Curriculum vitae

Daniel Pace

Systems designer, psychology researcher, consultant, developer, and writer working across human behavior, evidence, and technology.

01

Current work

Founder and consultant

Pace Consulting Services LLC

July 2026 – present

Founded an interdisciplinary consulting practice helping people and small organizations make recurring friction visible and build practical, maintainable systems.

  • Workflow diagnosis, documentation, coaching, and small-system design
  • Guides, templates, trackers, workshops, and responsible automations
  • Founder of Friction Point, the company's flagship practice

Community development and leadership education

Campus One80

Ongoing

Supports college-student community, leadership development, group facilitation, and practical structures for shared life and responsibility.

02

Experience

Data systems and process analyst

Palm Harbor / Cavco Manufacturing

2017 – June 19, 2026
  • Built workflow tools for document reconciliation, payroll, and data operations
  • Designed decision-support interfaces and practical process improvements
  • Applied automation to reduce manual work and cognitive load

AI learning assistant — research and policy

Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, Southern Oregon University

2024 – 2025
  • Designed AI-integrated learning tools, metacognitive scaffolds, and evaluation protocols
  • Developed a sentiment-analysis pipeline for structured review of student feedback
  • Contributed to institutional work on AI ethics, academic integrity, and safety testing

Community developer and leadership educator

Campus Ambassadors

2013 – June 2020

Designed and facilitated community, leadership training, group decision-making, and conflict-resolution practices for college students.

Practicum student

Jackson Street Youth Services

2025

Completed more than 150 hours supporting client data systems, documentation, and digital workflow improvements.

03

Education

Bachelor of Science in Psychology

Southern Oregon University · Ashland, Oregon

Completed March 2026

Focused on cognition, research methods, neuroscience, statistics, learning, and the design of environments that support human agency.

Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer

Linn-Benton Community College

2017

Completed prior to transfer to Southern Oregon University.

04

Selected research and projects

FOSL / Decimen Optical Transfer

Evidence-first research and browser tooling for transferring verified data through displays and cameras. Deterministic experiments, replay, and physical trials keep each performance claim attached to its conditions.

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Emergence Engine

An interactive artificial-life ecology where adaptive agents forage, learn, reproduce, and respond to human participation through local rules.

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ACE

A Next.js and Supabase action-and-progression system connecting completed work to immediate feedback, skills, XP, and rewards.

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REAL Neural Substrate

A research prototype exploring whether useful computation can emerge from local agents adapting under embodied, metabolic, and relational pressure.

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05

Writing and scholarly output

Journeys of the Agenyre: Masters of the Will - The Hunt for the Golden Watch

Page Publishing · ISBN 9781682897546

July 7, 2016

Published novel written under the pen name Adrian Ray.

Selected papers, reports, and frameworks

  • Rethinking Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
  • Human-AI Creative Collaboration Framework
  • Proposal for OpenAI's Safety Testing Program
  • Psychocompugenics: The Psychology of AI
  • Distributed, Low-Frequency, High-Impact Failure
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Cognitive theories, attention dynamics, and memory mechanisms

Southern Oregon University

2024

Academic poster presentation for History of Psychology.

06

Technical and research practice

Human-centered systems

Cognitive scaffolding, interface design, usability evaluation, decision support, workflow design

Development

TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, React, Next.js, Canvas, SQL, Git, Supabase

Research

Experimental design, computational modeling, mixed-method synthesis, systems analysis, applied ethics

Data

Data visualization, regression, sentiment analysis, text classification, Excel, pandas, NumPy, Qualtrics

07

Recognition

  • 2024–2025 Peak Student of the Year, Southern Oregon University
  • 2025 Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society
  • 2024–2025 Provost's List, Southern Oregon University
  • Certificate Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate