Software should work for people, not vice versa.

Cloud-based practice management platform for veterinary clinics covering billing, scheduling, client management, reporting, and treatments. As Engineering Manager, I led the development team, managed AWS infrastructure, migrated the full local and cloud stack to Docker, and reduced AWS costs by over $6,000/month.

Displays and filters for-credit courses at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, syncing course data hourly from the college's central data store. I built the entire front-end, back-end API, and CLI seeder, including the data curation layer that untangles a legacy Oracle schema involving seven-table joins and convoluted column mappings.

Lets students and staff select from appointment types across KVCC's academic departments and routes them to the internal scheduling system. I built it end-to-end, including a custom multi-system authentication pass-through to bridge single sign-on with the internal system's non-standard auth protocol.

Annual policy agreement required of all KVCC students and employees to access college equipment and services. I built the front-end user flow, an admin interface for record lookup by GUID with group-based access control, and the integration that enforces compliance and redirects users to their intended destination. A colleague handled the back-end API; together we replaced a legacy workflow that had been in place for years.

A personal project inspired by a self-care poster, turned into a lightweight daily checklist that resets at midnight. No authentication, no tracking. I pared the original 50 items down by removing redundancies and rewrote the wording throughout to emphasize continuity rather than starting new habits.

A no-frills grocery list app: no ads, no account required. Supports dark/light mode and list sharing via the Navigator Share API. Sharing is handled through a generated query string rather than a backend, a deliberate tradeoff to avoid the ownership and auth complexity a database would introduce.

I replaced a user portal flow that frustrated staff every single day. Previously they had to log in before they could even choose where they wanted to go. The new sign-in routes users directly to their intended service after authentication and surfaces notices for outages or upcoming downtime. I handled everything solo: prototyping, code, and CI/CD.

Event site for KVCC's bi-annual all-employee Summit, covering the schedule and keynote speakers. Access is restricted via CAS authentication handled client-side. A collaborator led the content and I handled the code architecture, auth integration, and a schedule layout capable of displaying multiple concurrent sessions, the trickiest part of the project.

Centralized hub for KVCC employee online training, consolidating previously scattered resources into a single maintainable location. A designer handled Figma prototypes, and I built the site with a colleague using Hugo. The search feature was written in vanilla JavaScript and was the most technically involved part of the project.

Searchable directory of current KVCC employees, and one half of a larger project alongside the Department Directory. I built the Vue.js front-end and component system; my colleague handled the .NET back-end API. The data pipeline ended up being the more interesting problem. Since the central data source is only accessible on restricted networks, we built a cron-driven CLI seeder that syncs employee data to an external database hourly.

Counterpart to the Employee Directory, helping users find the right department or group at KVCC. Since no formal department structure exists in the central data store, it includes an admin interface for managing that data directly. I built the Vue.js front-end and component system; a colleague handled the .NET public and admin APIs. The most complex piece was the keyword system, designed carefully to avoid database redundancy.

Consolidated employee information that was previously scattered across KVCC's public site, intranet, and access portal, making it genuinely difficult for less technical staff to locate anything. Content is authored in Markdown rather than HTML, simplifying ongoing maintenance. I handled the architecture, search functionality, and deployment pipeline. A colleague led the enormous effort of collecting and categorizing the existing content.

Self-serve logo and branding distribution site for KVCC, replacing a manual process where the Marketing team had to send assets to vendors and staff on request. I built the entire project, handled all image conversion and resizing, and opted for SVG over .ai/.eps to avoid repository bloat. Determining accessible contrast ratios for the brand colors turned out to be a surprisingly involved task.

Full-featured registration system for KVCC employee training and new hire onboarding. Supports event categorization, multiple facilitators, attendance tracking, sign-in sheets, and iCalendar export. A designer handled prototyping and most of the front-end; I owned the entire back-end MVC architecture and data model. My first project working predominantly on the back-end.