From COBOL to Blazor…
Legacy Modernization. Done Right. By Someone Who’s Done It for Three Decades.
With over 30 years of experience as a software developer, I’ve specialized in modernizing legacy systems and migrating applications across dramatically evolving technology stacks — often multiple times within the same product lifecycle.
My career has given me the rare opportunity to repeatedly replace outdated platforms with contemporary ones, including:
- Classic ASP → ASP.NET → WPF → Blazor
- FoxPro → Delphi + SQL Server
- WinForms → WPF → Blazor
- C++ telephony engines → C#/.NET
These transitions have taken me through Pascal (insurance rating engines), COBOL (mainframe insurance systems), FoxPro (reporting and dialer systems in marketing and public-records companies), Delphi, C++, Classic ASP, ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF, and most recently Blazor. The most valuable insight from working across so many languages and frameworks is that the core concepts — data structures, control flow, separation of concerns, state management, and user experience design — remain remarkably consistent. Once you truly understand these fundamentals, new languages, frameworks, and paradigms become far less intimidating and can be learned quickly.
This breadth of hands-on migration experience across decades of technology shifts has given me a deep, practical perspective on what truly changes in software development — and, perhaps more importantly, what does not. It’s also made me exceptionally effective at evaluating new tools, leading modernization efforts, and helping teams transition to modern stacks with minimal disruption.
You’re running a successful business on technology that’s 15–30 years old. It works (mostly), but it’s slow, expensive to maintain, and holding back everything you want to do next. I help companies like yours retire those legacy systems and move to clean, secure, modern stacks — on time, on budget, and with minimal disruption. What I deliver:
- Full rewrites or incremental migrations while helping support the legacy system (you choose the risk level you’re comfortable with)
- Cloud-native or on-premise — whatever fits your world
- Proven languages and frameworks (C#, .NET Core, .NET MAUI, Blazor, SQL Server)
- Clean, testable code that your team (or future developers) can actually own
One-person shop, senior-level experience only. No layers of account managers, no junior-heavy teams, no surprise invoices. If your COBOL, VB6, Delphi, FoxPro, PowerBuilder, or aging Java/.NET system is costing you more than it should, let’s talk. → Call and I’ll tell you exactly what a realistic modernization path looks like for you. Ready to stop patching the past and start building the future? Let’s get your system out of the way of your growth.