A career that grew from hobby websites into enterprise application architecture.

A question I’m always asked is whether I prefer the front-end or the back-end. It’s all web development to me.

This portfolio’s original story was adaptability. I moved from HTML, CSS, classic ASP, PHP, and CMS work into rich JavaScript applications, Angular, enterprise UI leadership, design systems, and product-facing systems. That arc tracks the web itself — from its hardwired dialup beginnings to its post-PC flight to mobile.

This site keeps that history, but the emphasis is simpler now. I help people understand what needs to be built, why it matters to the business, and how the front end should be organized so teams can deliver it. Working at enterprise scale turned me from a senior developer into an architect — someone who defines the approach and finds the solution before building. That means translating technical tradeoffs for product owners, business analysts, recruiters, and upper management.

There’s a through-line under all of it, and it’s the same thing I do for a living: I modernize long-lived systems without losing what made them worth keeping. That’s what enterprise Angular work really is — carrying an application forward across framework generations while the team keeps shipping — and it’s what I’ve done to one site of my own, DEPECHEMODE.TV, for nearly thirty years, rebuilding it through every era of the web from hand-authored HTML to Angular. The hobby and the profession turned out to be the same discipline.