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Van Dorsey

@vandorsey

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I turn operational pain into data-and-AI systems that leaders can act on.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to partner long-term as an embedded business-technology leader—hands-on with SQL/Python and AI/ML—to build connective data systems, automate decisions in production, and serve frontline + executives with clear working proof.

I’m a senior business-technology leader with 40+ years turning operational pain into systems the frontline and leadership rely on. I position myself as an embedded partner—not a hired gun—with a 20-year relationship with Cisco, and I’m most energized when I can translate business friction into working connective tissue across technology, data, and people.

My sharpest instrument is data and analytics: I’ve pioneered AI/ML (NLP → TensorFlow) for asset management across $465M in Cisco U.S. Department of Defense programs. As a player-coach and servant leader, I build small, high-output teams, remove roadblocks, and deliver technology-agnostically—turning scattered records into a single connected source of truth and automating real operations with production-ready recommendation engines and lifecycle tracking.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Principal Advisor, AI

Current

Axiomize Ai

Mar 2026 - Present (4 months)

Led business development for AI-enabled engagements and ran a hands-on innovation lab to deliver working proof across modern data/AI use cases. Built a 3.4-billion-record analytics pipeline (SeaweedFS/S3 to Parquet to DuckDB), forecasting with Meta Prophet, and an edge computer-vision prototype for automated inspection.

NLP Data Pipelines Python (Pandas)TensorFlow DuckDB Parquet

Senior Solution Architect

Zensar Technologies

Mar 2025 - Feb 2026 (11 months)

Served as the sole sustaining analytics engineer for the Cisco DoD customer asset-management platform after restructuring, keeping ETL asset collection and the production TensorFlow recommendation engine running. Built Python/SQL pipelines in Snowflake to power Tableau dashboards and Excel reporting for customer engagement, asset requests, and ticketing with master data maintained via SharePoint.

Python SQL Snowflake ETL Data Modeling Tableau Reporting SharePoint Analytics Engineering

Solution Architect / CTO

Cisco Systems

Jan 2006 - Jan 2025 (19 years)

Led AI/ML-driven asset management across $465M in Cisco DoD contracts and delivered a 360° customer asset portal used by 300+ users that cut mis-assignments by 40%. Built an end-to-end TensorFlow recommendation engine automating assignment and end-of-life decommissioning, and grew a 15-person analytics team supporting managed services as revenue scaled from ~$50M to ~$500M.

AI ML NLP TensorFlow SQL Tableau Enterprise Architecture Data Warehousing

Principal Architect (Business)

Sibridge Ltd.

Jan 2001 - Jan 2005 (4 years)

Delivered enterprise and business architecture services across clients including Sprint, PwC, and telecom/internet hosting organizations, including solution architecture for a $200M optical-mesh expansion. Optimized architecture methods and frameworks to cut project startup time by 50%, reduced time-to-engage by 5% for PwC, and lowered monthly hosting costs by 20% via IP/DNS management and usage-b

Enterprise Architecture Business Architecture Solution Architecture Casewise DNS management