ENTERPRISE AI ARCHITECTURE · FRACTIONAL CTO · COLORADO SPRINGS
Autonomous agent workflows, zero-trust data pipelines, and core system modernization — led by a veteran founder who has shipped mission-critical software for decades. Board-ready fractional CTO & AI advisory.
40
Years in software
50+
Apps delivered
99+
Projects led
30+
Airports served
The enterprise reality check
Moving past simple chatbots requires graduated autonomy and deterministic guardrails, so agents never fail unpredictably in production.
93% of surveyed enterprises exceeded their AI budgets as pilots reached production (McKinsey, May 2026). The fix is designed in, not bolted on: route routine calls to small models — 10–30× cheaper to serve, per NVIDIA's benchmarks.
AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Core systems must be modernized to feed clean, real-time context to models — safely.
Selected work
Directed four agile engineering teams through the full core-banking integration, then architected the $243M asset-securitization loan migration — zero customer-facing downtime.
The real barrier to enterprise AI is legacy data hygiene and compliance — the same challenges solved in billion-dollar core migrations.
$243M migration · 4 teams
Flight and operations tracking systems still running today across 30+ major hubs — DEN, DFW, LAX, JFK — where a single defect is not an option.
Mission-critical reliability: zero-error tolerance is built into the architecture from day one — the standard your AI stack deserves.
30+ airports · safety-critical
Built the USADA data warehouse and dashboard, then led the sale of the platform to the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Swiss Olympic Committee.
USADA → WADA exit
A founder-led practice delivering 50+ enterprise applications for banking, aviation, investment, and government clients — L3Harris, Willis Towers Watson, Port Authority NY/NJ.
20+ years · founder
Core framework capabilities
Deterministic multi-agent state machines (LangGraph and similar) with built-in human-in-the-loop checkpoints for regulated industries.
Secure streaming pipelines that scrub PII and enforce strict memory boundaries before data ever reaches a commercial LLM gateway.
Bridging decades-old databases, CRMs, and mainframes to modern vector stores through clean, unified API standards.
Service offerings
A two-week architectural assessment of your legacy schemas, security boundaries, and highest-friction workflows. Delivers a production-ready agent architecture, a security roadmap, and an ROI model.
Production RAG, semantic middleware, automated PII scrubbing, and multi-agent workflows with human-in-the-loop controls — engineered to the zero-downtime standard your core systems already demand.
Executive leadership, FinOps and token-cost governance, model drift monitoring, architecture reviews, and engineering team guidance. A season of ownership, not a dependency.
About Randy
"Your user experience should be exciting. Your infrastructure should be boring. I build both."
Randy started coding on a Commodore 64 at fifteen, served as a Computer and Telecommunications Specialist in the US Air Force, and has spent four decades since building software that carries consequences — for the CIA, the FAA, J.P. Morgan Chase, and credit unions worth billions. He founded and ran his own consultancy for twenty years, and along the way a coffee lounge with a team of twenty. Father of ten, husband of one, and a firm believer that the best architecture reviews happen over a very good cup of coffee.
Let's talk
Book a Fractional AI Strategy Session. I'll analyze your manual system bottlenecks and deliver an initial high-level architectural roadmap that moves you safely past the pilot phase.