James Lavin

Contributing to Texas legislature funding decisions — translating complex datasets into actionable insights for a $9.8B allocation to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Responsibilities span statistical population projections, data pipelines, automation, and deploying interactive dashboards across a wide array of Texas budget articles.

Texas LLC specializing in custom computer builds for home servers, gaming rigs, and AI workstations. Handles the full business stack independently — client sales, component sourcing, assembly, GNUcash bookkeeping, franchise tax filings, and quarterly tax reporting.

Restocked and organized store shelves overnight to ensure product availability and a clean, presentable floor for customers.

Bridged student entrepreneurs with San Antonio's innovation and startup ecosystem through the Louis H. Stumberg entrepreneurship competition.

Freelance work assembling, repairing, and modifying desktop and workstation computers locally in San Antonio and remotely. Handled dozens of builds across a range of consumer and professional configurations.

San Antonio, TX

Dashboard for the Quality Assurance Team at the Legislative Budget Board. Surfaces key metrics and general information about projects across Texas State Agencies.

Comprehensive overview of Texas's Fiscal Size-Up — how the state allocates its financial resources and the significant fiscal actions taken by the Texas Legislature.

Replaced static PDFs and physical copies with an interactive dashboard of TDCJ publications. Filterable by topic — no more combing through multi-hundred-page reports.

Personal project: routing music frequencies to an analog oscilloscope's two traces to produce Lissajous-style waveforms. An intersection of signal theory, hardware, and the aesthetic possibilities of old technology.