HPE job 1207652
AI Tools Architect / Tech Lead
Hands-on AI coding workflows, prompt and agent design, tool use, evaluation, code review, testing, CI automation, documentation, and safety through human judgment.
Complex systems should be easier to run, support, and trust.
I connect audited operations, severe-incident ownership, modern software, infrastructure UX, AI tooling, and hands-on Kubernetes work.
Review the evidenceLoveland, Colorado · Fort Collins local
NOC leadership and severe escalationsSOC 1 / SOC 2 audit readinessDisaster recovery and backup verificationVirtualization, compute, storage, and networkingKubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and AnsibleReact, TypeScript, Python, Rust, and C#AI agents, tool orchestration, and evaluationInfrastructure UX, design systems, and accessibility
01 / Product evidence
Four HPE Workstreams
One campaign, four role-specific evidence lanes. Each lane names what is direct and keeps adjacent experience honest.
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Morpheus Enterprise and VM Essentials Support Engineer
Deep incident, escalation, virtualization, compute, storage, networking, automation, customer guidance, and root-cause experience across on-premises, hosted, and cloud environments.
HPE job 1209649
Morpheus Software Principal UI/UX Engineer
Senior React and TypeScript product work, design systems, accessibility, dashboards, and simplifying dense infrastructure and operational workflows for real users.
HPE job 1203154
Technical Product Manager — Kubernetes & Containers
Hands-on Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, networking, monitoring, testing, customer discovery, technical specifications, delivery, and production escalation work.
02 / How I build
How the Work Connects
I have spent 15+ years making complicated systems reliable, supportable, and understandable. I led a Fort Collins datacenter and NOC, owned annual SOC audit readiness and the hardest production escalations, and now build AI-enabled products, cloud platforms, and infrastructure software for clients. The common thread is simple: I stay responsible for the whole system and for the people who have to operate it.
Audited operations
Annual SOC 1 and SOC 2 technical readiness under SSAE 18: access, failover, backup, recovery, monitoring, procedures, remediation, and direct auditor work.
NOC and escalations
Primary on-call ownership, severe-incident diagnosis, customer communication, recovery, root cause, post-incident work, capacity planning, and complex migrations.
Hybrid infrastructure
Datacenter, virtualization, compute, storage, networking, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
Modern engineering
React, TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, AI agents, tool orchestration, evaluation, CI/CD, design systems, accessibility, and production observability.
03
Career record
Systems Leadership in the Record
01
2015 — 2019
Front Range Internet — Senior Systems Engineer / Datacenter Architect
Led infrastructure architecture and reliability for a 30,000-square-foot commercial datacenter in Fort Collins across compute, storage, virtualization, networking, colocation, cloud, and managed services. Led the NOC and served as primary on-call engineer for escalations, directing diagnosis, customer communication, recovery, post-incident work, capacity planning, and complex migrations. Owned technical readiness and remediation for annual SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits under SSAE 18, working directly with auditors and proving access, failover, backup, recovery, monitoring, and operating controls. Passed every year. Modernized Nagios into Zabbix, stabilized an unhealthy AWS database estate costing about $10K/month, and introduced Docker, Swarm/Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD practices.
02
2009 — 2011
IBM — Infrastructure and Systems Focal
Infrastructure focal for shared enterprise environments serving millions of users, including Best Buy, Amtrak, and USPS work, with responsibility across incidents, escalations, virtualization, hosted desktops, backups, audit controls, and production change. Automated recurring compliance, backup, and operational checks and translated problems between application teams, infrastructure specialists, service managers, and customers.
03
2019 — 2021
Wray, Colorado / Excell Services — Independent Systems Consultant
Moved to Wray after fiber reached the community and spent three years helping rural businesses and residents adopt modern networks, computers, cloud tools, reliable backups, and practical technical support. Served as the complete IT function for Excell Services and roughly 30 employees: rebuilt servers, negotiated and connected fiber that saved thousands, established multi-site recovery, improved wireless links, and migrated operations without disrupting the business.
04
2021 — Present
Technomancy IT LLC — Founder / Product & Systems Engineer
Runs a Top Rated / top-10% independent engineering practice through Upwork, referrals, and long-term clients, usually as the only engineer or technical lead from discovery through launch, support, and recovery. Builds AI-assisted products and workflows with retrieval, embeddings, structured outputs, classification, agents, tool orchestration, evaluation harnesses, and explicit human review. Designs and operates React and TypeScript products, Python and Rust services, PostgreSQL and Redis systems, cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD, security controls, and production observability.
04 / More shipped work
Current Technical Work
Current product · Systems, workflow, and support
Technomancy.IT — Client Operations Platform
Built the client-facing operating layer for a small technical shop, joining scheduling, forms, accounts, support, infrastructure, and delivery in one maintained system.
Current practice · Tools with proof boundaries
AI Engineering Workflows
Builds retrieval, structured-output, classification, natural-language, coding-agent, and tool-orchestration workflows with evaluation harnesses, tests, observability, and explicit human review.
React and TypeScript · Complex operational UX
Infrastructure-Facing Product Engineering
Designs dashboards, form systems, account workflows, support surfaces, and technical interfaces that expose dense system state without making operators fight the product.
Long-term client work · Launch through recovery
Client and Creator Systems
Built financial, technical, security, integration, and launch services for small companies and creative projects, including work with DreamWorks Animation creative leadership and independent artists.
05 / Proof
Scale and Accountability
Software, infrastructure, support, and technical leadership with production responsibility.
Commercial Fort Collins datacenter under direct systems and architecture leadership.
Annual SOC 1 and SOC 2 audit readiness, evidence, remediation, backup, and recovery ownership.
Top Rated Upwork practice backed by referrals and long-term technical client relationships.
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