About
I'm a Houston-based consultant in the energy industry, currently working as a CTRM consultant at Veritas. I'm a minimalist: I prefer elegant, streamlined solutions and don't reinvent the wheel. I automate just about anything, and I'm outspoken and honest.
Work
Veritas
CTRM Consultant
Nov 2023 – Present
Unlock Health
Software Engineer
Feb 2022 – Nov 2023
Fuzati
Frontend Developer
Feb 2019 – May 2022
Things I've built
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Class Timer
A teacher needed class periods and phases visible at a glance.
Mario Kart–themed countdown timer for period/phase transitions, built for my wife's classroom.
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Bayou Landing HOA site
Residents couldn't easily find HOA info or where towing applies.
Resident info site for a Houston townhome HOA with an interactive towing-zone map (pixel-space, Leaflet).
Visit bayoulandinghoa.com → -
PetLibro → TRMNL
Litter box and feeder stats were locked in a cloud app.
Poller for the PetLibro cloud API that serves stats as JSON for a TRMNL e-ink display.
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Email-triggered gate opener
Community gate requests needed a human to open the gate.
Requests by email or text trigger the Brivo access-control system automatically.
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Voice-to-Dean's-List bot
Entering behavior records by hand is slow.
A voice note goes to a local LLM, then browser automation enters the record.
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Wholesale CRM
A family distribution business was paying for HubSpot/Zoho.
Self-hosted CRM built to replace both, tailored to how the business actually works.
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The homelab
Self-hosting should be simple and safe to expose.
Ubuntu + Docker Compose. Every public service sits behind one consolidated Cloudflare Tunnel; SSH via Cloudflare Access.