Professional History
Career Timeline
Interactive Career Arc · 2006–2026
Positions Held
Professional Experience
Director of IT
Maritz, LLC — St. Louis, MO
September 2023 – October 2024
- Managing Director over Product Engineering, Quality Assurance, and DevOps teams
- Release Train Engineer over eight SAFe teams; evolved practice from Essential to Large Solution in under one year
- Fully automated Quality Engineering suite: pipelines, unit tests, UI tests, static code analysis, CI/CD
- Introduced Jenkins as orchestrator, Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, containerization with Docker & Kubernetes
- Redesigned SRE/Alerting system; implemented OKRs and product roadmap
Director of Software Engineering
GPS Insight — Scottsdale, AZ
November 2015 – January 2022
- Built QA practice from ground up — SDET, QA Manager, Director of DevOps, Director of Software Engineering
- Custom BDD software suite: 700 multithreaded Selenium tests in under 40 minutes
- 99.999% uptime SLA with Datadog, PagerDuty, and on-call policies
- AWS migration via Kubernetes & Terraform — described as “nothing short of cutting edge” by investment firms
- Introduced Chaos Engineering and fully automated disaster recovery drills
- Reduced AWS costs 30% through automated budget optimization
Managing Member
Counsel of Idiots LLC — Phoenix, AZ
January 2014 – June 2015
- LLC formation, regulatory compliance, finances, and tax obligations
- Data center equipment liquidation for cloud migration customers
- Secure data destruction and responsible recycling procedures
Lead Quality Engineer
GoDaddy — Scottsdale, AZ
May 2006 – April 2014
- Lead QE over international enterprise POP3/IMAP/SMTP email suite
- Drove Waterfall → Agile transition (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- Introduced automated testing, CI builds; Automation Committee member
- Jira adoption and Atlassian administration; established quality guidelines
Proprietary Systems
Key Projects
Sphinx
Custom LLM assistant, kernel, and development environment. Minimum Viable LLM platform creating specialized models for specific workflows.
Integrating with microprocessors for AI-enabled numeric control devices — intelligent closed-loop CNC/3D printer hardware.
Active Development · Open Source Planned
testCathedral
Custom QA tool for testing Large Language Models and AI workflows. BDD/TDD principles creating deterministic tests for non-deterministic AI systems.
Behavioral validation, economic viability testing, risk classification for AI deployments.
Active Development · Open Source Planned
Punchcard
A custom compiler — a digital incarnation of the original punch cards. Proprietary LLM-friendly approach to building software using models with limited context windows.
Proprietary
Documented Record
The Sylvester Corpus
The Sylvester Corpus consists of two Claude AI data exports (January 27 and February 18, 2026), a complete Google Takeout archive, and the full collection of project documents. Every conversation, analysis, and development decision is documented and citable.
Conversation Categories · 90-Day Export
Behavioral Metadata
YouTube as Cultural Record
The YouTube account The_Real_Preacher (channel: Leo) serves as both a business asset of the ArchDaemon™ trademark portfolio and a behavioral metadata record — 128 curated playlists containing 4,677 videos that document musical taste, cultural engagement, and thematic interests across 25 years of digital life.
Playlist Thematic Distribution
Credentials
Education, Certifications & Service
Education
2025 (Expected)
B.S. Psychology
University of Phoenix
2006
B.A. Psychology
Arizona State University
Certifications
Scrum Certified
Scrum Alliance
Master Cattleman
Virginia Tech
Ordained Minister
Baptist, Non-Denominational in Practice
SAFe 6.0 RTE
Release Train Engineer
Volunteerism
Lura Turner Homes
Adults with developmental disabilities
Papago School
Homeless children
Tijuana Village Construction
Church and village building in Mexico
Outreach Ministries
Homeless, gang-affiliated, prisoners, Alt-Subcultures
Military Hospitality
Home-away-from-home for service members (MCAS Yuma)
Madison Baptist Church
Community & childhood enrichment programs
Family Cattle Operations
Appalachian agriculture & livestock
The Continuing Record
This biography is a living document. As additional files from the Sylvester Corpus are analyzed, new sections will expand — each one documented, sourced, and citable.
Bluefield, Virginia · 2026