About

I'm a senior web developer and systems architect based in Billings, Montana, with over 20 years of full-stack experience — from C and Perl on Oracle to modern PHP, JavaScript, and AI-assisted tooling.

My work centers on WordPress systems, data integrations, and the kind of deep structural problems that don't show up in tutorials. I manage a fleet of 250+ active web environments, including high-stakes transactional systems for real estate APIs, cattle auction platforms, and institutional sites.

Before agency work, I was a technical lead at SunGard Higher Education, where I engineered Perl-based synthetic data generators producing over a million randomized student records for enterprise-scale performance testing. That instinct for system-level thinking has stayed with me.

I have a B.S. in Computer Science from Montana State University. I've also spent 12 years as an institutional volunteer photographer at ZooMontana, which directly informed a specialized WordPress CMS framework I built for zoological institutions.

I approach technical problems the same way regardless of scale: understand the system first, then build something that holds.

Technical range

• PHP, JavaScript, SQL/PL/SQL, Perl, Python, HTML/CSS
• WordPress — custom plugins, themes, REST API, WooCommerce
• MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server
• RETS, RESO Web API, MLS data integrations
• ADA/WCAG compliance auditing and remediation
• AI-assisted development — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini
• Flywheel, Cloudsites, virtual server environments
• GitHub, Agile, site launch QA protocols