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About
Software developer, AI consultant, author, and speaker
I have spent more than twenty-five years building software and helping businesses make technology actually work for them. I started writing code in the late 1970s, on a Commodore PET, and I have been at it ever since — through every shift from the personal computer to the spreadsheet to the internet, and now to AI.
Today I am CTO and co-founder of Altius Central, a software company in Chandler, Arizona, built around a single conviction: businesses should own their software, not rent it forever. Open-source tools, modern AI, and a developer who knows how to weave them together have collapsed the cost of capabilities that once belonged only to the well-funded. That collapse is the most exciting thing I have seen in my career, and most of my work now is helping people take advantage of it.
When people ask what I do, the honest answer is this: I am the developer the big firms call when their expensive software can't do the thing the client actually needs. And I happen to write about it.
Custom software, CRM systems, and the practical tools businesses need — built on open-source foundations they own, extended with AI. SuiteCRM is a particular specialty.
AI strategy for businesses ready to work with these tools seriously, and keynotes and talks for organizations navigating the shift — practical, honest, free of hype.
Hands-on AI workshops through Altius Intelligence, and the Approachable book series — for people who would rather do the work themselves than be sold to.
I write practical, honest, and occasionally dry guides to the open-source and AI tools that have quietly democratized capability over the last few years. They are short by design — meant to be read on a Saturday morning and put to use by Monday.
Approachable AI and Approachable SuiteCRM are available now. Approachable Claude: One AI to Guide Them All arrives in July 2026, with more to follow. The books are how I think out loud about this work — and the clearest statement of what I believe technology can now do for ordinary businesses.
The tools have changed, but the principle hasn't: you get out what you put in. The businesses that will do best over the next few years are not the ones that bought the most software or chased the newest tool. They are the ones who committed to understanding a few good tools deeply, and built a working life around them.
That is true of AI more than anything I have seen. Used well — as a colleague you work alongside, not a machine you bark commands at — it makes a skilled person dramatically more capable. Used carelessly, it is an expensive disappointment. Most of what I build, teach, and write is aimed at the difference between the two.
If you have a problem your current software can't solve, a team that needs to learn to work with AI properly, or an event that needs a speaker who will tell it straight — I would be glad to talk.