Senior Systems Developer and HIPAA Security Officer at 1 Natural Way, where I've been since interning in 2014. BGSU grad, Whitmer High School alum, and Toledo-based.
I architect and maintain a multi-application Laravel platform that powers insurance-driven medical device fulfillment — spanning ecommerce, internal operations, compliance workflows, and third-party integrations. Most of my work lives on a private GitLab instance; public packages are under @1naturalway.
Outside of work, I build things for my community, play Minecraft and Cities: Skylines II, collect Star Wars Lego sets, and run a self-hosted Jellyfin library.
- Multi-app Laravel architecture - Shared packages, consistent patterns, and reusable abstractions across four interconnected applications
- Healthcare & compliance systems - HIPAA-aware workflows for prescriptions, insurance eligibility, document handling, and order fulfillment
- Infrastructure & performance - AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront), Redis caching, PostgreSQL optimization, Core Web Vitals
- SEO-driven engineering - Server-rendered architecture, structured data, crawlability, and technical SEO at scale
- Developer tooling & process - UAT environments, release management, vendor governance, and internal tooling to reduce operational friction
- Whitmer Marching Band - Built the band program's website as a senior in 2012. Still in use 14 years later.
- PBIS Points Tracker - Points tracking system used by Washington Local Schools across its junior highs and high school. Built in 2018 with Google OAuth integration, still actively used by staff.
Packages published under the @1naturalway org:
- laravel-sms
NEW- A driver-based SMS abstraction layer for Laravel, modeled after the framework's MailManager pattern. Supports Twilio, Vonage, and custom drivers. - brightree - PHP API wrapper for the Brightree DME/HME platform.
Backend: Laravel · PHP · PostgreSQL · Redis · Supervisor Frontend: Vue.js · Blade · SCSS · JavaScript Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront) · Linux