Timeline

Personal pursuit

Began trading options in October 2022, while working at AuditBoard.

Personal pursuit

Began purchasing individual stocks and learning equity investing.

Paid creative engagement

Compensated contract video and podcast editing, including audio, video, graphics, and channel deliverables.

Independent project

Made Sitzmark public: a React, Python, and PostgreSQL application for competitive Scrabble players.

Independent project

Solidified the combined concepts into Sitzmark.

Independent software project

Developed the Next.js 14, TypeScript, and React portfolio application, including server/client components, contact-service Route Handlers, metadata, responsive image handling, and standalone deployment scripts. Separate from the October 2024 establishment of Wonderfish Films.

Independent development

Returned to older code in fall 2025. Concepts from ScrabTube and Oeillade gradually developed into Sitzmark.

Independent film

Second shoot for Belle & Beau. The feature production fell apart that November.

Creative business

Established Wonderfish Films.

Independent film

First shoot for the unfinished feature Belle & Beau.

Independent film

Casting and two shoots for the feature; production ended in November.

Independent film

Began casting the feature Belle & Beau.

Independent film

Completed a rough cut of the short film.

Archive observation

The directory is preserved in an Internet Archive capture.

Independent film

Filmed the short Testicle Debacle.

Independent film

Began casting the second short film.

Independent film

Casting, filming, and editing through the rough cut. Filming took place approximately August 3–10.

Career transition

Left AuditBoard in March 2023 to pursue filmmaking alongside personal options trading.

Independent film

Shot the short film Doll Story.

Paid engineering employment

JavaScript/TypeScript, Ember and Node; APIs, documentation, maintenance, and migrations.

Independent software prototype

Built and tested a Twitch-integrated anagram-game prototype with Go, Twitch IRC, SQLite lexicon loading, trie-based word validation, and an NW.js HTML/CSS/JavaScript display.

Paid engineering employment

Owned the Angular/TypeScript frontend for BEAM and implemented Python/Flask reporting and error-handling logic within the established backend architecture. Transformed Teradata SQL results into state-specific spreadsheets using pandas, StyleFrame, and openpyxl; mentored two junior developers. Collaborated with backend engineers and the lead architect.

Paid engineering employment

Designed and implemented the Management Leadership Development Portal in a three-person engineering team. Built responsive Angular/TypeScript and SCSS views, database schemas, Java/Spring Boot REST services, and tests; worked directly with stakeholders.

Paid engineering employment

Maintained and enhanced legacy PHP/JavaScript healthcare billing and data-management applications with MySQL changes. Began a C# rewrite of an Athena-integrated claims-billing interface before a staffing change interrupted the initiative.

Paid engineering employment

Maintained JavaScript/jQuery e-commerce features, updated Perl/PHP product and pricing data-transfer workflows, and worked on targeted Adobe Analytics and Tealium issues.

Paid engineering employment

Part-time database and integration development overlapping other employment. Normalized approximately 38,000 alumni records, migrated flat files into MySQL, and synchronized WordPress Participant Database records with Little Green Light using Perl/DBI and webhooks.

Independent software project

Built a podcast discovery and catalog prototype, seeded from a personally maintained Harmontown wiki indexing more than 360 episodes. Synchronized RSS metadata and rebuilt the application across React/PHP/MySQL and Angular/Spring Boot/jOOQ/PostgreSQL stacks.

Paid engineering employment

Developed application and batch-processing workflows in Oracle/PLSQL and .NET, using Control-M for scheduling and production promotion requests. Adapted assigned legacy scripts toward Perl-based stored-procedure execution for an Exadata migration.

Independent software prototype

Developed a later video-yearbook application prototype using Angular, Java/Spring Boot REST APIs, and PostgreSQL.

Paid engineering employment

Developed C#/.NET MVC departmental web applications with Entity Framework, LINQ, JavaScript/jQuery/Kendo, and SQL Server. Rewrote legacy ColdFusion functionality and participated in code reviews and continuous integration.

Paid engineering employment

Developed a civic engagement and crowdsourcing application with C#, SQL Server, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript, including registration, authentication, surveys, forums, usage statistics, and data aggregation.

Web development project

Built a PHP/MySQL website displaying merchandise.

Independent project

Built and maintained a fantasy-style game for Scrabble tournaments.

Web development project

Developed event promotion and registration features.

Independent project

Built and maintained the Badqoph directory of Scrabble-related blogs.

Independent product concept

Conceived an interactive video-yearbook system with point-and-click access to students’ candid recorded greetings.

Web development project

Built multi-user article creation, editing, and collaboration features.

Education

Returned to UNC–Chapel Hill; earned a B.A. in Communication Studies (Media Studies & Production), with a minor in Creative Writing, in 2005.

Paid freelance engineering

Paid shopping-cart development for Fusionwerks.

Paid freelance engineering

Freelance web development during a break from UNC–Chapel Hill.

Paid freelance engineering

Paid web development.

Unreleased personal project

Personal PHP message-board project; never released.

Unpaid college-magazine work

Unpaid website work for the UNC college magazine.

Paid technical editorial work

Paid technical review of book material for correctness, applying early web standards and markup expertise.

Education

First period of study at UNC–Chapel Hill.

Paid freelance engineering

Paid freelance web development.

Paid freelance engineering

Began freelance web development with HTML and JavaScript.

Paid freelance engineering

Developed paid JavaScript educational activities for children covering mathematics, science, and art history.