AI technical consulting executive

Daemeon Reiydelle

San Francisco, California ********@*****.*** 415-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daemeonreiydelle

Professional Summary

Global AI & Technology Consulting Executive with a 35-year track record of building high-impact teams and driving multi-million-dollar revenue growth for consulting firms, hardware suppliers, and end clients. Grew Dell’s AI Consulting Practice from $0 to $35M run rate, led development of Accenture’s AI labs, Co-founded and sold Systems Conversions Inc. for $125M, grew Fulcrum’s Sybase and Big Data practices from $0M to $50M in 2 years (leading to a $250M acquisition). Looking for my next opportunity. Similar successes at Satyam, Axon, and others.

Proven leader in AI ML, RAG, Agentics, DevOps, Cloud, and Big Data, with engagements across US, UK, Asia, and Pacific Rim. Passionate about building high-performing teams, delivering measurable business impact, and transforming AI and technology practices into profitable, scalable consulting services.

Adept at AI & Data readiness assessments, techno-functional reviews, buildout of GRC, AI Cybersec (including SCADA/OT), AI COE’s, AI/ML assessments/CMMI, audits, ensuring quality delivery, failure risk awareness, and unlocking new consulting revenue streams. Proven track record in AI (ML, PA, AD, RAG, Agentics, AIOps, Supply Chain cybersec), with engagements across the US, UK, Asia, and Pacific Rim.

Passionate about building high-performing teams and delivering measurable business impact. Adept at selling & delivering GRC COE’s, AI COE’s, AI Cybersec, AI/ML project audits, readiness assessments, techno functional reviews, ensuring quality delivery, risk reduction, and new revenue streams for global clients.

Successful Founder Experience: Thanks to a thinking style that is pure Deming, both 14 point and specific/common cause analysis driven, I have been the founder of successful video presentations company (AV Services 600+ employees, sold at substantial multiple), cofounder of successful San Francisco based IT systems migration firm (Systems Conversions 1200 staff, sold at substantial multiple), grew Fulcrum (EU Consultancy) Sybase practice from zero into a strategy consulting firm (DSS, Tibco, Sybase, became partner) sold at ~20x original valuation to MarchFirst, then grew MarchFirst Sybase & SAP practices into 2500+ resources.

Looking to grow professional services teams into a successful, growing practice delivering value and moats via AI, AI Cybersecurity, AI GRC, and AI COE’s. I really enjoy getting my teams to get their ideas out. I prefer to work in a management structure that is REALLY interested in growing the teams. No superstars, no misogyny, no xenophobia, Please.

Core Competencies

Practice Growth

AI Differentiation

Assessment Based Client Engagement/Penetration

Collateral development, Team training, Sales Scenario Development, Solution Differentiation Collateral

Many years of AI solutions experience, recent RAG/GenAI, Agentics, GAN’s, MOE

Extensive experience with minimal cost (expenses only) 20 hour readiness assessments (foundation of 2 startups I did, both sold at substantial multiplier).

Practice Development Specialties (AI COE, AIOps, Cybersecurity)

AI DataOps

AI COE buildouts/assessments: Value Chain Mapping and Data Complexity Matrix tools, CMM awareness, AI GRC uplifts to existing GRC processes.

Create Engagement Differentiation

AI Business Moats

AIOps, AI Cybersec uplifts

Lateral Client Acquisition

ADAS (Nvidia, Bosch, Waymo)

AI Project Risk Assessments (Value Chain, CMM, Data Complexity)

Predictive Analytics

AI Data Readiness Assessments,

Anomaly detection (events, images, biodynamics, semiconductor, earth imaging)

3rd Party Reviews

AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud

Professional Experience

Senior AI & Technology Consultant (Independent / Various Firms)

2019 – Present

AI Enabled Applications turnaround, recovery (startups and mature organizations). Automotives, Sales, Marketing, Finance, AI Native

AI & Readiness Assessment Practice Lead: Built and led high-performance teams to deliver AI readiness assessments, capability maturity modeling, and techno functional reviews for Fortune 500 clients. Achieved a 30-40% reduction in project failure rates, enabling $50M+ in consulting revenue for firms like PwC, Alvarez & Marsal, IBM, Microsoft, and Dell.

AI Cybersecurity & COE Advisory: Partnered with end clients and consulting firms to establish AI Centers of Excellence (COE), deliver AI cybersecurity assessments (EU AI, AWASP AI, MiTRE AI, etc., data AI readiness, mitigation frameworks, accelerating AI adoption by 20%, reducing AI spend by 20-30%, improving AI DataOps costs, and reducing compliance risks.

Global Engagement Leadership: Directed cross-functional teams across US, UK, Asia, and Pacific Rim, delivering 100+ assessments and driving multi-million-dollar engagements.

AI Practice Development: Built and scaled Dell’s AI Professional Services practice, achieving a $35M run rate within three years. Developed readiness assessment frameworks that reduced project cancellations by 40%, securing $200M+ in long-term sales discounts for Dell.

Client Success & Revenue Growth: Partnered with sales and delivery teams to win and execute $50M+ in AI and Big Data engagements, including predictive analytics, RAG, and Agentics solutions for enterprise clients.

Accenture - Practice Lead

June 2018 – October 2019

Digital Transformation Strategy: Led teams in providing presales, solution architecture, and full-cycle engagement for data lakes, AI, ML, and predictive analytics on AWS, Azure, and hybrid cloud. Secured $30M+ in new business through high-impact client workshops and assessments.

Leading Retail Vertical: Orchestrated a divestiture cloud transformation for a major retailer, migrating 50+ applications and 20+ Oracle instances to Azure + Oracle Cloud. Ensured PCI compliance and robust security architecture, delivering $25M in cost savings and on-time project completion. Identified issues with “automation” actually performed manually by offshore teams.

Oil & Gas Company: Collaborated with global teams to support Agile & Digital Transformations, including IoT event management and SAP integration, resulting in $15M in operational efficiencies and a hybrid cloud best practices framework.

American Management Services - Technical Practice Lead

2015 – 2018

Security & Compliance Assessments: Built and mentored teams to conduct multicloud security assessments for multi-tenant AI chips (PLA’s), ensuring compliance with HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR. Reduced security vulnerabilities by 50%, enabling clients to secure $100M+ in new contracts.

SAP Project Quality Metrics: Developed and executed go-to-market strategies to reduce SAP project failure rates by 60%, directly contributing to $50M in recovered at-risk revenue for clients.

Customer Readiness Assessments: Led teams in delivering cost-benefit analyses for Dell Boomi vs. MuleSoft, identifying 40% cost savings and influencing $20M in client technology investments.

Engagement Lead/Architect, Major US Cloud Provider

FAA Near Real-Time Flight Observation System: Led a cross-disciplinary team to architect a scalable, near real-time flight observation system for the FAA, handling 10,000+ concurrent flights and 20-30K events/second. The solution, built on Hortonworks HDP, Kafka, and Spark, supported 20% flight growth projections and next-gen air transport integration.

Weather Processing HPC Service: Directed teams to enhance AI weather microclimate trending algorithms, improving black ice warning times from 10 minutes to 2 hours—a critical safety advancement adopted by NOAA and global weather services.

Global Data Architect, German Automotive Parts Manufacturer/German Auto JV

Autonomous Driving & ADAS: Architected and delivered HPC and big data solutions for a global autonomous driving joint venture, reducing ADAS exception events by 300% and achieving 4x GPU cluster utilization. Managed global teams across US, Germany, France, and China, ensuring seamless integration of Hadoop, MapR, and ELK for driver assist systems.

Supply Chain & IoT Integration: Led the design of IoT-scale monitoring and predictive maintenance solutions for a $5.2M engagement, leveraging Azure Machine Learning, Horton Works, and Blockchain to optimize fleet operations.

UK Consulting Firm

SAP HANA COE and Practice Development

Phoenix Consulting – Technical Practice Manager

2013 – 2015

For a consulting firm helping small and medium sized clients to move to Agile and DevOps for CI/CD, provide DevOps/CI architecture and Pilot to Production support, growing Phoenix Digital Transformation DevOps practice: Agile coaching & and evangelist/doer, DevOps/Agile/CB/CI/CD for UX improvement and velocity.

Work with clients to develop roadmaps, select and lead teams, teach clients, moving clients from waterfall to cloud based Agile continuous delivery, introduce & deploy engineering for testability and for monitoring processes, improved code coverage practices within CI/CD, etc. Focus on DevOps/Agile (Java, Python, Bash, Terraform) digital transformations.

Axon Global – Practice Manager

2008 – 2013

Develop “Pilot to Production” micro project model to rapidly grow software capabilities into new areas: SAP DevOps (BasisTechnologies partner), workshops, presentations: Given responsibility for 3rd party integration for SAP solutions (support presales, proposals, POCs, and SAP BASIS delivery architect) for SAP Enterprise Portal (TopTier) engagements, and Salesforce (Force.com).

Work with AWS and SAP to certify SAP for non-production systems (Hybrid Cloud), then work with AWS to market the solution as an exclusive AWS partner (with SAP AG). All engagements were P2P based growth. No big bang or major brown/green field projects!

Satyam – Practice Manager

2005 –2008

For 6+ implementations and 15-20 RFP’s (mostly won), provide BASIS solution architecture analysis and best practice recommendations across 30+ RFP responses (greenfield & upgrades, NW 7 (BW, BO, BWA/BIA, Portal Federation, Crystal, etc.) SAP CRM & SRM, Review key ongoing projects for exposures and reference ability around best practices and implementability in the areas of architectures, solution deployment strategies, security, governance, and risks to the projects

Network Appliance – Presales Engineer

2001 – 2003

Established NetApp’s SAP practice. Developed marketing and sales collateral for NetApp SnapLun product, led team selling into SAP. Doubled developer productivity for testing/migrations within 1 month worldwide as NetApp replaced EMC internally (1.2 Pbytes sale)

Dedicated NetApp solution architect to the SAP America team: supporting acquisition of TopTier (SAP Portal, SAP JAVA), TopManage (SAP Business One), Infinite Data Structures (CRM).

Supported verification of Oracle and SAP on Vmware with NetApp NFS and SnapLun. Migrated multiple Oracle ERP and SAP ERP clients from dedicated raw storage to NetApp.

Fulcrum Technologies, Practice Lead (Whitman-Hart/marchFirst)

1991 – 1999

Practice Growth & Acquisition: Spearheaded the development of Fulcrum’s Sybase and Big Data/ML practices, growing revenue from $0 to $100M in 2 years. This rapid expansion was a key driver in Fulcrum’s $250M acquisition by MarchFirst, delivering exceptional value to Fulcrum investors. Grew March First SAP practice to Europe, grew Fulcrum based Sybase practice into the US.

Team Leadership: Recruited, trained, and managed cross-functional teams of architects, engineers, and consultants, delivering high-impact Sybase, Oracle, and early Big Data solutions for global clients in Banking, Finance, Pharma, Health Care, Manufacturing.

Founding Partner, Systems Conversions Inc./The Service Bureau

1983 – 1989

Company Growth & Exit: Co-founded and scaled Systems Conversions Inc. from inception to 500 employees, specializing in automated migrations of legacy applications using AI-based rule based semantic translation. Achieved a $125M exit through strategic acquisition, delivering substantial returns to investors and stakeholders.

Team & Practice Development: Built and led highly skilled technical teams, fostering a culture of innovation and client success. Pioneered SAP R/1, mainframe Cobol, and specialty application migrations, setting industry standards for automated conversions.

Education & Certifications

BS, Computer Science – Shaftesbury University UK

Certifications: Azure certifications (database, AI, Arch, etc.), Google Cloud Engineer, Nvidia, DSDM/Agile, SAP BASIS, SAP HANA

Technical Proficiencies

AI/ML: RAG, Agentics, GAN, Predictive Analytics, Anomaly Detection, MOE’s

Cloud/DevOps: AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Big Data: Hadoop, Cassandra, RedBrick, SAP HANA

Languages: Python, SQL, Bash, Golang

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