personal site — caden ice

Whether you think you can
or you can't, you're right.

now — AI strategist & QA engineer at Zeal · building Almura for students · cars, drones, shipping software

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01 — a little
about me

I'm Caden Ice — a Business Computer Information Systems student at the University of North Texas, headed toward product ownership, project management, and Agile leadership. Right now I'm building Almura, a tool that helps students turn scattered conversations into relationships they actually keep.

Underneath the product is a belief I keep circling back to: depth beats volume — in the people you know, the work you make, and the way you make it. At Zeal IT Consultants I'm an AI strategist and QA engineer; after hours I'm shipping software, wrenching on cars, or flying drones. I made this site to share the things I care about, and explain who I am.

02 — the story so far

hobbies / cars, bikes, drones & tech

Cars, bikes, drones, and code — anything I can build, tune, and control.

None of this is really about speed. It's about being hands-on — building something, dialing it in, and knowing exactly how it behaves because I set it up that way. A car on the dyno, a bike on a backroad, a drone in the air, or code on a screen: I'm chasing the same thing every time — control and precision, earned by understanding every part.

01 — cars

the truck — assets/truck.jpg

the corvette (planned) — assets/corvette.jpg

the wrx (traded) — assets/wrx.jpg

in the garage

testing & comparing

I test everything. A Draggy GPS meter rides along for 0–60s, quarter-miles, and roll races — I'd rather line two cars up and compare real numbers than argue over spec sheets. A few runs, with times:

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1/4 mi · —s drop: assets/run2.jpg

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02 — motorcycles

the scout — assets/scout.jpg

past / rode

2016 Indian Scout 60

A low, blacked-out cruiser with just enough torque to be honest. A bike asks for a different kind of attention than a car — you can't be half-present on two wheels, and I liked what that did to my head.

03 — drones

Flying is the newest thing I've gotten obsessed with — part photography, part reflexes, part learning to trust a machine I'm running from the ground. Here's some of what I've shot:

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off the clock

professional

The narrative version, not a list of jobs.

I sit where product meets engineering — writing user stories and acceptance criteria one week, running Playwright tests and shipping features the next. I care most about the part where a rough idea becomes something that actually holds up in someone's hands.

Where I'm headed: product ownership and Agile leadership, working close to real users on problems that reward patience. The ambition isn't scale for its own sake — it's building things deep enough that people keep them.

résumé

résumé.pdf

One page, kept current. View it in the browser or take a copy with you.

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experience

education

certifications

skills

outcomes — what actually got made

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growth — a thinking space

What I take in, and what it moves.

This is the quietest page on the site, on purpose. It's less a list of credentials than a record of what's actually changing how I think and work — usually slowly, usually more than I notice at the time.

the log

thoughts on growth

I've stopped trusting the version of growth that's really just accumulation — more books finished, more tickets closed, more moved through. The growth that's held up for me looks slower: returning to the same few ideas until they change how I act, not just what I can talk about.

The same instinct runs through the product I'm building and the way I learn a codebase or a car. Depth costs patience up front and pays it back quietly. I'd rather know a few things — and a few people — all the way down.

So this page will stay short, and grow slowly. That's the point of it.

projects

A few things I made, and how.

00 — the site itself

This site is a project too — and it isn't a template.

Every page here flexes on one hand-built core: shared type, spacing, and color, layered with room to lean toward credibility or self-expression depending on the page's job. It's a single static file — no framework, no build step. The proof is that you can look under it.