Jesse Zesbaugh
Kirkland, WA Jzesbaugh@icloud.com LinkedIn GitHub IMDb
Twenty years in small organizations, mostly ones I started. At that size the org chart is a polite fiction — whatever isn't covered falls to whoever's paying attention, and that was usually me. These days a lot of that is AI: I build with it every day, test what it gets wrong, and publish what I find.
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Experience
2024 —
Co-Founder
Seattle Vegan Group · member-owned grocery co-operative in formation
2024 —
Technical Lead, Venues
Encore Global · InterContinental Bellevue at The Avenue · concurrent with full-time degree study
2022–2023
AmeriCorps Benefits Hub Coach
United Way of King County / AmeriCorps · UW Bothell and Cascadia College
2013–2022
Chief Information Officer and Partner
CannaMLS · national B2B marketplace for licensed-business and commercial real-estate transactions · still operating
2005–2025
Partner, Producer and Videographer
Seattle Videography · now Emeritus · still operating
2008–2016
Film Producer
Pendragon Pictures
Education
Oct 2026
B.S. Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Western Governors University
ABET-accredited program, at a university designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense by the NSA and DHS. I did the capstone on a live non-profit site I already administer, rather than in a lab.
2017–2019
Associate of Arts, Honors with Distinction
Shoreline Community College
3.7 GPA · Phi Theta Kappa · undergraduate research · statistics and programming tutor
2016–2026
Certifications — 22 held
CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+), Security+, Security Analytics Professional · ISC2 SSCP · Machine Learning Foundations (University of Washington) · Linux Professional Institute · ITIL Foundation · Ethical Hacking: Wireless Networks · Audinate Dante 1 and 2 · + more on LinkedIn
Selected work
Released
War of the Worlds: The True Story
Producer. A feature film, released theatrically in 2012. It was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter, toured 50 theatres, and completed an Academy Award-qualifying run. Wikipedia
Trailer, edited by me · 155K views · plays inline, loads nothing from YouTube until you click
In use
In circulation
Seattle Vegan Group Flier
Designed front-to-back for a 4×6 postcard: full custom type and color system, built to print spec with bleed and CMYK for offset printing. Printed and out in the community now, 1,000+ copies in circulation. Not a standalone piece — it's the entry point of a deliberate funnel, flier to website to newsletter, built to turn a one-time touchpoint into an owned audience relationship.


Published
Evidentiality Framework for AI
A small plain-text notation that labels where each claim in AI-written text comes from: given (it was in the material the AI was handed), checked (verified against a named source) or generated (the AI's own inference). The point is that the difference survives when text gets copied, summarized or handed from one AI agent to the next, so it can be audited later. It started as breadcrumbs in the rules I run my own assistant on, an audit trail for myself, before I saw it had more potential. No retraining, model changes or special infrastructure required; it all happens at the prompt. Early findings from small tests, mostly on one model family, published so other people can test it, break it and make it better. Site · Source
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Also built with AI, then read line by line, which is where the mistakes turned up. One HTML file. No dependencies, no build step, no tracking and no analytics. The whole resume renders with JavaScript disabled, and it prints properly. Documented so you can fork it and answer your own fourteen questions. Source and README