Projects

Scope, development and launch

SJD Taxi Booking Platform

I built and launched the website for a taxi and shuttle service in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in 2023, working for them directly, and I have kept working on it since through Gamache Technology Solutions and Perfect Afternoon. In 2025 I took over an unfinished replacement for their 2015 booking system and turned it into a working one: a central booking hub, booking plugins that install on any site, HubSpot sync and Stripe checkout in five currencies. It now runs four sites.

Co-founder · CatalogXpert

CatalogXpert: AI Sales Assistant Platform

A multi-tenant platform that hosts AI sales assistants for stores that sell technical products, added to a site with one script tag. Each store gets its own sales engine, and each store’s data is kept apart with PostgreSQL Row-Level Security. I co-founded CatalogXpert in March 2026 as a venture between JDW Ventures and Gamache Technology Solutions. I wrote the original demo and the first engine, for audio and AV, and the specs the platform was built from.

Senior capstone · Lawrence Technological University

Streaming Violence Anticipation System

My solo senior capstone, from fall 2025 to May 2026, on warning before violence starts in video. In October 2026 I rebuilt its benchmark and tested each signal against fixed pass and fail rules. On the folds used to choose the model, it warned at least 30 seconds ahead for 31% of events at about 2 false alarms an hour, against 10% for a baseline that sees no video. The held-out check has not been run yet.

Deep Learning class · Spring 2026

Detroit Pulse: Live Incident Map from Scanner Radio

A live map of public safety incidents in metro Detroit, which I built on my own for my Deep Learning class at Lawrence Tech in spring 2026. It transcribes public scanner radio with Whisper, has a local language model find the address and the kind of call, and groups transmissions about the same event into one incident. For the address step I built a QLoRA fine-tuning pipeline, trained a LoRA adapter with it and ran the fine-tuned model.

Machine Learning class · Fall 2025

Process and Outcome Reward Models for Small Language Models

An unpublished paper I co-wrote for my Machine Learning class in fall 2025. A 3B-parameter open model writes step-by-step solutions to math and logic questions, ChatGPT labels each step and each final answer as right or wrong, and we fine-tuned two 1.5B-parameter reward models on those labels to pick the best of several solutions. The step-level model scored 98% on its validation set.

Lead developer · Perfect Afternoon

Corrigan Companies

An 11-site WordPress multisite for the Corrigan family of companies. I wrote the development scope, set up the environments and most of the sites, moved the network onto new servers twice, and launched four of its five live sites.

Terminal Supply Co: Product Imports & AS400

I am the lead developer on Terminal Supply Co’s WooCommerce rebuild: the theme, the product importer and every category import, both sides of a REST integration with their AS400, and storefront features from tiered pricing to a custom product table.

Cottage Inn: New Theme, Punchh Rewards & Yext Locations

I built the new theme from the client’s designs and launched it in February 2026, rebuilt the Punchh rewards integration from the ground up in 2023, rewrote the Find a Location script, and have looked after the Yext location pages since 2022.

MJS Packaging: Tax Exemption, ERP Sync & Checkout

Since 2024 I have changed how their WooCommerce store decides who is tax exempt, reworked the plugin that exchanges order and customer data with their ERP, added PO numbers to the order file, and sped up the cart and checkout.

Sole developer · Personal project

GamJo Cloud: Family Vacation App

A private app I built for my family’s summer vacations in a house we rent up north in Michigan. It keeps the plans we vote on, the expenses split between family groups, the receipts and the photos in one place, and we can install it on our phones. It is built on FastAPI and PostgreSQL with a React front end and hosted on my homelab. We used it in summer 2026 and will again in 2027.

Homelab Server Infrastructure

A server rack I run at home in Michigan: a web server, a game server and a NAS on two UPSs. The NAS runs TrueNAS SCALE, backups run every day, and the rack is secured with SSH keys, a firewall and a Tailscale VPN. This website and GamJo Cloud run from it, and Better Stack watches uptime and alerts me to outages.

Security, Performance & Site Health

Security, performance and site health work on client WordPress sites since 2022: Wordfence on nine rebuilds, a Content-Security-Policy at Cloudflare, a store’s mobile PageSpeed taken from 47 into the 90s, and GA4, Tag Manager and Search Console work.

High school capstone · rebuilt in 2026

3D Hand Gesture Recognition (HS Capstone)

A door lock you open with a sequence of hand gestures. It began as my high school senior capstone, built by a team of four with a depth camera and TensorFlow. In October 2026 I rebuilt it on my own, with a Kinect depth camera, a small PyTorch model and a servo, and it now works end to end in simulation.

Moderator, then administrator · The Outpost

The Outpost: Minecraft Server Admin & Plugins

I started on The Outpost, a Minecraft server with about 10,000 players over the years, as a player and rose to moderator in 2019. After a few months away experimenting as a developer, I came back as an administrator in 2020. With the other admins I looked after the players, a staff of up to about 20, uptime and revenue. I also wrote plugins for it, including a bounty system and event leaderboards.

Website and bot features · The Outpost

Baylee Discord Bot

The Discord bot for The Outpost, a Minecraft server, from 2020 to 2021. The server’s owner built the bot. I built Baylee’s website myself, and added new commands and add-on features to the bot while I was very new to coding. It matched keywords against a large dictionary of words and pieced its replies together from templates, and it felt like AI before AI.