I'm the Founding Principal and Managing Partner of Saint Systems, a Microsoft Preferred Partner for technology strategy, solution architecture and software engineering consulting. I've been building software for more than 25 years.
Most of my work is solution architecture: designing, securing and scaling distributed systems that the business depends on, and working between engineering teams and executives. More of it each year is AI-native, bringing large language models, agent workflows, embedding pipelines and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) into production systems.
- Building software professionally since 2000
- Founded Saint Systems in 2011
- Over $10 million in company savings from an enterprise construction system upgrade at Centex
- A 60% cut in infrastructure costs at D Magazine
- Siemens Innovation Award, 2000
What I do
- AI and agent systems
- Autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration, MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, RAG and vector embedding pipelines. I help teams put AI into production responsibly, from model and tooling choices to governing agent systems.
- Architecture
- Solution architecture for mission-critical distributed systems, and technology strategy with executive stakeholders.
- DevSecOps and cloud
- DevOps, DevSecOps, GitOps and infrastructure as code, release management and SRE, with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Bicep, Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Full stack
- .NET, Python, PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript and Ruby. React, Vue, Svelte and Angular. SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cosmos DB and vector stores.
Experience
Saint Systems
2011 to presentFounding Principal and Managing Partner
A Microsoft Preferred Partner for technology strategy, solution architecture and software engineering. Clients have spanned retail and eCommerce, real estate, construction, manufacturing, media and print, pharmaceuticals, technology and broadcast communications. Selected engagements:
Billee Technologies, Cloud solution architecture and DevSecOps2025 to present
Designed a containerized architecture on Azure Container Apps with per-environment configuration, pull request branch deploys and blue/green deployments.
RamQuest, Solution architecture, DevOps and SRE2024 to 2025
Solution architect for a real estate and title software company. Designed a high-availability, multi-region Azure architecture for its flagship SaaS product.
Daisy Brand, Software architecture and enterprise integration2016 to 2024
Software architect for a food manufacturer more than 100 years old. Led its move to an API-first, microservices architecture, away from legacy monolithic systems.
D Magazine, Technology strategy2014 to 2019
Led cloud migration and modernization for the Dallas city and regional magazine. Consolidated the cloud infrastructure for its new platforms and cut infrastructure costs by 60%.
Pocketstop (RedFlag), Fractional CTO2012 to 2014
Set technology and product direction for a broadcast communications company, and led the team that built its cloud SaaS product for real-time mass notifications. Moved its infrastructure from co-location to Microsoft Azure.
Alcon, Software architecture, security and compliance2011 to 2016
Built aggregated reporting on pharmaceutical samples and expenses for Sunshine Act compliance. Ran a systems security audit and the remediation that followed, including encryption for passwords and sensitive data.
PulteGroup
2010 to 2011Enterprise Application Architect
Defined enterprise technical standards and application and data architectures. Solution architect for a legacy system archive project.
JCPenney
2009 to 2010Enterprise Application Architect
Portfolio architect for .NET systems across stores, jcp.com and checkout.
PulteGroup
2009Solution Architect, IT Architecture Council
Set enterprise technical standards and application and data architectures. Solution architect for a cross-company system consolidation.
Centex Homes
2003 to 2009Solution Architect, CIO IT Advisory Council2006 to 2009
Advised IT leadership on standards and architecture, and set corporate software development standards. Led SAP integration with the enterprise construction system, and the team that moved it to a next-generation platform on time, with company savings of over $10 million.
Senior Software Developer and Technical Lead2005 to 2006
Led adoption of standard source control and automated builds for corporate IT. Re-engineered an SAP-integrated application for performance and scale.
Software Developer, Construction Systems2003 to 2005
Built BuildRunner, a build and release utility for corporate IT, and led a master data management tool for Centex construction standards.
Earlier experience, 2000 to 2003
Verizon Logistics
2001 to 2003Web Technology Specialist and Technical Trainer
Built a web-based workflow automation app for supply chain and RMA processes, supported the intranet and line-of-business apps, and ran user training.
Siemens ElectroCom
2000 to 2001Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer
Led design of a web-based call center application for the U.S. Postal Service. Developer on SIMON, a support platform for automated mail sorters that won the Siemens Innovation Award in 2000.
Education: MBA studies in Finance, Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas.
PubKeep
PubKeep did not start as a business plan. It started with a phone call from my mom.
I built it after Microsoft removed Publisher from Microsoft 365 on October 1, 2026. More than 1,300 organizations signed up, most of them churches.
I started in the Microsoft world and later ventured into the open-source community. I've been taking things apart to see how they work since watching Inspector Gadget as a kid, and that's still how I learn.