Challenge: Local job seekers and employers lacked a central, easy-to-use platform for connecting.
Solution: Built a custom municipal employment portal with advanced search, secure role-based access, and integrated résumé management — connecting local job seekers and employers through a centralized civic technology platform.
Impact: Delivered as a free service for the Arvada Economic Development Association, dramatically improving local employment connectivity and reducing hiring friction.
Key Skills: Searchable databases, user role management, secure hosting.
Challenge: Residents and investors needed a way to search local real estate with more precision than was available at the time.
Solution: Developed a custom real estate search platform with 40+ multi-criteria filters and complex database integration, enabling precise property discovery years ahead of mainstream tools.
Impact: Enabled highly targeted property searches, empowering buyers, sellers, and city planners with better data.
Key Skills: Complex database integration, custom UI for advanced search.
Challenge: Local businesses needed more visibility and a way to connect with the community online.
Solution: Created a searchable municipal business directory with category filters, location mapping, and branded UI — boosting visibility and engagement for local businesses.
Impact: Increased exposure for local businesses and strengthened community engagement.
Key Skills: Directory architecture, municipal branding, hosting.
Challenge: Specialty retailers had no secure, affordable way to sell products online in the late ’90s.
Solution: Engineered one of the first custom e-commerce platforms with secure online ordering, proprietary shopping cart, and integrated CMS — pioneering online retail before commercial solutions existed.
Impact: Opened new revenue channels for gourmet retailers and set a precedent for early e- commerce usability.
Key Skills: Database architecture, early CMS design, custom checkout flows.
Challenge: Seasonal retailers needed to boost both product sales and event attendance online.
Solution: Delivered a custom e-commerce solution integrated with event listings and promotional tools, allowing customers to shop and plan visits in one place.
Impact: Increased online sales and drove higher attendance at seasonal events.
Key Skills: Product catalog management, seasonal promotions.
Challenge: Independent music stores needed a unified system for sales, events, and media.
Solution: Built a custom retail POS and e-commerce system with wireless registers, barcode scanning, inventory management, and event media integration — adopted nationally by independent music stores.
Impact: Streamlined operations and expanded reach for coalition members.
Key Skills: Retail systems architecture, e-commerce, media production.
Challenge: Retail partners were overselling products due to outdated inventory data.
Solution: Developed a real-time retail inventory management system with automated 15-minute sync across six e-commerce sites, eliminating overselling and enabling coordinated promotions.
Impact: Improved inventory accuracy and marketing coordination across multiple retailers.
Key Skills: Data automation, multi-site integration, targeted marketing tools.
Challenge: Industry members needed a centralized, searchable resource and scalable training tools.
Solution: Created a database-driven membership portal with integrated multilingual training video delivery, synchronized multi-screen content, and SEO-optimized resource directories.
Impact: Provided a scalable, immersive training format and maintained a 15+ year client relationship.
Key Skills: Database-driven publishing, multilingual video production, SEO.
Challenge: Entrepreneurs and investors lacked an efficient way to find and evaluate each other.
Solution: Built a secure investor–entrepreneur matching platform with criteria-based search and document exchange, enabling targeted investor–entrepreneur connections.
Impact: Accelerated funding matches years before platforms like AngelList existed.
Key Skills: Matching algorithms, secure document exchange.
Challenge: High-demand music festivals needed to sell thousands of tickets online without crashing.
Solution: Engineered a high-traffic event ticketing platform capable of handling simultaneous mass sales for events like Telluride Bluegrass Festival and RockyGrass.
Impact: Maintained uptime during peak demand in the late ’90s, ensuring smooth customer experiences.
Key Skills: High-traffic load handling, flat-file database integration.
Challenge: Small, specialized businesses needed affordable, self-managed websites with industry- specific tools.
Solution: Delivered custom CMS websites for specialty trades with tailored tools like aggregate calculators, enabling non-technical users to manage content and showcase products.
Impact: Empowered tradespeople to showcase products, attract customers, and manage their own content.
Key Skills: Modular CMS deployment, tailored industry tools.
Challenge: A growing company needed unified sales tracking, incentive programs, and a stronger brand presence.
Solution: Developed a custom sales tracking and incentive platform with integrated reporting, affiliate programs, and multi-channel brand assets, supported by large-format print and video production.
Impact: Streamlined reporting, strengthened multi-channel branding, and improved sales team engagement.
Key Skills: Data-driven sales tools, print production, video editing.