I bring a commercial-finance and business-development background to practical software, research, education, and creative projects. I direct the work, use AI-assisted implementation and review, and retain human decisions over content, rights, spending, and release. The aim is useful work with evidence behind it, not a claim that every prototype is a finished product.
Selected visual work
A look at the projects.
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Martial arts background
Jim Butcher began training at Bushi Ban Clear Lake in September 2002. His background connects martial-arts practice, teaching, school leadership, strength breaking and service to the Sport Karate Museum. He reports seventh-degree recognition in 2025 through Sport Karate Museum and American Fitness and Martial Art (AFMA).
The 2013 USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame certificate records Breaking Master of the Year. Later Celebrity Martial Arts Hall of Fame recognition in 2025 and 2026 is reported by Jim, with ceremony details still to be documented. Historical teaching, school leadership and museum service are described with their evidence limits.
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Training and rank progression
- September 2002 - Training begins at Bushi Ban Clear Lake, as clarified by Jim.
- 2006 - Provisional black belt, as clarified by Jim.
- 2007 - First Degree Black Belt, as clarified by Jim; the September 1, 2007 Bushi Ban certificate states Black Belt.
- 2009 - Second Degree Black Belt; the Bushi Ban second-degree certificate is dated December 5, 2009.
- 2012 - AFMA Third Dan, documented by a certificate dated September 8, 2012.
- 2013 - Third-degree recognition through Black Lotus Kempo Jujitsu and Black Dragon / IFAA, with separate IKSA registration and Sport Karate Museum recognition. These are distinct organizational records, not four additional promotions.
- 2014-2015 - Fourth-degree AFMA/AKBBA recognition reported in December 2014 correspondence, followed by a September 2015 US Grand Masters Council fourth-degree American Karate announcement.
- 2018 - Fifth Degree through Sport Karate Museum, AFMA and WMARA, reported by Jim; supporting certificate collection remains pending.
- 2021 - Sixth Degree through Sport Karate Museum and AFMA, reported by Jim; supporting certificate collection remains pending.
- 2025 - Seventh Degree through Sport Karate Museum and AFMA, reported by Jim; supporting certificate collection remains pending.
Teaching, service and history
Teaching emphasizes confidence, discipline, achievable goals and helping children find their voice. Museum-support work is recorded from 2013 onward, followed by historical advisor and History General billing and museum-development planning in 2026. These are not claims of current uninterrupted tenure, museum ownership or an opened new facility.
The national sport-karate history collaboration with Professor Gary Lee remains in review, not a published book.
Updated from the October 23, 2026 career profile, revision R3. Early dates and the 2018, 2021 and 2025 promotions are Jim-reported autobiographical information. Historical certificate reproductions and correspondence support the earlier milestones in this summary; they are not independent issuer authentication. The private dossier and its email links are not published here.
Documented workflows / coverage and qualification limits retained
Business operations and public intelligence
My commercial-finance background informs practical work on business assessment, receivables financing, relationship development, documentation, and communication. The professional roles and education are listed separately in the CV, with their source dates and qualifications.
Business-intelligence workflows combine public-source research, contact verification, approval history, and provider-result reconciliation. Research, a draft message, an approved send, a reply, and a customer outcome are different states. This portfolio does not offer employer-owned records, customer information, or contact lists as personal products.
A bounded public-information collection project covers procurement, company information, economic indicators, property-related public records, and publishing-platform notices. Coverage remains partial. Historical awards are not automatically current opportunities, GIS records do not establish title, and economic series need dated metadata. The contribution is repeatable source handling, not a claim of exhaustive intelligence coverage.
Local prototypes and documented features / user and domain review pending
Learning software and everyday tools
The software collection explores practical learning, teaching, and everyday tasks. The master document reviewed project documentation and selected evidence; it did not relaunch or retest every application. No download, adoption, learning-gain, or paid-customer total is claimed.
Study tools are not exam certification or authority to provide regulated services. Memory, listening, exercise, and visual-practice tools are not clinically validated treatments, diagnoses, or demonstrated intelligence improvements. Financial and health calculators retain their assumptions and are not professional advice.
Codecraft
Beginner JavaScript and Python lessons, exercises, hints, concept checks, and practical projects.
Wordwise
Spelling and grammar practice for grades 1-12; documentation describes 48 lessons and 240 original questions. Educator and learner review remain pending.
History Trail and World History Quest
Selected history topics, explanations, source links, and grade-band paths. World History Quest documents 12 selected chapters and 96 activities; neither is a complete twelve-grade curriculum.
Hola Diario and Undiscovered Country
Spanish lessons, phrases, grammar, dialogue, and story-based language practice.
Wordbridge
A small prototype exploring related spellings and meanings across English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese; not a complete language course.
Series Ready
Life-insurance and securities-study lessons, practice, and scenarios; no regulator endorsement or exam-pass claim.
Calculator Library
Documentation describes 42 calculators spanning finance, business, mathematics, everyday use, health, and conversions, with explanations and local saved results.
Pantry and Plate
Recipe and ingredient matching with household preferences. Ranking signals are not verified nutrition totals or store-price budgets.
Fieldwork and Little Dojo
Equipment-based exercise sessions and editable children's martial-arts class routines and plans.
MindTrail, MindForge, Attune, and Sightline
Memory, focus, reasoning, listening, and visual-response practice. These are practice prototypes, not clinical products.
Family math-learning prototype
Grade and course paths, story progression, and saved state. Third-party characters, music, and other assets require separate rights review before commercial use.
Author-side implementation / editorial, playtest and rights gates remain
Games and interactive storytelling
The Covenant of Seven Roads game adapts an original creative world into a local browser prototype. Documented work includes story state, character art integration, movement, save compatibility, pause and reduced-motion behavior, and a related strategy preview with queued unit orders. Author checks are not independent final acceptance or a commercial game release.
Nexus of Echoes is documented as a collection of 100 revised adventures with branching narratives. Its development record reports 1,800 route, decision, and ending paths. Those are content structures, not 1,800 products or human playtests. Intended play duration and reader quality still need human evaluation.
The Shattered Compass and language-adventure work explore narrative interfaces and saved progress. Review-only scene and artwork proposals remain proposals; this website does not activate unreleased game content, publish manuscripts, or offer downloads of rights-uncleared assets.
Manuscripts and preparation / not a list of published books
Books, publishing, and knowledge assets
The book pipeline includes The Covenant of Seven Roads, the three-book Life-Story Collection, The Infinite Sandbox, Jimmy Learns, the AI Playbook, and the Human Questions Anthology. Work includes source registers, manuscript and artwork tracking, editorial support, version comparisons, page maps, and human-review packages.
The projects retain different gates: human read-through, truth and privacy review, governing revision choices, source custody, final artwork, and rights. The AI Playbook is an assistant-authored prompt document, not a verified transcription of source photographs. The Human Questions Anthology has internal research and teaching pilots, not an approved final anthology.
Other concepts and source-recovery candidates include Psalms for Every Emotion, Defense Against the Dark Arts, The Sovereign Soul, anxiety and recovery topics, and Singers' True Stories. A named concept is not proof of a finished manuscript. The Wisdom Library and summary efforts also retain separate source identities, edition and quotation rights, review states, and permission limits.
The goal is selected, carefully reviewed releases. No publisher contract, publication date, bestseller result, sales, or royalty income is implied.
Organized recording and lyric assets / release and rights review pending
Music and creative media
The October 18 owner record describes new songbook and asset-manual editions, 205 additional distinct archived lyric texts associated with 242 recording IDs, and a manual covering 307 recording IDs. The owner reports checking all 307 original MP3 hashes and preparing exact-ID label mappings without changing the audio or its tags.
This is an organized creative asset base, not 307 commercially cleared songs or published releases. The preservation counts are source-reported production records, not a new listening, authorship, or rights audit. Cleaned listener-facing lyrics, original recordings, and proposed release metadata remain separate.
Outstanding review includes incomplete lyric sources, instrumental labels, provisional language and genre information, source and theological holds, sung wording, generation-plan terms, artwork, performer attribution, and release selection. Possible future uses include selected original songs, rights-cleared lyric collections, and music for owned creative work. No income or adopted release plan is promised.
Bounded engineering records / not autonomous production acceptance
Applied AI engineering and reliability
Guarded task and retrieval controls include frozen task packets, a task state machine, source-aware prompt compilation, audit records, review gates, and an offline retrieval-handoff validator. The original implementation status records 17 passing Node tests but an unsuccessful live model-endpoint probe. Passing software tests did not establish an accepted live retrieval-and-generation service.
An evaluator reassessed seven saved successful API requests and found two quality failures, with five answers still needing semantic or completeness review. It did not run a new model. Transport success, format, completeness, and actual correctness were deliberately kept separate.
Checkpoint and recovery work records 165 author checks: 162 passed, no failures or errors, and three Windows-privilege skips. Those tests do not establish measured token, cost, or energy savings. A separate seven-component synthetic tool review accepted only three for limited helper or advisory use; four were not accepted for live reliance.
Source-preserving document extraction and operational-receipt tools extend the same approach. Controller-side checks do not certify deployment on another computer, a dated receipt does not prove continuous security coverage, and an unfinished context-reset check is not a reliability pass.
Source-reported historical pilots / no current-operation claim
R640 and HP local-AI work
The combined document describes Jim's direction of an agent-assisted Linux research environment spanning three Dell PowerEdge R640 servers and an HP worker pool. The public scope is project design, bounded work, resource limits, source preservation, and recoverable procedures, not machine-access details or a certified combined resource pool.
A local retrieval and coding demonstration used llama.cpp, Qwen models, and Qdrant. The technical report describes a small approved-code fixture, retrieval of the intended source, and a proposed one-file correction. It reports eight protected post-fix tests passing after seven failures in the intentionally defective baseline, plus a separate 31-test package suite. This is a bounded pilot, not a production-repository benchmark or cold-reboot acceptance.
In a separate 12-task synthetic comparison, the raw reported scores were GPT-OSS 9/12 and Qwen3-Coder 6/12. A selected GPT-OSS profile using a fixed deployment prompt and explicit JSON mode later passed 12/12 with a reported median response of 20.98 seconds on four CPU threads. Different prompts and evidence sets must not be merged into a general model ranking or frontier-model superiority claim.
Synthetic LoRA experiments checked adapter updates, a frozen base, checkpoint integrity, and exact optimizer/RNG resume. They did not train a production model. A separate historical lyrics-training ledger ended in failed-test and quality-false states. Production LoRA quality and completed QLoRA training are not established.
A cooperative invoice-factoring experiment retained negative results: a solo model scored 2/9 checks, a first multi-model handoff 5/9, and a compact retry 2/9. Model-to-model review did not reliably fix numerical and eligibility errors. Deterministic checks remain important before drafting.
Library work retained a successful small canary, an input-cap stop, and a report of 364 original files rehashed without drift, while acceptance and quality stayed false. The illustration workflow reported 157 image/receipt pairs technically verified against a 400-asset target, leaving 243 uncreated. Technical file identity is not creative approval. These records do not establish a finished library, fully autonomous production, current worker utilization, or a fully protected fleet.
Reported descriptive and finite results / assumptions and negative findings retained
Applied computational studies
Travel and disability-related difficulty
The technical report describes analysis of preserved 2022 NextGen National Household Travel Survey data. The weighted annualized contrast was -278.5636 trips per person, approximate standard error 34.9508, and approximate 95% interval -347.0764 to -210.0508. This is a descriptive contrast with approximate uncertainty, not a causal effect, official NHTS estimate, or full complex-survey inference. A separate operational refresh failed qualification; the result does not certify unattended operation.
Finite Goldbach enumeration
Exact methods reportedly agreed on minimal prime-pair witnesses for 49,999 even integers through 100,000. Complete pair sets for 9,999 integers through 20,000 totaled 1,437,831 unordered partitions, with 12 reported final integration checks passing. These finite computations and exploratory density observations are not a proof of Goldbach's conjecture, a mathematical law, a world record, or a novelty claim.
Food-loss scenarios
The reported finite design covered 114 USDA food forms and 465 scenarios, producing 53,010 result rows. Its included 2019 model estimated 250.7901 pounds of modeled loss per person per year; the ten highest forms accounted for 65.456%. Multipliers of 0.8, 1, and 1.2 are illustrative assumptions, not confidence limits. Cooking and moisture losses are included; the total is not entirely avoidable household waste or a savings promise.
Household energy
The source reports 16 principal descriptive contrasts, 1,040 numerical comparisons with maximum difference zero, and 144 additional exact comparisons. Additivity failed in 166 cases with the cause unresolved, and an income-burden result was withheld because its time basis was uncertain. No settled causal or affordability conclusion is claimed.
HELIOS numerical prototype
A retained reproduction report records 28 bundle artifacts and zero hash mismatches, limited to numerical execution and copied-file integrity. Physical hardware performance, commercial advantage, customer validation, and patent novelty remain unestablished.
Planning inventory / no scientific execution for the 69 AI topics
Research agenda and unfinished work
The latest combined inventory contains 69 AI topics: 64 drafts, four preparation-complete but not admitted entries, and one preparation-blocked entry. All 69 have no scientific execution. MM-16, MM-44, MM-49, and MM-50 are prepared but not admitted or tested; MM-01 is blocked.
A separate 52-entry CPU experiment catalog and a 12-project planning portfolio have overlapping themes and different identities. Their counts must not be added to the 69-topic inventory as distinct or completed experiments. The finite applied studies above do not imply that these proposed AI studies have run.
Unfinished work includes resource accounting, target-host qualification, accepted long-context library evaluation, production adapter quality, educator and user review, manuscript read-through, rights decisions, and unmeasured commercial demand. This summary records gates; it does not launch new work or override an existing hold.
Goals and potential uses / not validated demand or recurring income
What I am working toward
The objective is to turn a broad working collection into a smaller set of credible outcomes for defined audiences. For software, that means dependable behavior and genuine user value. For writing and music, it means editorial quality, rights, and deliberate release. For research, it means bounded questions, preserved inputs, repeatable methods, and honest negative findings.
Appropriate support could help with a capped evaluation, independent review, accessibility and user testing, rights-cleared preparation, or a reproducible demonstration. These are discussion categories, not a submitted budget, a funding award, or a commitment to deliver new work.
Potential paid work or creative releases require clear ownership, an appropriate scope, actual access, and suitable review. Employer material, third-party intellectual property, client information, and private records do not become part of a personal offer merely because they appear in a working portfolio. No product adoption, earnings, recurring revenue, or funding outcome is implied.
Source: Master Portfolio and Application Reference, Combined edition 2, October 19, 2026, supplied by Jim. Earlier records keep their own evidence dates. Private source records are retained off the public website.