Trevor Kist
AI Enablement Lead. Turns AI capability into tools teams actually use.
Ferndale, WAtrevsky1@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/trevor-kistkistdigital.com
Summary
AI Enablement Lead at Higharc: find where AI creates leverage, build the tools, and drive adoption.
Shipped AI Enablement HQ, one home for company AI training, skills, prompts, news, and discovery.
Seven years at EasyPay Finance, from marketing coordinator to technical PM, plus two App Store products and a portfolio of browser games.
Experience
- Lead AI enablement across engineering, product, and operations: find leverage, build the tools and workflows, drive adoption.
- Shipped AI Enablement HQ, the central home for AI training, a skills library, reusable prompts, AI news, and an FYP page.
- Led cross-functional engineering teams on fintech products; owned requirements, Jira, standups, and delivery.
- Built Finley, an executive dashboard consolidating nine data sources into one daily view for leadership.
- Authored the Enterprise Analytics Center master data dictionary covering 807 raw fields across departments.
- Shipped internal AI tools on the Anthropic API, including a Claude Project for new hire onboarding.
- Increased website traffic 40% through a redesign and SEO, generating 15% more qualified B2B leads.
- Improved email engagement 25% across 50,000+ contacts with Pardot automation and segmentation.
- Launched EasyPay University, a gamified training platform that reduced merchant onboarding time.
- Designed DataValidator, a SaaS app on the Google Places API that validated and enhanced 10,000+ CRM records.
- Prototyped and deployed internal web apps with Claude Code; built analytics dashboards on Salesforce.
- Continued leading marketing during the transition into technical project management from August through October 2025.
- Increased email campaign effectiveness 20% for 25,000+ subscribers; cut collateral production time 40%.
- Built a private digital office where 13 Claude-powered agents handle lead research, site audits, outreach drafts, proposals, and compliance checks before human approval.
- Built a soccer club website and booking platform plus a NASCAR survivor pool for 102 players with automated weekly scoring.
Earlier: QA Supervisor, Feghali Sales (2017 to 2019); Assistant Program Coordinator, CSU San Marcos (2017 to 2019); Senior Recreation Leader, City of Laguna Niguel (2013 to 2017).
Selected projects
- FORGE: Habits and Fitness. 75 Hard and custom challenge tracker with workouts and nutrition. On the iOS App Store.
- Hollowfen: The Failing Village. Four-act narrative game, four endings, seventy scenes. Unity, Claude Code over MCP. TestFlight.
- The Tuesday Report. AI-written weekly fantasy football reports for Sleeper and ESPN leagues. Node, GitHub Actions.
- Trevor's World. Playable retro-game portfolio embedded in this site.
Skills
- Languages
- TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Swift, SQL
- Frontend
- React, React Native, SwiftUI, Vite, Tailwind, GSAP
- Backend and Data
- Node, Netlify, Supabase, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions, Data Modeling, Salesforce
- AI and Agents
- Anthropic API, Claude Code, MCP, Claude Projects, Agent Workflows
- Game Dev
- Three.js, Unity, Rapier, Web Audio, Pixel Art
- Tools
- Git, Xcode, TestFlight, Figma, Jira
Education
California State University San Marcos
B.S. Business, Management Information Systems, 2015 to 2020
Certifications
- Claude Code in Action, Anthropic, 2026
- Intro to Model Context Protocol, Anthropic, 2026
- Certified Digital Marketing Professional, DMI, 2021