Lead Developer @ Maine Bread of Life TA @ MIT’s Brave Behind Bars CS Student @ University of Maine at Augusta Full-stack developer who locked in, went rogue, and never looked back.
I served with the 5th Special Forces Group from 2001–2003(Army 1999-2003) — boots on the ground. Came home broken, lost a friend, nearly lost myself. Then I found purpose in code.
No handouts. No shortcuts. One mission: Build tools that matter.
- 💻 Lead Dev @ Maine Bread of Life → Custom tech for shelters, soup kitchens, and ART’s House — a recovery home for vets like me named after me.
- 🧠 TA @ MIT’s Brave Behind Bars + Code Your Dreams → Teaching HTML, CSS, Python, and Flask inside prison walls
- 🏗 Redesigning Augusta Downtown Alliance → From template junk to handcrafted digital presence
In 2023, after 20-years into a prison sentence with zero tech background. No laptop experience. No GitHub. No roadmap. Just fire.
- Everything started for me from joining a basic web design course through Brave Behind Bars while in prison.
- Taught myself full-stack dev in isolation — Flask, JS, Jinja, CLI scripting
- Earned certifications from Google, UC Davis, University of Michigan and every online course I could find!
- Went from student to TA — teaching others to build the same way I did
- Now I build software that runs offline, under pressure, and without excuses
- Code like your life depends on it.
- No fluff. No gimmicks. Just raw function and impact.
- If it doesn’t run offline, it’s not ready for the real world.
- Accessibility > Aesthetics. Clarity > Cleverness.
- Languages: Python, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bash, Batch
- Frameworks: Flask, Jinja, Bootstrap
- Tools: Visual Studio (custom extensions), BrowserSync, PyInstaller
- Environments: Locked down, air-gapped, firewalled — I get it working anyway
Node.js/Bootstrap-powered nonprofit site. Fully custom. Built for impact.
- 🔧 Node.js backend + Bootstrap/React/Vanilla.js Frontend
- 🦾 JSON-LD structured data for rich SEO
- 🧭 WCAG-accessible, zero-bloat, mobile-first
Rebuilding local pride with real code.
- Flask + JS from the ground up
- ADA compliant, responsive, blazing fast
- Ditching the WordPress drag-and-drop bloat for something authentic and worth the time to look at!
- TA @ MIT’s Brave Behind Bars — Flask & HTML inside federal prisons
- TA @ Code Your Dreams — mentoring new devs starting at rock bottom...literally.
Because real dev skills change lives — even behind bars.
- 🌐 mainebreadoflife.org
- 📸 Screenshot Credit:
- Tour of ART's House - Maine Bread of Life
“Burn the tutorials. Build the thing. De oppresso liber.”