Technology consulting for small businesses.

Keeping small businesses competitive,
without the big business overhead.

I've spent fifteen years building systems that can't fail. I help small and mid-size businesses cut through the AI noise, automate the right things, and build tools that actually help your business.

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What I do

Services

My engagements are focused, time-bounded, and designed to leave your team with tools they own, not a dependency on ongoing consulting. I take on a limited number of projects so I can be fully present for each one.

Websites & Web Applications

New sites, redesigns, web apps, and ongoing maintenance. Whether you need a professional presence or a custom application, I build things that are fast, maintainable, and actually yours to own.

Automation & Internal Tools

Repetitive manual work, clunky spreadsheets, processes held together with email — these are solvable problems. I build the internal tools and automated workflows that make them go away.

AI Integrations

There's a lot of AI noise right now. I help you identify what's genuinely useful for your business, cut through what isn't, and build practical implementations your team can actually use.

How I work

A focused, four-stage engagement

Focused engagements, no unnecessary dependencies. The relationship continues as long as it's useful.

01

Discovery

I start by understanding your system, your team, and where the real constraint is.

02

Path definition

A clear, written plan: what we'll build, how it integrates, and what "done" means. No surprises.

03

Build & embed

I build alongside your team, not separate from them. The goal is a system they own when I leave.

04

Handoff

Documentation, training, and a production system you own. What comes next is up to you, I'm here either way.

Projects

Featured Projects

Mobile AppStartup

Kestrel Health — white-label member experience platform for Medicare Advantage

A white-label mobile app and web portal that turns insurer data into a modern, accessible member experience. Claims in plain English, cost tracking, digital ID card, and more. Built for Medicare Advantage plans and the 65+ population, with member data staying on-device and no PHI ever touching our servers. POC running against synthetic data with two demo branded plans; designed to go from contract to live in weeks.

CRMAutomationData Migration

CRM document migration

Built a migration pipeline to move client documents from a legacy CRM into Zoho CRM during a system transition. The work involved mapping documents from the old data model to the correct client records in the new system, then using the Zoho API to upload them programmatically and ensuring nothing landed in the wrong place and nothing got lost in the move.

Process ImprovementOptimization

Provider directory performance overhaul for a regional health insurance carrier

Rebuilt a provider directory generation process that had grown into a 30+ minute daily operational bottleneck. Through SQL query optimization and application redesign, reduced end-to-end runtime to under 5 minutes without disrupting downstream systems or consumers that depended on the output.

Cloud MigrationModernization

Legacy platform modernization for a health plan

Led the multi-year architecture and phased migration of legacy VB.NET and Web Forms applications into Azure-hosted .NET Core microservices with Angular front ends. Designed the hybrid cloud infrastructure with disaster recovery using Azure App Services, Azure SQL, Key Vault, and Application Insights. Maintained operational continuity throughout. No risky big-bang cutover and no disruption to a live production environment under healthcare compliance requirements.

About

I've spent fifteen years building systems that can't fail.

I've built and architected enrollment systems, data pipelines, legacy modernizations, cloud migrations, and other critical systems in environments where a bad deployment had real consequences. That experience shaped a simple standard: software has to be reliable, maintainable, and trusted by the people who actually use it.

Most of my career has been spent in regulated industries, owning complex platforms end to end, from architecture decisions to production incidents to mentoring the engineers around me. I've led multi-year platform migrations, designed event-driven architectures for 24/7 operational systems, and kept things running for real users throughout.

I now work with small and mid-size businesses who need that same level of care without the enterprise overhead. Engagements are focused, practical, and leave you with something that works, not an ongoing dependency on me.

Database & Data MigrationCloud InfrastructureSystem IntegrationsApplication ModernizationHealthcare TechnologyWorkflow AutomationAI IntegrationC# / .NETAzureSQL ServerKafkaAngular
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