Implementing enterprise software for government, building a local marketplace that takes the uncertainty out of face-to-face transactions, and sculpting animals out of clay.
Two jobs, one habit: turn a fuzzy requirement into something that runs.
I configure the systems that run state driver services: client-specific functionality in C#, the SQL underneath it, and the troubleshooting when the system does something nobody expected.
A local marketplace app: product, UX, design system, mobile client, backend, payments, and compliance. Escrow holds the funds until both sides complete, so neither person has to trust the other first. Built with AI coding agents as the primary implementation tool.
Three years in enterprise implementation, a B.S. in Biology, a B.S. in Computer Science.
Selling locally means meeting a stranger and hoping it goes fine. Pact holds the money until both sides finish, so it does. Built end to end: the app, the backend, the payment rails, the tax handling, and the site that sells it.
Meeting a stranger in a parking lot, counting cash, and hoping the thing works when you get home.
Trustap holds the funds until both sides finish, then releases them. Checkout and payouts run through it.
Refunds, cancellations, and disputes each have a defined path, and the money stays put until one of them resolves.
Zamp calculates and files sales tax, so a local seller never has to think about it.
Clay and pixels.
Hand-built ceramics, Blender, Adobe suite.
At Paseo Pottery in Santa Fe I designed and taught a six-week course on animal-themed ceramic sculpture: hand-building technique, and integrating hand-built elements into thrown forms. Weekly sessions at the studio's maximum enrollment of ten students.
