About

I work as a Sr. Services Engineer in Houston, often acting as a solutions architect and automation engineer. For about fifteen years I’ve worked the seam between IT operations and the systems that make them less manual — managed services, Microsoft 365 at enterprise scale, security and identity, and lately the AI-assisted workflow tooling that ties messy service work together.

The shortest accurate description of what I do: I find a repetitive or fragile process and replace it with something that holds. That’s been true since I scripted device onboarding as an intern, and it’s true now that the same instinct shows up as MCP servers and autonomous agents.

How I work

I’m reserved by default, and I’d rather show a working system than pitch one — the demo is the argument. I think in systems and prefer to build rather than advise. I’m happiest contributing real depth to a team instead of running it. And I lead with what works and why, not with whatever’s trending; if I name a technology, there’s a specific problem behind it.

The same disposition runs through the personal projects. A trading bot, a DNA-analysis pipeline, a number-theory research platform — different subjects, identical reflex: build the infrastructure, instrument it, and see what the system actually does under load.

The throughline

It started behind a brake-shop counter and ran through a five-year automation apprenticeship at a Houston MSP, a decade of security and cloud consulting, and a hobby that quietly became the profession. If you want the full version — the brake shop, the burnout, the bots, the why — it’s on the Story page.