30 years on the floor,
not just in the deck.
I've spent my career as the conduit between the production floor, IT, and the executive team — which means I show up already speaking your operation's language.
I started on the floor, not in a strategy meeting — running production before I ever sat across the table proposing how to fix it. That's shaped everything since. I don't walk into an operation reading a process map for the first time; I've stood at the press, staffed the help desk, and been the one explaining to a client why a job ran late. I know where the friction actually lives, not just where it shows up on a spreadsheet.
Over three decades I've led process improvement, systems integration, and prepress automation for print and packaging operations ranging from single-plant turnarounds to global manufacturing networks spanning dozens of facilities — work that's added up to $100M+ in documented savings and consistent double-digit efficiency gains. Not from theory, but from standardizing what works and automating what's repeatable.
More recently, I've been applying that same discipline to AI and large language models — finding the handful of places in a production workflow where they genuinely reduce manual effort, without adding risk or noise to a process that already works.
Lone Star Prepress is how I bring that experience to operations that don't need a full-time hire — just someone who's already solved the problem.
Principles I don't compromise on
Start on the floor
I audit the actual workflow — not the org chart — before proposing anything. Most bottlenecks aren't where the process document says they are.
Standardize before you automate
Automating a broken process just breaks it faster. We fix the process first, then automate what's actually worth automating.
No engagement without a measurable outcome
Every project ends with a number attached, not just a deck. If I can't define what "better" looks like, I won't take the engagement.
Right-sized, not a retainer
Most engagements are scoped and finite. I'm not in the business of selling ongoing dependency — I hand off something your team can run.
Let's talk about your workflow.
If it sounds like I've solved a version of your problem before — I probably have.