Army service
Twenty years working inside systems where context, coordination, and execution matter more than presentation.
About TJ
A career built around decisions, training, and systems that must work in the room.
I grew up on Guam, retired from the Army, and spent most of my career where plans meet people, time pressure, and incomplete information.
TJ TaijeronGrafenwoehr, Germany
The through-line
Games taught me to see decisions. Training taught me to make those decisions matter.
Commercial wargames first taught me to think about terrain, timing, capabilities, constraints, and consequences. Military service turned those habits into professional work.
After retiring from the Army, I worked in simulations at the Command and General Staff College and West Point. I later developed curriculum at the Odesa Ground Forces Academy and spent seven years observing the conflict in Ukraine with the OSCE.
Since 2021, I have worked in exercise planning and simulation support at the Joint Multinational Simulation Center in Grafenwoehr. That is where I began using AI seriously: not as a novelty, but as a production tool governed by source material and human judgment.
Career arc
Experience that shapes how I approach unfamiliar problems.
Simulation and military education
Simulation support at CGSC and leadership of the Simulations Center at West Point.
Ukraine
Curriculum development in Odesa followed by conflict observation and operations work with the OSCE.
Exercise planning and AI systems
Multinational training, compressed schedules, and governed AI workflows at JMSC Grafenwoehr.
Operating principles
What remains human.
Purpose
Models can produce options. People decide what the work is for.
Source truth
Useful output depends on reliable inputs, explicit boundaries, and traceable decisions.
Judgment
AI can accelerate work. It cannot own consequences or professional responsibility.
Evidence
Execution reveals more than confident language. Test before scaling.
Military training work