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Project briefs
Each brief opens with a short summary, then explains the situation, the decisions, how the system works, and what changed. They’re written for someone who has seen a preview and wants to understand the work.
All project briefs
CISA, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
A cyber training range that costs nothing when no one is using it
CISA was paying about $50,000 a month for training labs that billed even when empty and took hours to prepare. I invented and built the replacement: isolated labs built for each student on demand and delivered in a browser. It became the first SaaS product granted an Authority to Operate by DHS.
Arcada Software, later Seagate and Symantec
Building Backup Exec from the hardware up
As part of the small founding development team, I wrote the tape device drivers and core capabilities behind one of the industry's first comprehensive backup products. It became the world's leading backup software.
SpamJammer, acquired by a major antivirus company
From renting email lists to stopping spam
I shut down my own email-list business because it didn’t sit right with me, then built SpamJammer: mail held until the sender proved they were real, later sold as self-configuring rack appliances.
Spotless Software
The hired gun for teams that couldn’t ship
I founded Spotless to step in when a team had a product it couldn’t get out the door. I chose the teams we helped, worked in the trenches with each one, and left them able to ship on their own.
Ramian Technologies
Proving who approved a card payment, at the register
As Vice President, I led the development of a voice-biometric system in which the cardholder approved a purchase by speaking its exact amount, with a phone call and a live agent as fallbacks.
Amazon.com, through a consulting firm
A bookstore catalog that fills itself
One of two architects selected to build a proof of concept for an online bookstore drawn from the ISBN database: a live serial feed, parsed and normalized into SQL, with a shopping cart on top. Both proofs of concept were kept.
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Shorter stories
Work that doesn’t have its own brief yet.
A messaging standard at Travelers
A messaging service built for one claims team that Travelers adopted as its company-wide standard for outbound communication.
The “Mission from God” award
At Jenoptik, a company built from acquisitions, I automated how people were set up: accounts, machines and phone extensions provisioned from a person’s role. The client gave me its gold “Mission from God” award.
From paper to platform
At Aspen Management, an insurance operation run on paper, I turned the archive into a searchable system with workflow and audit trails. It nearly doubled revenue and capacity without adding staff.
Live-inventory storefronts
At Connextions, storefronts for Mercedes-Benz, Cisco, CBS, Ford, Lincoln and Jaguar, all reading stock from one warehouse system as it changed.
Networks for carriers
Aerotek’s first permanent consultant, I worked on early voice-over-IP for Sprint PCS and Nextel and on Sprint’s network in Florida.
A claims pipeline on Kafka
At UnitedHealth Group, I architected an end-to-end claims pipeline on Kafka, from provider authorization to payout.
Buzz + Kiro
An open-source contribution to Block’s Buzz, the workspace where people and AI agents share the same rooms, adding AWS Kiro as a supported agent runtime.
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