Building Brands with Great Experiences. We partner with startups & companies to craft beautiful software through thoughtful, user-driven design and passionate execution.

Bespoke web, mobile, and product engineering. We specialize in startups, work well with product folks, stay at the top of our game, and love sharing what we know with others. We have particular expertise with Ruby on Rails: we're frequent conference speakers, classroom teachers, real-world consultants, and startup veterans.

Access to capital for Small Businesses is tough to get, expensive and complicated. Bolstr simplifies the process of raising investment capital from your network and community with fair deal terms that work for you, and your supporters.I helped take the company from an initial application prototype through several small pivots that ultimately helped secure a substantial investment to grow product and team in Chicago.

At Intridea I worked with small teams of talented programmers to create amazing web and mobile applications with Ruby. I was also a project manager and helped guide clients through the application development process.

I was on the web development team at Avastone where I developed custom web based applications for various businesses throughout Wisconsin. I used Ruby on Rails as my web development framework of choice.

As a consultant at Inacom, I worked with clients in the very beginnings of projects to help them effectively envision web application solutions to a wide array of business challenges. Often I would work on the entire project from discovery to helping craft the Statement of Work through development and into production deployment. I created and managed the Linux hosting segment at Inacom and built the Ruby on Rails aspect of their consultancy from the ground up. Aside from being Inacom's chief Ruby on Rails developer I also did numerous enterprise class projects with ASP.NET in C# and VB.I was also the go to graphics guy at Inacom with the ability to create an entire design from scratch using Photoshop and Illustrator. In addition to creating new designs I was also highly effective at taking another designer's creation and "cutting it up" into standards compliant XHTML and CSS. I concentrated on standards and accessibility to give my clients the best possible product.On several projects I also acted as a project manager, facilitating and documenting all the communications between Inacom and the given client.

Support technician for full campus, faculty and staff. Supporting over 10,000 users. I specialized in mac support. I graduated Cum Laude from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire after earning a bachelors degree in business administration with an emphasis in Management Information Systems and a minor in Business Telecommunications.