Florida Technology Consulting Inc. · Tampa Bay, Florida
I design and build the applications companies actually run on: order and delivery systems, fleet and shop programs, customer portals, and the integrations between them. Decades of them, still running. And I am taking on new clients again.
One delivery system, one client, ten years. The numbers are from its own records.
What I build
Order management, routing and delivery, fleet maintenance, shop-floor tools, billing and EDI. Built for the people who use them all day, with the rules of the business enforced in the software rather than remembered by the staff.
Legacy stacks moved to PHP and Laravel on AWS, one piece at a time, with the old system running until the new one has proven itself on real data. Nothing goes live on a promise.
IBM i and DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, telematics, EDI X12 invoicing, document and email pipelines. The parts of a company that were never meant to talk to each other, talking.
AWS and on-premises Linux hosting, Windows servers, SonicWall networks and VoIP, PoE camera systems. The application is only as reliable as what it runs on.
Selected work
A Florida food distributor runs its routes on a tablet application I built: drivers load in, deliver, capture signatures and close tickets on cellular tablets, with two rules the software never lets slip. No signature, no close. Nothing delivered that was not on the truck. Ten years in, it closes better than 99.99 percent of tickets first time, more than three million so far.
It is now being rebuilt as a Laravel application on AWS, keeping every rule that earned that record and adding what the old stack could not: drivers identified through the truck's telematics gateway, the odometer read from the truck at fuel time, end-of-day returns reconciled against the live truck balance, a redesigned invoice emailed the moment a ticket closes, and a nightly hand-off to the back office that the accounting side never had to change for.
A maintenance program built into the company's existing management system rather than beside it. Work orders open from driver inspection defects and engine fault codes pulled nightly from the trucks' telematics, from preventive-maintenance intervals in miles, hours or days, or by hand. Parts requests, stock movements and purchase orders feed the cost of each job; sign-off files a maintenance record and moves the service point. The mechanics get their own tablet app: PIN login, a job clock, checklists and photos that land in the vehicle's document trail. DOT packets go out as a zip with a manifest.
The client's ERP lives on IBM i. I mapped the warehouse system's files, found the product-substitution link that nobody had documented, and built a reusable package so new web applications can query DB2 without endangering it: read-only by default, writes only by explicit opt-in, every query logged with the application and profile that ran it so the ERP's own audit trail can tell them apart.
Invoices as X12 810 documents to a county school district, re-priced from the customer's price list and accepted by the receiver for years. Firewalls rebuilt on current firmware with the VoIP problems gone in the process. A PoE camera network on its own segment. Hosting on AWS for the applications that face the public and on premises for the ones that talk to the plant floor.
AI
The economics of custom software changed this year. I now work with AI coding agents as a standing team. I set the direction, make the calls that take decades of context, and review everything before it ships. The agents do the heavy lifting: they read the legacy code, port it, write the checks, and run them against real data before a line goes live.
The result is not just speed. A rewrite that used to take a quarter now takes weeks, and quality goes up, because every change is exercised before release rather than discovered after it. The delivery-system rebuild above went from a bare route list to closing tickets, reconciling returns, logging fuel, emailing a redesigned invoice and handing off to the back office in a single working day, tested against live data at every step, with the old system running beside it the whole time. This site was built the same afternoon.
For work that reaches beyond custom software into a company's operations, data and customer-facing systems, I partner with UltraWeb Labs, one of the leading AI integration firms in the business. Between us: if you can describe it, we can most likely build it.
What does not change: one person is responsible for the result, knows your business, and answers the phone.
Stack
Contact
The first conversation is about your operation, not about software. If I can help, I will say how. If I cannot, I will say that too.
Where
Tampa Bay, Florida. Clients across Florida and remote.
Company
Florida Technology Consulting Inc.
