Hello, there.
I have reasonable RTFM skills. Many of my pull requests are spelling errors in random documentation on github.
I'm pretty handy building things. I enjoy doing so with other people.
I've been involved with a few projects around the web and I have startup tendencies. I was the Principal builder of StayAttache.com for six years. That system is still running 12 years on. I make things off the web, too.
I've made full stack business software systems, websites since the 90's, API's, tropical paradises, art, furniture, robots, a few good scars and a song or two. Byproducts of a curious life. I have tropical island landscaping skills. I have furniture making and house framing skills.
I've explored generative AI animations using Disco Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, Deforum, FILM and other wonderful tools along with Google Colab and Python. I published some of those curiosities to Carnivai, a steampunk circus on YouTube and Carnivai.com.
Picking up the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach remains vivid. More so than much of the material. It was for the online Stanford course taught by Andrew Ng that I barely attended. After a meetup at a popular Boston loft space of the time (for jQuery) I went to the Harvard bookstore and there was a memorial to Steve Jobs out front with apples and candles. If you were there you'll remember. He had just passed away. It was evening in Boston.
It's a tiny, gigantic world. I moved to our nations capitol, Washington, D.C. shortly thereafter for a CTO / DTD / many hats role at a growing and nimble corporate housing company. I built the entire stack saving and making millions of dollars. It still does that. I do not.
I am not a robot. I'm almost certain of that. If you have opportunities I may be able to help with please don't hesitate to reach out.
Director of Technology and Development at Attache Property Management
2012-2018 - Washington, DC
Attache Property Management, StayAttache.com, is a multi-million dollar property management and corporate housing provider in Washington, DC. A purveyor of fine properties since 2001. They are seriously baller and I'm not biased at all.
My work at Attache spanned every part of automation from requirements gathering and embedding across all teams, continuous planning and communication, architecting and coding the full stack, servers and hosting, deployment, test and maintenance; wash, rinse and repeat. Backend, data, frontend, design, UI/UX, management and everything in between. It's purpose is to automate the business based on the ever-evolving requirements of a nimble, technology loving, quirky and fun housing company in the United States capitol. It felt like herding cats at times but it was pretty awesome working with people that were excited to build things we didn't know how to build.
The backend was coming online as Symfony 2 was being released with PHP 5. Perfect timing and Doctrine ORM 2, thick model layers, tiny controllers and all kinds of whiz bang stuff like Composer package management were just entering the PHP lexicon. Seemed like a turning point for PHP and it was. This was around the same time as the HipHop fork at Facebook so it was a curious time for the language.
The frontend is fully responsive having been based on the newly released Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework. It serves a surprising number of public requests on a daily basis for such a small organization. Then again, lots of people visit Washington, DC and Attache has an awesome product and a large inventory.
It runs exceptionally fast of course. The pictures are beautiful as is the website so web-gawking bandwidth was the norm. I put a big screen TV up in the office with dashboards showing relevant daily and live statistics streaming from various sources like form submissions, arrivals and departures and analytics.
I designed and built every system including:
- the property reservations and booking system,
- the leasing and rentals system,
- Complex billing generation systems including sliding scale per-diem payment schedules
- Frontend, fully-responsive, fast and performant
- real estate contract automation with a templating system,
- documents could be emailed, printed or, handled by
- automated digital signatures utilizing DocuSigns API,
- billing and accounting was a continuously changing journey,
- marketing tools allowing members to drill down into client needs visualized using D3js and DCjs
- API integrations, analytics, etc,
- XML feed gernators for consumer sites such as Trulia, Booking.com and Zillow,
- guest arrival and departure communications tailored to each unique property and each unique guest
- operations management including forms for tracking property maintenance and turnover for mobile teams, digital checklists, etc.
This served our inventory of hundreds of diverse, geographically dispersed and unique properties in Washington, DC. I built it with love.
Every part of the business has a piece of that system growing in some way or ten. Pretty standard cat herding software development effort with hundreds in the backlog well maintained in Github. I used D3.js and DC.js to build interactive analyses of a lot our data to maximize profits finding renters for properties with big budgets. It was pulling in from MySQL and Elastic Search just coming out of the Lucene community. They didn't even have that fancy frontend, Kibana, built in to Elastic yet.
Technologies used:
PHP, Symfony 2, Composer, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Doctrine ORM (Object Relational Mapper), Linux, DataTables, C, Bash, Git, Ubuntu, Github, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, D3js, Bootstrap, ImageMagick, SSH, Nginx, Linode, Mandrill/Mailchimp, Sertifi and DocuSign integrations, etc.
I left in 2018 after more than six years to pursue other opportunities. Those opportunities failed as did much of the economy. It happens. Learn and grow.
You've got to love Stack Overflow. The quintessential nerd hub for so many years. The soiled pants of many a lost developer have come clean on those pages. Amongst the best of resources the web has for all of your out of memory and off by one errors.

The Verity Project Originally built in 2005. Rebuilt in Summer 2025.
There's an article in the Virginia Tech Collegiate Times about the original Verity Project from 2005. Me and my pals at the time also made an animated film at our company, Slipcase Media.
YouTube - Johnny Peck I got into flying creatures and developed processes with python, ffmpeg and others to manage terabytes of footage. Trained YOLO models to hunt bald faced hornets. ;)
Carnivai, a steampunk circus. Diffusion models and machine learning animations on youtube. Disco diffusion, stable diffusion, compvis, etc.
Symfony Connect I've used Symfony along with Doctrine ORM (Object Relational Mapper) extensively.
SadGPT is a very aware robot. Right?
OpenSea Who didn't make an NFT? You don't have your own non-fungible tokens? I made a few for the Steampunk Circus/Carnivai along with some tongue in cheek pudgy goblins and put them up on OpenSea.
FARTIP Microsoft's Six Principles of Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Midexclaim Why is there is no middle ground between a period and an exclamation mark?
LinkedIn I'm not very enthused with LinkedIn's customer support.
Happy Pi Day AIML Happy Pi Day
AI2UI It's for sale at atom. So is promptingai.com
YouTube - A steampunk circus - CarnivAI Diffusion models and machine learning animations on youtube. Disco diffusion, stable diffusion, compvis, etc.
Wayback
- Tag Gallery Wordpress Plugin
- Ancient code available on github at a project called common-repo - interesting. I'm alright with it. Github Tag Gallery Plugin Archive
- Link to the tag-gallery subversion repo. I knew how to use SVN. That's kind of nuts.
- Studio Verity
- Slipcase Media
- I was in a band in college. The IUMA Archives archived our demo. Fearing Dawn played a few shows around Virgina Tech and we had a lot of fun.
- Cheesy Meat Cracker
I designed my logo in 2001. Here I animated it with Python, Stable diffusion (generative AI), FILM, deforum in jupyter notebooks on Google collab with ffmpeg to pull it all together.

The steampunk circus gernative ai human machine collaboration started publishing curiosities in 2022. This was the first.
