Lead Software Engineer for FMG Connect.

ENG Aviation

Senior Software Engineer

Built the AI and operations platform behind a private-aviation SaaS, focused on pilot safety, flight scheduling, and the regulatory workflows that surround them.

• Built the pilot training and currency system end-to-end. It alerts flight operations when training is due or when pilots need additional flights to stay current, and it shows coordinators which pilots will actually be available, and still qualified, at the time of a planned trip.
• Built an AI-augmented trip-request pipeline on LangChain that reads inbound customer emails, checks pilot and aircraft availability, drafts quotes, and routes them to the flight operations center for review before they go to customers.
• Made the assistant useful on long conversations and grounded it in each customer's own data, so answers stay accurate as conversations grow.
• Built the eSecure export that submits passenger lists for TSA screening and tracks passenger clearance, saving flight coordinators 30+ hours per year that had been spent manually formatting files.
• Used LLM vision to read cockpit and flight-log photos, then prefill most of the flight log for pilots.
• Added iCal integration so flight schedules can stay in sync with external calendar apps.
• Delivered scheduling and pricing features, including drag-and-drop reordering of trip legs and pricing, schedule-conflict detection, and a demo-data system used for sales and conferences.

SammyD LLC

Independent Software Consultant

Continued independently after Focus Ministries closed, building software, infrastructure, and training platforms for clients across cybersecurity, streaming, and telecommunications.

Focus Ministries / GoMethod

Software Engineer

Left Vega Studio to build mission-trip management software for Focus Ministries. The organization closed during COVID, ending the role.

• Built a mission-trip management system in Angular and .NET that streamlined the coordination of travel requirements, document tracking, and deadline management for team leaders.
• Built an automated document processing pipeline in React and .NET that scanned paper forms and used a mix of cloud AI services and human reviewers to digitize and categorize them, dramatically cutting manual data entry.
• Designed and integrated systems that significantly improved organizational efficiency in managing participant documentation and compliance requirements.

VoidRay / Vega Studio

Senior Technical Lead

Led teams across pharmacy, security, forensic visualization, retail, and defense-facing software projects.

• Led development of a pharmacy management system that automated prescription processing, insurance verification, billing, and inventory.
• Built a vulnerability assessment dashboard for the U.S. Department of Defense to monitor and track software security risks across the organization.
• Built a geographic threat-intelligence platform for the Department of Defense that used natural-language analysis to map and visualize threats from internet traffic patterns.
• Built a network traffic visualization tool for AWS environments that helped security teams quickly spot threats and data leakage.
• Built a forensic analysis tool that used 3D web visualization to surface organizational communication patterns for fraud investigations and risk management.
• Partnered with Infosight to develop memory-based threat detection software.
• Designed and built an omnichannel retail platform integrating online and brick-and-mortar inventory management.
• Established a CI/CD pipeline with automated testing and a structured QA environment, enabling reliable weekly releases.

KloudNation

Software Developer

Built large-scale web scraping, vendor analytics, and mobile augmented-reality tools.

• Built an auto-scaling web scraping system that aggregated and compared auto-parts pricing across NAPA, AutoZone, O'Reilly, and Firestone.
• Built a web-based analytics platform that consolidated vendor datasets into comparative pricing reports.
• Built an iOS augmented-reality app that combined Bluetooth-beacon positioning with computer-vision recognition for retail compliance monitoring and display verification.
• Brought the team onto Swift through hands-on training and pairing, so more engineers could ship iOS features independently.

VoidRay Co

Senior Software Architect

Built SaaS products across healthcare, analytics, e-commerce migration, financial automation, and forensic visualization.

• Built a HIPAA-compliant SaaS platform that gave physicians remote access to their office database, with detailed profitability and geographic analysis to support data-driven decisions.
• Built a web analytics SaaS platform that helped marketers evaluate campaign performance and optimize advertising spend.
• Built a migration tool that moved customers from WooCommerce to Shopify while preserving complete transaction history.
• Built an automated 401k portfolio analysis tool that pulled data from multiple banking platforms to support portfolio management decisions.
• Partnered with BrainSpace to build a computer forensics visualization platform for network data exploration and suspicious-activity detection.