Systems Integration Architect

I lead technical convergence in complex AI and analytics systems. When architectural ambiguity threatens delivery or scale, I clarify execution models and stabilize integration risk.

When Delivery Risk Is Structural

In AI systems, the platform is the execution structure — the way data, models, workflows, infrastructure, and team processes interact under real operational conditions.

I am typically engaged when delivery risk is no longer about effort.

Core product components may function in isolation, yet execution fails under real operational load. Strain becomes visible when:

  • Teams struggle to transition from research to production.

  • Integration paths between components and infrastructure are unclear or tightly coupled.

  • Data, models, workflows, and infrastructure fail to meet service level objectives.

  • Delivery and sustainment models cannot reliably support deployment, scaling, or maintenance.

At this point, the problem is often not a feature or component. It is the coherence between platform design and execution.

I assess the platform and its delivery structure together, calibrating rigor where consequence demands it and defining a path to operational stability.

I work in defined, time-bounded engagements focused on convergence, not indefinite advisory roles.

Platform Assessment

A focused diagnostic of the platform and delivery structure under operational conditions.

Deliverables include:

  • Structural risk analysis

  • Integration boundary mapping

  • Research-to-production transition assessment

  • Delivery model evaluation

  • Clear convergence roadmap

Time frame: 2–4 weeks, depending on system scope.

Convergence Leadership

Time-bound fractional CTO or integration leadership during high-risk inflection points.

Focus areas include:

  • Architecture stabilization

  • Integration contract clarification

  • Execution model alignment

  • Scaling readiness

  • Measurable operational validation

Engagement continues through defined stabilization milestones

Technical Authority

Support for complex deals or internal technical inflection points.

Includes:

  • Technical due diligence support

  • Proposal architecture validation

  • Delivery risk articulation

  • Executive technical briefings

Structured participation aligned to transaction or program timelines.

  • Served as Chief Engineer on an architecture study within a formally governed enterprise program environment.

    Proposed and implemented a risk mitigation strategy centered on a thin-thread demonstrator: an operational carve-out with shared visualization and virtualized workstations built on realized mission management infrastructure integrating analytic data structures and geospatial systems.

    The demonstrator connected mission needs to resource allocation logic and provided real-time awareness of resource capacity and work de-duplication.

    Both hardware elements and thin-thread processes were transitioned into the enterprise environment, validating architectural coherence prior to full-scale implementation. The architectural model remains in operational use.

  • Modernized machine learning execution environments to support scalable, production-grade deployment.

    Refactored embedding-based classifier training pipelines from Mesos/Marathon-based execution toward containerized Kubernetes environments, improving reproducibility, scaling behavior, and operational control,

    Transitioned of a distributed cyber triage workflow back end from docker-swarm environment to Camunda/Zeebe-based orchestration running on Kubernetes, formalizing execution logic, state management, and integration boundaries across analytic services.

    Across these efforts, focus remained structural: aligning model training, workflow orchestration, and infrastructure execution into a coherent operational ML platform capable of sustained deployment.

    Result: Established a stable, orchestrated ML execution environment suitable for large-scale operational use.

  • Served as Chief Engineer for a C4ISR program of high operational consequence, responsible as prime contractor for delivery of an integrated sensor suite within a multi-contractor aircraft environment.

    Joined the program as risk concerns were emerging. The contractual structure placed full delivery accountability on the prime while authority and funding were distributed across a coalition-led customer, with embedded personnel directing engineering activity onsite.

    This imbalance produced expanding integration risk and unstructured technical direction.

    Introduced disciplined requirements management as a risk containment strategy and established clear process boundaries across customer and contractor interfaces. Formality was applied deliberately and with restraint — restoring clarity and accountability without impeding execution.

    Over the life of the program, more than 7,000 formal requirements were defined, reinforcing traceability and controlled engagement aligned to mission-critical performance.

    Result: Re-established delivery discipline, reduced program risk, and delivered multiple operational integrations of the sensor suite across aircraft platforms.

  • Worked within teams designing and operating distributed analytic systems serving operational users in petabyte-scale data environments.

    Experience included high-volume ETL pipelines and warehouse-scale platforms built on Accumulo-based infrastructure, with responsibility for development and operational integration within large data ecosystems.

    Designed and evolved Spark/Scala-based graph extraction and enrichment pipelines, including application of personalized PageRank algorithms and domain-specific graph construction derived from radio-communication patterns, geographic modeling, and translator-based data extraction processes.

    Transitioned analytic queries and processing workflows from focused investigative efforts into broader operational systems with expanding user reach.

    Focus remained on integration boundaries across data modeling, distributed compute frameworks, storage infrastructure, and orchestration components to ensure performance, reproducibility, and controlled evolution at scale.

    Result: Delivered scalable analytic capabilities aligned to expanding mission demand in high-throughput, multi-domain environments.

Selective engagements