MethodMade

Studio

Experience & stories

Real systems work, shaped into useful stories.

MethodMade Studio is new, but the experience behind it comes from more than 20 years of building websites, workflows, automation, internal platforms, data tools, public-service systems, and technical foundations.

These stories are written in first person because clients are not hiring a faceless agency. They are looking for a practical partner who can understand the mess, organize the work, and build the next useful step.

Proof library

What the stories prove.

This is not a portfolio of pretty screenshots. It is a map of practical systems thinking across real constraints.

1

Real constraint

messy work, private systems, live products, human context

2

Practical method

understand, organize, simplify, build the useful part

3

Client lesson

what future clients can recognize and apply

Care

Veteran and public-service systems where reliability matters.

Clarity

Websites, workflows, documentation, and handoffs.

Efficiency

Automation, internal tools, data flows, and process cleanup.

Depth

Migrations, APIs, hardware integrations, and complex product systems.

20+

years practical business technology work

15+

years software engineering leadership

MBA + CS

business strategy plus technical depth

Real

privacy-conscious stories, no invented proof

Story method

Honest proof, without exposing private work.

A lot of meaningful systems work happens inside businesses, behind logins, or under confidentiality. The goal is to share enough to build trust without turning client history into marketing theater.

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Share

The useful shape of the work

The business problem, the practical approach, what changed, and the lesson future clients can use.

2

Protect

The parts that should stay private

Client data, proprietary implementation details, internal-only systems, and confidential business context.

3

Translate

The lesson clients can recognize

The goal is to show how I think through messy systems without pretending private work is public.

Featured stories

Seven stories that show the range.

The featured set starts with meaningful veteran/public-service work, then moves through workflow improvement, website systems, modernization, automation, project rescue, and data work.

Featured first

Veterans Legacy Memorial

A public-service platform where technical work supported remembrance, family history, and legacy.

Why it matters

Supporting a veteran memorial platform where reliability and care mattered

I led engineering work on a public veteran memorial platform where reliability, care, and collaboration mattered as much as the code itself.

Public-facing memorial platform
Engineering leadership and hands-on support
Feature development and maintenance
Collaboration with internal VA team
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Featured 2

Workflow automation

Manual Process Automation

I helped design and deliver a tool that automated recurring operational steps and saved approximately 295 hours of manual input every month.

Manual process review
Technical design
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Featured 3

Website systems

Repeatable Website Delivery

I developed repeatable CMS integration processes and training that helped reduce association website delivery timelines from 22 months to 2–3 months.

Kentico CMS integration
Reusable frontend process
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Featured 4

Modernization

Live Product Migration

I led a migration from Heroku and Create React App to Next.js and Vercel, launching with zero defects and no user downtime.

Heroku to Vercel migration
Create React App to Next.js
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Featured 5

Small business automation

Legal Outreach Automation

I built a WordPress-based client management application that turned daily public violation data into mailing lists, outreach templates, and communication workflows.

Daily public data intake
Mailing list generation
Read story →

Featured 6

Systems strategy

Product Rescue

I stepped into a complex product after the previous lead left and helped rebuild the technical planning, requirements, testing, and architecture direction needed to launch.

Hands-on system review
Technical spikes
Read story →

Featured 7

Data workflows

Data Revenue Stream

I designed the approach for collecting, parsing, reporting, and managing a new dispute data type, helping create a new data and revenue stream.

SFTP data collection
Parsing and data modeling
Read story →

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Technical depth

Showing all stories

Public service systems

Featured

Veterans Legacy Memorial

I led engineering work on a public veteran memorial platform where reliability, care, and collaboration mattered as much as the code itself.

Read story →

Workflow automation

Featured

Manual Process Automation

I helped design and deliver a tool that automated recurring operational steps and saved approximately 295 hours of manual input every month.

Read story →

Website systems

Featured

Repeatable Website Delivery

I developed repeatable CMS integration processes and training that helped reduce association website delivery timelines from 22 months to 2–3 months.

Read story →

Modernization

Featured

Live Product Migration

I led a migration from Heroku and Create React App to Next.js and Vercel, launching with zero defects and no user downtime.

Read story →

Small business automation

Featured

Legal Outreach Automation

I built a WordPress-based client management application that turned daily public violation data into mailing lists, outreach templates, and communication workflows.

Read story →

Systems strategy

Featured

Product Rescue

I stepped into a complex product after the previous lead left and helped rebuild the technical planning, requirements, testing, and architecture direction needed to launch.

Read story →

Data workflows

Featured

Data Revenue Stream

I designed the approach for collecting, parsing, reporting, and managing a new dispute data type, helping create a new data and revenue stream.

Read story →

Focused builds

Custom Client Tool

I guided a focused custom tool that helped retain a client account and saved the customer service team several hundred hours of manual updates.

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Technical depth

Hardware Controller

I built Node-based controller software for a JCM iPro bill recycler used in Bitcoin ATMs, integrating hardware protocols with existing APIs.

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MVP systems

Sports Analytics MVP

I designed backend architecture, MongoDB schemas, Node scrapers, APIs, and documentation for a college basketball coaching analytics platform.

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Operational systems

Casino Operations Platform

I documented requirements, designed architecture and data structures, wrote APIs, and built the team that completed a production casino floor management system.

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Technical discovery

Technical Course Correction

I changed technical direction when the original Node controller strategy hit USB/DLL constraints, bringing in the right expertise instead of forcing the wrong plan.

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Product systems

Dispute Management Platform

I helped lead product development for dispute management platform versions that improved engagement and performance compared with the legacy system.

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Connected applications

Blockchain Rewards Ecosystem

I worked on a blockchain rewards wallet system and managed teams responsible for connected reward applications and APIs.

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