The Engineer.
The Architecture. The Plan.

Learned to type on a typewriter. Found a college computer lab and never came back out. Taught myself HTML and JavaScript hacking terminals after hours while everyone else was at parties. No bootcamp. No tutorial. Just a blinking cursor and the kind of obsession that doesn't sleep.

Ordered every programming book Amazon carried -- back when that's all they sold. CSS, PHP, JavaScript, server administration. Earned mastery the hard way: reading covers to covers, building things that broke until they didn't, and doing it all over again on a dial-up connection in the mountains of Colorado.

Years of grinding across both hardware and software industries. Denver, Boulder, then east coast. Web agencies, marketing departments, internal tools teams. Took every project that would teach me something new. Learned that the gap between "knows how to code" and "ships production software" is measured in broken deployments and all-nighters. Built the calluses that make the rest of this timeline possible.

Discovered Drupal, fell into the open source community, and everything changed. Created the Omega base theme -- it became the #3 most-used theme in all of Drupal. Started speaking at DrupalCons around the world -- London, Paris, San Francisco, Denver, Portland, Montreal, and too many camps and summits to count. Co-authored the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7. Spent over a decade contributing to Drupal core and contrib, building tools used by hundreds of thousands of sites worldwide. My final DrupalCon talk was on Web Components at Portland 2021 -- lovingly known as CovidCon. Our first time together in years -- karaoke bars, spreading handshakes, and hating masks like everybody else. Out of 50+ Phase2 employees, 30+ caught COVID in the fallout. I was the lone soul who tested positive and got stuck in Portland for 10 days. Still shipped the talk.

Began a 7-year contracting partnership with Phase2 Technology. Led frontend teams. Brought responsive design to every Drupal project in the organization. Shipped for major universities, state & federal government, major TV networks, and multi-brand platforms with dozens of themes and applications running on shared codebases. They asked me to come on full-time for seven straight years. I liked my independence. They kept asking. I kept delivering.

After seven years of saying "not yet," I finally took the full-time offer. Rose from Software Architect to Engineering Manager to Principal Engineer. Led the creation of Outline -- a Web Components design system that standardized frontend development across the entire organization. Onboarded teams, unified tooling, and shipped components consumed by Drupal, React, Angular, and .NET projects alike. In 2023, Dries Buytaert highlighted Omega at DrupalCon Portland as one of a select handful of pioneering low-code/no-code solutions -- over a decade after its creation.

Founded Clarity House Press and built the entire technology platform from scratch. Next.js 16, TypeScript strict mode, Supabase backend, AI-orchestrated content pipelines with 280+ specialized agents, automated LaTeX book production, and a full publishing operations stack. Not a WordPress blog -- a next-generation content platform designed to scale, designed to license, and designed to prove that one engineer with the right architecture can outbuild a team of twenty. Currently exploring paths to either build out the platform commercially or bring investors to the table.

This project. A late-night vibe coding exercise that turned into a complete enterprise healthcare web component architecture. 28 years of design systems, Web Components, Drupal integration, and hard-won opinions -- distilled into one prototype. 10,000+ lines of planning. 5 immersive showcase pages. A full documentation hub. Built in a sprint because after doing this for three decades, the architecture just flows. This site is what happens when experience meets obsession at 2am.