About Me

I'm Brodie, a master's student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology with a deep curiosity for how systems (human and digital) actually work.

By day, I work in the Digital Programs unit of Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies by turning history into accessible digital records for the world to see. It's meticulous, detail-oriented work that sits at the intersection of preservation and technology.

By night (and most other hours), I'm exploring AI as a power tool — not just for productivity, but as a way to think about delegation, autonomy, and systems design. I've built a multi-agent AI team modeled after chess pieces, each with a specialized role and personality. More on that here.

My thesis focuses on how staff perceive organizational performance management systems and explores alternatives that emphasize the importance of staff accepting the tool that measures their own performance. As an underrepresented population in the empirical literature, institutional staff deserve to have their perspectives help inform how they are assessed.

I believe the best tools disappear into the workflow, and the best systems make complexity feel simple.