Optio.News project · Optio.News turns 94 RSS sources into a fast, image-forward editorial experience with parallel crawling, image enrichment, adaptive cards, and burst-based trend detection. Prisoner’s Dilemma: Algorithmic Modeling & Simulation Research Study project · An interactive Python and Dash simulation for testing 40 decision strategies through reproducible tournaments, live analytics, head-to-head comparisons, and human play. Ticker Tracker project · A live financial dashboard engineered to remain useful when its free market-data sources fail, with dual-source failover, validation, caching, and parallel fetching. Select XI project · A full-featured football tactics builder with 40+ formations, dual-phase pitch planning, AI-powered match plans, a community lineup board, live fixtures, and a 160-year tactics timeline — live at select-xi.pro. Applied Computing Learning Modules project · An interactive CT-206 learning experience that explains Python’s role in big-data workflows through ETL, NumPy, Pandas, and distributed-computing concepts. UNIX and Shell Scripting Learning Modules project · A three-module instructional sequence that moves learners from Vi/Vim modal editing through UNIX filesystem navigation and into defensive Bash scripting. CS-120: Introduction to Programming Using Python project · An asynchronous undergraduate Python course designed around measurable outcomes, practical programming scenarios, low-stakes checks, and two interactive learning modules. CS-350: Data Visualization project · An undergraduate data-visualization course designed around visual encoding, exploratory analysis, interaction, usability evaluation, and cloud-based visualization systems. CS-250: Intro to Network Programming with C project · Two interactive undergraduate modules that connect C network-programming concepts to topology, protocol families, and practical client/server communication. Applied AI Systems capability · Designing inspectable decision systems where algorithms, data, interfaces, and evaluation work as one product. Modeling & Simulation capability · Building reproducible experiments that expose assumptions, state, and contextual tradeoffs. Systems Architecture capability · Connecting requirements, viewpoints, interfaces, behavior, and verification into understandable system models. Data Engineering & Reliability capability · Shipping bounded, observable pipelines that degrade gracefully when upstream systems are unreliable. Technical Communication & Instructional Design capability · Turning complex computing and engineering ideas into structured, interactive learning experiences. Systems Thinking lesson · Move beyond isolated events to understand boundaries, accumulation, feedback, delay, and emergence. Modular Design Systems lesson · Decompose systems around responsibility, hidden decisions, and explicit interface contracts. Model-Based Systems Engineering lesson · Make a connected model, not a document stack, the primary engineering artifact—SysML, the v2 standards shift, and an honest look at the evidence. Systems of Systems Engineering lesson · When the thing you engineer is made of independently owned systems: Maier's five characteristics, the four types, emergence as the core challenge, and the multi-agent AI parallel. Digital Twins lesson · A live virtual model of a physical system, where twins attach to the Vee, why they need continuous V&V, and what changes when AI is added. AI-Enabled Systems Engineering lesson · What happens when an AI agent reads and writes the system model directly—where the MBSE-plus-agent partnership is real today, and where it is still a research proposal. Requirements Gathering and Engineering lesson · The requirements hierarchy, what makes a statement well-formed, EARS syntax and its five patterns, an honest look at the CHAOS-report evidence, and how EARS now constrains AI-generated code. Systems Architecture lesson · Not the diagrams but the decisions underneath them: viewpoints and views, Kruchten’s 4+1, architecting as a heuristic discipline, and what a weighted trade study actually proves. Foundations of Human-Automation Interaction lesson · Part 1 of the Human Systems Integration primer: function allocation and the Fitts list, the evidence that reversed it, ten levels of automation, the four-function model, and the ironies of automation. Trust, Complacency, and Situation Awareness lesson · Part 2 of the Human Systems Integration primer: Endsley’s three levels, the out-of-the-loop problem, use/misuse/disuse/abuse, calibrated trust, and why training alone does not prevent automation bias. AI Teammates: What's Actually New lesson · Part 3 of the Human Systems Integration primer: silent model updates, goal delegation instead of function allocation, failures that sound right, and how many agents one person can oversee. History and Future of Autonomous Systems lesson · A special feature spanning both primers: an interactive timeline from Watt’s governor and cybernetics through Shakey, two AI winters, the DARPA challenges, and the transformer to agentic AI. Systems Thinking article · A concise introduction and compatibility path to the complete interactive Systems Thinking lesson. Modular Design Systems article · An interactive guide to modularity in software and UX, with a live event-bus simulator and practical design patterns. Local LLM Installation using Ollama article · A cross-platform guide to installing Ollama, choosing and managing local models, testing the API, configuring browser access safely, and troubleshooting common failures. Capitol Technology University Disc Golf Course Companion Application article · The design and development story behind my undergraduate senior project: a mobile companion application for navigating Capitol Technology University's disc golf course. Student & Alumni Voice: Leif Heaney’s Experience Studying at, Graduating From, and Working for Capitol Tech article · By Leif Heaney (formerly the Assistant Director of User Experience and Online Learning and an Alumni at Capitol Technology University) Faculty Spotlight: Learn How Industry Leaders Prepares His Online Students to Meet the Challenges of the Critical Infrastructure World article · By Leif Heaney (formerly the Assistant Director of User Experience and Online Learning at Capitol Technology University)