About
The person you’d actually be hiring.
One guy in Milwaukee. No agency, no account manager, no junior who inherited your project. If we work together, you’re dealing with the person who does the work.
Why this exists
Small business owners are usually the ones most at risk of falling for a predatory professional, and usually it’s for a small problem. They get sold a website they don’t need, a contract they can’t read, or a monthly fee for something that was never the problem.
When we work together, I’ll sit down with you, we’ll go through it together, and I’ll give you my recommendations. That first conversation is free. Don’t be surprised if my recommendation is for you to go with someone else. I would much rather lose a sale than alienate a customer by promising things I can’t deliver.
I was a production scheduler for a while, so I know what that costs. Someone promises a date, you promise it to the sales rep, and when the day comes there’s nothing to ship. That is just not good business.
Where the method came from
Years inside big-company supply chain taught me what a broken process actually costs. I spent over 20 years working with departments that took many steps to answer one question. I created systems to speed those processes up. Nobody had set out to build that. Somebody added a step years ago, and after that nobody questioned it. I’ve never been okay with pushing a button simply because the instructions say to do it.
That’s the part I find interesting, and it’s the same in a five-person shop as it is in a Fortune 500: it’s almost never a software problem. It’s just a matter of understanding why we do what we do.
Two rules I work by
Do it wrong.
Waiting for perfect means nothing gets done. I’d rather start with a rough version that works today and fix it as we go than plan one that never ships.
Be lazy.
Working harder at something that could be easy isn’t smart. I want you lazy, the good way: let’s find what can be automated or made easier, so your attention goes to the things that really need it.
Where I’ve been
- 1995 – 1996
Started a text board on a Super NES over a dialup modem and named it STUFF.
A name wide enough to cover all my interests, not just one. - 1996
Graduated South Division High School, Milwaukee.
- 1996 – 2001
Worked full time across multiple businesses.
RES Manufacturing, R&L Carriers, SC Johnson, and others. - Early 2000s
Ran my own Invision board forum, and hosted a second one for a friend.
Running forums and hosting weren’t new to me. - 2001 – 2024
Medline Industries.
Master data, production scheduling, business process, then data engineering. Two decades, one company. - 2006
Established The STUFF Networks as the umbrella for my independent technology work.
- 2025 – Present
Inventory and supply chain work in Milwaukee.
What I can help with
In plain words. If your problem isn’t on this list, ask anyway.
Spreadsheets & reports that save you hours
The monthly report that takes a day, the spreadsheet only one person understands.
Systems that work together
Getting the software you already pay for to stop making you retype things.
Cleaning up messy data
Duplicates, bad records and numbers nobody trusts, sorted out and kept that way.
Secure networks & websites
Setting up, protecting and hosting the technology your business runs on.
See the full tool list
The day job
- SAP ECC 6 / SAP HANA
- NetSuite · SuiteQL, Saved Searches
- SQL Server & SSRS
- Microsoft Access
- Winshuttle
- Excel · macros, dashboards
- Jira & Zendesk
The home lab
- Proxmox & KVM · virtualization
- Docker
- Linux administration
- pfSense · segmented network
- WireGuard VPN
- Cloudflare Tunnel & HAProxy
- Web design & hosting
Have a part of your week you’d love to get rid of?
Or write to javier@thestuffnetworks.com