CliqNova is a one-person consultancy. That's deliberate: you work with the person who designs the system, writes the code and answers the phone when it's in production.
I started in 1994 writing billing and accounting software for a telecom, moved through embedded imaging systems for banking, enterprise Java and .NET intranet platforms, healthcare BPO systems, commercial marketing platforms and real-time analytics — and have run CliqNova as an independent consultancy since 2014, taking on longer-term contract and W-2 engagements when the fit is right and CliqNova project work in between.
What that buys you: someone who has seen the full lifecycle many times and can step into whatever role the project is missing — writing code, leading a team, or designing the system — without a ramp-up on the fundamentals.
Applied AI. Deep-learning and predictive models in a live factory; LLM features shipped in production desktop tools — RAG and embeddings, agentic tool loops, constrained structured output, redaction and evidence guardrails, local and cloud backends, cost metering.
Current focus. Native desktop and cross-platform work in C#/.NET with Avalonia UI, systems work in C++20, Kotlin Multiplatform for mobile, and industrial IoT from MQTT services down to ESP32 firmware and NFC readers. Alongside client work I'm building CliqNova's own developer tools — NovaLog, NovaScan and CnSite among them; a product site will follow.
Working style. Requirements written down before code. Diagrams and documentation that survive the project. Tests, CI and clean handoffs so your team can own the result. I work with in-house staff for integration and review, and offer support after delivery.
AI in production: deep-learning models over factory-floor and ERP/MES data surface inefficiencies and bottlenecks in the production flow, and predictive models forecast slack time and revenue — feeding dashboards plant leadership acts on daily.
Underneath it, an end-to-end industrial IoT platform I architected and built: Node.js services for ETL, REST/OpenAPI APIs, MQTT gateways and scheduled jobs; an Angular web interface; M1 ERP integration through ETL pipelines into SQL Server and MySQL/MariaDB; Android utilities for the floor.
Embedded NFC readers support discrete positioning and work-in-process tracking — RC522 integration with byte-level protocol handling, anti-collision and cascaded UID selection across multi-reader hubs. Hardware spans ESP32 (ESP-IDF/FreeRTOS, OTA) and an earlier Raspberry Pi 4/Pico platform with a 32-reader NFC hub.
AI-first developer tools. CliqNova's products embed LLMs the way production software needs them — evidence-first, redacted, budgeted, citable and auditable — against local models (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM and others) or cloud APIs (OpenAI, OpenRouter, Anthropic) behind one provider seam.
NovaLog (.NET/Avalonia log analysis): evidence-first root-cause analysis that builds a deterministic, redacted, size-budgeted evidence bundle before a model reasons over it; a ReAct-style investigator agent working a read-only toolset to a cited root cause; semantic search and RAG over embedded log lines; incident memory that recalls similar past incidents; an uncited-claim guard; prompt-payload inspection and session cost metering; ten backends with auto-detection.
NovaScan (C++20 engine + .NET desktop): a scan-grounded assistant that answers "why is this folder large" and "what changed" from real scan facts; natural-language filters and "free up space" goals turned into validated plans via constrained JSON-schema decoding, every id checked against the app's own vetted candidates so a hallucination can never become an action; RAG over the file-content index with local embeddings; NLP-aware redaction.
Also: CnSite (Kotlin/Ktor smart-home service with local speech recognition and wake-word voice control), NovaFast / NovaTime (Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose), CnSysOps (desktop operations console for Windows/Linux infrastructure and cloud labs) and SectorTapIdle (Kotlin game for Android and desktop).
Earlier client work: a real-time Android app for IoT vehicle-fleet monitoring (OBD-II diagnostics, GPS tracking over cellular, cloud sync, C++ device-protocol libraries); an auto-auction management mobile app on Salesforce services; a performance-optimization engine for an intranet portal in Node.js; company dashboards with real-time feeds in Node.js and Angular; Express REST services; enterprise-dashboard and educational mobile apps; database design.
Delivered projects for a spectrum of clients on behalf of Bardess, a leading Qlik Sense, Cloudera and Vizlib partner: real-time and interactive analytics, web-based visualization extensions, server-side extensions, services and external databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle). Clients included Verizon, John Wiley Publishing, Katz Media, Cisco, Bentley Systems, Presperse, Teraverde, SDI Inc., Cozen Law and Pepperjam.
Developed a commercial marketing-operations web platform: campaign management, CMS and asset management with workflow, leads, budgets, forecasts and calendar. ASP.NET, JavaScript, SQL Server and web services for B2B integration. The division is now a separate company, Aprimo.
TMG is a BPO for Medicare and Medicaid client plans under HIPAA and CMS compliance. Worked as both systems analyst and business solution engineer (architect), directly with clients on requirements and design. Systems covered billing, enrollment, claims and CMS reconciliation using C#, SQL Server, SSIS and TriZetto Facets integration.
Independent development consulting and creator of Windows and web applications, including an inventory system, a Unicode multilingual document CMS with search, and a disk-analysis utility.
Designed and developed intranet applications in Java/J2EE and ASP.NET, including dashboard analytics and corporate scorecards over multidimensional OLAP/MDX data warehouses and relational data.
Built two check-processing systems for the banking industry: high-speed document imaging coupled with service workflow and a suite of client applications for keying, batch balancing and workflow management, plus embedded software for image and data acquisition, OCR/ICR processing and physical sorting on very high-speed check sorters.
Software for telecommunications and ISP billing and accounting: billing, accounting, order fulfillment and automated ISP account maintenance for Commonwealth Telephone.
School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Coursework and research across AI, robotics, 3D simulation, mathematics, algorithms, mechanical engineering and physics.
