About
Where it started
Building started in 1998 with PC gaming and helping friends: mods, small communities, then websites in HTML and CSS. SQL, PHP, and JavaScript came next, before formal computer science at Ball State University from 2006.
Career arc
At Ball State he earned a BS in Computer Science while spending summers in Scouting as a skill camp counselor and, later, helping run day-to-day camp operations (Eagle Scout). He went on to lead interactive development at Ball State and serve as a senior application developer for the Indiana Office of Technology.
Since 2020 he has directed enterprise architecture at Baker Hill.
Throughline
The same instinct from the first hobby projects: make technology usable, teach and coach through change, and stay close enough to implementation to validate the design.
How I build today
Languages and frameworks still matter, but they sit in the background. What counts now is knowing what good software looks like and steadily improving how you work, how your agents work, and how your pipelines and reviews catch gaps before they ship.
That shows up in Stashwell, a household inventory product (web, iOS, Android, and API) he designs and ships, and at Baker Hill at a very different scale. Stashwell is nested locations, sharing, and optional AI recognition with a fast release loop, while Baker Hill is regulated fintech with broader infrastructure, compliance, and teams. Standing up agent-assisted engineering there took on the order of a year of rules, skills, and agent guidance until typical agent sessions produce code the team would stand behind.
What I want you to take away
Enterprise-scale direction without losing the builder’s perspective, especially where legacy, compliance, and new capabilities have to ship together.
Domains
- Financial services / fintech
- Public sector
- Higher education
- Nonprofit
Education
- BS, Computer Science, Ball State University (2010)
Outside work
He still writes software outside work, travels when he can, and often plans trips around live shows. Metal, aviation history, homelab infrastructure, and a long list of side interests keep him busy off the clock.
- Side projects—Stashwell (household inventory across web and mobile), backup tooling, game utilities, personal sites, and stack experiments.
- A non-trivial home network and rackmount VM lab—sandbox and pre-production for self-hosted apps (Stashwell, Gallery, personal sites), UniFi-managed switching and Wi-Fi—not a single consumer-router setup.
- Amateur radio, ballroom dance, soccer, and manual-transmission cars he actually drives.
- Mixology with the same care as a good bar program: garnish, balance, and menus for home and team events.