I am a project systems architect and digital transformation consultant. Project management is my foundation, and it is still part of my day to day. Increasingly, though, my focus has shifted toward systems design: building the SharePoint environments, Microsoft Lists trackers, Power Automate flows, and AI-assisted workflows that help teams reduce friction, clarify ownership, and move work forward. Most project managers coordinate work inside whatever systems exist. I also build them. That gap is where my focus lives.
pmpmaker is where I document that shift in public, from managing project activity to designing the systems that make better work possible.
From managing projects to architecting work systems
For years I worked inside complex enterprise programs where the plan mattered, but the system around the plan mattered more. The part that held my attention was never chasing status. It was building the environment where status became visible, ownership became clear, and teams could keep moving without another meeting.
That is the shift behind this site. From project manager as coordinator toward project systems architect as builder. It is a shift still underway. I manage projects today, and my skills and interests keep pulling me toward the systems work I want to do full time. PMP is the foundation, not the headline.
By day: enterprise healthcare strategy and systems
I spend my days inside enterprise healthcare, where the work is high-stakes, heavily governed, and rarely simple. Over more than a decade across healthcare IT and strategy, I have worked on both sides enough to speak each one’s language. I sit on the strategy side now, and much of my value is translating between the technical teams who build and the business leaders who decide. My experience runs across:
- Enterprise transformation and portfolio governance
- Epic implementation and optimization environments
- Microsoft 365 collaboration systems (SharePoint, Teams, Lists)
- Power Platform delivery (Power Automate, Power Apps)
- Compliance-sensitive and regulated workflows
The throughline is the same. Take scattered, manual, meeting-heavy work and turn it into structured systems that people can actually run.
By night: the homelab
At home I run a self-hosted AI and automation lab where I test the patterns, constraints, and failure modes that shape how I think about enterprise systems.
The lab runs local language models, Ollama, n8n, Docker containers, monitoring, and secure Cloudflare Tunnel access, alongside self-hosted productivity infrastructure. Some of it works cleanly. Some of it breaks. All of it teaches me how systems behave once they leave the diagram and meet reality.
This is the part most people skip. It is also the part that makes the rest believable. I do not recommend patterns I have not run myself.
How I think about systems
- The simplest architecture that works usually wins.
- Automation should remove friction, not add invisible complexity.
- A good system makes ownership, status, and decisions easier to see.
- AI is useful when it is designed into a workflow, not sprinkled on top.
- Tools matter less than the operating model around them.
- Documentation is part of the build, not an afterthought.
My focus: the healthcare digital workforce
Healthcare work is full of handoffs, compliance constraints, operational urgency, and people using disconnected tools to coordinate complex work. My focus is designing practical systems that reduce ambiguity, make ownership visible, and help teams move work forward without adding administrative burden. The goal is fewer status meetings and more systems that make the work itself easier to run.
Credentials
- PMP, Project Management Professional (PMI)
- Master of Organizational Leadership
- Graduate of Microsoft’s 5th Power Up Program cohort
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals; Applied Skills: Power Apps and Power Automate
- Building toward Microsoft’s AI transformation and agent-focused credential path
- Building an AI delivery foundation since 2023 through PMI coursework in generative AI, data, prompt engineering, practical application, and CPMAI
- Google AI Essentials credential
- Former Director of Mentoring, PMI Central Iowa Chapter
- Full credential list: Credly profile and LinkedIn certifications
Why this site exists
pmpmaker is my public build log. I use it to document the systems I design, the experiments I run, the tools I test, and what I learn from both enterprise work and homelab projects. The point is not generic project management advice. The point is to show the actual work of building modern work systems, with the decisions and the mistakes included.
Let’s connect
If you are working on scattered tools, manual follow-ups, unclear ownership, or workflow friction, that is the kind of problem I like to think through. Read the blog, connect with me on LinkedIn, or get in touch.