About Me
Tyler, Texas
Hi, I’m Dan — a developer, technology leader, and lifelong tinkerer based in Tyler, Texas.
I got my start in Washington D.C. as a defense contractor, building military video games, websites, and smartphone apps. After a few years of government work I traded the Beltway for East Texas, and I’ve spent the decade-plus since going deep on full stack web development and the Salesforce platform.
These days I’m an Enterprise Architecture Manager at Maymont Homes, where I lead AI-enabled business systems strategy and architecture. I manage a team of developers across three squads, aligning technical execution with business priorities across Salesforce, Five9, and custom applications built on React, Python, and Node. A lot of my job is bridging business operations, engineering leadership, and emerging AI capabilities to make systems more reliable, more integrated, and ready to scale.
Over the years I’ve led CRM and ERP implementations and integrations — Salesforce, Workday, SAP, NetSuite, Acumatica, and Zoho — and built the software and pipelines that tie them all together. A few projects I’m proud of:
- Built a digital onboarding system for HR and Accounting to hire ~4,000 staff a year, saving roughly $400k annually.
- Led discovery and delivery of a transaction processing system that cut hundreds of hours of manual work and now processes $8 million a year.
- Implemented an applicant tracking system handling 8,000–10,000 applications annually, saving over $500k a year.
- Shipped a digital invoicing system saving $30k annually while processing $2 million in revenue.
I hold an MBA from Longwood University and a BS in Visualization from Texas A&M, and I’m Salesforce-certified across admin, development, and consulting tracks.
This blog is where I write down the things I figure out — so I don’t have to re-learn them later, and so maybe they save you some time too. I’m a big believer in the slight edge: a little progress every day adds up to something big. I write mostly about full stack web development and Salesforce, with the occasional detour into career, culture, and building software for the long haul.
Want to say hi or talk shop? Connect with me on LinkedIn.