Builder across systems.

Automation, Software, and Manufacturing EngineerYB Systems · Rocky Mount, NC

Deliver machine vision, controls, and industrial software projects for automotive, pharmaceutical, medical device, and consumer goods manufacturers.

• Designed and commissioned a dual-camera system for simultaneous top and bottom surface inspection using relay-only pass/fail and trigger logic with no PLC, cutting hardware cost and commissioning complexity against a PLC-based design.
• Solved a retained-count problem on a dual-camera WebHMI station where pass counts had to survive real power loss, scripting a camera-local file as the count master after the native counter proved unreliable across power cycles.
• Diagnosed and remediated a high false-negative rate on a system already in production: retuned gain and exposure, replaced the Top-Hat filter with a better-suited alternative, and collected a 7,000+ image dataset for offline analysis, isolating reference-point math as the root cause.
• Built OCR lot-code verification for a consumer goods line, validating a date-encoded character format with month, day, and year range checks while tolerating inkjet print variation and font-size shift from inconsistent part seating.
• Lead inspection development for a heavy-duty engine manufacturer, including a six-camera cylinder inspection handling twelve-plus part variants on a live production line.
• Developing pharmaceutical vial particle inspection using high-speed post-spin burst capture and liquid-region histogram analysis to separate genuine particles from bubbles, smudges, and meniscus artifacts.
• Scoping a machine control migration from legacy EtherCAT motion to Soft Servo WMX3 on IntervalZero RTX64.
• Author the operator, wiring, and image-capture documentation these systems ship with, used by plant staff after handoff.

FounderG-Stack Integrations · Remote

Software products supporting automated inspection and manufacturing data, sold alongside automation delivery work.

• Built VisionMetrics, a manufacturing quality analytics SaaS (Next.js, React, TypeScript, Supabase/PostgreSQL) with a token-authenticated defect ingest API, subscription-aware access control, signed image URLs, and customer and admin dashboards.
• Built the VisionMetrics sync agent, an inspection-PC service that watches local image folders and uploads through a durable SQLite queue with heartbeat and retry, so image capture continues uninterrupted through network outages and resumes without operator intervention.
• Architected G-Stack Manufacturing Hub, industrial middleware normalizing data from vision systems, PLCs, CSV drops, MDB imports, and SQL tables into a single manufacturing event model with an MES outbound queue, REST APIs, and webhook delivery.
• Built supporting services including an append-only hash-chained compliance audit ledger, an AI-assisted SOP generation service, and licensing and subscription billing using Stripe as the pricing source of truth, so price changes require no code deployment.

Full Stack EngineerThe Main Branch · Woodinville, WA

React and Node.js applications for enterprise drones-as-a-service and applied AI platforms.

• Built the interfaces letting operators run nationwide remote inspections without traveling to the asset, including utility pole and power line defect inspection that dispatches a repair crew from the captured findings.
• Built interfaces for applied computer vision products, including livestock herd tracking and identification for agricultural customers.
• Supported 200+ operators nationwide across fleets ranging from small in-house teams to contract pilots, with licensing and certification records tracked in-platform as a condition of fleet access.

Systems Analyst II, then BI DeveloperHorizon Bank · Michigan City, IN

Built the internal software behind bank operations, then moved into the business intelligence group.

• Built the bank CRM suite from the ground up in C#, .NET Core, and Entity Framework Core over Microsoft SQL Server; it remains in production use today.
• Developed the internal help desk platform from scratch, replacing manual request handling for bank staff.
• Owned data center failover systems, maintaining continuity of core banking services across sites.
• Moved from IT systems analysis into business intelligence in 2021 to lead reporting development and finish the CRM buildout.

Support Technician, then Systems AdministratorFour Winds Casinos · New Buffalo, MI

Administered roughly 200 systems across four casino properties, promoted from support technician within months of hire.

• Owned physical and electronic security systems: door access control, key management, disaster recovery for security operations, and hotel systems at the primary property.
• Administered Oracle databases supporting hotel operations and PostgreSQL across the environment, writing queries and reports for operational staff.
• Migrated Active Directory infrastructure to Azure AD and Azure services, and wrote C# watchdog and monitoring scripts across the server estate to surface failures before they reached guests or operations.

CNC Programmer (Contract)Guardian Couplings · Michigan City, IN

Networked a shop floor with no program storage, where every repeat part was being reprogrammed from scratch. Connected the machines, versioned proven programs as they were written, and documented setups so a returning part became a load-and-run job instead of a reprogramming job.

Automation SpecialistTask Force Tips · Valparaiso, IN

CNC production programming and robotic cell integration across a multi-platform machine shop.

• Integrated Universal Robots collaborative arms for machine loading and unloading across production lines.
• Co-developed a fully automated two-machine cell in which the machines communicate directly: blanks enter the first machine, its robot hands the part to the second machine’s robot for second-side operations, and a finished part exits untouched by an operator.
• Programmed and ran CNC production across Mori Seiki, Mazak, and Index platforms; among the first programmers in the Western Hemisphere to program the Index R300 multi-spindle machine.