Building the complete digital machine.

Served as a computer technician for a government agency running Sperry Univac 1100 series mainframes — large-scale enterprise computers that demanded tight, efficient code. Memory was precious, bloat was not an option, and every instruction had to earn its place. The work involved highly sensitive government data requiring security clearance. A discipline that shapes how he builds today.

He built and operated one of the earliest online job boards — a medical employment forum on CompuServe, connecting job seekers with hospital positions years before the web existed.

The forum was paired with a dial-in voice response system that he built himself using parts sourced from Computer Shopper magazine. Users could dial a phone number, search available hospital jobs, and get a voice response. In 1986, that was extraordinary.

Starting in 1986, he worked on the sales and development of one of the first automated voice input systems ever built — technology that predated Siri and Alexa by decades. The original prototype is part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Institution.

He also built a working prototype of a voice-activated vending machine and pitched it to Coca-Cola in Atlanta. They passed. In hindsight, the technology was simply about 30 years ahead of its time.

He was in the University of California's first pilot program building software for people with disabilities, improving access and quality of life through technology.

This led to working with a number of hospitals and rehabilitation centers around the US using technology to help people with disabilities — primarily head and spinal cord injuries — become more in control of their daily lives.

He served on the steering committee for universities across the US, Canada, and EU, helping shape policies for students, faculty, and curriculum around disability inclusion and outcomes for the Americans with Disabilities Act.

This led to working with hundreds of businesses — including Fortune 100 companies — on ADA compliance policies.

He worked with Apple, IBM, and Microsoft on small business development projects, embedded with the companies defining the future of computing.

He created, built, and sold one of the first large-scale sporting applications on the web.

Andrew conceived and pitched the idea of taking a major women's brand's runway show online via livecast — one of the first live streaming events on the web. It broke the internet.

He helped architect a token banking system for a major brand's website that decoupled purchases from direct credit card transactions — letting users bank tokens and spend them freely. It reduced processing fees, dramatically increased user spending, and pioneered a model that is now the standard monetization system in virtually every video game and app in existence today.

He built a self-service online real estate listing system — a searchable database of homes for sale — years before Zillow launched in 2006. The concept was proven. The capital to scale it wasn't there.

Created what is now a global direct response standard, long before video marketing was a category.

When WordPress launched in 2003, he recognized it immediately as the platform that would win — while most developers were still betting on Drupal and Joomla. He jumped in early, developing plugins and contributing to the WordPress core at a time when the outcome was far from certain. He and his team have worked on thousands of WordPress sites since.

He built a plugin connecting Pinterest to WordPress for a startup that looked like a long shot at the time — for a total of $600. Pinterest now has over 500 million users.

4+ years of hands-on AI integration. Created the Five Pillars of AEO and wrote "ChatGPT Can't Find You" along with over a dozen other books for specific niches.

He has been studying and interacting with a few of these men for over 30 years. Dan Kennedy, Clayton Makepeace, Gary Halbert, Drayton Bird, Dean Jackson, Eben Pagan, and David Ogilvy shaped the direct response thinking behind every build.

Founder of iQ Marketers and creator of iQCookie, AEOWebsiteChecker.com, and iQ AI Tracker — for clients worldwide. Helping businesses large and small take advantage of AI integrations and custom-built software.