Systems Engineering & Autonomous AI

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Systems Engineer — Critical Infrastructure — Autonomous AI Agent Fleets

11+ Years in Energy
100+ Starlink Deploys
6fig Compute Hardware
100+ Project Plans

Bridging Physical Infrastructure & Autonomous Systems

Military college graduate (MSE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with over a decade of experience in energy basin critical infrastructure. Co-founded the first wireless ISP in Colorado. Currently focused on field communications engineering for a major energy operator, while independently building and operating a fleet of autonomous AI agents across cloud, bare-metal, and isolated lab environments.

Career path spans enterprise networking at chassis level, RF backhaul across difficult terrain, OT/SCADA integration at scale, and M&A asset transitions under compressed timelines. The through-line: making complex distributed systems work reliably where failure isn't an option.

  • Verified Military College — MSE graduate
  • Verified MCSE — Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
  • 11+ years energy basin experience — Piceance & Uinta basins, multiple operators
  • Colorado wireless ISP co-founder — among the earliest commercial wireless ISPs in the state

Enterprise Networking at Every Layer

Full-depth Cisco experience from access to core, including chassis-level work on Cat OS 6500 platforms, ASA firewalls, and I&E variant configurations. Meraki enterprise stack deployments from core to top-of-rack. Designed and maintained complex topologies with per-VLAN spanning tree, BGP peering, and SVI-based routing.

Cisco Depth

Full product line — Cat OS 6500 chassis-level, ASAs, access to core, I&E variants. Per-VLAN STP, BGP, SVIs.

Meraki Enterprise

Complete Meraki stack deployments, core to top-of-rack. Cloud-managed enterprise infrastructure at scale.

Starlink

100+ deployments across plant and mobile assets. Rapid connectivity for remote energy infrastructure.

Cisco IOS / Cat OS Meraki BGP Per-VLAN STP ASA SVIs Sophos Starlink
  • Starlink: 100+ verified deployments, plant-to-truck installations
  • Sophos firewall integration across enterprise networks
  • Sanitized topology diagrams available on request

Microwave Links Where Fiber Never Reaches

Designed and deployed microwave backhaul across some of the most challenging terrain in the western basins. Path studies, link budget analysis, interference mitigation — all driven by the reality of keeping remote SCADA and plant operations connected where wireline infrastructure doesn't exist.

Link Design

Path studies, link budgets, interference analysis, and frequency coordination across difficult mountainous terrain. Practical RF engineering for real-world constraints.

Vendor Experience

Hands-on with Exalt, Cambium, SAF, Mimosa, and Redline platforms. Selection, deployment, and long-term management of multi-vendor RF infrastructure.

Exalt Cambium SAF Mimosa Redline Path Studies Link Budgets
  • Piceance & Uinta basin deployments — terrain-driven RF design
  • Remote SCADA connectivity maintained across multi-operator environments
  • Deployment photos and link performance data available on request

IT/OT Convergence at Production Scale

Comfortable on both sides of the IT/OT divide. Full vendor stack experience across SCADA platforms, PLCs, RTUs, HMI systems, and industrial networking. Managed M&A asset cutovers and SCADA conversions under compressed timelines across multiple operators in the Piceance and Uinta basins.

SCADA & Control Systems

  • Wonderware, Cygnet, Delta-V, Roclink
  • PLCs, RTUs, HMI integration
  • DLR ring topologies

Industrial Networking

  • Freewave, Moxa, Hirschmann
  • iNet, Orbit, Transnet
  • Ruggedized field communications

M&A Transitions

Asset cutovers, SCADA system conversions, and infrastructure migrations under compressed timelines. Multiple operators, multiple basins.

Basin Experience

11 years across Piceance and Uinta basins. Multiple operators including major energy companies. Deep understanding of upstream oil & gas operations.

Wonderware Cygnet Delta-V Roclink Freewave Moxa Hirschmann DLR PLC/RTU
  • Piceance Basin — western Colorado natural gas operations
  • Uinta Basin — northeastern Utah energy operations
  • Multiple M&A transitions completed under production constraints
  • Operator references available on request

Autonomous AI at Scale

A fleet of specialized AI instances operating across cloud, on-premise bare metal, and isolated inference lab environments. Six figures in dedicated compute hardware. Multiple frontier models in active rotation with defined roles and cost profiles. Machine-to-machine orchestration — no chat interfaces.

Architecture Overview

Multi-environment deployment spanning cloud-hosted instances, on-premise bare metal servers, and an isolated inference lab. Custom async dispatch protocol with a shared knowledge vault enables machine-to-machine orchestration across the fleet. Each instance runs a defined role with a specific frontier model selected for that task's cost and capability profile.

Multi-Environment

Cloud, bare metal, and isolated lab. Each environment serves a distinct purpose in the fleet architecture.

Async Dispatch

Custom protocol for machine-to-machine orchestration. Shared knowledge vault. No human-in-the-loop chat interfaces.

Model Rotation

Multiple frontier models in active use, selected per-task by cost and capability. Not locked to any single provider.

Gauge Orbit Framework

Organizational model borrowed from Yang-Mills gauge theory in differential geometry. Projects are modeled as fibers in a principal bundle, AI instances as gauge transformations operating on those fibers, and the shared knowledge layer as the connection form that keeps everything coherent.

Mathematical Foundation

  • Projects as fibers in a bundle
  • AI instances as gauge transformations
  • Shared knowledge as the connection form
  • Curvature detection: automated disagreement checks

Why It Matters

Keeping dozens of projects, multiple models, and several physical environments synchronized requires a rigorous framework. Gauge theory provides the mathematical structure to detect when system state disagrees and to maintain coherence across the fleet.

Security Operations

Purpose-built security operations running live across the fleet. Dedicated adversarial agents on isolated infrastructure perform structured penetration testing; blue team agents receive findings and implement hardening. Automated scans cover external exposure, DNS hygiene, SSL posture, and service configuration.

Red Team

Adversarial agents on isolated infrastructure. Structured penetration testing with Kali Linux offensive toolkit. Scoped attack surface management.

Blue Team

Automated hardening from red team findings. WAF events, intrusion detection, system audits, and geo-enriched attacker intelligence.

Incident Response

Real incidents investigated and remediated. Dispatch pipeline vulnerabilities and context leakage events handled through the fleet's security operations pipeline.

Kali Linux IDS/WAF Threat Maps SSL Audit DNS Hygiene Red Team / Blue Team

What the Agents Produce

Content Pipeline

Scrape, score, filter, generate, OPSEC-sanitize, publish. Closed-loop automation with human review gates at critical decision points.

Code Arena

Frontier LLMs compete head-to-head on identical build specs. Side-by-side deployment, voting, and scoring. Results drive model routing decisions.

Trading Analytics

Multi-stage pipeline: signal detection, validation, execution planning, risk management. Deterministic technical analysis with LLM invalidation layers.

Fleet Observability

Host-level monitoring with compressed telemetry and real-time visualizations. Observer independence as a core design constraint.

Parametric 3D Modeling

Vision models produce editable parametric CAD output from reference images. Bridging AI perception with engineering-grade design tools.

Scale

100+ project plans in the knowledge vault. Multiple frontier models in active rotation. Automated content production at velocity. Everything behind Cloudflare Zero Trust.

  • Live demos available behind Cloudflare Zero Trust — request access below
  • Security dashboards: sanitized screenshots of attack maps and threat intelligence available on request
  • Six figures in dedicated compute hardware across multiple environments
  • Gauge Orbit Framework — mathematical foundations documented in internal knowledge vault

The Long Road Here

Early Career

Hamilton Sundstrand Internship

Alpha DEC and SGI terminals. Early exposure to 3D Systems polymer resin printing — years before consumer 3D printing existed. Now Collins Aerospace / RTX

Education

Military College & Pepperdine

Military college graduate — Master of Science in Engineering. Pepperdine University film school. MCSE certification.

Founding

First Wireless ISP in Colorado

Co-founded one of the earliest commercial wireless ISPs in Colorado. Built the network from scratch — towers, radios, backhaul, NOC, and customer CPE.

Competition

Extreme Overclocking

Competitive extreme overclocking — multiple world records using liquid nitrogen cooled CPUs and GPUs. Pushing hardware to absolute physical limits. HWBOT verified

2013 — Present

Energy Basin Infrastructure

11+ years in critical infrastructure across the Piceance and Uinta basins. Cisco, RF, SCADA, M&A transitions. Currently: field communications for a major energy operator.

Current

Autonomous AI Fleet

Independently built and operating an autonomous AI agent fleet. Six figures in compute. Multiple frontier models. Machine-to-machine orchestration at scale.

  • Verified Hamilton Sundstrand — now Collins Aerospace / RTX
  • Verified 3D Systems — late 1990s/early 2000s, pre-consumer era
  • Overclocking records — HWBOT rankings (historical archive)
  • Colorado wireless ISP — early commercial wireless broadband deployment
  • Pepperdine University — pepperdine.edu

See It Running

Live demos of the AI fleet, security dashboards, and agent outputs are available behind Cloudflare Zero Trust. Request access to explore interactive dashboards, real-time fleet observability, and security operations data.

Security Ops Dashboard

Live intrusion detection, WAF events, threat maps with geo-enriched attacker intelligence.

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Fleet Observability

Real-time monitoring, compressed telemetry, and system topology visualization.

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Code Arena

Head-to-head LLM competition results and side-by-side deployment comparisons.

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