Twelve years inside the buildings Applied Intelligence runs on.
Microsoft. T5 Data Centers. Schneider Electric. I was in those rooms before I wrote a line of this, and it shows in what I build.
A data center is not an abstraction to me. It's a room with a temperature, a switchgear lineup with a rating, a maintenance window that closes whether or not you're finished. Twelve years of commissioning, energizing, and keeping medium-voltage equipment alive taught me what a system costs when it's wrong at three in the morning.
Applied Intelligence built without an operating context models the building from the outside. The result can be a confident number nobody in the room can check, which is worse than no number at all. The system has to meet the records, limits, and review practices already used by the people responsible for the facility.
The things I build return their evidence. A retrieval system hands back the page it read from. A telemetry system says what it measured and when. An agent that isn't sure says it isn't sure. That's not a design preference, it's what twelve years of NFPA 70E and lockout procedure does to how you think about output you can't verify.
The work that follows from that: making a decade of commissioning records, submittals and as-builts answerable without losing the document each answer came from. Reading telemetry that already exists and finding the pattern a human would need a week to see. Building the internal tool the vendor won't build for you, on your hardware, without shipping your data anywhere.
Questions that come up
- What is your actual data center experience?
- Twelve years in critical facilities: commissioning, energizing and maintaining hyperscale data centers and medium-voltage switchgear for Microsoft, T5 Data Centers and Schneider Electric. NFPA 70E and OSHA 10 certified. That work came before the Applied Intelligence work, not alongside it.
- What kind of Applied Intelligence work do you do for data centers and critical facilities?
- Provenance-aware retrieval over commissioning records, submittals, as-builts and O&M documentation, so a question gets an answer with the source page attached. Telemetry and control system analysis. Internal agent systems that run on your own infrastructure rather than sending operational data to a third party.
- Why does an operator background matter for an Applied Intelligence system?
- Because somebody has to know when the output is wrong. A model that confidently misreads a one-line diagram is a hazard, not a feature. Having been the person responsible for the equipment changes what you build: every answer carries its evidence, and the system is allowed to say it doesn't know.
- Where are you based, and do you work remotely?
- El Paso, Texas. The work is remote by default and I travel for site work. El Paso, Ciudad Juarez, Las Cruces and the wider Paso del Norte region are a short drive; anywhere else in Texas or New Mexico is a flight.