David Dietrich
AI Architect & Builder — 25+ years of enterprise architecture and product leadership applied to designing and delivering AI systems that move the needle.
Core Competencies
🎯 Business & Strategy
AI for the enterprise
⚙️ AI-Native Development
Building with AI
🧩 Graph Mapping & Orchestration
Structuring the work
🔄 Loop & Feedback Systems
Closing the loop
💼 Business Operations
Generating value
📦 Project & Product Management
Shipping the work
Work Experience
Principal Software Engineer / Executive Director
MGM Resorts International
Nov 2023 – Jun 2026
Turned management's product visions into reality. Co-Founder of Digital Gaming department. Trained entire Gaming staff on the AI-DLC. Architected and launched: PIN Reset (saving 2+ FTEs), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) platform screening 1B+ transactions annually, Casino Offers (revenue generator), Gift & Go / Holiday Gift Shoppe ($95M value digitized), Self-Parking+ (5-figure daily value), W-2G and Win/Loss automation.
AI-DLC Adoption
Product Launch
Risk & Compliance
Team Leadership
ROI Modeling
Chief Software Architect
GrayArrow
Jan 2000 – Nov 2023
23 years of software and database consulting for companies large and small. Expertise in AI, machine-learning, predictive maintenance, Internet of Things (IoT), and Business Intelligence (BI). Mapped end-to-end BI and predictive-maintenance data flows for enterprise clients, translating raw operational graphs into automated, self-monitoring pipelines.
Data Pipelines
ML Architecture
Predictive Maintenance
IoT Integration
Consulting
Co-Founder
Geroix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021
Startup focused on building chip solutions for IoT platforms. Architected, designed, and built Geroix technology and IoT platform using C#, MVC, HTML5, Node.js, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, SCADA, TensorFlow, and machine learning. Delivered sales and investor presentations. Full-scale chip-cloud-app solutions.
IoT Platform
Hardware Design
TensorFlow
Cloud Integration
Startup Leadership
Co-Founder
Emissions Group
Apr 2017 – May 2018
Builder of Emissions Guard, a vehicle predictive maintenance solution. Architected and built vehicle black box leveraging Raspberry Pi, Linux, Apache, Python, secure web-sockets, telematics, machine learning, and TensorFlow. Designed sensor-to-inference feedback loop combining acoustic, vibration, and telemetry data with ML models for real-time condition monitoring and anomaly detection.
Predictive Maintenance
Sensor Integration
Machine Learning
Real-time Systems
Product Launch
Fintech Engineer
InformationLogix, Inc.
Oct 2014 – Jan 2017
Built and maintained mortgage lender websites for top-three banking institutions. Created full-stack CMS for managing changes without expensive downtime. Built supporting database infrastructure with stored procedures, SQL functions, and data interfaces. Automated enterprise HR feeds for auto-creation and takedown of micro-websites.
C# MVC
Angular
SQL Server
CMS Design
Enterprise Systems
Chief Technology Officer
Razient
Jan 2011 – Mar 2016
Supply Chain Risk Management provider. Built compliance toolkit for ensuring global compliance with government and NGO mandates. Expertise in Java, ICE Faces, HTML5, Google Maps, MySQL, and business intelligence reporting.
Supply Chain Risk
Compliance Systems
Java
Data Visualization
Co-Founder
Ether-2
Jun 2005 – Jan 2016
Leveraged US patent #9,037,631 building fully-distributed, broadcast networking protocol providing routing without routers and switching without switches. Won DEMOgod award in Alpha category at DEMO Fall 2010 in Silicon Valley. Built hardware and embedded systems. Patent commercialization work.
Patent-Based Tech
Networking
Embedded Systems
Hardware
C/C#/Assembly
Co-Founder
SafeSupply
Apr 2013 – Jan 2015
Supply chain risk management (SCRM) solution for real-time tracking of electronic parts. Notified, forecasted, and managed electronic parts for price, quantity, and lead-time volatility. Provided supply chain professionals with real-time market knowledge.
SCRM
Risk Management
Real-time Tracking
Forecasting
Chief Architect
World Travel, Inc.
Jul 2011 – Aug 2014
Total travel management firm. Personalized travel requirements from transportation to hotel reservations. Provided ground transportation and customized reporting.
Chief Systems Architect
Federal Signal Corporation
Sep 2008 – Jul 2011
End-to-end solutions provider for international toll road systems. Maintained database and business intelligence (BI) systems for largest ports in the world: Los Angeles and Long Beach. Won multi-million dollar toll road projects.
Toll Systems
Business Intelligence
Large-Scale Infrastructure
Proposal Writing
Chief Technology Officer
HXXD, Inc.
Sep 2001 – Jun 2004
First biometric company to bring facial recognition technology to mainland China. Directed design, development, and implementation of SkyEyes, China's premiere facial recognition application. Responsible for packaging leading American technologies for export.
Facial Recognition
Biometrics
International Business
Mandarin Chinese
Director of Engineering
AQUA Software
1996 – 2007
Directed design, development, and implementation of AQUA 2000 Mid-Office Suite. Created Universal CRS Interface (UCI) providing common foundation for all subsequent products. Systems targeted for sale to $50+ million companies in global travel industry.
Travel Systems
CRS Integration
Mid-Office Software
Senior Software Engineer
Safetran Systems
1990 – 1994
Created nation's first coast-to-coast railroad communications system. Wrote all software for single-chip computer, embedded-systems telephony line cards.
Railroad Systems
Embedded Systems
Telecommunications
Education
MBA, Marketing
California State University, San Bernardino
1996 – 2002
Professor of E-Commerce
California State University, San Bernardino
January 2001 – June 2001
Technical Skills
Languages
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