AI Systems & Integration
Design, integrate, and troubleshoot AI systems, including private AI, local models, retrieval, ranking, classification, and production AI workflows.
Independent Technology Consultant
Complex technical problem?
I help determine what is actually wrong — and what to do about it.
I work with organizations where the answer is not obvious, the stakes are high, or the existing team needs experienced outside perspective.
Capabilities
Where I Can Help
Technical Problem Solving & Recovery
Diagnose difficult software and systems problems, determine root causes, and develop practical recovery plans.
Systems Integration & Interoperability
Make disparate systems communicate reliably across APIs, EDI, cXML, files, databases, and custom interfaces.
Architecture & Modernization
Assess existing systems, identify constraints and technical debt, and develop practical modernization approaches.
Technical Due Diligence & Independent Assessment
Provide independent technical perspective for acquisitions, investments, procurements, troubled programs, and major technology decisions.
Data Remediation & Integration
Resolve inconsistent, incomplete, duplicated, or poorly synchronized data across systems.
Process Automation
Identify manual or inefficient processes and design pragmatic automation using software, AI, and workflow integration where appropriate.
API Abstraction & Integration
Design maintainable interfaces that insulate applications from complex or unstable external APIs.
Infrastructure & System Mapping
Determine how complex software and infrastructure fit together and map technology to the business processes it supports.
Technical Team / Product Evaluation
Assess technical work products, architecture, capabilities, risks, and whether resources are positioned to achieve the objective.
Vendor Alternatives & Technology Strategy
Evaluate options when an organization is overly dependent on a technology or vendor and develop realistic alternatives.
Selected Results
Results That Matter
YRS TO HRS
Production AI Automation
Early adopter of the OpenAI API in February 2023. Designed and built a production AI integration that transformed years of manual content work into hours of automated generation.
6.9M PRODUCTS
AI Processing at Scale
Designed, built, and operated private AI infrastructure that generated rich, differentiated content for 6.9 million products in 95 days, running continuously at production scale.
APPROVED
AI Classification at Scale
Designed and built a hybrid vector-search and LLM classification system for roughly 300,000 products. Results were independently reviewed, approved by the responsible contracting authority, and deployed to production.
RECOVERED
Mission-Critical Software Program
Took over a critical government software program during a leadership crisis, maintained the next scheduled delivery, resolved a critical performance issue, and rebuilt customer confidence.
4M+ PRODUCTS
At Scale
Architected and operated a multi-system industrial procurement platform supporting more than four million products.
$300K TO <$24K
Annual Infrastructure Cost
Led migration from AWS to owned data-center infrastructure with only minutes of production downtime.
100% AWARD FEE
Program of National Importance
Delivered a national healthcare technology program on schedule and within budget, earning a 100% award fee and securing option-year awards.
$250M+ VALIDATED
Acquisition Asset Value
Performed technical due diligence through analysis, use cases, and working prototypes to validate asset value on more than $250 million in acquisitions.
GATE ZERO TO FIRST SALE
From Executive Approval to Revenue
Developed technology recognized as a "golden nugget" at two U.S. Joint Forces Command exercises and resulting in the product's first sale.
Why Tony
Technical depth. Executive perspective.
My background spans hands-on software engineering and architecture through Fortune 500 executive leadership and company ownership.
I have worked at both ends of the organization. I understand what technical teams are dealing with, but I also understand what the person responsible for the business needs to know.
That lets me move between business objectives, architecture, code, data, infrastructure, vendors, and technical teams without losing sight of the outcome.
AI adds another powerful tool to that problem-solving toolkit. I can help determine where AI can provide real value, where it cannot, and how to apply it to the problem without losing sight of the larger system or business objective.
When AI is part of the solution, I can work from strategy all the way through implementation — integrating commercial AI services, building private AI systems, working with local models, retrieval and classification, or troubleshooting systems that are not producing reliable results.
The objective is not to find a reason to use AI. It is to solve the problem with the right technology.
Engineer + Executive
Hands-on technical depth combined with Fortune 500 executive experience.
Business + Technology
Translate organizational objectives into technical reality.
Technology Agnostic
Decades of solving problems across technologies and domains.
Government + Commercial
Experience spanning government, healthcare, defense, and industrial procurement.
Owns the Problem
Focused on achieving the objective, not simply delivering an analysis.
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Have a difficult technical problem?
If the answer is not obvious, the stakes are high, or you need an experienced independent perspective, let's talk.