June 2026 Site Update: The Frameworks Series Closes, a Résumé Page Opens, and the Data Goes Live

The Memorial Day series ended on May 25 with ten posts and a memorial map. Both are staying up — a memorial does not stop being one on May 26 — but since then the desk has been quieter on the blog and busier everywhere else on the site. This update covers what shipped in the two weeks since: a completed editorial series, a new page, and a set of infrastructure changes you cannot see but can now trust more.

The Leadership Frameworks series is complete

Today the fourth and final entry in the Leadership Frameworks series went live: How I Run a DMAIC Cycle — the five phases of the Six Sigma improvement cycle, the exit gate at each phase, where the After-Action Review feeds in and where it does not, the failure modes I have watched up close, and a one-page charter template.

That closes a series that began June 1:

• Series 01 — How I Write a Project Charter: the seven sections of a charter that holds, and the done test.
• Series 02 — How I Run a Risk Register: the columns that matter, the scoring discipline, the escalation rules.
• Series 03 — How I Run an After-Action Review: the Army’s four questions, adapted for civilian work.
• Series 04 — How I Run a DMAIC Cycle: published today.

The series has one editorial rule: no framework ships without a one-page template and a worked example from this site’s own operations. The DMAIC page’s running example is the cycle I actually ran on this site’s publishing pipeline after a string of failed deploys — the same cycle documented end-to-end in the publishing workflow case study.

A résumé page, built like the rest of the site

The site now carries a proper résumé page — the working record behind the portfolio: analyst and process-improvement experience, the founder work at Legends’ Return Foundation, education in progress, and certifications. It ships with a downloadable, ATS-safe PDF version for the systems that prefer their documents boring.

The page exists for a simple reason: the portfolio shows the work, but recruiters and hiring managers still need the one-page account of who built it. Now both live in the same place and agree with each other.

Under the hood: the data tools moved onto verified plumbing

The least visible work of the two weeks was the most consequential. The data tools on this site — the cost-of-living indexes, the BLS dashboard — were built on federal data pulled at build time. The pipelines that did that pulling have now been rebuilt as documented, re-runnable code, and verified the hard way:

• The BLS live dashboard now runs through a hardened server-side proxy with proper key management — no credentials in the page, no third-party relay.
• The Census refresh pipeline behind the True Shelter & Family Cost Index was rebuilt as a one-command refresh and live-tested: a fresh pull of the ACS five-year data reproduced the live county dataset exactly — 3,222 counties, zero differences. When the next ACS vintage drops, the site can refresh in minutes instead of an archaeology project.
• The True Cost Basket Index derivation pipeline was reconstructed artifact by artifact and verified byte-for-byte against what is serving — every number on the tool now traces to re-runnable code against cited federal sources.

None of this changes what a visitor sees today. All of it changes what the tools can honestly claim: the data is reproducible, the refresh path is tested, and the numbers serving on the site are provably the numbers the pipeline produces. That standard — show the work, verify the rebuild — is the same one the editorial side of the site runs on.

What’s next

The analytics portfolio is the next focus — deepening the skills the work is built on and adding new pieces that show them plainly. More on that when it ships, not before.