Find where AI actually pays off in your operation, before you spend a dollar on it.
Twenty-plus years running ERP, EDI, and enterprise IT, now applied to AI. I help manufacturers and distributors decide where AI fits in their operations: what to build, what to buy, and what to skip.
Start with an assessment. Go further only if it makes sense.
You don't need a year-long consulting contract to capture real value from AI. Most engagements start with one focused assessment, and everything after it is optional.
AI Readiness & Opportunity Assessment
A structured deep-dive into your existing data, systems, and team workflows to pinpoint high-ROI insertion points for AI.
Other ways to work together
Executive AI Briefing & Ideation Sprint
Cut through marketing noise and understand exactly how modern AI applies to your specific business model, operations, and bottom line.
Vendor Evaluation & Architecture Blueprint
Unbiased technical advisory to help you pick the right models, platforms, and vendors without sales bias or reseller commissions.
Pilot Scoping & Implementation Oversight
Translating business requirements into an executable pilot with enterprise guardrails, testing methodologies, and operational oversight.
Built inside a working manufacturer.
I spent 14 years running enterprise IT for a nationally recognized consumer brand and manufacturer, so I understand physical supply chains, ERP data pipelines, and the daily realities of plant operations.
ERP & Supply Chain Data Synthesis
Connect LLMs to complex Oracle, SAP, or Microsoft ERP datasets to generate natural-language executive summaries of inventory anomalies, supplier delays, and material shortages.
Intelligent B2B & EDI Exception Handling
Augment automated order workflows with AI models capable of parsing unstructured supplier PDFs, non-standard POs, and bill-of-lading discrepancies without manual re-entry. I started my career in healthcare claims EDI, so I've worked these exceptions from the keyboard up.
Equipment Telemetry & Predictive Maintenance Design
Design the sensor data pipeline and edge-model approach for predictive maintenance: filtering equipment telemetry at the source, flagging anomalies early, and sending only meaningful events to your data platform.
SOP Standardization & Compliance Audits
Quickly synthesize standard operating procedures (SOPs), safety compliance documents, and ISO audit trails, ensuring consistent execution across shifts and facilities.
Sample Deliverable: Reference Architecture for a Secure, AI-Ready Organization
I designed the technology and governance architecture for a confidential, pre-launch client building an AI-driven operation.
Governance & Compliance Foundations
A set of strategy and policy documents: an AI ethics charter, a data sovereignty and residency policy, regulatory discovery, and SOC 2 readiness planning with cost estimates.
Secure Cloud Foundation
Hardware-key sign-in, just-in-time administrator access, isolated per-project networks with no public endpoints, locked-down cloud developer workstations, and centralized security monitoring built to produce audit evidence. Isolation follows legal and financial boundaries, so each project's access, data, and costs stay separate.
Governed Data & AI Platform
A lakehouse with raw, validated, and business-ready tiers. Access controls that carry through to AI answers. Automated red-teaming, drift monitoring, and a model registry for audit trails. Edge models that filter sensor data before it crosses expensive satellite links.
Repeatable Deployment
One-command, infrastructure-as-code project environments with automatic security enrollment, immutable retention for audit-critical records, and automated cost chargebacks.
This client standardized on Microsoft's platform. The same pattern maps to other vendors, and I recommend what fits each environment.
“Drew’s work helped establish the architectural foundation for an ambitious AI initiative, addressing everything from governance and cybersecurity to infrastructure, scalability, and implementation planning. What stood out most was his ability to approach these challenges from both a technical and business perspective, recognizing that technology must ultimately serve the organization’s broader objectives. We would confidently recommend him to organizations seeking experienced, strategic technology guidance.”
I don't sell software licenses. I solve business problems.
Most consulting agencies push whatever ecosystem gives them the largest referral kickback or reseller commission. As an independent sole proprietor, my only allegiance is to your operational bottom line.
Whether Anthropic’s Claude, Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI, or a self-hosted private open-source model is the right choice, I make recommendations based strictly on data security, governance, total cost of ownership, and ease of adoption.
Anthropic Claude
Claude Certified Architect & AssociateComplex reasoning, long document synthesis, and code architecture.
Microsoft Azure AI & Fabric
Certified Azure AI FundamentalsEnterprise security, Microsoft 365 / ERP integration, and Lakehouse analytics.
OpenAI / ChatGPT Enterprise
Custom GPTs & Frontier ModelsWidespread team adoption, multimodal workflows, and high-speed APIs.
Google Cloud & Gemini
Google AI EssentialsMassive context windows, Google Workspace synergy, and multimodal analysis.
Open-Source & Local Models
Llama, Mistral, OllamaAir-gapped privacy, zero token fees, and proprietary on-premises deployments.
Battle-Tested IT Leadership. Now in Your Corner.
I'm Drew Miller, an enterprise technology executive with over twenty years of operational experience. I started in healthcare claims EDI, working directly with hospital billing managers on claims problems that threatened their ability to meet payroll, and progressed from analyst to supervisor to manager, leading teams of 8 to 20. I then spent 14 years at a nationally recognized consumer brand and manufacturer, serving as Vice President of Information Technology and Director of IT & Business Services. I was technical and process lead on the Oracle EBS implementation, then spent the next decade running and governing that environment, including 24/7 high-availability infrastructure through major Florida hurricanes.
Since early 2025 I've focused on AI: earning certifications across Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google platforms, and designing the technology and governance architecture for a confidential, pre-launch client. Organizations that work with me get me directly, not a junior team learning on their dime.
Andrew (Drew) Miller
Enterprise IT Executive & AI Advisor
Certifications & Technical Credentials
Certifications that back up the hands-on work in AI, cloud platforms, IT service management, and ERP.
Claude Certified Architect - Foundations
LLM Architecture & Systems Foundations
Claude Certified Associate - Foundations
LLM & Generative AI
Azure AI Fundamentals
Cloud AI & Cognitive Services
Google AI Essentials
Applied AI & Strategy
ITIL v4 Foundations
IT Service Management & Governance
Oracle EBS SCM Specialist
Enterprise Supply Chain & ERP
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