I build and sustain systems that make complex knowledge usable. Currently, I'm at Ecotrust where I weave technology with the threads that connect land, water, and life. I have stayed long enough to modernize, govern, grow, and, occasionally, hand forward the software team's portfolio of work.
Now
Senior Software Engineer
@Ecotrust
My role as a senior software engineer blends software engineering and manging a team of one.
For a decade 😱 I have worked on software that sits between a scientific model and a person who has to decide something – a fisheries manager, a restoration practitioner, a woodland owner, a school nutrition director. The work is usually less about the model than about the sequence of questions that gets someone to an answer they trust.
I care about what happens after launch. I stay with these systems, treating them as products, using a natural model of development, seeing through their life cycle. This includes: data migrations, security fixes, framework replacements, deployment rewrites, and the slow work of making a tool someone else can take over.
Before software I was a forward playing non-League football in England after four seasons on the University of North Florida Men's Soccer team. Football taught me to read whole systems, work with specialists who knew more than I did, creating the conditions for someone else to score, and understand successful team dynamics.
A few select pieces showcasing my recent work.
Ecotrust's ocean data portals, the West Coast and Mid-Atlantic, are both built on the Madrona Platform (MP). Each had grown its own deployment and were tightly coupled to legacy infra, making them difficult to maintain, reproduce, and extend. After detangling years of tech debt, I have redesigned the platform around a shared Docker base and thin project overlays.
More about the West Coast Ocean Data Portal →Engineering lead on a public tool for exploring four decades of change in the distribution of more than 650 marine species. Its underlying work entered the Fourth National Climate Assessment.
Read the case study →Co-author and long term contributor to an open-source stewardship planning tool that enables family woodland owners the ability to create a forest stewardship plan. A pre-req which has historically blocked access to resources and programs to everyone except industrial forestry corporations.
Western SARE project record →Turning forest hydrology models into a scenario workflow that forest and stream restoration practitioners can use to support decision making, for salmon recovery in north-central Washington. As builder of the scenario workflow, I ensured it was both scientifically rigorous and practically useful.
Visit Snow2flow →Lead on the statewide directory connecting school meal programs with local producers, ranchers, fishers, and tribal foods. The search and filter interface allows users to easily find and connect with local sources.
Visit Oregon Harvest for Schools →Multi-year engineering on an open-source database built with Tribal partners, who hold authority and sovereign over ITK data. The project is cited in a 2026 CHI paper.
Read Ecotrust's account of the project →