Twenty years of building websites. Now for the businesses down the street.

Most of that time was spent working for large corporations. Just Jesse Designs is something new.

I started it because I saw a gap in the services available to small businesses. Getting a website built is confusing and complicated, and I kept thinking there has to be a better way.

Websites aren't all I've done. I've also worked in customer success, project management and sales, and together those taught me to hear what clients are saying, and what they're not, and to get to the bottom of the problem that actually needs solving. I'd never presume to know everyone's business, but I really do like to learn it. Two mottos keep me honest: focus on the why, and listen to understand, not to respond.

I'm also drawn to working with the businesses in my own community. Many of them are places I use or visit myself, and I'd like to help them be as easy to find online as they are to love in person.

Outside of work, I'm a professional hobbyist. If it involves making something, whether that's a website, a piece of furniture, clothes on the sewing machine or a piece of art, I'm probably doing it. Home is never quiet, either: four kids, two dogs, two cats and a partridge in a pear tree. After all, if we're not growing, what are we doing?