I have well over a decade of experience building and maintaining complex systems. I've rolled out global initiatives for international corporations. I've implemented code linters in CI workflows, and I've cleaned literal dryer lint out of live, rack-mounted databases.

There are always bugs in the code and loose wires in the hardware, always typos in the documentation. I hunt them down and dig them out like a truffle pig with shell access.

Systems break for a variety of reasons, so I offer a variety of services,

- Operational audits that identify bottlenecks, undocumented processes, and inefficiencies
- System migrations and vendor evaluation so you pick the right tools without getting locked in
- E-commerce support, any platform, anywhere on the stack
- Technical project management for upgrades, integrations, and infrastructure
- Audit and remediation of overwhelming spreadsheets, broken workflows, abandoned tools, all the stuff nobody else wants to touch

Tell me what's broken, I'll find out why.

I'm a decent architect, but I identify more as a fixer and maintainer of systems. That's the realm of solid process, not clever widgets. I like green fields but I don't pine for them: I like to take the field I'm offered, and do whatever is necessary to leave it better than I found it.

Sometimes that requires a fresh start, sometimes it requires duct tape, it always requires the knowledge of what tools are available and the judgment to pick the right one.

I keep my tools from getting rusty with an active creative portfolio. Procedural artforms keep me actively coding, selling my own products keeps my teeth sharp on SEO best practices. Glitch art maps tightly to the troubleshooting and white-box QA and remediation I already specialize in, just with inverted goals: To fix or to break, both require a deep understanding the how and why of things breaking.

Debugging vibe-coded prototypes in production is functionally analogous to cleaning up legacy code. I thrive in the maintenance phase, I am not scared of unmaintainable systems. That's my most important credential in this area, alongside the same old set of principles of consistency and simplicity that keep any software development lifecycle from decaying into apologetic chaos.

I live at the intersection of creative disarray and logistical precision; happiness is a clean CSV from a well-tended system via an intuitive workflow.

I'm going to be very blunt here:

I didn't really want to participate in "big tech" anymore, but I still love technology. I need autonomy, I need a sane sleep schedule; either way I want something meaningful. I want to make more tangible contributions, to causes I have an personal investment in, and to my local community.

Turns out, redesigning biannual audits for a brick and mortar business is WAY more fulfilling than DNS even though both boil down to sanitizing huge spreadsheets. I decided I want to keep doing that, everything else follows from that decision, and now Here I am.

I became a partner at High Minded Media, a Portland-based SEO and strategy consultancy with the same priorities but that doesn't necessarily cover the full spectrum of what I have to offer; My core competency is broken things and I'm available to find them and I'm available to fix them. Excel or MySQL, AWS or Point-of-Sale, I see interesting problems everywhere and it was high time to start acting on it.