Welcome — and thanks for stopping by.
My writing spans technology, leadership, and life itself. Over the years, I’ve authored books and articles on web development, digital strategy, and enterprise platforms, helping organizations modernize how they build and deliver software. Today, my professional focus centers on DevOps and platform enablement, AI-assisted engineering, and large-scale delivery transformation—bringing decades of hands-on experience into advisory and consulting work as I transition toward semi-retirement.
Alongside my technical work, I’ve begun sharing more personal reflections through memoir-style writing, exploring resilience, purpose, and the lessons learned from a lifelong journey through technology, faith, family, and adversity—including my recent experience with prostate cancer and the grounding role of my Christian faith.
Whether I’m writing about AI accelerating software delivery, building high-performing engineering organizations, or reflecting on life’s turning points, my goal is the same: to offer practical insight, honest perspective, and stories that connect. These publications represent both sides of that journey—professional and personal—and I’m glad you’re here to explore them.
Books
Professional DotNetNuke 4: Open Source Web Application Framework for ASP.NET 2.0
DotNetNuke is a powerful open source framework that creates and deploys robust modules on the ASP.NET platform. Written by its core team of developers, this book will provide you with the tools and insight you’ll need to install, configure, and develop your own stunning Web applications using DotNetNuke 4.
Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals 1st Edition
DotNetNuke, the popular ASP.NET open source application, is sweeping through the ranks of ASP.NET and Web developers. Whether you’ve never programmed your own Web site before or you are an experienced ASP.NET developer, you’ll find DotNetNuke and this book have something to offer you. Led the project on this book. Negotiated the deal with Wrox Press for the rest of the DNN core team.
Windows Server 2003: The Complete Reference
One of the earliest books I helped co-author. On the architecture of operating systems including Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. Configure computers, manage users, and design your Active Directory. Implement group policies, enterprise services, and disaster planning and recovery processes.
CYA: Securing Exchange Server 2003 & Outlook Web Access
The book is organized around the 11 “MMCs” (Microsoft Management Consoles) that contain the configuration menus for the essential features. The options within each menu are explained clearly, potential problems are identified up-front, and configurations are subsequently presented in the aptly named “By the Book” section for that MMC. Readers will also appreciate the “Reality Check” sidebars throughout, which present valuable cost/benefit analyses of situations where there is no single “right” answer.
I-Net+ Certification Study Guide
With e-commerce increasingly a standard part of every company’s business strategy, internet skills are becoming a definable skill set as opposed to add-on skills for network professionals or skills only recognized as important for web site developers. Recognizing this, CompTIA has created the vendor-neutral i-Net+ certification. The i-Net+ certification will measure an IT professional’s internet knowledge.
Administering IIS (5) 2nd Edition
Day-to-day task reference for Internet Information Server Version 5 of Microsoft’s IIS is certain to give you many of the same problems as the previous versions, as well as some new and unique ones. Administering IIS 5, by Mitch Tulloch and Patrick Santry, helps you whip Internet Information Server 5 into shape In the US Library of Congress (http://lccn.loc.gov/00698484). Used by the NSA for certificate management on web servers.
MCSD FrontPage 98 Study Guide
In addition to being a complete study guide, this book is designed as a reference book for both during and after the study process. The CD-ROM contains interactive tests hyperlinked to the text. The first book I co-authored, I wrote 9 chapters in this book as well as tech edited.
IIS 5 Developer’s Guide
The developer’s resource for writing code on IIS 5. From ISAPI to ASP, everything you need to write interactive web applications.
