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Web application and business solutions consultancy. Helping develop custom business solutions in the cloud, refactoring and improving legacy applications, custom integrations with third-party tools, documenting & modeling business domains, improving employee workflow and information sharing through cloud technologies.

Founder and sole proprietor; responsible for all business and product development, programming, marketing, accounting. Experience with monthly-recurring revenue, customer acquisition cost, retention strategies, data points and statistical analysis.

- As partner: strategize our direction and goals, staffing, office environment, and overall success as we grew from 5 to ~40 employees- Lead development teams for two major custom application builds: an employee recognition app and a learning management system- Built prototype job messaging system for redundant event transportation between e-commerce stores and external integrations- Built internal application to analyze AWS hosting costs and revenue for clients, monitoring usage for proper billing, ensure managed hosting services stayed profitable- Implemented development standards and processes, increasing developer productivity and code quality while reducing bugs and roadblocks- Assist sales in estimating internal costs, customer pricing

- Lead the development team in creating and maintaining a custom online retail platform that powered multiple online stores- Integrated online purchases into an order fulfillment system, automated shipping labels, maintained barcode-based inventory- Created an ordering system allowing customers to configure and purchase their own candles (with any combination of style, color, wick, scent, jar)- Assisted in customer service and support, warehouse operations when scaled during peak activity

- Created and maintained a custom online retail platform w/ founder- Shipped orders, received and stocked new inventory- Provided well-rated customer service- Various web design and development contract work, customer service, and other support before and after full-time employment