Custom Automation, Smart Tools, Website Maintenance, and AI-Powered Solutions
40+ years of professional hands-on software development and I still love solving real problems. I build practical, reliable solutions using Python, PHP, C#, VB, ASP, SQL and ChatGPT — and I know how to get things working fast.
✅ What I Can Help With:
🖥️ Custom Windows tools — desktop apps or command-line utilities
📄 Office automation — Word, Excel, PDF, CSV processing
🕷️ Data scraping — pull info from websites, even the tricky ones
📊 Dashboards and reports — turn raw data into clear output
ChatGPT: Daily use for design, analysis, development, testing, and debugging
🔍 Recent Projects:
🌐 Apache • MySQL • PHP systems — Cross-platform database-driven web server applications that run on Windows or Linux (WAMP/LAMP)
📹 Ring Camera footage analysis — automated detection of events, highlight reel generation, and organized review of business surveillance video archives using Python
📑 Automated generation of VA medical forms from initial intake using Python — saving time and ensuring consistent documentation.
📬 Rebuilt and upgraded an Access database to integrate book, movie, and image records into a clean, searchable system.
📈 Wrote powerful SQL Server scripts to analyze stock data and generate custom charts for smarter investment insights.
🧠 Turned brief notes about notable figures into polished biographical content in Markdown using Python — ready for websites or archives.
🕵️ Developed tools to hide and reveal secret steganography messages in images and audio using Python — for fun and security training.
📥 Scraped structured data (PDF, XML, Excel) from public websites for reporting, auditing, and integration into business tools.
🏷️ Cleaned and standardized thousands of messy addresses into fully formatted, shipping-ready fields for labels and mail merges.
🧾 Scanned invoice slips, extracted text via OCR, and imported key fields directly into a searchable, filterable database using Python and SQL.
🗺️ Used SHP map files and Python to display local parks, trails, boat launches, and campgrounds — great for regional guides and apps.
🌐 Assumed maintenance for GoDaddy and iPage websites — keeping hosting, domains, and content running smoothly, scaled code for mobiles and cellphones.
🤖 Built a Python bot to monitor incoming files and alert interested parties via email — ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
🛑 What I Don’t Do:
Build new websites (but I will assume, maintain and enhance an already existing PHP/ASP website)
Mobile apps
Fix hardware or networks
Always ready to help build your software solutions.