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I build and run software for companies that don't have a dev team.

Five products shipped to production in the last twelve months. Mobile apps, SaaS platforms, internal tools, compliance systems: built, deployed, and supported by one person with twenty-plus years of doing this for small businesses.

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Shipped in the last twelve months

Product	What it is	Status
FarePlay Golf	On-course food and beverage ordering, GPS-powered, for golf courses	Live, iOS and Android
Doctivity Health	Healthcare analytics platform for health systems	Live, in production
ODL	Regulatory compliance tracking for a manufacturer	Delivered, 10 weeks
Covington & Burling	Enterprise silent auction platform on an air-gapped network	Live, maintained
itgames	Real-time multiplayer auction draft game	Live beta

You used to need a team. Now you need one person who's accountable.

A real product used to take a team of developers, a project manager, and six months. I replace that. I scope it, build it, put it in production, and stay accountable for it running.

I spent two decades managing offshore development teams of up to a dozen engineers. I know what a bad spec costs, what breaks in production, and what "done" actually means. That judgment is what makes modern AI-assisted development ship fast instead of stall.

Two ways to work with me

Idea to production

A fixed-scope build with a hard number and a date. You get a working product in your user's hands, not a prototype and a proposal for phase two. Typically a few weeks to a few months.

Fractional CTO

A monthly retainer. I own your technology: build, deploy, run, fix, and advise. For startups, equity is on the table. For established businesses, a full engineering function at a fraction of one hire.

The work

FarePlay Golf Product company, founder · App Store · Google Play: GPS-powered on-course food and beverage ordering for golf courses. Live on iOS and Android with Stripe payments, a real-time admin portal showing golfer locations and orders, and a full B2B go-to-market. Built from the ground up.
Doctivity Health Product company, consultant: Healthcare analytics platform used by health systems to analyze provider and patient data. This year: a natural-language query layer over the analytics engine, a voice assistant, a production MCP server exposing the platform to external AI agents, and a large-scale database migration with zero downtime.
ODL Client engagement: Regulatory compliance tracking system for a manufacturer in Zeeland, Michigan. Delivered in ten weeks on a fixed engagement, on their own infrastructure. Replaced a spreadsheet process the business depended on.
Covington & Burling Client engagement: Corporate silent auction platform for a large enterprise, running on an air-gapped Windows server with Windows domain authentication. Built to their security team's requirements and maintained through their patch cycles. Hundreds of corporate users bidding concurrently.
itgames Product, live beta: Real-time multiplayer auction draft game: poker-style rooms where players bid live on athletes to build a daily fantasy team. Live multiplayer today, real NFL and MLB slates in progress. Concept to live product in under a year.