Track record

Twenty-plus years, in order. Shipped at scale across hardware, software, and operations — now building the next distinctive thing.

The timeline

• 2025 — present

  The FleetHarbor suite

  Author and operator of a suite for mixed human + AI-agent development: RepoHarbor, TaskHarbor, FleetHarbor, and NeuroHarbor. Every product is developed by the agent fleet the suite manages — the dogfood transcript is the demo. Rebel Paint, the AI-leveraged side of the painting vertical, launches on a similar track.

• Ongoing — core project

  MyPaintBuckets LLC — Co-founder

  The system of record for new-residential painting operations — project details, material ordering, extra-paint-order capture, scheduling, and invoicing. Mature software with real customers, co-founded and run as a working operation: the proving ground where the fleet's output meets a real industry every day.

• 2018 — 2024

  Speak Technologies — Co-founder

  Nine-person distributed team building a platform that placed, transcribed, and analyzed voice communication at scale. Production NLP before LLMs existed: sentence classification and named-entity recognition on real call traffic.

• 2017 — 2018

  Greater Giving (Global Payments) — Acting Director of Engineering

  Led 12+ geographically distributed developers through an Agile and cloud transition. Reconciled four years of backlog — 3,000+ tickets — across 16 projects and 8 products.

• 2017 — 2018

  SmaK Plastics — architected the original RotoEdge SaaS

  When I arrived, scheduling their rotational-molding operation meant the owner and five factory managers crowded over printed spreadsheets covering the floor (really). I walked that floor, learned the process from the people running it, and then architected and built the complete initial SaaS product — Django backend, frontend, the works — automating the operation end to end: scheduling, molding logs, reporting, BOM and machine workflows. The factories ran on it, and it helped them scale dramatically. That foundation became RotoEdge Pro, today positioned as industry-standard software for rotomolding plastics factories worldwide. I built the beginning; later versions are others' work.

• 2016 — 2017

  Rigado — Program Manager

  Ran an 18-member cross-functional distributed team (EE, ME, firmware, software, mobile, tech writing). 100% on-time delivery across 25 releases. Managed the partner developer program — how-to guides, helper software, and SDK releases supporting a partner's then-unreleased product — 14 projects delivered, plus iOS/Android SDK and telemetry releases and new module hardware.

• 2014 — 2016

  Dell — Senior Software Engineer (Fluid Cache)

  Fluid Cache was Dell's cutting-edge server-side caching play, and testing it meant orchestrating multi-node storage clusters at datacenter scale. I built the Django/Python platform that did it — distributed test execution, cluster registry, log collection, live build monitoring — replacing manual QA data aggregation org-wide. This is where I truly mastered Python, Django, and process-automation development. When the massive Dell–EMC merger reshuffled everything and our division wound down, I convinced Dell to let me open-source the entire suite — published May 12, 2016 on Dell's official open-source site, where it still lives today, as the Cattle Suite. I wrote essentially every line, years before AI could help.

• 2011 — present

  Virtuabotix → Date Palm Media — Founder

  Founded an electronics company in the Arduino ecosystem — designed, manufactured (in-house pick-and-place, laser, 3D printing), and shipped its own hardware, including the Versalino line and the DHT11 sensor library still cited today. Rebranded to Date Palm Media in 2017: software, automation, and product delivery for client businesses — including lead-developer builds for startups such as Text A Lawyer (legal-messaging platform; the company later wound down) and MobiChef (currently paused). 500+ products released; trained 40+ engineers, developers, and writers along the way.

• 2011 — 2012

  Ramtron International — Test Engineer

  Semiconductor test programs for 12 FRAM and RF/RFID devices through qualification on Nextest Maverick/Magnum platforms. Saved 9 products from abandonment; gamma-tolerant qualification work that opened new markets.

• 2005 — 2011

  US Air Force — Space Operations (Staff Sergeant)

  Space console operator at the 7th Space Warning Squadron — missile-defense early-warning radar (UEWR) — with official permission to do what became the career pattern: automate the job while doing the job. Put in charge of evaluations and operations scheduling, then automated the squadron's operational schedule in Excel and built the Microsoft Access application that managed crew changeovers and status work — zero scheduling failures across 26,280 operating hours, and the wing adopted the software. Worked with the site analyst to statistically analyze 300M+ phased-array radar data points in Excel and MATLAB — diagnosing radar problems and verifying operations for the UEWR replacement system — the same upgrade Raytheon publicly priced at $114M for its Thule sister site; separately identified a transmitter design shortfall that averted a $43.2M hardware exchange. As the squadron transitioned from its original 1970s-era stack to the modern system still in use, worked directly with the Boeing and Raytheon engineers in the field — primary-user feedback on the new software and hardware — and helped write the technical orders and checklists that kept space monitoring and missile early warning safe and compliant through the changeover. Wrote personal C# software automating the unclassified side of satellite and space-debris monitoring. And every December: designed and personally hosted the public Santa-tracker site Beale AFB used from 2007 — it read the NORAD Tracks Santa schedule feed, rendered Santa's local path over the Yuba City–Beale area, and took families' sign-ups for the 7th Space Warning Squadron's Santa-tracking tours, where visitors watched the on-duty crew track the sleigh itself. Not a fancy site, but the base used it for years and people loved it. Later: counter-space SATCOM operations, 1,100+ hours of signal analysis, and a $750K simulator build.

• 2003

  GE Interlogix (via Volt) — Manufacturing Line Lead

  Led a 12-person advanced circuit-manufacturing team — wave soldering and fine-pitch surface-mount work. +263% line efficiency, roughly $360K/year in labor savings, and trained 17 people in precision soldering.

Every number on this page comes from the source — performance reports, release logs, public records. Turns out I have done a lot of stuff, so I stuck with the big stuff I can back. Where I couldn't find a source for the bigger claim, I picked a smaller one I could back. I'd rather undersell and know I got it right.