Sam Cornell

Projects

SCOPE

An eCommerce and contracting business I founded and operate remotely, built and scaled while I worked surgical call and finished an MBA. It runs on automation, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows, and on the conviction, formed the hard way, that your ability to practice your craft shouldn’t depend on someone else’s letterhead.

Trauma kits in every school in Alachua County

At eighteen, after the Parkland shooting, I researched trauma survivability data, consulted emergency physicians and sheriffs across multiple counties, and presented the case to the Alachua County School Board. The board approved trauma kits for every public school facility in the county. It was my first real lesson in how evidence becomes policy: someone has to do the unglamorous translation work.

Federal advocacy on organ procurement policy

Traveled to Washington, D.C. to brief U.S. Senate and Congressional offices on a CMS final rule governing organ procurement organization performance metrics, translating regulatory language into plain terms for policymakers. A one-day schedule became two.

The Florida ALPR Transparency Project

An ongoing, records-based research project on how Northern Florida counties procure, govern, and oversee automated license plate reader systems, built from public records, vendor documents, and Florida statutes. I’ve presented findings to local officials, and the goal is constructive: clear rules, informed residents, and accountable adoption of a technology that can genuinely help law enforcement when it’s governed well. Volume I is published here.

Research

Pending co-authored abstract with the American College of Surgeons (#5345) on lateral extraperitoneal positioning of the renal allograft vein in human kidney transplantation.

Ongoing

An MBA in IT Management (Western Governors University, 2026). A student pilot license. Spanish (fluent), Italian (intermediate), Mandarin (beginner, actively studying). And this site, the longest-horizon project on the page.