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Employment Timeline · 1992 – Present

34+ Years.
Zero Gaps.

The range is wide — mainframe COBOL to multi-model AI, emergency rooms to laser tag tournaments. But underneath the creative swings is one consistent pattern: when a client signs on long-term, the contract gets honored. Renewals, repeat engagements, decade-plus relationships.

34+ yrs
Continuous delivery since 3/1992
13
Long-term contracts (2+ years), all honored to term
15 yrs
Longest client relationship (LiveEnergy, 2011 – present)
3×
Clients who came back for repeat engagements

Creative doesn't mean flighty. Yes, there are side projects, products, and a nonprofit — but the primary engagements below include six-year runs at Bayview, Interbay, and Amerifunds, back-to-back multi-year Pioneer contracts, and an active 2.5-year (and counting) contract at Christensen Farms. Long-term commitments are kept.

Primary Engagements

Every primary contract, newest first.

Long-term contract (2+ years) Standard engagement
4/2026 – 7/2026 4 mo

Texas Education Agency (TEA) — Senior Developer V

via ITSAC contract
C#, ASP.NET Web Forms → .NET 10, SQL Server, T-SQL, Oracle ODP.NET, Crystal Reports, Hangfire, Alfresco ECM, Playwright, xUnit, MSTest, Bitbucket, IIS, governed AI development (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)
2/2025 – current Active 1 yr 6 mo

YOLOVibeCode

AI development, MCP servers, LiteLLM, Ollama, .NET 9/10, OData v4, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Swift, Dart, Python, React, Next.js, Astro, Node.js, iOS, Android, Azure, SQLite, MSSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, NPM/NuGet/Homebrew publishing
1/2025 – current Active 1 yr 7 mo

PnQ Health — Auris Clinical Platform

via Ambient Consulting
Swift, SwiftUI, iOS, TestFlight, Fastlane, Node.js, TypeScript, React, Azure Service Bus, Azure DevOps, MongoDB, Docker, Playwright, Jest, APNs, SendGrid, i18n (EN/FR/ES), HIPAA, entity-level encryption
11/2024 – current Active 1 yr 9 mo

Noctusoft / StuPath — RubriqFlow Suite

Next.js 15, TypeScript, React, Python, LangChain/RAG, Claude AI, Drizzle ORM, LibSQL/Turso, Vercel, Docker, FastAPI, Express, OpenAPI, SendGrid, Playwright, LTI 1.3/Moodle, HeyGen AI avatars, multi-tenant RBAC, WCAG 2.1 AA
2024 < 1 yr

SJI — Flight Deck Pro

TypeScript, Turborepo monorepo, Azure DevOps pipelines, Docker–Azure parity validation, Next.js, Node.js, Jest, tsup → tsc migration, AI-assisted DevOps with safety controls
1/2024 – current Long-Term Active 2 yr 7 mo

Christensen Farms

via Ambient Consulting
Azure, Azure SQL Managed Instance, MobileFrame, .NET, C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API, VBA, MS Access, SSIS, SSRS, Dynamics SL, Power BI (+ Crystal Reports conversion), Dynatrace, MSSQL, Angular, NUnit, ADA 508
8/2022 – 8/2024 Long-Term 2 yr

Choctaw Nation

via BravoTECH
.NET 6, C#, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, Web API, EF Core, Azure, Azure DevOps CI/CD, Azure Artifacts, CosmosDB, MSSQL, T-SQL, SCSS, NUnit, microservices, API/EF code generation, led 3-dev + offshore team
7/2022 – 7/2023 1 yr

ReconWear

via LogicByte LLC
PHP 5.2 → 8.1, CodeIgniter 4, MySQL, AWS, AWS Textract, Tesseract-OCR, Git
7/2022 – current Long-Term Active 4 yr 1 mo

LiveEnergy / Sunzi

.NET 8, Blazor, Radzen, Docker, ReactJS, PHP, vTiger CRM, Sugar CRM migration, WebApiCore, AWS EC2, Twilio (full browser dialer), MySQL, MSSQL, jQuery, Git
5/2022 – 7/2022 2 mo

MoveHQ

via Barefoot Coders / Artium
PHP, Ruby on Rails 3.1, RSpec, MariaDB, Docker, vTiger data model, AWS GovCloud, AWS SSM, Okta, Pivotal Tracker
6/2019 – 5/2022 Long-Term 2 yr 11 mo

Pioneer Natural Resources (#2)

via TEKsystems
C#, .NET/.NET Core, WebAPI, OData v4, EF6/EF Core, MSSQL, Azure SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, Dell Boomi, Primavera Unifier 16.6/18.8, Primavera P6, Oracle EBS, Workday, Concur, Cisco TDV, SSIS, Angular, Kendo UI, ArcGIS/SDE spatial, T4/RazorEngine codegen, NuGet SDKs (Unifier & P6 Conduit), Parsley acquisition migration
6/2019 – 8/2020 1 yr 2 mo

Summit Investments (#2)

Azure, .NET, MSSQL, SSRS, SSIS, KnockoutJS, EF6, Bootstrap, T-SQL performance tuning (RBAR → CTE/indexed views), Git
7/2016 – 2/2019 Long-Term 2 yr 7 mo

Pioneer Natural Resources (#1)

via TEKsystems
C#, .NET, MSSQL, Oracle PL/SQL, SSIS, WebAPI, OData 4, EF6, Node.js, Angular 2 (Material, Flex, Kendo UI), VBA, MS Access, JavaScript, Unifier SOAP services, T4/RazorEngine, ArcGIS, Git
1/2016 – 7/2016 6 mo

Match.com / PeopleMedia

C#, MSSQL, JavaScript, PHP, jQuery, WCF/SOAP, CoreAPI backend rewire, Facebook OAuth/signup, Git
5/2015 – 1/2016 8 mo

Summit Investments (#1)

.NET 4.5 (async), MSSQL 2005 → 2014 migration, SSRS, SSIS, KnockoutJS, EF6, WebAPI, Bootstrap, MS Access REO app → WebAPI rewrite, Git
7/2014 – 11/2015 1 yr 4 mo

AAFES

via APC Services · federal background investigation (e-QIP)
C#, .NET 4.5, WebAPI, EF6, Bootstrap, KnockoutJS, jqGrid, MSSQL 2014, SSIS, Classic ASP, VB6, IIS, Java, COBOL, CICS, DB2, MQ, TSO/ISPF, JCL, Endevor, PGP → OpenGPG, SVN
2/2014 – 7/2014 5 mo

T-Systems

C++, C#, WPF, COM Interop, MSSQL, T-SQL, Crystal Reports, VS2012, SVN — ER software in 100+ hospitals, 1,000× cache speedup
8/2012 – 2/2014 1 yr 6 mo

American Airlines (aapubs.com)

via Robert Half
C#, VB.NET, .NET 4.0, MVC4, WebAPI, WCF, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, SES), MSSQL, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, PeopleSoft, Taleo, Facebook Platform API, Brightcove, Open Calais NLP, Git — zero-downtime through the US Airways merger
1/2011 – 8/2012 1 yr 7 mo

LiveEnergy (#1)

PHP, .NET, MSSQL, MySQL, AWS, Twilio, vTiger CRM, Git
2008 – 2011 Long-Term ~3 yr

TD BankNorth

via Vega & Associates
C#, VS2008, WinForms, MSSQL 2005/2008, T-SQL — customer relationship, commercial real estate & mortgage-loan acquisition data conversions
2002 – 2008 Long-Term ~6 yr

Bayview Funding / Bayview Loan Servicing

via Vega & Associates
ASP 2.0, VB6, IIS, MSSQL 2000, T-SQL, Java, Oracle PL/SQL — remote origination interface, Underwriting Management System, CRE tracking
2002 – 2008 Long-Term ~6 yr

Interbay Funding (Miami & Grapevine)

via Vega & Associates
JSP Struts, JBuilder 9, Java AWT/Swing, Oracle, ASP 2.0, VB6, MSSQL 2000 — REO tracking web app, Bid Entry system
~2000 – 2006 Long-Term ~6 yr

Amerifunds

via Vega & Associates
PHP, VS.PHP, Eclipse PDT, MySQL, OnTime project tracking
2000 – 2006 ~6 yr

Multi-Client PDF / Report Platform

via Vega & Associates
Tomcat, Java servlets, XSL-FO, rtf2fo, XMLSpy, XML/XSLT, VB6 client/server, Classic ASP — Word mockup → streaming PDF pipeline
~1996 – ~2002 Long-Term ~6 yr

Tarrant County Medical Examiner

via Vega & Associates
Delphi 3, ODBC API 3.0+, Win API, OLE/ActiveX, MS Word automation, EXTRA! Personal Client, MVS screen scraping, HLAPPI — LIMS (1 of 3 programmers; owned all mainframe interfaces)
1996 – 2000 Long-Term ~4 yr

Major Telecom Provider (Mainframe)

via Vega & Associates
Assembler H, MVS/ESA, COBOL II, DB2, IMS — record-length limitation fixes, billing application support
1996 – 2008 overlapping

Misc. Financial / Insurance Clients

Meritech Mortgage, VBCLTD, insurers · via Vega & Associates
Delphi 3/4, C++ Builder, VB6, ADO, MS Access 97, C on SCO UNIX, COBOL/CICS, IMS → DB2 migration, SQL Server, Jet, OCX authoring, barcode inventory system
1/1996 – 10/1996 9 mo

Rapp Collins (end client: Bell Canada)

CSP, batch COBOL, DS/SQL, DOS/VSE, VSAM, Microfocus COBOL, XDB/DB2 — award-system redesign, −25% dev time
3/1992 – 1/1996 Long-Term 3 yr 10 mo

Lomas Information Systems

COBOL II, OS/MVS/ESA, SAS, JCL, Syncsort, Assembler, TSO CLIST, IMS, DB2 — Excelis loan-servicing conversions, −60% runtime tuning

Repeat Clients — They Keep Me Around

The strongest evidence that long-term commitments get honored: clients who come back.

LiveEnergy / Sunzi

2 engagements · 5 yr 8 mo combined

Relationship spans 2011 – present. Fifteen years.

Pioneer Natural Resources

2 back-to-back contracts · 5 yr 6 mo

2016 – 2022, both via TEKsystems. Renewed into a second multi-year run.

Summit Investments

3 engagements · 11-year relationship

2015 – present, including the active SummitLoanPro rebuild.

Ambient Consulting

2 concurrent placements

Christensen Farms and PnQ Health, both active — the agency staffed me twice at once.

Bayview's development manager hired me at Bayview — then brought me with him to Summit. Repeat people, not just repeat logos.

Concurrent Side Engagements

Run alongside the primary contracts — the creative range, without ever dropping a primary commitment.

BTK Hospitality — MyGuestInquiries

~2017 – 11/2023 (~6 yr)

Windows Server, MSSQL (Docker), dedicated hosting. A six-year side commitment, also honored to term.

Summit Investments #3 — SummitLoanPro

~2025 – current

Full-fidelity rebuild of The Mortgage Office + MARS loan servicing. Next.js, TypeScript.

Ember Lead / Tankroom

~2025 – current

Dispatch audio → scored lead in 8 seconds. Gemini 2.5, Whisper, Next.js, React Native, MongoDB.

VegaForged — "Earl" Real-Estate AI

2025 – current

Python monorepo, Claude API, Follow Up Boss CRM, Playwright browser-pool workers.

Worthless Haunted Meat — 501(c)(3) founder

3/2024 – current

Nonprofit umbrella. Next.js, TypeScript, Vercel, multi-domain middleware routing.

ILT, AIM, and more

various

Skyward SIS district conversion, aviation fleet records tooling, AWS, WordPress, Swift+ARKit, Kotlin, and other platform work.