Independent Software & Platform Development
Columbia, SC 2025 – present
- Designed and implemented full-stack web platforms with automated content generation, publishing pipelines, and deployment workflows
- Built production automation for ebook publishing, image generation, metadata generation, and multi-site distribution
- Architected revenue-oriented platforms integrating CMS, e-commerce, and automation tooling
- Owned end-to-end lifecycle: requirements, architecture, implementation, deployment, and ongoing iteration
- Employed various AI assistants in all phases of above design and development
nexus.io
Columbia, SC 2024 – present
Support Facilitator for community-based cryptocurrency/blockchain
- Serve as primary technical support authority for a production blockchain network, providing advanced troubleshooting across wallet software, remote core nodes, transaction processing, staking/mining operations, and exchange integration workflows
- Diagnose and resolve complex blockchain transaction failures including signature chain maturity issues, coinbase transaction confirmation requirements, and contract execution errors using Nexus core APIs and command-line tooling
- Design and implement automation pipelines for mining reward processing, staking income aggregation, transaction confirmation polling, retry/backoff logic, and failure recovery
- Develop production scripts in Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript (Node.js), and Python to integrate Nexus APIs with exchanges, spreadsheets, financial reporting systems, and email alerting frameworks
- Build secure secrets-management infrastructure using GPG encryption and agent-based passphrase caching to protect wallet credentials, API keys, and SMTP credentials across multiple VPS environments
- Architect full operational logging and reporting systems including daily summaries, monthly rollups, transaction reconciliation, CSV/ODS report generation, and long-term archival strategies
- Provide Tier-3 community support for wallet upgrades, hard fork preparation, core deployments, staking configuration, mining optimization, and API usage guidance
- Act as technical liaison between core developers and end-users by translating protocol behavior, consensus mechanics, and wallet/core architecture into operationally actionable guidance
- Design and test automated health monitoring and watchdog services for Nexus nodes, including failure detection, recovery workflows, and email-based alerting
Fiserv
Columbia, SC 2016 – 2025
Senior Software Engineer for a large fintech firm
- Continued providing Tier 3 support for the WebFederal internet banking product after its acquisition
- from ACI Worldwide
- Instrumental in client deconversion activities for sunsetting the WebFederal internet banking product
- Participated in forward development of modernization of the Architect OLB product using React
- technology
- Providing Tier 3 support for the Architect online banking product through the Application
- Maintenance Services (AMS) team, including participation in rotation of on-call support for highseverity
- issues
ACI Worldwide
Chapin, SC 2011 – 2016
Software Engineer for large fintech firm
- Continued providing Tier 3 support for the WebFederal internet banking product after PM
Systems/S1 acquisition by ACI Worldwide - Provided skilled troubleshooting, settings/data manipulation, and bug fixes
PM Systems
Chapin, SC 2010 – 2011
Software Engineer for internet banking website firm
- Provided Tier 3 software support for internet banking websites for credit unions on the WebFederal
internet banking product - Provided skilled troubleshooting, settings/data manipulation, bug fixes, and small software
enhancements - Created OFX extract web service for third-party access to our clients’ customer balance and
transaction data - Facilitated successful conversion and deconversion of clients onboarding and leaving our systems;
involved software enhancements and data manipulation
Here There ‘n Yon
Columbia, SC 2008 – 2010
Sole proprietor of portrait photography business
- Arranged and managed operation of in-home photography studio
- Created and executed all marketing materials and efforts, both print and digital
- Implemented various photography-related software products for retouching and creative embellishment of portrait photographs
ATSC
Columbia, SC 2007 – 2008
Senior Systems Analyst for large, multi-industry consulting firm
- Revised processing of insurance
transaction critical to accurate policy coverage and accounting
(backdated changes), including requirement gathering, design,
development, and documentation
- Facilitated timely monthly
transfer of data from OLTP database to datawarehouse
- Provided remote troubleshooting
and debugging support for Fortune 500 insurance company
DP Professionals
Columbia, SC 2006 – 2007
Technical Consultant on contract to a multinational insurance firm
- Selected to provide primary
development effort for localization of enterprise software package
- Served as a member of the client
company’s R&D team, developing new and enhancing existing
functionality for use in enterprise software package and as
application service provider
5th Tradition Software, Inc.
Aurora, CO 2003 – 2006
Owner of one-man software development shop
- Created from the ground up an
application for convention registration and reporting. This
application was in use for several years in a state-wide convention
with average annual registration of 500 attendees.
- Developed and released an
application allowing creation of computer board games. This
application was tested on Microsoft operating systems from Windows
98 through Windows XP.
Colorado Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.
Centennial, CO 1999 – 2006
Senior Systems Analyst for a statewide insurance firm
- Served as mentor to both junior
and senior team members regarding enterprise insurance package
- Selected to provide extract and
conversion expertise for interface with two datawarehouse and
business intelligence packages
- Reduced monthly batch processing
times by several hours using Oracle SQL query tuning techniques and
introducing several PL/SQL stored procedures
- Developed complete reinsurance
process software including requirements, design, development,
testing, and deployment. Served as the only developer on this
two-year project
- Designed and documented version
control procedures for 500+ program enterprise application
INSpire Insurance Solutions
Columbia, SC 1997 – 1999
Applications Programmer for insurance software firm
- Served as primary contact for
third-party data conversion from PC-based back office system to
legacy mainframe systems
- Achieved superlative level of
billable support, both remote and onsite, to non-local Fortune 100
client