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Travis R. McKinzie

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Travis R. McKinzie

Product & Web Solutions Lead and IT Manager — Cognitive Psychology, Digital Ergonomics, Human-Centered Systems

Location
Colorado, USA
Availability
Professional inquiries welcome through GitHub: web solutions, IT systems, and human-centered design.

Summary

I design and build web systems that respect how people actually think and work. My background pairs a psychology degree with business administration and hands-on IT operations, and I apply that mix to web design, digital ergonomics, and automation: interfaces that reduce cognitive load, documentation people can find, and tooling that removes friction instead of adding it. This site is both my working notebook and a live demonstration of that approach — a static site generator I built to publish a personal knowledge base as a navigable, themeable, accessible website. Where I'm heading: human-computer interaction that supports better learning and better mental health.

Skills

Web & Design

  • Web design
  • Digital ergonomics
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Responsive layout
  • Design systems
  • GoHighLevel

Software

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Jinja2
  • Static site generation
  • Git & GitHub
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
  • OWASP ASVS
  • NIST SSDF

AI & Automation

  • Claude Code
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers
  • Agent workflow design
  • Workflow automation
  • Local LLM inference

IT Operations

  • Help desk management
  • IT service management
  • Freshservice
  • Request Tracker
  • Knowledge base design
  • Google Workspace administration
  • Microsoft 365 administration
  • Active Directory
  • Endpoint support
  • Technical documentation

Leadership & Training

  • Team leadership
  • Student staff development
  • SOP writing
  • Training content design
  • Self-service enablement

Research & Cognition

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Human factors
  • Personal knowledge management
  • Zettelkasten method
  • Literature review

Experience

  1. CPO & Head of Web Solutions

    Rocky Mountain Automation AI 2026 — present

    Lead product and web solutions for an automation company serving service businesses: web design, site architecture, and client builds, plus a website audit method grounded in human-centered design.

  2. Help Desk Manager

    Adams State University — Computing Services 2026 — present

    Run the campus IT help desk and its team of student assistants. Leading the move from Request Tracker to Freshservice, rebuilding the public How-To site around the EDUCAUSE service categories, and producing self-help guides that head off common problems before they become calls. Member of EDUCAUSE and the Colorado Higher Education Computing Organization (CHECO).

Education

  1. B.A., Psychology

    Adams State University 2026

    Chapter President, Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology. Presented research on political polarization at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association.

Selected Work

  • A Python static-site generator that turns an Obsidian vault into a public digital garden: typed note cards, backlinks and a knowledge graph, switchable themes, keyboard navigation, and a build that fails loudly on unsafe input. You are looking at the output.

    • Python
    • Jinja2
    • Tailwind
    • GitHub Pages
    • Accessibility
  • A local Model Context Protocol server that gives coding agents search and discovery over a documentation corpus, so answers come from the docs rather than memory.

    • MCP
    • TypeScript
    • Developer tooling
  • Agent Mission Control

    prototype

    A Next.js dashboard for tracking AI agents, goals, and runs across a personal tool ecosystem, connected to the knowledge base through an MCP seam with a strict one-owner-per-datastore rule.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • SQLite
    • MCP
  • PDF Chunker

    maintained

    Splits large PDFs into per-chapter files by detecting document structure, built to make long technical references usable in AI research workflows.

    • Python
    • CLI
    • Document processing
  • File Sorter

    maintained

    A small Python command-line tool for rule-based file organization — the kind of quiet automation that removes a daily chore.

    • Python
    • CLI
    • Automation
  • Web Design Hub

    active

    A personal reference app for web design: principles, patterns, and checklists I use when building and auditing sites.

    • Web design
    • Accessibility
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