David Dietrich

AI Architect & Builder — 25+ years of enterprise architecture and product leadership applied to designing and delivering AI systems that move the needle.

🏠 Daytona Beach, Florida

Core Competencies

🎯 Business & Strategy
AI for the enterprise
AI Transformation Roadmaps AI-DLC Adoption & Team Training Build-vs-Buy AI Decisioning ROI & Cost-to-Serve Modeling Executive AI Enablement Risk & Compliance Guardrails AI-Driven Customer Service Business Profitability Growth
⚙️ AI-Native Development
Building with AI
Agentic Coding Pipelines LLM-Integrated Architectures Prompt & Context Engineering Tool-Use & Function-Calling Design Multi-Model Orchestration RAG & Retrieval Pipelines
🧩 Graph Mapping & Orchestration
Structuring the work
Agent Workflow Graphs (DAG / State Machine) Knowledge Graph Construction Multi-Agent Routing Topologies Process & Dependency Mapping Decision-Tree Modeling
🔄 Loop & Feedback Systems
Closing the loop
Plan–Act–Observe Agent Loops Human-in-the-Loop Review Gates Continuous Evaluation & Scoring Loops Self-Correcting Retry & Guardrail Logic Reinforcement & Fine-Tuning Cycles
💼 Business Operations
Generating value
Operational Efficiency & Process Automation Cost Reduction & Labor-Hour Elimination Revenue & Margin Optimization Manual-Process Digitization Vendor & Resource Consolidation KPI & Performance Reporting
📦 Project & Product Management
Shipping the work
AI Product Roadmapping Cross-Functional Team Leadership Agile / Sprint-Based Delivery Stakeholder & Executive Alignment Backlog Prioritization & Scoping Concept-to-Commercial Launch

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Python Machine Learning LLMs & Foundation Models Data Architecture Cloud Infrastructure Product Leadership Team Management Enterprise Systems Agile Delivery C# / Java SQL & Databases IoT & Embedded Systems TensorFlow

Languages

English (Native) Mandarin Chinese (Fluent) Spanish

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