Past Work

I've been building websites since 1994. Whatever it is you're trying to do, there's a good chance I've done it before. I've worked on hundreds of projects for dozens of clients in the past 18 years. Below is a sampling of some of that work.

Industry: Financial
After 13 months in development, this financial processing company found itself frustrated by its attempt to develop an Internet portal to serve its clients. In three months, I helped the company figure out how the website should work and delivered the completed project. I built from scratch in three months what the previous team could not build in 13 months. How much frustration and money do you think this company would have saved if it had hired me day one?

Industry: Transportation
I was retained by this transportation company to straighten out a number of challenged projects including a web portal used by its clients that performed poorly, and a web-based HR application for acquiring and tracking job applications. The reporting portal was fixed to reduce run-time from 15 seconds to less than 1/10 second and allow it to better scale to the client's needs. HR function required re-engineering to simplify and streamline the application process.

Industry: Consumer-Focused Startup
I was retained by this startup after another developer could not complete its website in six months after originally projecting a two-month project. Shortly after I began, it became apparent the project underway would not scale to the needs of the startup because it made use of the wrong technologies. I worked double-time for the next two months writing a completely new application and database, helping its founders finally get to market.

Industry: Telecommunications
Assisted team in redevelopment of complex order-entry and order-processing Intranet application for this telecommunications company. Performed system-wide analysis to help define and document application requirements. Re-architected and rewrote application code to make it more maintainable and malleable. Through this process, the code base was simplified and reduced in size by 30-percent. Business logic originally performed by SQL stored procedures was moved into a business layer reducing SQL stored procedure code size by 50-percent. This process allowed the frequent changes required by this company to be made in one-third the previous time and with minimal impact on the application as a whole.

Industry: Energy Management
Initially began working with this Energy Management company to build a data-driven website for one segment of its business. Was retained longer-term as it began to work with an off-shore vendor to build a complex line-of-business application and client-facing reporting site. I served as the architect for its systems overseeing the overall application designs, coordinated much of the work with its India-based team and lead all of the work for its US-based team.

Industry: Business-Focused Startup
Retained by a past client who was a co-founder of this startup to lead engineering efforts and oversee development of its applications. Applications included both a global marketplace and an internal application client companies would use for employees. Represented engineering division in meetings with members of senior management and advisors. Recruited, evaluated, hired and mentored all other developers. Researched and developed application architectures all other development would be based upon. Oversaw full lifecycle development of all applications.

Industry: Insurance
I was retained by this insurance company very early in the project lifecycle to help gather requirements for a time entry and tracking application for its 14,000 employees, and build it if necessary. As requirement gathering progressed, it became apparent the best way for the company to achieve its goals would be to acquire existing software from an outside vendor. With in-house development for that project unnecessary, I stepped in and helped retrofit an existing time entry application adding FMLA-required functionality, and rapidly developed a thinly-defined intranet site used to kick off its new succession management process.

Industry: Energy
At the time I joined the 50-person team building a multi-million dollar commodity-trading application, I became the third consultant to attempt to build its accounting functions. I arrived with no experience in Oracle and was asked to build the most complex Oracle packages and queries. The challenges arose from extremely complex requirements, a multi-terabyte database, and very optimistic performance goals. Over the course of several months, a project lead with extensive accounting system experience, a dedicated front-end developer and I worked closely with the accounting team to learn its needs. We proceeded to design and build functions around the existing system achieving the accounting team's goals.