Your Solutions ArchitectArchitecture - Security - Delivery

Systems engineering, end to end - San Antonio, TX

From transistor to orchestration.

I build systems across the whole life of a product - ideation, development, production, sales and support - because the same practice covers low-level circuit and silicon design and advanced IT automation. That range is the difference. Most firms hold one end of it and subcontract the other without telling you.

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San Antonio, TX B.S.E.E. - M.S.C.E. SOC 2 - PCI DSS - NIST 800 English & Spanish
20 yrs
Silicon to enterprise security
0.25µm
To multicloud - the real span
12
Capability domains
5
Lifecycle stages covered, ideation to support
Governance SOC 2 - NIST - NERC CIP Cloud & platform AWS - Azure - Kubernetes Controls & OT Robotics - SCADA - safety Board & firmware Embedded - RF - FPGA Silicon ASIC - synthesis - timing

How I work

One practice across the whole life of a system.

Most engagements start in the middle and discover the rest too late. These are the five stages, what each one actually asks, and which capabilities it draws on. I help build teams across that span and then work in them - how that works.

  1. 1

    Ideation

    Can this be built, and should it?

    Feasibility before enthusiasm. What the thing costs at volume, what physics and regulation allow, what the target architecture looks like, and whether the business case survives the engineering answer.

    • Feasibility and applied research
    • Target architecture and build sequence
    • Technical due diligence
    • Business case and the technical sections of a raise

    R&D and special projectsRF, electromagnetics and analogTechnical leadership and advisory

  2. 2

    Development

    Make it real.

    Circuit and silicon design, board bring-up, drivers and firmware, control logic, and the software and platforms above them - designed as one system rather than handed between four vendors.

    • Circuit, RF and silicon design
    • Board bring-up, firmware and device drivers
    • Controls and automation logic
    • Application, platform and cloud software

    Semiconductor and programmable logicEmbedded systems and device driversSoftware engineeringIndustrial automation and controls

  3. 3

    Production

    Make it repeatable.

    A working prototype is not a product. Design for manufacture, contract manufacturing and ODM work, certification, production test, and the infrastructure to deploy and scale what you have built.

    • Design for manufacture, assembly and test
    • ODM and contract manufacturing
    • EMC, safety and market-access certification
    • Deployment infrastructure and scale-up

    Hardware manufacturing and supplyCloud and infrastructure architectureWater, power and energy systems

  4. 4

    Sales

    Make it sellable.

    The commercial architecture around the technical one: how it is positioned, who sells it, what they demonstrate, and how a technical buyer is taken from interest to signature without the engineering being misrepresented.

    • Go-to-market and positioning
    • Pre-sales enablement and demonstration environments
    • Channel and partner programs
    • Proposal and RFP response support

    Technical leadership and advisory

  5. 5

    Support

    Keep it alive.

    The decade after launch. Operations and monitoring, sustaining engineering, security posture that still passes an audit in year three, supply chain and end-of-life planning for hardware that has to stay buildable.

    • Operations, telemetry and monitoring
    • Sustaining engineering and field updates
    • Security posture and continuous audit readiness
    • Lifecycle, second sourcing and end-of-life planning

    Security engineeringGovernance, risk and complianceCloud and infrastructure architecture

Where this fits

Startup, SMB, mid-market, enterprise.

The problem changes with size. The discipline does not - and I have worked at every one of worked, not studied.

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1

Startup

Pre-seed to Series A

The decisions made in the first year set the ceiling on everything after it.

2

SMB

Roughly 10-200 staff

Enough to lose, not enough to hire a CISO or a chief architect.

3

Mid-market

Roughly 200-2,000 staff

The stage where what worked informally stops working at all.

4

Enterprise

2,000+ staff, including F100

The architecture problem is rarely technical. It is that forty teams each solved it differently.

Capabilities

Twelve domains. Ask about any of them.

A high-level map. Each opens into what it means in practice, how deep it goes, who I bring in, and how to scope it.

Open the full capability statement

If something here is useful

Ask me something.

Bring a question or a decision you are stuck on. I either help from an advisory seat inside your team, or I point you at the people who can get you there. Nothing is being sold.

Start a conversation

When it belongs elsewhere

How introductions work.

Some of what I get asked about belongs to a reseller, an integrator, a test house or an auditor. When that is the honest answer I say so and make the introduction, with no fee attached in either direction.

How that works