Technologist · Artist · Versatilist
I build systems and the worlds they run in.
Thirty years on the machine side of other people’s work: the render farms behind Oscar-winning visual effects, the automation platforms inside Fortune 500 infrastructure, and a shelf of small tools I build for my own work and then give away. Two tracks, one habit — find the thing nobody wants to maintain, and make it run itself.
The career never ran in a single line. One track builds infrastructure for other people’s companies; the other builds things because they didn’t exist yet. They keep handing each other tools.
BA, Mass Communication — Taylor University. The degree was about telling stories. The job turned out to be building the machines that render them.
Visual effects · feature film
Designed and operated large-scale render farm infrastructure for production-critical visual effects pipelines. Nine features shipped in five years, back when a frame that failed overnight cost you the morning.
Systems architect · infrastructure
Systems architecture and security compliance to Department of Defense standards — server hardening, audit process, secure design. In parallel, primary systems administrator and network architect for a university engineering college: core network services rebuilt, firewall architecture designed from scratch.
Visual effects
A painted world that moves. The farm rendered it.
● Academy Award — Best Visual EffectsVisual effects
The one that changed what a shot could be. Same year: Deep Blue Sea. The year after: Mission: Impossible II, Romeo Must Die, Bless the Child.
● Academy Award — Best Visual EffectsThe Karate Dog · Superbabies · Ghost Rider
The film chapter closes out. Twelve credits total — the full roll is further down the page.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions
Large-scale IT design for Fortune 500 customers. Disaster recovery, infrastructure modernization, data center migration — and the start of the executive relationships that outlasted every platform involved.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions
Built and led a cloud migration practice from the ground up, managing the engineers delivering it. First time the job was as much about the org chart as the architecture diagram.
Startup 01 · sunset 2016
Started a company to kill the worst part of publishing media — encoding one file a dozen ways and uploading it everywhere by hand. Firepype automated the pipeline, then grew into live podcast analytics and dynamic ad insertion before we shut it down.
Red Hat
Delivered enterprise cloud and automation transformation programs across Fortune 500 accounts, hands-on in the workshops that got the adoption moving. Automation stops being a tool here and starts being the practice.
Red Hat
Built an eight-person Solutions Architecture team covering 25 enterprise accounts across four states. Hired and coached every one of them; owned performance, career development, and technical depth. Influenced seven-figure annual revenue across OpenShift, Ansible, RHEL, and CloudForms.
Red Hat
Scaled a ten-person specialist team across six regional sales pods in the Central U.S., supporting roughly 200 enterprise accounts and influencing eight-figure annual platform revenue. Built the repeatable technical validation process — POCs that end in a decision, not a maybe.
CIQ
Built the global Solution Engineering organization from inception — hired it, developed it, and pointed it at 70 global enterprise accounts influencing seven-figure annual revenue. Executive technical sponsor on strategic accounts, and the line back into product for what the field actually hit.
Red Hat
Enterprise automation strategy across 25 named Fortune 500 accounts in healthcare, financial services, retail, and software. The current argument: AI in infrastructure needs a deterministic governance layer, and Ansible is a good one. Advising Directors and VPs on responsible AI adoption, and mentoring the SAs who’ll be having this conversation next.
Fourteen tools · free · local-first
A media player, a transcriber, a disk-usage map, a trading bot that shows its work, a Soviet payphone that answers to a Raspberry Pi, and a cyberpunk story I carried for fifteen years until AI finally closed the gap between what I could see and what I could make. All of it runs on your own machine. None of it costs anything.
“I build tools for my work, and give them away for free.” Desktop apps, browser extensions, developer tools, and one converted payphone — mostly written because nothing else did the job.
Find out what ate your disk.
macOS 14+
Less player, more play. Open source — built because Apple Music kept answering a click with an ad.
macOS 13+ · Windows 10/11
A workspace that never phones home.
macOS
Turn stereo into sound that orbits your head, from real measured ear data.
macOS — Apple Silicon & Intel
Transcribe audio and video without sending it anywhere.
macOS 12+ — Apple Silicon
Give duplicate tracks names worth keeping, using local AI.
macOS 12+ — Apple Silicon
Capture the whole page, not just the visible part. Scrolls, shoots, stitches — no seams.
Chrome · Brave · Firefox
Bulk-download your Suno library in one click.
Chrome · Brave
Find the accounts most likely to follow back.
Chrome · Brave
How hard are you actually pushing AI? Live leaderboard included.
macOS · Linux · Web
An options trading bot that shows its work — seventeen guardrails, and it tells you which rule stopped it.
Web · Python · FastAPI
See which accounts have gone quiet, and answer them.
Web
Generate, schedule and post across every brand you run.
Web
A 1969 Soviet payphone that answers to a Raspberry Pi. Drop in a quarter, dial into the weirdness.
Raspberry Pi Zero W
The work that isn’t software.
A cyberpunk world carried for fifteen years without the tools to tell it. Visuals, music, and soundscapes all made in-house.
Animation · Music · Worldbuilding
A green screen built out of light instead of paint — LEDs on the lens axis, retro-reflective fabric, no spill. From a trade show demo seen twenty years ago.
VFX · DIY · Electronics
A do-it-yourself mocap studio at home, coming together one part at a time.
VFX · DIY · SteamVR
Twelve features, visual effects department. Two of them took the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.