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Castle Risk Online
Personal Project2025 - present
Castle Risk Online is an online multiplayer board game with chat, animations, and AI players. It supports social login, mobile, dark mode, and is a blast to play with family and friends.
The game is built with React, with jotai for atomic state management on the frontend, and optimistic state synchronization viaWebSockets, proxied thru a K8s (Kubernetes) ingress controller equipped with Cert Manager to the underlying Express JS servers, which autoscale based on tcp connection rules, and use RxJS for Functional Programming stream processing of game events.
Key Results
- Launched fully functional multiplayer game with realtime chat, social login, mobile + desktop support, dark mode
- Achieved <200ms latency for real-time game state synchronization across all players
- Kubernetes + Skaffold used for cloud-agnostic deployments

Heartpoints.org
The Currency of Good2019 - 2023
A working prototype and specs for how heartpoints would be rewarded and exchanged and linked to "Proof of Good" that could be validated off-chain (since proof of good in this case may for example, be video evidence or other data that is too large to fit onto the chain), using a strategy of hashing the proof and storing the hash and URL of the proof's off-chain content.
Key Results
- Built blockchain-based "proof-of-good" currency prototype with off-chain validation
- Motivated a team of 5 to ideate and experiment on making the world a better place

Cleveland Entertainers
Point. Click. Party.2004 - 2007
We went through several iterations of the website, but our goals were SEO optimization and systematizing the internal booking process with salesforce while exposing certain information about entertainers, acts and availability through the website, and keeping those in sync with entertainer calendars.
With the help of some interns, I designed and built the website from the ground up, and hosted it at Cleveweb.com, the software solutions company I had formed a few years earlier.
Key Results
- Generated 500+ entertainment bookings annually through optimized SEO
- Integrated Salesforce CRM automating 70% of booking workflow processes
- Grew organic search traffic by 400% making site #1 result for Cleveland entertainment

Cleveweb.com
Web Design, Development, Hosting2000 - 2008
montgranite.com - supplier of natural stone website. After assessing their products, we categorized them according to stone type, colors, texture and brand, then I created a MySQL database and an ORM to read/write PHP objects and their relationships from the database and present it as a front-end, which I designed to resemble a piece of marble.
I then hosted the company's website and email for a number of years afterward and actively updated the site on retainer.
Working with executives, I designed, built, hosted, continuously updated, and reported traffic analysis reports for Northcoast Technologies. I designed and built an animated advertisement explaining their product.
Thetaylorcompanies.com had a searchable cataolgue of many pieces of furniture, each with multiple image angles, specs, descriptions, brands, pricing, and delivery schedules. After understanding their needs, I put together a MySQL database, PHP web server with a custom ORM, and an rich frontend with an animated intro page.
Key Results
- Increased online product inquiries by 750% within first year of launch
- Delivered full website with animated product demo increasing lead conversion by 40%
- Cataloged 150+ furniture products with searchable database and custom ORM