Thirty Years Building What Does Not Have Tooling Yet
In 1998 I scripted unattended deployment across 300+ machines running six operating systems in five languages. There was no product to buy. You solved it by hand or you did not solve it. That has been the job ever since.
“AI without domain knowledge is just fancy autocomplete.”
Thirty years making systems that were never designed to talk to each other work together, and now automating them. Enterprise integration, B2B commerce, ERP and identity at scale, with an AI automation practice built on top of it.
Enterprise since 1997: Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley in global industrial automation, XO Communications as a national telecom carrier, and an 18-year engagement with a current enterprise client whose daily operations run on systems I built. Industrial, telecom, commerce, print and supply chain. Different verticals, same discipline.
The Pattern: Consistently Early
Anyone can claim decades of experience. The narrower claim: I keep building the thing years before it becomes a product category.
| Year | What I built | What it was later called |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Scripted, unattended software deployment across 300+ machines running DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, NT 3.51 and Windows 95/98/2000 at once, in English, Spanish, German, French and Chinese language builds, then restoring them to known-good state between live demo sessions | Automated provisioning · configuration management · localization build pipelines |
| 1998 | ISDN auto-dial connections into PLCs in Milwaukee from sites across North America | Remote industrial telemetry · Industrial IoT |
| 2002 | A DTS pipeline pulling Active Directory into SQL Server every two hours, reconciling 4,000+ fax DIDs and reporting utilization, cutting errors by 98% | Scheduled ETL · automated reconciliation |
| 2004 | A hosted survey engine used by Pfizer to poll physicians in its prescriber network | Multi-tenant SaaS |
| 2006 | Barcode scanners wired through to ERP and UPS WorldShip, closing the loop on shipping and receiving accuracy | Warehouse systems integration |
| 2007 | A $250K turn-key ecommerce platform and a full ERP conversion delivered in four months | Digital commerce transformation |
| 2010s | cXML punch-out across 12+ procurement platforms, 300+ branded storefronts, 15+ enterprise SSO deployments | B2B commerce integration · federated identity |
| Now | An AI operating system running across four providers: 104+ skills and specialized subagents doing production work daily, multi-agent orchestration, cross-provider code review, and a Programmatic Tool Calling layer that cuts token consumption 85-99% | AIOS (AI Operating System) |
Every row above was named by somebody else, years after I built it. This one too, as it turns out: researchers at Rutgers published the term AIOS, an AI Operating System, in 2024 while I was busy running one. It comes from the same instinct as everything above it, thirty years on.
Why the 1998 Work Matters
Unattended deployment across six platforms at once is six separate automation problems. Those platforms shared almost nothing. Different install mechanisms, different configuration models, different network stacks, driver architectures and filesystems. No common scripting substrate existed and no product could be bought.
Then multiply it by five languages. English, Spanish, German, French and Chinese. Localized builds of that era were effectively different products: system and program directory names changed with the language, code pages changed, and Chinese required double-byte character support that much of the tooling of the day simply did not handle. A script that worked on English NT 3.51 did not work on German Windows 95, and neither of them worked on a Chinese build.
Thirty permutations, no product to buy. It was batch files, a working knowledge of every platform's boot and install path, and a tolerance for being wrong until it worked. And because engineers were coding and demoing live on those same machines, the automation had to restore a known-good state repeatably and on demand.
That is idempotent, cross-platform, multi-language automated provisioning, written by hand, in 1998.
Making Systems Talk
Since then the work has been making systems that were never designed to talk to each other do it anyway.
- Carrier integration and rate shopping
- ERP integrations
- Banking for payments, deposits and security enforcement
- Tax engines like OneSource and Sabrix into live carts
- Salesforce and WooCommerce into order management
- Mailing data through CASS and NCOA
- Secure file exchange for HIPAA-regulated mailings
- Web-to-print across hosted and on-premise composition engines
- Procurement punch-out across 12+ platforms including Ariba, Coupa and Workday
- 15+ enterprise SSO deployments
- Microsoft SMS endpoint security at Rockwell and XO
- A platform of 300+ branded storefronts moving $1M+ a month
When nothing existed to integrate with, I wrote it.
That includes a full warehouse and order management system, WMS and OMS in one, built by hand and running production operations and vendor-managed inventory.
AIOS
AI Operating SystemA provider-agnostic AI operating system running across Anthropic Claude (Code and Desktop), OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini and xAI Grok, routing each task to the model that suits it.
104+ production skills and specialized subagents run my own operations every day. Underneath it is a Programmatic Tool Calling architecture that cuts token consumption 85-99% on integration-heavy work.
That last number is the point. Token economics is the wall most AI practices hit at scale, and it is the one I engineered around first. It is why full-scale applications ship day in and day out without ever hitting a daily or weekly provider limit.
Capability Index
What I have actually delivered, by domain.
| Domain | Capabilities |
|---|---|
| Enterprise integration | REST · SOAP · EDI · SFTP · API design · queue and webhook patterns · error-queue design · file-based batch · Salesforce and WooCommerce into order management · connecting systems that were never designed to talk to each other |
| ERP | EFI Pace · Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) · e-Quantum · MASS 200 · Business Vision · full ERP conversion with 4-month cutover |
| Accounting / financial systems | QuickBooks · GL, AR and AP integration · invoice export and reconciliation · automated billing · duplicate-billing detection and remediation · tax engines including OneSource and Sabrix wired into live carts |
| Identity / SSO | SAML · OIDC · Azure AD / Entra · Okta · OneLogin · transformation rules · 15+ enterprise deployments |
| Ecommerce at scale | Multi-tenant storefronts (300+ in production) · catalog and pricing models · approval groups · cost centers · web-to-print · variable data |
| B2B procurement / punch-out | cXML · PunchOut · catalog · PO · invoice · ship-notice round-trip · Ariba · Coupa · Workday · 12+ platforms delivered |
| Fulfillment / WMS / OMS | VeraCore · SLIM · PressWise · Process Shipper · barcode scanning to ERP · UPS WorldShip · shipping-notice flows · carrier integration and rate shopping · a full WMS and OMS built by hand, running production operations and vendor-managed inventory |
| Mailing / postal | CASS standardization · NCOA move update · secure file exchange for HIPAA-regulated mailings · presort and postal compliance workflows |
| Payments / banking | CyberSource · lockbox · positive pay · bank-platform migration |
| AI & automation | Multi-provider orchestration: Anthropic Claude (Code and Desktop) · OpenAI Codex · Google Gemini · xAI Grok · model routing by task · Programmatic Tool Calling (PTC) architecture, 85-99% token reduction · agentic and multi-agent workflows · cross-provider code review · automated review with SAST, secrets and dependency scanning · 104+ production skills and specialized subagents |
| Languages / frameworks | C# · .NET · ASP.NET Web API · VB.NET · Python · JavaScript · Next.js · T-SQL |
| Data | SQL Server · PostgreSQL · ETL / DTS pipelines · stored procedures · reporting · data migration |
| Cloud / infrastructure | Azure · Azure Key Vault · VMware · IIS · TFVC · Git · Microsoft SMS endpoint security at Rockwell and XO |
| Practice | Solution architecture · migration and cutover management · offshore team leadership · code review discipline · SDLC · vendor management · board-level reporting |
Engagement shapes that fit
Career
1997 to 2000
Systems Technology
Rockwell Software (Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley)
Global industrial automation enterprise. Built scripted unattended deployment across 300+ machines spanning six operating systems and five language builds, including double-byte support for Chinese. Ran ISDN auto-dial connectivity into PLCs from sites across North America.
2000 to 2004
Lead Regional Systems Administrator
XO Communications
National telecom carrier. Supported 1,000+ users across seven markets and 61 servers. Led the national internal web team. Built a custom Active Directory to SQL integration managing 4,000+ fax DIDs that reduced the error threshold by 98%.
2001 to 2006
Founder / IT Director
ViaFore LLC
Founded at 27. Supported 37 client companies, 43 domains and 500+ users with a team of five plus outsourced resources. Personally delivered 42 custom web applications, including a survey engine used by Pfizer.
2006 to 2007
IT Manager / Lead Developer
Karaoke Warehouse
Ran an ecommerce operation generating $3.5M annually. Built licensing and royalty tracking, song-level licensing and publisher-payment data mining, and a barcode scanning application integrating to ERP and UPS WorldShip.
2007 to 2008
Director of IT
Corporate Team Professionals
Delivered a $250K turn-key ecommerce platform in one year. Coordinated a full ERP conversion from MASS 200 SQL to e-Quantum in four months, covering data conversion, process mapping, training and cutover. Budget ownership, vendor contracts and monthly board reporting.
2011 to present
Enterprise Integration / Software Developer
Prisma Graphic
A production platform of 300+ branded storefronts processing over $1M in monthly transactions. 12+ procurement platforms connected through cXML. 15+ enterprise SSO deployments. ERP, fulfillment, payments and banking integration. An 18-year engagement whose daily operations run on systems I built.
2017 to present
Founder & Principal Consultant
Data & Business Solutions LLC
AI consulting, AI automation and custom development. Four shipped products: CodeGuard, SocialSync, PantryIQ and an E2E testing engine. I run AIOS, a provider-agnostic AI operating system routing each task to the model that suits it.
1993 to 1997
Munitions Team Lead (E-4), United States Navy, Guam
Explosives-certified across fork truck, 5-ton, 20-ton, RT and flatbed ammunition transport. Before any of the rest of it.
Education: University of Maryland Global Campus. The full history, including roles condensed here, is in the technical bio.
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dbruncak@databusiness.ai · Denver, North Carolina