Thirty years in FileMaker.

I started building in FileMaker in 1995, in my dad's family lawn-care business. The first system tracked customers and routes. Thirty years later, that same business is still running on a FileMaker system I've extended over the years — and it has accumulated the kind of working knowledge you can't rebuild from scratch.

The biggest system I've built is The Answer — a print shop operating system that runs estimating, job tickets, scheduling, shop floor data collection, invoicing, and inventory for a commercial printer. Ten years of building and refining, running on a live production floor.

For most of those years, my work sat one foot inside FileMaker and one foot outside it: building systems for SMBs across Western Pennsylvania, taking on side work in print and graphic design.

Recently I've been extending into newer techniques — the Claris Data API, AI integration, the integration patterns that weren't possible a few years ago. The weather-aware scheduling work on the case-study page is the first real production use of that. It taught me that adoption is its own engineering problem, separate from correctness — a lesson I'm carrying into the next thing.

Based in the Pittsburgh area. Available for remote work across the US. Best way to reach me is the contact page or LinkedIn.