About

Software Engineer with 20+ years building production systems.

I'm a Software Engineer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, focused on frontend architecture and backend systems, who genuinely loves the craft of coding, testing, shipping, and supporting software to delight clients, whether that's deep in an operating system module or polishing the last pixel of a UI component. I ship fixes, upgrades, and new features across large, multi-repo systems, combining an MS in Computer Science from Purdue, decades of deep-system experience, and modern agentic AI tooling to deliver rapid solutions without sacrificing quality. Independent consultant since 2021, partnering with select clients on frontend architecture and backend engineering, and open to the right full-time opportunity as well.

Career highlights

Healthcare & regulated systems: Built full-stack infrastructure for an FDA 510(k)-cleared cardiac monitoring platform at Preventice Solutions and later developed a structured FDA clinical trial authoring platform at Nurocor, recognized by TransCelerate BioPharma.

Payments & financial systems: Modernized a multi-billion-dollar bill-pay platform at Patterson Companies, shipping a responsive, locale-aware Vue.js/TypeScript/TanStack experience. Earlier, at SmugMug, migrated legacy payments code to Stripe, ensuring a locale-aware UI across 10 global currencies.

Consumer products & growth: Led frontend work at Life Time supporting hundreds of thousands of new accounts and app installs, and built trial, payments, and experimentation flows at SmugMug.

Enterprise & AI innovation: Led frontend engineering for Watson for Drug Discovery, translating 25M+ abstracts and 4M+ patent records into actionable insights, and delivered a Vue.js app for a major regional U.S. bank in under two months.

Deep systems roots: Started in systems engineering, porting IBM Directory Server to IBM i and later co-designing test strategy and tooling across multi-release enterprise programs.

How I approach the work

Hands-on execution

I enjoy shipping fixes, upgrades, and new features across large systems with dozens of repos, not just setting direction from the sidelines.

Clean code, rigorously shipped

I want clean code, modern user experiences, and rigorous automated testing and deployment. Speed matters, but not at the expense of quality.

Collaborative by nature

I build one-on-one rapport with teammates to learn from them, share ideas, foster trust, and make room for mentoring and pair programming.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science — Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2002
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science — Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 2000

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