About

Hi. I'm Jenna,
a fractional digital lead
who makes sure it ships.

I am a naturally curious person and a problem solver, and I would rather be handed the complicated version of a problem than the tidy one. Some of my work starts on day one, scoping and standing up a build before anyone has written a line of it. Some of it starts when a project is already off the rails. Both have a hard call buried in them somewhere, and finding it is the part I like.

We hit a roadblock and I find it exciting, which I realize is a strange reaction to have. But the answer is always in there somewhere. It just takes digging, working back through what's actually happening until you hit the piece causing it, and it's a puzzle, and getting to the solution is the best part of the job for me.

The other half of it is that I love being organized. Not neat for the sake of neat, I mean work that runs in a streamlined way, where everyone can see what's coming next without having to chase anyone for it. I keep my home life exactly as streamlined as my work life. It's just how I'm built, and it's most of what I'm actually doing when I run a project.

I run digital projects for a living, and a lot of what I lead is integration work: making third-party platforms feel native inside a client's site. I've brought systems like Amilia, Daxko, Quattro, and TractionRec into WordPress, and the first call I make is how deep to go. A clean embed when that's all the experience needs; a fully custom API integration when it has to feel seamless to the user. Getting that judgment wrong is expensive in both directions: over-build and you've spent months on something a widget would have handled, under-build and users feel every seam.

At a glance

The shape of the work.

What I build
Custom software, web applications, and CMS platforms
Commercial and headless setups through to fully custom builds no off-the-shelf tool could handle.
What I do on them
Scoping and architecture through launch, and the maintenance after
I'm not the one writing the code. I'm the one who steers the team building it and answers for whether it ships.
Where this fits
VP of Operations by day, Casually Digital directly
The same work brought straight to a few clients at a time, with no agency layers in between.

What having me as your lead actually means.

Leading means I own the outcome, not just a slice of it. I steer the work, make the calls, and answer for whether it ships. It means translating between engineering and leadership without losing anyone. And it means I write my own proposals, pick up my own phone, and tell you when something's a bad idea, including if the bad idea is hiring me.

I won't scope your project on the spot. Our first call is for understanding what you're really trying to do, not quoting it off the cuff. After we talk, I take the time to sit with it, come back with any questions, and then build a proper scope and send it to you in writing. You get a considered plan you can read, share, and hold me to, never a number I pulled out of the air on a call.

I also keep my engagement load small on purpose: never more than three projects at a time. It's the only way to stay the person actually doing your work instead of managing it from a distance.

One call

What that looks like in practice.

01
The problem
A tech-careers platform came to me stuck on a CMS their marketing team couldn't touch. Every copy change, every new landing page, every SEO fix went into a developer queue and sat there.
02
The obvious fix, and why I didn't take it
Hand them the most flexible system I could. But a wide-open page builder solves the ticket backlog and quietly creates a worse problem, because the same freedom that lets a marketer publish a landing page in ten minutes lets them break the template, the accessibility, and the SEO in the same ten minutes.
03
What we built instead
The narrow version. A small set of components the team can actually assemble, with the accessibility and SEO rules baked into the components themselves rather than left to whoever happens to be typing that day. They ship without a developer now, and nothing they ship breaks the site.

Want to talk?

Thirty minutes, no pitch, no slides. Tell me what you're trying to ship and I'll tell you honestly if I can help.

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Book a 30-min intro

No pitch, no slides. Tell me what you're trying to ship and I'll tell you honestly if I can help.

Thanks for reaching out.

I'll respond in 24–48 hours. Looking forward to chatting soon!