-prem facilities globally. ClimbHigh.AI let's your organization converge your team's potential with AI's possibilities. #HumanAI #Learning #Innovation

Wearing many hats as CIO & CTO (CITO), first as Fractional part-time, now full-time, also as Architect, Systems Engineer, AI Developer & Operations, data science specialist, DBA, Sales Engineer, & Project Manager. Design, document, develop, build, release, & maintain web & mobile platforms addressing online music education needs. Directly reporting to CEO. Built and managed local, remote, on-and-off-shore developers and all other technical staff. Created and implemented methodologies, documentation, staffing, technical resources, change control, and more. Responsible for competitive innovation as well as internal infrastructure stability and scalability. Most information under NDA. • Full Product Development Life Cycle / Software Development Life Cycle (PDLC / SDLC) designing and building the all new Practicing Musician Platform 3.x. • Business and Technology Scoping Project Management • Technology architecture design and implementation • Team building • Migrations from Godaddy to Microsoft to AWS • Azure cloud infrastructure • Artificial Intelligence (AI) generative and non-generative • Large Language Model setup, training, and integration (MLOps), Deep Neural Networks (DNN), etc. • Data science analysis, business intelligence (BI), administration, security, architecture, reporting, & visualization. • Build IT Helpdesk department. • Train executives on project management basics and Agile methodologies, begin company’s first sprint cycles. • Project management, Agile and Scrum Methodologies Technologies: Azure, Debian Linux 12, Moodle Learning Management System, PostGreSQL Database, Godaddy 365 Tenant, Godaddy DNS, Microsoft 365 Tenant, Exchange, Outlook, MS Planner, Sharepoint, Visio, Drawio, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Startup Founders Hub, Google Office Suite, Jan.ai, Microsft Sql Server, IIS, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, Jitsi, Java, PHP, Python.

Previously running as The RPG Research Project from 1977 to 2017, Incorporated in 2017. Founder, Executive Director, Chair, CIO, & CTO. 501(c)3 non-profit. Non-profit RPG Research has been providing role-playing game community programs since 1977, researching optimizing the RPG experience since 1979, and researching the effects and uses of all role-playing game formats since 1983, and offering the world's largest free and open research repository on these topics since 2004! RPG Research has been doing this magic, improving the functioning and quality of life for people, with your support we're impacting over 10,000 lives annually through the power of role-playing games. RPG Research's hundreds of volunteer staff and our founder Hawke Robinson, have been providing role-playing game community programs across six continents, since 1977, researching optimizing the RPG experience since 1979, researching the effects and uses of all RPG formats since 1983, using RPGs for educational purposes since 1985, using RPGs with incarcerated and high-risk populations since 1989, and researching the use of role-playing games to improve bio-psycho-socioemotional functioning and quality of life, and sharing all of this online since 2004. Since 2017 the 501(c)3 non-profit has directly improved the lives of more than 100,000 people, and indirectly millions more, across 6 continents! Since 1977 our accessible research and evidence-in-practice supported community programs have improved the quality of life and bio-psycho-social functioning of participants for many thousands of people from ages 2 through senior adults, and everyone in between.

https://rpg.llc - Founder, President, Recreational Therapist, Role-playing Game Therapist, Software Developer. Learn more about our wonderfully effective RPG Therapy modalities for individuals and groups from 2 years old through senior adults, from general populations to special needs, from individuals to couples and families. Our programs are multidisciplinary, drawing from Music and Recreational Therapy, Therapeutic Recreation, Compassion Focused Therapy (CFG), Cognitive Neuropsychology, and neurosciences. We take a whole-person wellness-based bio-psycho-emotional-social approach with all our clients. Our roots begin in 1977 and we have been incorporated as RPG Therapeutics LLC since 2014. Our founder's combined programs have helped improve the bio-psycho-socio-emotional functioning and quality of life for more 100,000 people across six continents.

Full & Fractional CxO Services across many industries. IT, Recreation, Education, Healthcare, Security, & AI Services, Information Security, artificial intelligence, information security, neurotechnology, virtual office & workplace, & Internet services provider. Providing Information Security / Cyber Security, Information Security, and executive level business technology solutions consulting. Dev 2 Dev Portal's staff have been implementing technology solutions since 1979 and meeting client's project resource connection needs since 1995. Our staff includes Microsoft, Novell, Sun, Oracle, Redhat, Cisco, Dell, and SANS GIAC certified personnel. Our staff can consult and have operational in a few days time, services that would take most companies weeks or even months to staff, train, and implement. Our services allow your projects to "get up and running" faster, more efficiently, securely. Due to these these efficiencies in using experienced, exceptionally talented staff, your projects will often cost far less overall due to better quality implementation and the faster implementation, than most companies could implement themselves whether they implement "in house" or using a typical company lacking our expertise. Some key strategic partners over the years have included: AT&T Century Link Redhat Hurricane Electric Xmission and many others. Implementations and clients have included: Devon Energy USA Networks Home Shopping Network / Internet Shopping Network Franklin Covey CompUSA NBC Packaging Steelhead Specialty Minerals People to People Ambassadorial Program WebTPA American Automotive Institute MedSysGroup Sushiwa Veridex Axxess.net Infoco USA KYRS FM MightyWords Inc. Alpentech Inc University of Utah (human brain mapping division) and many others.

Musician, Composer, Multi-instrumentalist (20+), Vocalist, Performer, Studio Engineer. www.syntheticzen.com

Software Developer and online since before 1979. Scores of programming languages, hundreds of technologies.

RPG-related Events & Community organizer since 1977, Role-Playing Game Master, paid RPG GM since 1982, RPG developer, RPG Researcher, Role-Playing Game Therapist, RPG Educator. Founder RpgResearch.com, Rpg.LLC, NeuroRPG, BciRpg.com, RpgBus.com, RpgTrailer.com, RpgPublishers.com, and the list goes on.

Consultant, Architect, Analyst, Engineer, Developer.

Software Architect, Software Engineer, Analyst, Developer, and Programmer. Details currently under NDA. Started immediately after WebTPA.

• Contracted to www.webtpa.com through www.medsysgroup.com and Dev 2 Dev Portal LLC (www.dev2dev.com). WebTPA, a GuideWell company with more than 18,000 employees, is an industry leading healthcare industry third party administration service provider. Clients include Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Anthem, The Hartford, Prudential, and many others. • Hired initially to just develop front-end applications for web, desktop, and mobile devices, rapidly stepped up to full-stack, DBA, architecture, and other roles. • Collaborated with CIO, IT Director, and various departments on corporate strategic plan for infrastructure and security architecture. • Full-stack development using Flutter / Dart (web, Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows), VS Code, MS SQL Server, SMSS, T-SQL, Visual BASIC, Visual Studio Enterprise, Azure (Data Studio (ADS), Azure Active Directory Business to Consumer (AADB2C), Azure API Manager (APIM), ADO, DevOps, Kerberos), Contentful content management system (CMS), DataMotion HIPAA-compliant messaging, Accessibility, WCAG, etc. • Contracted full-time initially as just a Front-End Flutter Developer, almost immediately responsibilities expanded to roles such as Full-stack Developer, Database Administrator (DBA), Technical Writer, Technical Architect, Security Specialist, Development Architect, Corporate Architect, & Subject Matter Expert (SME). Completed 1 year contract from March 2024 through end of February 28th, 2025 to complete specific initiative.

6'8" Security guard, body guard, bouncer, missing persons tracker, property security consultant, debt collections physical enforcement, high-risk business transactions conflict de-risker. Provided physical security for various properties, organizations, events, and individuals. * Armed security * Martials Arts since 1974 (Kung fu (4 styles), Aikido, Judy, Karate, T'ai CHi). * Conflict deescalation and resolution training and certificates * Intermittent, armed, armored, licensed and bonded (as needed) for high-risk engagements * Exchanged gunfire in multiple time periods during some high-risk engagements. Never found at-fault, or charged. Won every civil case against those we engaged in court (due to my meticulous logbooks). * No injury or loss of life for those under my responsibility for protection. * Dramatically reduced high-crime locations from many incidents (vandalism, violence, theft, firearms discharge, domestic violence, etc.) per week (some were several per night, especially on weekends in the summer), to and average of fewer than 1 incident per month (usually much more minor issues (loud parties complaints, etc.)

Freelance, contract, part-time, and full-time employee roles at various locations. Precision Tune, Car City, Auto Care Clinic, Automotive Technician. Instructor at American Automotive Institute, 5-star Precision Tune Certified Technician, Utah Certified Safety Inspector, Utah Certified Emissions Inspector, 4x ASE Certifications.