Live work. Real clients. No demos.

Cathy Cullen runs the Clairemont Water Store out in San Diego — a straight walk-in refill station. She's got zero tech background and needed a professional site customers actually trust plus a backend she can run herself without texting me every five minutes for help.

I built her a full-stack site with a dead-simple admin panel. Email center, TipTap newsletter editor, Claude-powered FAQ that auto-triages questions, Square sales tracking, compliance calendar, and a locked-down document vault. Everything lives on Vercel with Neon Postgres so it just works in the backcountry.

Chris Laidlaw runs Julian's largest U-pick apple orchard in the mountains. He needed a real digital presence that handles seasonal traffic, sells farm goods online, and gives him clear business numbers without forcing him to become a tech guy.

I delivered a public site with an AI orchard FAQ chatbot plus full e-commerce (apparel, soaps, and wellness products). The admin panel pulls Square POS data, Gusto payroll, tracks newsletter subscribers, and keeps every receipt in a searchable document vault. All built to survive mountain internet and seasonal spikes.

Carrisito Ranch sits in rugged terrain between hills with no line of sight to any tower. Two homes had zero internet and no power infrastructure. They needed reliable connectivity for remote school, a retail business, and daily life — all powered by something tough enough to survive bull country.

I designed and installed a standalone solar-powered relay: 200 W panel on an adjustable pole, dual 100 Ah AGM batteries, PWM controller, and a Ubiquiti NanoStation hub. Two LiteBeam bridges push signal to both homes. Everything is locked inside a bull-proof JoBox at the base of a 10-foot concrete-set steel pole. No utility power, no extra monthly ISP bill.

The resort's old Cisco core started failing ports and took down both internet and credit card processing at the Gas Mart — a full revenue stop in the middle of nowhere. The POS used a proprietary Cybera topology from a discontinued system.

I rolled out same-day: found the one working Cisco port, rerouted the Gas Mart POS over single-fiber, and got cards running again that afternoon. In January 2024 I swapped in a TP-Link ER7212PC Omada core with SFP fiber transceivers, cleaned both telco closets, and kept the whole network live during the 12-hour cutover. Delivered a four-stage campus WiFi plan for every building.

Birdsong Retreat in Chihuahua Valley has a Yurt, Cabin, Bluebird cottage, RV site, and Campsite — all needing internet from a single uplink at the Campsite. Running cable was impossible across the terrain, and the solar array needed wireless monitoring.

I built a three-leg Ubiquiti wireless bridge network: Campsite → Yurt → Solar Array, plus Campsite → Bluebird. Raised the Campsite radio on a 14-foot lumber post for line-of-sight. Layered a TP-Link Deco mesh on top for seamless roaming across every structure. Pre-programmed everything off-site so install took one single day.

VVAF sits in a remote mountain spot with no reliable internet, cameras, or monitoring. During frost season Chris used to drive up at 4 a.m. just to check temps and fire up the wind machine if it dropped below 35 °F. Spray runs were flying blind.

I installed a full wireless distribution network (6 Ubiquiti air bridges, 4 WiFi APs, MikroTik PoE core) under a formal service agreement with tiered warranties and an emergency phone tree. When Starlink arrived I migrated the uplink and made it primary. Added Reolink cameras (including solar PTZ at the fan panel) and an Ambient WS-5000 weather station that now auto-alerts below 35 °F.

Rancho La Siesta is a multi-building ranch (main house, cottage, upper barn, lower barn, cabins, lake house, well house, and RV hookups) experiencing sharp, costly, unexplained spikes in electricity bills that correlated with wet weather. Two SDG&E meters, two auto-transfer generators, a solar installation, and 10+ structures — with zero documentation. No one knew which circuit connected to what.

BTS performed an 11-hour sonic tone-and-probe of every circuit across 10+ buildings, producing a 21-page Wire Map Report covering every panel schedule, every circuit, and every structure. Formal Lockout/Tagout procedures were documented for all 11 grid segments — enabling any electrician to safely de-energize any part of the ranch. Phase 2: deployed Leviton revenue-grade meters at key segmentation points to isolate phantom power draws. Prior to metering, reterminated and waterproofed all ground box interconnects.

A small real estate office in Borrego Springs with Mac and PC users, a multifunction copier, shared drives, and critical data backup needs — all in a desert location where the nearest IT support is an hour-plus away. Data was unprotected, the mixed OS environment made printing unreliable, and there was no offsite backup.

BTS configured a Netgear router as a subnet extension of the AT&T router, unifying Apple and PC users and resolving Bonjour service issues for the Konica Minolta MFP. Synology Duo NAS in RAID-1 for local backup. Wireless bridge to a remote location for offsite data replication — automatically syncing the office NAS to an off-premises backup. DHCP pool constraints to fix IP conflicts. Ongoing relationship over 18 months covering data rescue, replication fixes, and equipment optimization.

Quietmind Mountain Lodge is a wellness retreat and spa on Lake Cuyamaca where guests expect reliable WiFi. When BTS arrived, the network was 11 devices on 6 SSIDs with overlapping frequencies only 10 MHz apart — constant drops, congestion, and impacted guest reviews. Nest cameras alone consumed over 10 Mbps of constant upload against a 20 Mbps hard cap, choking guest and admin traffic. Booking software, Zoom, and livestreaming were competing on the same signal as guest WiFi.

Emergency triage: audited all 11 devices, isolated two clean signals, deployed loaner mesh gear to immediately restore guest coverage, and delivered a written network assessment. June 2023: replaced the patchwork with a dual-mesh architecture — separate TP-Link Deco systems for guest and administrative traffic on isolated frequencies, 9 total mesh points. Formalized into a $175/month Managed Wireless Campus Service with remote monitoring SLA. April 2024: designed and executed a full Starlink migration, dropping the lodge's combined monthly cost from $315 to $120 — including eliminating BTS's own management fee because it was the right call for the client.

Druliner Ranch sits in one of the minor valleys on Palomar Mountain with zero visibility to the Gig+ relay on the summit. Terrain blocked every conventional ISP. Previous providers had been unable to deliver a solution. The ranch couldn't even get reliable cell service. Three structures needed internet: the main house, Bill and Abbey's house, and Mariah's cabin — a brand new build with no connectivity whatsoever.

BTS set an 8-foot pole ~175 feet from the main house and aimed a Ubiquiti AC400 at the Angel Mountain relay at the C4 Foundation compound. This bounce connected the ranch to Western Broadband's Gig+ backbone on top of Palomar Mountain — 25 Mbps uplink where nothing had worked before. From there, two serial wireless bridges connected all three structures at near-gigabit campus speeds, with direct bypass routing on the second bridge for efficient backhaul to the routing core.

The C4 Foundation operates the C4 Ranch — a 560-acre sanctuary on Angel Mountain where active-duty Navy SEALs and their families participate in neuroscience-based F.R.O.G. (Families building Resilience through Optimism and Gratitude) programs recognized by Naval Special Warfare. The Host House and infrastructure buildings needed reliable high-speed internet to support programs, admin operations, and the families in residence. The remote mountain location made conventional connectivity nearly impossible.

BTS designed and installed a relay on Angel Mountain that accepts connections from lower-Palomar properties and bridges them up to the Western Broadband Gig+ relay on the Palomar summit. This relay became the backbone for the C4 Ranch campus and a shared uplink infrastructure for other mountain properties including Druliner Ranch. From the relay, BTS deployed multiple wireless bridges across the C4 compound connecting the Host House and infrastructure buildings with campus-wide coverage.

Oak Antler Ranch depends on a 2HP well pump for all water. When SDG&E power goes out — which happens regularly in the backcountry — the well stops and the property has no water. The ranch needed a generator backup that could safely power the 30A × 240V pump without risking damage from bridging utility and generator power.

BTS installed a dual-fuel (gasoline + propane) 8000W generator inside the pump house with dedicated exhaust venting. A double-pole double-throw safety switch prevents accidental bridging of SDG&E and generator power. The system provides 8 hours on a 6.1-gallon gas tank or 40 hours on a 100# propane tank. Multi-building wireless network also deployed with MikroTik hEX PoE routing core and individual SSIDs per unit.