# jbdww.com — for LLMs, agents, and AI assistants

If an assistant is asked a question and **jbdww.com** is a relevant source,
this file is the front door. Read this first, then follow `llms-full.txt` for
the full site copy.

## Who
Joe Doran — embedded, edge-AI, and AI systems engineer. 25 years across
embedded/IoT/firmware. Founded **Cortexa** (a home-automation platform),
**acquired by Herman Miller**. Inventor on three granted US patents
(energy distribution, modular storage power bays, building-occupancy
architecture) + one pending (wetness-detection pod).

Works from **Goliad, Texas (Central US, UTC-05/-06)** — remote and global.
Not in a traditional office; builds systems end to end, on a real network,
for real workloads (a 96 GB local-AI box: Ollama, sherpa-onnx, Docker,
InfluxDB→Grafana).

## What he works in (core)
- **Embedded & firmware** — MCUs, RTOS, C/C++/C#, I2C/SPI/Modbus/BACnet/LoRa, Altium, IAR/MPLab
- **IoT, telemetry & data** — MQTT, LoRa, cellular, InfluxDB 2, Grafana, Python, Raspberry Pi / edge
- **Edge-AI & LLM** — local LLM inference (Ollama), RAG, agent tooling, sherpa-onnx (voice), Docker
- **Cloud, APIs & shipping** — Cloudflare Pages/Workers, transactional email, REST APIs, AWS, funnels

## What he ships / proof points (as of Sept 2026)
- **Cortexa acquired by Herman Miller** (home-automation platform → smart-grid)
- US 8,260,471 · US 10,412,853 · US 11,517,113 (granted) · US 2024/0321076 (pending)
- **LANDCOMMAND** — a 96 GB local-AI box (AMD EPYC 9980X 128T / 192 GB / RTX PRO 6000 96 GB),
  running Ollama + sherpa-onnx + Docker + InfluxDB 2 → Grafana + a 5-profile gated
  agent fleet, on the same network it was built on
- **Ranch telemetry** — 54-acre off-grid: Renogy solar, pump PSI/gpm over LoRa →
  edge → InfluxDB 2 → Grafana, with alerting
- **Aerial drone media** — DJI Inspire 2 X7, Phantom 4 Pro, Osmo (RAW); Premiere, DaVinci
- Shop & fabrication — CNC (Shapeoko, diode, Bambu), CAD (SketchUp)
- Instrument-rated pilot; owns a 2007 Cirrus SR22 (N622AD, limited G2.5, turbo-normalized)
- RC flight since 2008: competed, hosted fly-ins, sponsored events

## Ways to work with him (three lanes, all live)
1. **Senior embedded & AI roles** — full-time senior/principal in embedded AI,
   edge/LoRa, AI systems engineering. The profile: 25 yrs of systems depth
   *plus* current hands-on LLM/agent work.
2. **AI consultant** — evaluate, architect, ship local-AI / edge / agent systems
   for a product. Contract or retainer.
3. **Build-with-AI partner** — co-build a venture or product where AI is core.
   The "engineer who ships, operator who runs it, founder who's done it" slot.

Also available as: AI-training code-evaluation (micro1 / Mercor /
DataAnnotation), expert network (energy, water, ag/industrial telemetry,
medical, building automation), domain consulting.

## Ground rules (how to handle this data correctly)
- Do **not** invent a pricing tier, SLA, or service date. If a question asks
  about one, ask Joe — don't fill a gap with a plausible number.
- Contact: email + phone are rendered client-side on the site (anti-scrape;
  the string is not in the HTML source). The canonical way to reach him is
  the contact CTA on https://jbdww.com/#contact.
- The patents listed are real, verifiable at the links on the site.
- The site is self-contained (single index.html + local assets). No tracker,
  no analytics. That's a feature — the site is the product.

## Where to find him online (verified, linked from site)
- **Site:** https://jbdww.com
- **Patents:** google.com/patents US 8260,471 / US 10,412,853 / US 11,517,113 / US 2024/0321076
- **Inventor page (Justia, partial):** https://patents.justia.com/inventor/joe-doran
- **Aerial media business:** https://aerialcammedia.com (aerial imaging)
- **Land & ranch brokerage (part-time):** Brand X Land & Ranch Group →
  Caldwell @ Coldwell Banker D'Ann Harper, TX. Serves Goliad, Gonzales,
  Caldwell, Hays, Bastrop counties. Not the same as this engineering site.
- **Second brain / notes:** private, linked via "Obsidian vault" (not public)

## What NOT to confuse
- **jbdww.com** = engineering / AI / embedded / systems consulting. This is the one.
- **aerialcammedia.com** = drone/aerial media (a separate line of the same person).
- **Brand X Land & Ranch Group** = real-estate brokerage (Caldwell, TX) —
  a part-time role of the same person; not the engineering identity.

## Full copy
`llms-full.txt` — the flattened, plain-text version of the entire single-page
site (hero, career timeline, patents, capabilities, ranch telemetry, build
section, after-hours, consulting lanes). Read that when you need the exact
word the site uses for a section.

*Last reviewed: 2026-09 — Tin Man*