AIDevBenchJOE MCCARLEY · SYSTEMS BUILDER
Enterprise data → technical operations → applied AI

I make complex
systems usable.
Where the work
actually happens.

My career moved through web and field systems, consulting, enterprise reporting, database operations, and AI evaluation. One discipline: translating ambiguity into systems people can trust.

AI GAVE ME MY SPARK BACK.EXPERIENCE → AI → RENEWED CAPABILITY
The career through-line

Every chapter compounds.

01 / FOUNDATION1997–2001

Field, web & client systems

Programming, customer-facing delivery, networks, support, and consulting.

02 / BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE1999–2006

Questions become reports

Crystal Reports, Business Objects, SQL Server, requirements, training, and consulting.

03 / ENTERPRISE OWNERSHIP2007–2017

System design, DBA & reporting

Contributed to business system design at Coinmach / Appliance Warehouse, later CSC ServiceWorks. Database administration and Clarify reporting across air, laundry, and route operations.

04 / REBUILD2017–2022

Career break

Career break, 2017–2022. Returned to Southwest Airlines in August 2022.

05 / RETURN2022–present

Report Developer

Southwest Airlines Technical Operations. Reporting and stakeholder translation; Performance Management team and Breakfast Club representation.

06 / CONVERGENCENow

Evidence-first AI

Independent project work in evaluation, provenance, routing, guardrails, and orchestration.

A career story across the top. The formal, dated resume is below.
The operating instinct

Breadth becomes useful
when it builds judgment.

Walk into the environment. Learn the people, constraints, data, and failure modes. Then build the bridge between what technology can do and what the operation can actually absorb.

Crystal Reports and Business Objects made business questions concrete. Database operations added reliability, recovery, and continuity. Applied AI brings those same habits to evaluation, provenance, and guarded workflows.

Operator before optimizer.
Teacher and translator.
Evidence over theater.

Selected visual case studies

Claims earn their place
through artifacts.

Three hands-on operations demos. Synthetic and sample scenarios make the work inspectable; each link opens the existing demo.

Dent Visualizer current demo screenshot
Dent Visualizer · Current Mac browser capture · Synthetic local scenario
01 / INSPECTION

Dent Visualizer

Public demo · Synthetic history

Aircraft history at the point of inspection.

A sanitized 737-family visualization with zonal inspection, measurement tools, and example inspection history. Move from an aircraft section to a historical condition and its details.

3DInspectionVisualization
Explore demo — Dent Visualizer
What to explore

Try it: open inspection history, choose a component, then inspect a dent record.

Illustrative scenarios. No live airline feed or maintenance approval is implied.

Line Planner current demo screenshot
Line Planner · Current Mac browser capture · Illustrative Love Field layout
02 / LINE OPERATIONS

Line Planner

Public interactive demo · Sample data

See departure risk before it becomes a gate conflict.

Connect the aircraft on the line, remaining maintenance, projected departure, and the next arrival. Gate and aircraft context turn a scheduling question into a visible operational consequence.

OperationsPlanning3D
Explore demo — Line Planner
What to explore

Try it: On the line → Aircraft 01 → Overview, then Work.

Illustrative scenarios. No live airline feed or maintenance approval is implied.

Hangar Planner current demo screenshot
Hangar Planner · Current Mac browser capture · Synthetic planning scenario
03 / MAINTENANCE CONTROL

Hangar Planner

Public synthetic proof of concept

Work packages, people, and tools tied to return to service.

Eight bays bring aircraft status, maintenance work, crews, tools, and return-to-service forecasts into one workspace. A synthetic scenario makes forecast overruns and bay overlaps inspectable.

PlanningMaintenanceVisualization
Explore demo — Hangar Planner
What to explore

Try it: Bay 02 → Work, People, Tools, Defects, and RTS.

Illustrative scenarios. No live airline feed or maintenance approval is implied.

The broader practice

From enterprise reporting to evidence-first AI.

DS-STAR / MLE-STAR · Research-inspired prototypes

Specialist-agent orchestration, structured tools, React interfaces, and synthetic-data workflows for data science and machine-learning engineering. Research-inspired implementations; underlying research authorship is not claimed.

Our Daily Soul Food · Public site

A repeatable content-to-voice-to-delivery pipeline with independent output proof. Daily readings and two morning audio editions in a listening-focused interface. Open site

SWATT Journey Command · Synthetic proof of concept

Transport requests, coordination, mission privacy, and story consent. Open demo

Sober Copilot — Twelve-Step Handbook · Public testing

A mobile-first, local-first reflection workbook. Entries stay in the visitor’s browser. Open handbook

The complete career history

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Report Developer, Technical Operations

Southwest Airlines

Enterprise report development supporting Technical Operations. Connect operational questions with reporting, stakeholder communication, and practical data delivery. Worked on the Performance Management team and, for a period, represented the team at Breakfast Club.

Career break

Career break, 2017–2022.

Database and Reporting Operations

Coinmach / Appliance Warehouse → CSC ServiceWorks

Contributed to business system design, participating in development meetings and helping guide operational needs into software and reports. Developed Clarify reporting across the route operation for air machines, laundry machines, and other equipment. With no separate database administrator, handled database administration alongside report development: configured and managed log shipping and ongoing data feeds between distributed servers across the country, database backups, and disaster recovery planning. Supported annual audits involving Ernst & Young. Built a cellular-data reporting backend and customer-facing reports supporting collections and payout workflows; led customer discussions to explain data and investigate discrepancies.

Consulting, Reporting, and Field Engineering

Progressed through field engineering, programming, technical support, business-intelligence consulting, report development, administration, and training. Delivered web and client systems, SQL/reporting solutions, requirements work, production support, and technical instruction.

Former Scrum Master.

The next chapter

A career converging
on what comes next.

The best fit is work where software, data, operators, customers, and frontier AI all have to survive contact with reality.

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