Insights on infrastructure leadership, enterprise technology, and the evolving role of AI in IT operations.
When my CIO challenged me to evaluate how AI could improve IT operations, I didn't write a whitepaper. I built a complete enterprise environment to test the concept firsthand — and learned as much about where AI shouldn't be used as where it should.
Most IT orgs aren't ready for AI. Not because the tech isn't there, but because they can't tell risk from unknown.
MCP changed how AI tools connect to real systems. If you build with AI, this is the protocol to understand.
The moment an AI pinged a device on my network, everything changed.
n8n isn't open source, but it might be the right automation tool at the right time.
We replaced dead-zone cellular with 2+ Gbps Starlink on a riverboat fleet for 75% less than traditional satellite.
How I negotiated $200K in free infrastructure and cut telecom costs 65% while increasing bandwidth 5x.
How I solved a $1.2M annual chargeback crisis by navigating vendor politics and convincing my CFO to change banks.
I designed a $1.4M Wi-Fi plan that was rejected. 3 years later, they built it exactly as I wrote it.
BP needed someone who understood airplanes, ships, and satellite comms. I was the only resume that matched.