About
Now
I am a Senior Solutions Architect at Command Alkon — platform architecture, legacy modernization, and Command Intelligence, their AI product. Before this role I spent years as an Engineering Manager, and a long stretch as a team lead before that. I started that path at Ruckit, which Command Alkon acquired. In 2022 I received Command Alkon’s Excellence Award; in 2023 I was selected for the CEO Forum.
I run French Quarter IT, a consulting practice I founded in 2011. Recent work there includes Branch Invoicing — a product of my own — and two long-running Allied Power platforms: nStaffMMC for outage staffing and PowerReq for procurement against Viewpoint.
Before that
At Ruckit we took a largely analog heavy-materials industry and gave it tickets, geofences, OCR, search, and reporting that could stand next to more digital trades. At Command Alkon that work grew into dashboards and reporting, large-scale data architecture and data warehousing, global search, serverless services, and applied AI over customer data.
At LSU I was IT Manager for Auxiliary Services: campus card and point-of-sale systems across five campuses and 350+ locations, 24/7, plus student eligibility checks and a pile of wrappers around IBM mainframes, Blackboard, and door access. Departments asked for extra projects because they knew I would finish them — including a rebuild of the Student Life and Enrollment web platform and athlete-performance software for the Academic Center for Student-Athletes.
Consulting, for me, has always been the same job as product work: make something a business can keep using after the original request has changed. Full-stack web, APIs, and mobile, often with SOC 2, PCI, PA-DSS, SSO, and uptime requirements attached.
How I work
I am primarily self-taught and still collecting new tools. Rails is home base; I also work in JavaScript and Node, and on large-scale SOA and microservices across AWS, Azure, GCP, other clouds like Linode, Rackspace, and Cloudflare, and bare metal. That includes putting AI and agentic features into existing applications and new ones — extraction, tool use, and workflows that sit inside the system operators already run, not a demo parked next to it. I am comfortable owning a system from the first sketch through production, leading, hiring, and mentoring an engineering team, or sitting with an existing team as an architect and principal engineer. I care about software that operators will trust on a Monday morning, not something that only has to work in a Friday demo.