Hello
My
Story.
Small town kid, big curiosity. From football fields to building things that matter.
I grew up in a small river town in Michigan called Algonac. I was in the International Baccalaureate program, graduated third in my class with a 4.2 GPA, and was captain of the football team. I also ran track and ended up as the program’s all-time leading scorer and a Hall of Famer.
But even then, I liked building things just as much as competing.
I also grew up in a church my great grandfather started. Faith has always been a central part of my life. It shaped how I see people, how I lead, and how I believe people should be treated. I care a lot about treating people with kindness, with grace, and with the same patience that’s been shown to me. That doesn’t stop at church. It carries into my work, my teams, and how I build things.
That mindset followed me to the University of Detroit Mercy, where I studied software engineering with a leadership minor and ran track. I chose software engineering over computer science because I knew I didn’t just want to write code. I wanted to lead people and build things that actually help them. Along the way, I got published for my work in AI. Our team built Sylvester, a program that learned the language of Twitter through automatic annotation and classification, interpreting tweets in real time to determine how people feel about any given subject. It was published in New Trends in Information Technology in 2017.
During college, I worked as a tutor at the learning center. It started as helping students, but it turned into rebuilding their entire system. Scheduling, time tracking, reporting. Everything had been manual. I moved it online and dragged the whole operation out of the stone age.
Music & Ministry
At the same time, I was leading worship at my church, playing music, running events, and somehow balancing all of it. I still love that side of my life. Music, creativity, and working with people have always been a big part of who I am.
After graduating, Woodside didn’t want to lose me, so they created a role for me. I stepped into web development, database work, and solving problems that nobody else had time to touch. One of my first projects was cleaning up our database. I ended up deactivating about two thirds of it and building better systems to track real engagement. Some of that work eventually made its way into the main MinistryPlatform product.
From there, I started my own business. I saw the same problems popping up across churches everywhere, so I began helping teams build better tools, better experiences, and better systems. A lot of what I do now lives at the intersection of product thinking, UX, and real-world ministry needs.
I care a lot about clarity. Not overwhelming people. Saying just enough, at the right time. Good design should feel obvious.
These days, I live in Clarkston, Michigan with my wife Sarah, our two kids, and two very different dogs. When I’m not building something, I’m probably playing music, flying with my wife, or chasing kids around the house.
Things I’ve built.
Full-stack platforms, developer tools, and side projects — here’s some of what I’ve been working on.
Church Hub
What started as an internal tool at Woodside Bible Church evolved into a full SaaS product. Church Hub is a modular Next.js platform that helps churches centralize operations, automate workflows, and build custom tools on top of their existing data. I started a business around it — implementing it across multiple churches to solve real operational problems at scale.
Dynamic Insights
Extended a static reporting platform into interactive dashboards with custom embedded widgets. Created a nested JSON framework for optimized data retrieval — this innovation inspired new features in the platform and became a development model across partner organizations.
MP Next
An open-source Next.js template for MinistryPlatform API integration. Provides authentication flows, data fetching patterns, and UI components — enabling other organizations to build modern web apps on top of the platform.
RoarTracker
A personal app to manage Detroit Lions season tickets — track attendance, resale, and spending data with intuitive dashboards and mobile-first UI.
Michigan born,
product obsessed.
Full-stack developer, musician, and lifelong sports fan based in Southeast Michigan. I build tools that make complexity feel simple.