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A SaaS CMS before SaaS was cool.
IT Director and Principal Developer at PlannedGiving.com. I built a custom content platform that ran the giving sites of 900+ non-profits, including Yale, The Nature Conservancy and the American Red Cross.
The platforms
small businesses run on.
Laravel platforms and custom CMS builds for VFC's clients: field crews filing QC inspections from the job site, dispatchers running work orders, dealers pulling inventory and spec sheets. Two of those platforms are still in daily use after eight years, with a platform update I shipped this year, alongside PHP 8.3 upgrades and security patching across client servers.
Plus five years leading development and operations at a digital agency.
- Budget MaintenanceLaravelQC reporting platform2017–2026
- Budget ResponseLaravelWork-order platform2018–2026
- Fork & AleLaravelCustom CMS2020–2026
- JB SupplyPrestaShopeCommerce2023–2025
- Discover LewisLaravelCustom CMSEmployee portal2018–2024
- Sheridan ToolsPrestaShopeCommerce2020–2023
- Sly Fox BeerLaravelCustom CMSPrestaShop shop2018–2022
- SlyFox Hospitality GroupLaravelJobs portal2020–2022
- Jessica SmuckerLaravelCustom CMS2020–2022
- Blue Collar WorkForceLaravelJobs portal2021–2022
- Perfect HatchPrestaShopDealer portal2018–2021
- GM CooperLaravelCustom CMS2020–2021
- Bessie IzzyPrestaShopeCommerce2020–2021
- The Landing Beach BarLaravelCustom CMS2020–2021
- Get Safe TogetherPrestaShopeCommerce2021
- AG AdministratorsLaravelClient portal2019–2020
- Elverson Fitness ClubLaravelCustom CMS2020
- Mainstay BrewingLaravelCustom CMS2018–2019
- Pennsylvania Trading PostLaravelCustom CMS2018–2019
- St. Joseph CoatesvilleLaravelCustom CMS2017
13 places,
built to be visited.
Craft CMS templates and TypeScript features for destination-marketing sites, mobile-first and built to WCAG.
Studio · 2024 to now · products of my own
Ideas I built
and ran myself.
Brand, product, code and servers, start to finish. Each one taught me something a client project never could.
Neighborhood Mail
Group-buy direct mail for local businesses
Craft CMSLaravelTwo-sided data model
Launched 2026
Site Champions
An AI behavior-optimization engine
Laravel 13Horizon queuesStripe billing
Launched 2024
Reading Printworks
Matching print and 3D projects to the right maker
E-commerceStripeQR / AR experiences
Launched 2024
Standard Generated
Generating the standard for AI media
AI video generationContent authentication / provenanceBrand & creative direction
Launched 2024
Character Creators
An editorial engine for games & entertainment
CMSStructured content modelingEditorial workflow
Launched 2024
Now · August 2025 to Present
Today: Laravel at scale.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer on the engineering team at HomeSource Systems. A Laravel ERP SaaS for independent appliance & furniture retailers.
Build features on a large-scale Laravel ERP SaaS for appliance and furniture retailers: vendor EDI integrations, financial systems (AP, AR, tax), delivery scheduling, and enterprise data pipelines. Daily work across Laravel internals: Eloquent modeling and query optimization, queued jobs and Redis-backed workers, middleware, service providers, events and broadcasting, and cache layers. Ship with PHPUnit coverage and contribute to the platform’s frontend migration to React / Next.js.
How I work now
- AI for the volume. Claude and ChatGPT for first drafts, boilerplate, test scaffolding and digging through docs.
- Me for the judgment. Architecture, data models, code review, edge cases, security, and deciding what not to build.
- The result. Faster delivery without lowering the bar.
- Laravel
- Blade
- PHP
- MySQL
- Redis
- AWS