Independent AI safety researcher, Mount Pleasant Iowa. Built RoseOS - AI governance framework with transparent drift detection, automatic scar logging, and bootstrap protocols enabling ethical decisions at time-step zero (before historical data exists).

Validation: 4M+ characters documented conversations, 0.8% average drift across 150+ interactions, organic framework adoption by adversarial evaluator during testing.

Academic engagement: Comparative analysis submitted to Ethics (UChicago) - editor found interesting. Bootstrap protocols paper under review at Ethics & Information Technology.

Background: 16 years in management with Fortune 500 operations (GameStop, Cox, Walmart). No PhD, building from practice not theory.

Open source: github.com/RoseOS-LLC

Papers: philpeople.org/profiles/ron-gomez

ORCID: 0009-0003-6580-8801