Sheldon K Salmon

Sheldon K. Salmon Red-Team Frameworks Designer · Structural Integrity Analyst · AI Reliability Architect ORCID: 0009-0005-8057-5115 | Evans Mills, New York GitHub: github.com/AionSystem | Portfolio: aionsystem.github.io PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY I find the failure modes in complex documents before they cost you. Founder of AionSystem, an independent practice building formal red-team instruments — scoring engines, falsification conditions, and epistemic tagging discipline — that map undefined terms, missing enforcement mechanisms, exploitable loopholes, and structural failure nodes in contracts, governance frameworks, AI policy, and technical specifications. Independently ran a structural analysis of the ISA's draft Deep-Sea Mining Code (in active UN negotiation), identifying 52 structural failure nodes across four sections, including four critical gaps that left the primary environmental protection obligation legally unenforceable — with ready-to-insert resolution text for every finding. In parallel, I design certainty-scoring and constitutional governance infrastructure for AI systems (the AION Constitutional Stack, 60+ interconnected frameworks, 23 DOIs across 9 public repositories via Zenodo), and apply the same adversarially-tested, systems-first methodology to narrative world-building and game systems architecture. RESEARCH AREAS Document & Framework Red-Teaming · Structural Integrity Analysis · Adversarial Specification Review · AI Reliability & Certainty Infrastructure · Constitutional AI Governance · Sovereign/Offline-First AI Architecture · Cryptographic Provenance for AI Outputs · Narrative World-Building & Game Systems Design KEY CONTRIBUTIONS ISA Deep-Sea Mining Code — Independent Structural Analysis: Adversarial structural review of a live, high-stakes UN policy document. 52 structural failure nodes across four sections identified, including four critical gaps rendering the primary environmental protection obligation unenforceable from adoption. Every finding delivered with ready-to-insert resolution text. Demonstrates the red-team methodology applied outside a client engagement, at UN-negotiation stakes. Red-Team Framework Suite: Formal instruments — scoring engines, falsification conditions, epistemic tagging — purpose-built to locate structural failure points in contracts, governance documents, and technical specifications before deployment, independent of document domain. FSVE — Certainty Scoring Framework: Multi-axis epistemic certainty scoring for AI outputs, tagging every claim by epistemic status (data, reasoning, strategic projection, or open question) rather than presenting output as uniformly certain. AION Constitutional Stack: 60+ frameworks across 9 public repositories covering epistemic infrastructure, scaling governance, and constitutional response design, including the Eight Laws — an extension of Asimov's Three Laws into broader sovereignty architecture. VERITAS Crisis Mapping Platform: Offline-first PWA for community damage reporting and rescue coordination, built for UNDP-relevant use cases, incorporating the CERTUS epistemic scoring engine and cryptographic sealing via the Sovereign Trace Protocol. NOAA Letter of Intent submitted. Sovereign Trace Protocol: Zero-dependency cryptographic ledger for AI output provenance, 16 template types, deployed in VERITAS with a live GitHub webhook. AAA+ Game Lore Architecture Template: Reusable, AI-executable methodology for production-grade game story bibles, demonstrated with The Salary of a Dream, a complete RPG lore bible grounded in primary-source Shinto and Ainu mythology. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS ARIA Teaming Programme — Applicant, Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies for Human Health Programme (2026–present) Foresight Institute — Community Member, Computation & Health Extension channels (2026–present) Founder, AionSystem (2025–present) CERTIFICATIONS Professional/Institutional: FEMA (IS-915, IS-453, IS-241.c, IS-553.a, IS-35.25) · EPA Watershed Academy (15 modules) · American TESOL Institute (120-Hour Advanced) · Samaritan Health CNA Program Self-Paced: Alison — Quantum Computing Basics, Physics, Oceanology, Marine Engineering GRANTS & PRIZE SUBMISSIONS ARIA MSN — Closed-Loop Neural Interface Verification (TA1.3): £50M programme · HMGCC SOVEREIGN (TRL6): up to $65,000 · KidneyX Empower Challenge: $4M prize pool · VERITAS-SHELLFISH & VERITAS-HABCONTROL (NOAA LOIs): $60,000 each · UNDP Accelerator Lab Prize — VERITAS SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (23 DOIs via Zenodo) AGI — Master Manifest · AION-BRAIN (60+ frameworks) · VERITAS · Sovereign Trace Protocol · CERTUS Engine · FAILURE ATLAS (sealed March 2026) · AION Scaffold v2.6.5 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY All frameworks, engines, and architectural components are original intellectual property of Sheldon K. Salmon, operating under AionSystem. 23 DOIs registered through Zenodo. No corporate co-ownership. "I find what kills a document before it costs you."