CV & Résumé
Open to opportunities
Available for fractional, contract, advisory, or the right full-time role.
Work History
Prickly Pear Marketing Co (PPMC)
Co-Founder · Solutions Engineer · Primary Developer
Oct 2025–Present · Durant, OK
- Co-owned full-service marketing agency; owns the technical side (web, SEO, automation, internal tooling), shares agency leadership.
- Built the internal AI-tool governance + scheduled-agent system the partner team runs on.
- Built and operates the web + SEO delivery pipeline used across client engagements.
- Co-owner equity, P&L, and decision authority.
Tenor Creative LLC
Founder · Solutions Engineer · Primary Developer
Sep 2024–Present · Durant, OK
- Solo shop; static sites for SMBs focused on technical SEO, performance, accessibility.
- Built tooling that lets one person deliver premium static sites at a low price point.
- Owns full P&L for the entity.
BetterLife
Senior Full-Stack Engineer · DevOps · Software Systems Architect
Mar 2023–Present · Kihei, HI (remote)
- Founding engineer/architect for a small-groups ("pods") matchmaking platform.
- Designed and owned the entire v1 platform — frontend, backend, ML, databases, CI/CD.
- Hired and led a team of 6 (2 frontend, 1 backend, 1 senior frontend + UI/UX, 1 ML). Interviews, hiring decisions, technical direction, code review.
- Built an R-based ML matchmaking system pairing users with pods.
- Built the entire auth stack on Auth0 (Okta) — production SSO, MFA, full lifecycle.
- Led the v2 migration to cloud-native SaaS.
- Stack: Nuxt, Vercel, FaunaDB, Stripe, PostgreSQL (Neon), InfluxDB 2.0, Heroku, Go, Grafana, Python, R, reticulate, Hetzner, Dokku/Docker.
DKBinnovative
Centralized Services Automation Specialist (IT DevOps)
Jun 2021–Mar 2023 · Frisco, TX
- Designed/built cybersecurity + compliance automation across enterprise Windows/Linux/Mac fleets (2,500–3,200 endpoints) in healthcare and manufacturing.
- Daily PowerShell dev for workstation/service-management tooling; Go tools to orchestrate and aggregate reporting.
- Built a POC MSP code-delivery + RMM platform in Go — cross-platform agent + server-side broker over gRPC + mutual TLS.
- Led PrintNightmare response across the client base — PowerShell/GPO mitigations, then eliminated traditional print servers.
- Migrated all delivered PowerShell to a GitHub source-of-truth model — scripts run in-memory from raw URLs, removing local-file tampering surface and forcing PR review.
- Compliance remediation against HIPAA / NIST / CMMC-adjacent scans.
- Automated distributed enterprise Windows update/upgrade management.
The Chickasaw Nation
Retail Systems Analyst
Oct 2016–Jun 2021 · Ada, OK
- One of two go-to experts for all retail + PCI payment systems across hundreds of devices — casinos, c-stores, gas stations, restaurants, boutique retail.
- Two-year PCI-DSS subject-matter expert and lead preparer for PCI audits.
- Designed/implemented enterprise-wide payment + POS device tracking for PCI compliance.
Community First Investments
Co-Founder & Operating Partner (Real Estate)
2021–Present · 50/50 partnership
- Real-estate investment partnership; full-lifecycle ownership (acquire, renovate, operate, exit).
- Acquired a distressed 12-unit apartment complex; led a multi-phase to-the-studs renovation to fully renovated and fully occupied.
- Hired and managed GC and subcontractors — hands-on, not a passive investor.
Greeting Card Collection / Deep Space Robots
Web Developer
Apr 2015–Jul 2016 · Dallas/Fort Worth
- Frontend dev in JavaScript / Ember.js.
- Built a suite of tools letting clients build customized white-labeled greeting-card sites.
Koddi
Junior Web Developer
Sep 2014–Apr 2015 · Fort Worth, TX
- PHP + JavaScript, junior full-stack on a lodging/booking/travel analytics and ad-management platform.
The Chickasaw Nation
IT Client Services Technician
Jun 2012–Aug 2013 · Southern Region, OK
- Remote + on-site IT support for 3,000+ users across 28 properties; frequently the lone on-site engineer.
- Full-stack ownership (OS, software, lifecycle) of hundreds of facility workstations.
- PC imaging, deployments, Cisco VOIP, AD/Exchange, SCSM ticketing.
The Chickasaw Nation
Electronic Gaming Floor Supervisor
Aug 2008–Aug 2011 · Oklahoma
- Managed 75+ technical-support / customer-service reps at a time on the floor of the world's largest casino.
- Real people-management — scheduling, performance management, hiring input, discipline.
- Enforced federal Title 31 (AML reporting) and IRS withholding law daily.