Mayas

IT project manager. Restaurant-built, engineer-trained.

Nine years running a family restaurant in Barbados, two engineering degrees, and now the person keeping a manufacturer's biggest technology programs on schedule. Practical first, curious always.

→ quietly open to IT project manager roles

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Mayas, in a hammock in the Black Hills — Sioux Falls, SD

Work

Two years in, a portfolio to show for it.

Manufacturing systems, ERP, dealer platforms, service desks. Concept to rollout to the long tail of vendor management most coordinators never stick around for.

4concurrent programs

9^yrsrunning a business

2engineering degrees

30^°of latitude moved

Flagship · Multi-million dollar program

The MES expansion, on schedule

A multi-million dollar manufacturing execution rollout across multiple vendors, new equipment, and a steering committee I now co-run. Handed to me early, deep end first. Phased delivery, one plan everyone can see, and it's going well.

Nobody gives you a manual for a program this size. Turns out the manual is asking sharp questions fast and writing everything down.

Operations · ITSM

Company-wide service desk, from zero

SLA tiers, automation, a customer portal, then the rollout comms and training that made a whole manufacturer actually use it.

Platform · B2B

Dealer portal releases

New scheduling capability driven through structured testing toward launch, across product, development, and the field.

Systems · ERP

ERP integration & vendor strategy

Contract analysis, cost modeling for leadership, and keeping a strategic vendor honest and on schedule.

Homelab · Self-hosted

boxjuice.dev, the infrastructure

Proxmox, Docker, network-wide DNS, reverse proxy, monitoring. This page is the only part of it someone else hosts.

Path

Thirty degrees of latitude, one throughline.

BARBADOS
9 YEARS

General manager, family restaurant

Ran the whole operation. Staff, suppliers, cash flow, customers, crises. Nine years of learning that every project is ultimately a people problem with a deadline attached.

UWI
TWO DEGREES

B.Sc. Civil Engineering · B.Sc. Computer Science

Engineering taught me how systems carry load. Computer science taught me how they fail. Both turned out to be project management prerequisites.

2024
43.5°N

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

New country, new industry, new winters. Joined Showplace Cabinetry and grew from green hire to owning vendor relationships, cross-functional programs, and platform launches, in under two years.

Running projects

Vendor & stakeholder managementdaily

Jira / JSM administrationadmin level

Requirements & UAT cyclesevery release

Executive reportingmonthly cadence

Hands on keyboard

Proxmox & virtualizationdaily driver

Docker & self-hostingdaily driver

Networking, DNS, reverse proxieshomelab-proven

Agentic AI workflowsdaily, with judgment

Notes

Reading, running, deciding.

Decision

Why my DNS has a fallback

Self-hosting your whole house's DNS is great until you reboot a container and the WiFi "breaks" for everyone you live with. Every critical system gets a boring, public fallback. Resilience beats purity.

Reading

Homer, after Marcus Aurelius

I host a monthly philosophy book club. We finished the Meditations and moved to the Odyssey, which turns out to also be about a long trip home and a lot of vendor problems.

Decision

AI as a sharp tool, not a party trick

I run agentic coding tools against real infrastructure, in ask mode, with snapshots first. The model executes. The judgment about what's safe to run stays mine.

Kitchen

Caribbean & Middle Eastern, from memory

Nine years feeding a restaurant's worth of people leaves habits. Recipes get made from memory and argued about with family across time zones.

Contact

I like meeting people who make things.

Hiring for a role where the plan has to survive contact with reality? My inbox is open.

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