MARANATHA POIRIER
Based in Austin, TX. Open to select opportunities.

Strategic IT and AI solutions for organizations that need it to work.

20+ years leading enterprise technology rollouts, platform administration and automation. I bridge the gap between complex technical capability and measurable business outcomes, and I stay hands-on: AI agents, LLM-powered automation, and enterprise integrations across Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.

20+Years in enterprise IT & AI leadership
1,200+Employees provisioned across SSO/SCIM rollouts
300+Servers managed across VMware, Azure & AWS
11Independent products & brands built end to end

I've spent two decades scoping and rolling out technology for organizations of every size, from an 18-client managed IT practice to a 300-server hybrid-cloud environment at a Texas state agency. These days that expertise is pointed at AI enablement: architecting agent deployments, connector governance, and the identity and data-governance work that makes enterprise AI safe to use in practice, not just in theory. I still build things myself, including SCIM-based provisioning, Entra ID and Okta integration, Microsoft Fabric data pipelines, and a growing portfolio of AI-powered products built from the ground up.

Two decades of turning complex technology into results

Rather than a job-by-job history, here's the shape of the work: the kind of problems I get called in to solve, and what happened when I solved them.

Enterprise AI enablement, hands-on

I architect agent deployments, connector governance and data pipelines for organizations adopting AI at scale. One recent build was a Microsoft Fabric data factory on a 3-tier medallion architecture, with Spark notebooks and Dataflow Gen2 doing the heavy lifting. I'm now building this out as an independent practice under AIVENY.

Enterprise Copilot & identity rollout at scale

I led an enterprise Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout across a dozen departments for a large public-sector organization, handling provisioning, connector configuration, data access and adoption enablement along the way. That work included integrating Entra ID, Okta and Intune, running SCIM-based provisioning and SSO for a workforce of over 1,200 people, and refreshing a hybrid-cloud environment of 300+ servers across VMware, Azure and AWS.

Independent IT practice, 18 clients, zero incidents

For over a decade, I built and ran a managed IT practice serving 18 small and mid-sized businesses across 27 locations: networking, servers, storage, security, cloud, websites, backups and staff training, all under one roof. Uptime stayed at 99.9%, with zero data loss and zero malware incidents, year after year.

Infrastructure modernization & automation

I've rebuilt data center and endpoint infrastructure for large-scale return-to-office transitions, and written the PowerShell automation behind zero-touch Windows deployment, cutting device provisioning time by 60%. Earlier in my career, I scaled a growing company's IT footprint from a single site to eight, quadrupling transaction throughput and opening up several million dollars in new annual revenue.

Technology leadership for mission-driven teams

I once led a technical services team supporting nonprofit organizations, cutting client incidents by 75% and licensing costs by 80% through platform consolidation and technology grants. That same discipline is what I've carried into building and scaling my own ventures since.

Technically proficient across the modern AI & enterprise stack

AI & AGENT PLATFORMS

Anthropic Claude Enterprise / Code / Skills Google Gemini Microsoft 365 Copilot / Copilot Studio OpenAI ChatGPT / Codex / Agents SDK MCP LangChain / LangGraph CrewAI

AI ENGINEERING

Prompt engineering & optimization Agent workflow design & deployment Microsoft Fabric RAG pipeline design llama.cpp / vLLM hosting

CLOUD & PLATFORMS

Azure AWS Google Cloud VMware vSphere / ESXi / vCenter 8 Docker Hyper-V Windows Server / Linux SharePoint & Teams

IDENTITY, SAAS & AUTOMATION

Entra ID Okta OAuth 2.0 Active Directory / GPO PowerShell & Python Apache Spark n8n / Zapier GitHub & CI/CD

Let's talk about your AI enablement or platform strategy.