Professional Summary
AI consulting, media operations, and executive support professional with a decade of experience across editorial, podcast production, operations, and technology. Currently produces The Jim Rutt Show, runs an independent coaching practice, consults on AI workflow automation, and supports the operations of a contemporary contemplative organization. Funded software projects include a grant from the Cosmos Institute.
Professional Experience
- Help individuals and teams wield AI effectively: building automation pipelines, designing knowledge management systems, advising on employee education, and creating workshops on AI development tools
- Worked with a novelist to restore a deprecated AI model, tuning the model's voice until it felt like hers again
- Created systems to synthesize 100+ meeting transcripts using LLMs for an events consultancy, surfacing tacit insight and producing a body of structured reference documents
- Support day-to-day operations and content production for the founder: manage a Substack publication, write and publish posts, handle newsletter scheduling, and provide editorial feedback
- Co-author a published essay series on contemplative practice; write website and marketing copy
- Research venues and coordinate with vendors for NYC events
- Co-create and produce Natural Magic, the Evolving Ground community podcast
- Design and lead courses and workshops in contemporary Vajrayana practice
- Run operations, strategy, production workflow, and social media for a long-running interview podcast on science, technology, and AI
- Coordinate with high-profile technologists and AI researchers; consider pitches and provide critical feedback on interviews
- Designed prompt templates and chaining systems for LLMs to generate consistent, high-quality screenplay content for an AI-assisted writing tool
- Designed and prototyped UI features and story creation workflows; researched screenplay writing methods; applied tacit knowledge from training as a fiction writer
- Created user documentation and provided technical consultation for beta testers
- Run a practice built through referrals, working one-on-one with founders, researchers, and artists on decision-making, leadership, and embodied meditation practice
- Design and facilitate workshops on emotional fluidity, somatic awareness, and transforming interpersonal patterns
- Co-produced weekly interview show featuring contributors to Harper's Magazine
- Managed calendar coordination and high-profile guest bookings
- Conducted in-depth research and prepared interview briefing materials for each episode
- Performed fine-grained audio editing and sound engineering
- Copyedited the majority of the magazine's online content
Education
MFA in Fiction
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
BA in English Literature and Cognitive Science
University of Georgia
Technical Skills
Tools & Platforms
Google Workspace, Notion, Slack, Zapier, Asana, Descript, Substack, Stripe
AI & Development
Claude API, OpenAI API, Python, JavaScript, React, HTML/CSS, Git, Vercel, Hugging Face, Cloudflare
Media Production
Podcast production and editing, interview research, newsletter management
Open Source & Projects
- Insight Cascade — Framework for creating personalized AI advisor boards, including structured worksheets and prompt templates for LLM interactions
- SPACE Terminal — Experimental terminal interface for multi-perspective problem-solving with AI. Funded by a grant from the Cosmos Institute
- Community Archive Rap Battle — Web app generating rap battles from archived tweets (First Place, 2025 Twitter Community Archive Hackathon)
- Interface Club — Co-founded ongoing research group in Brooklyn focused on HCI and interface design
- Reality Tasting — Recurring curated speaker series in NYC; 6–7 events to date, consistently sold out. Speakers are invited to share methods of appreciation for different pieces of the world.
Additional Teaching
- Taught Writing Fiction course with innovative workshop methodology
- Designed and taught experimental classes in imaginal play and movement
- Taught courses in creative writing and English composition
- Designed syllabi and achieved 90% recommendation rate with 5/5 quality rating from students
Interests
Philosophy of mind and phenomenology · Human-computer interaction and interface design · Media theory · History of AI · Adult stage development · Contemplative practice and somatics · Ritual, play, and social design · Clowning (Pochinko tradition)