Recommendations

I had the pleasure of working with Vern from late 2024 through mid-2025 while he was embedded with our team in a staff augmentation role. He jumped in to support a technically complex PHP backend initiative powered by a headless WordPress implementation—and didn’t miss a beat.

Vern brought sharp technical acumen across both the WordPress layer and API integration points, but what really stood out was his thoroughness and thoughtful approach. He consistently delivered with clarity and care, and quickly earned the trust of our senior developers—no small feat. When he committed to something, we knew it was going to get done right.

Beyond the code, Vern was just a joy to work with. Kind, grounded, collaborative—he fit in seamlessly with our culture and raised the bar without ego. If we’d had a full-time role open, I would’ve happily brought him on in a heartbeat. Grateful our paths crossed.

Vern's a fantastic addition to a tech team—his broad scope of capabilities drives growth, and his experience across several areas of expertise helps him provide business perspectives that others may miss. He’s outgoing and a great team player, always willing to take on new challenges and dig in with his colleagues to build solutions.

During his time at Innovation Solved, Vern played a pivotal role in enhancing a critical web application for medical patients. His exceptional expertise in PHP and related technologies was a game-changer. He transformed a disorganized and poorly coded application into a stable and highly functional system.

Vern’s professionalism, dedication, and willingness to tackle the toughest challenges head-on are truly commendable. I highly recommend Vern for any software engineering role; he will undoubtedly be an asset to any team.

I had the pleasure of working with Vern at my first PE-owned company, as their CIO. The work we were doing was ground-breaking for the industry as well as the company and the pace was very aggressive. Vern came in and brought not only a wealth of experience but thought leadership and the ability to galvanize a new team.

He was able to build our tech stack, while gaining a detailed understanding of our industry, the company, our customers (initially all B2B), and the digital CX we were building. The program was a huge success and we were soon asked to develop a direct-to-consumer capability and Vern led the technology team with yet another huge success. I have since recommended him to peers and have gotten similar feedback on his performance. I highly recommend Vern and would work with him again in a heartbeat.

Vern joined our fast-paced work environment at The Shade Store, and helped set the foundation for our future of eCommerce technology integration. He was able to exceed extremely high expectations through hard work, and helped us move the organization towards proper compliance and security best practices.

He is hard working, possesses broad hands-on coding experience, and works well with others. I’d recommend Vern for any business opportunity that requires the very best in technology execution and strategy.

Vern's a terrific programmer, who is able to delve in and understand complex systems. I've worked with Vern for several years on high-value projects, and the code he writes works. Great guy / I highly recommend.

Vern is great to work with! He is always professional, a team player, has a great attitude and works well under pressure. He helped our team on DevOps projects including Linux server management, LAMP stack tuning, supporting PHP and IBMi applications, utilizing CAB processes, and WAF/Proxy management/updates.

He quickly got up to speed on SELinux so our team could support that for enhanced security and he even wrote a log shipping application to help with log management/centralization. Vern is always patient and eager to learn new things. He brings value and a positive attitude to any Software Development and DevOps team!

Vern is an amazing coworker, lead developer and architect. As my senior, Vern was patient and easy to approach. He went above and beyond to make sure I was set up for success.

Vern believes communication is a key to success and will make sure everyone on his team understands their deliverables and goals. Vern was delightful to work with and I would work with him again, no questions asked.

Vern has always been my “go to” developer whenever I would come across a client that needed work done on the LAMP stack. Vern has been a great resource as a fellow developer. His skills are unquestionable and he has conquered every challenge I’ve ever seen him tackle.

Vern is a great self-manager and always has his eye on product development timelines. His professionalism makes working with him a pleasure! His software design and architecture skill are the best you will find. I would never hesitate to send a client his way. I know the job will be done and most importantly be done right!

Vern is a model employee and is always willing to jump in and do what needs to be done. When I assigned Vern a task, I never had to worry about whether or not it would be completed or if it would be done correctly.

Often, developers need a little bit of hand holding and need someone to spell out the specific tasks/tickets/issues in order to get any work done. Not Vern -- I could hand him an idea and he was able to quickly determine the best way to proceed, convert it into practical steps, and knock it out quickly -- all while keeping me in the loop.

Vern is obviously an expert developer and is able to quickly learn new frameworks and technologies. I can't recommend Vern highly enough. If you need a developer, hire him. He's worth it.

I hired Vern as a remote developer to help build an on-demand platform using LAMP. I was very impressed with the results and hope to use him again in future projects. Vern handled everything I threw at him. It was great having someone I could depend on to step up to the plate and hit a home run.