Arthur Shafer · AI architecture & leadership
AI solution architect with 15 years across intelligence, enterprise architecture, and technology delivery. I translate complex requirements into system designs, align teams around technical tradeoffs, and build the AI capabilities those decisions require.
AI Solution Architect · Booz Allen Hamilton
Experience in practice
My enterprise architecture work at Booz Allen Hamilton has spanned requirements for $10M+ DoD software systems, more than ten cross-functional teams, and technical tradeoffs briefed to senior military leadership.
Career and capability evidenceSelected work
The domains differ. Each case shows what I built, the decisions I owned, and the limits of the work.
Political intelligence
Statewide research connecting public records, geography, campaign finance, and votes.
I originated the product and owned its research, data architecture, validation, and final system decisions.
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Theological research
Scripture and Christian traditions explored through cited sources, comparisons, and durable conversations.
I built the retrieval and conversation systems that keep sources distinguishable and answers open to inspection.
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Enterprise architecture & AI
Shared enterprise data, governed tools, and AI agents for research and operational decisions.
I set the shared-data-first roadmap when leaders wanted different applications first.
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Quantitative finance & automated research
Automated market research, quantitative model evaluation, and daily signal generation.
I designed the recurring cycle of research, data collection, evaluation, and signal generation.
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Applied systems work across corrections, justice, public transactions, and scheduling, informed by published agency requirements.
Contractor CRM and ResFol.io: serverless products from customer event to hosted experience.
Products, demonstrations, and protected applications, with access explained.
A consequential decision
Operators needed useful tools. Executives wanted strategic insight. I set a roadmap around the shared data both required, then developed the applications against that foundation.
The cost was months before either group saw its complete product. Prototypes and early tool wins had to make the wait worthwhile.
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February 2019 – present
AI Solution Architect · 2026–present
December 2017 – February 2019
Senior Consultant, Technology and Innovation
June 2017 – October 2017
Business Systems Analyst intern
January 2011 – June 2014
Intelligence Analyst
MBA and Bachelor of Science, Bryant University
Writing
Case note
Read this if you are deciding where the code stops and the model starts.
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Read this if two users with different clearances will ask the same system the same question.
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Read this if an agent-built feature keeps growing and nobody asked it to.
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