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A designer who builds, and handles the tech.
Most designers hand the technical side to someone else, and most technical people don't design. I do both, so nothing is lost between the design and the build.
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An independent web designer based in McKinney. I design, build, and set up your website end to end, from the first sketch to the handoff guide you keep.
Most website projects have a gap. On one side, designers who make beautiful work but can't touch the technical side. On the other, the analytics and setup people who can plan all that but can't build the site it lives on. Work falls into that gap, and what falls hardest is the part that tells you whether the site is working.
I do both sides. I design and build the site and set up the measuring, the cookie banner, and the contact forms myself. Nothing gets handed across a boundary where it can break, because there is no boundary. That is why this very site can show you its own visitor events as they happen.
Who I build for
Businesses that need their website to work and prove it. For a marketing team, that means attribution you can defend to a CEO, with numbers your analytics and your CRM finally agree on. For a local shop, it means knowing whether the site brings in customers. The setup is the same at either scale, and explaining it simply is part of the job.
Where I come from
8 years building and measuring websites in corporate roles across large hospitality and manufacturing companies, where a small mistake shows up in a boardroom report. I have also been the client who inherited a site that couldn't answer a simple question. That experience shapes how I build now, for businesses of every size.
How I work
Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed before work begins. Every page on a site should have a job, the numbers should show whether it's doing it, and you own everything at the end.
tools_i_have_run
- GA4
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Ads
- Meta Ads
- HubSpot
- Adobe Analytics
- Segment
- BigQuery
- WordPress
From eight years of corporate analytics work. This site deliberately runs a smaller stack, and you can see exactly what and why. If none of these names mean anything to you, that is fine. They are my job.
location
McKinney, TX
Serving Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas, remote across US time zones.