DOGE

My guarantee: put me anywhere and I’ll improve the efficiency. I’ve done it everywhere I’ve been and am confident I can continue to do so. It’s who I am. I can use the popular canned claim of applying AI to improve efficiency, however, in the end it’s still “stupid in, stupid out” and lacks the ability to distinguish the characteristics for which you’re looking.

DOGE is looking for the top 1% of intellects. Please allow me to suggest 1% work ethic, 1% in realism, 1% ROI, and 1% visionary. That is my very makeup.

Here is my employment resume. In the interest of submitting my ‘efficiency’ proposal as soon as possible, below please find the correlations to my resume.

At INTRO, I replaced personnel with an automation pagination program I wrote for the personal classified ads. Additionally, I reduced the counselor staff, by writing a program to ‘match’ single people allowing the counselors to focus on the extreme characteristics. This improved company revenue 500%, had an AI data flow model, and the algorithm is still considered state-of-the-art.
At S. Systems the fiber network I designed for the Air Force was engineered as a star topology, allowing for endpoint enhancement with minimal effort. Though fully approved by the Air Force, separate government beaurocracy prevented it from becoming reality.
At Brown & Root Braun, I engineered and installed a campus network in a divisional star topology, again providing the flexibility to grow and change as technology advanced.
At Cellular One, I consolidated 3 workstations into a single station, providing for easier cross analysis, a more functional workspace, and the flexibility to adopt new technologies.
At Wells Fargo, I openly admit I accomplished little. Why? Because my division management mandated I redesign something which I felt, after thorough analysis, was already being done very well by their retail division. Why reinvent the wheel?
I started my own consulting firm (IETech). Three companies adopted my services for the next 10 plus years, allowing me to provide them the most efficient IT services in the industry. Of course that all started with dumping Microsoft in favor of Linux resulting in 1000% improvement in uptime, 100% improvement in capacity, and 100% improvement in costs.
At Monitise I immursed myself as a Technical Support Engineer. I quickly saw the opportunity for improving the efficiency of not only resolving ‘incidents’, but predicting them before impact. I engineered a monitoring system from the ground up using open source technology which, not only succeeded in 100% SLA compliance, but also helped the support team provide metrics, not otherwise available, to engineers.
At Fiserv one project was their mandate while the other was my own. Please note, my suggestion, was to resolve the single most inefficient aspect of every corporation everywhere: onboarding. Please allow me to elaborate. Everyone knows turnover is expensive, but considering the advancements in technology and the uniqueness by which companies are separating themselves, onboarding has an evergrowing educational process. At Fiserv, their monitoring system delivered stale alerts which to the lay person were cryptic. I changed that to an HTML based templating system, providing links for explanation, for remediation, and for investigation, all in the alert itself. This allowed new hires the ability to hit the road running.

Now that I’ve provided a history of what I have accomplished, below are just a small example of the things for which I’ve given great thought to.

Before being able to improve efficiency anywhere in the world, one first must deal with egos for that is the single biggest obstacle to ‘improvement’. Careful, methodical, personality management is what most people consider one of my greatest qualities.
My father always said it’s not necessarily being first at something, but rather observing and improving upon what’s out there. I have a solution to dramatically alter the landscape of education by augmenting the existing model with a tool which allows for unrestricted free-form learning. I’d like to disclose this, but only to Elon and under either a non-competitive agreement OR an employment contract dedicated to facilitate this.
Free speech is paramount. Develop a social platform called ‘escalate’ where a message to a single person is propagated anonymously and logarithmically similar to automatically forwarding an email securely and anonymously. That way thousands of voices can be sent to a single email address demonstrating a ‘popular’ movement.
I’ve worked in both the public and private sectors. The most egregious difference is ‘incentive’. In the public sector one gets ahead by not making mistakes. In the private sector one gets ahead by taking risks. The obvious progressive methodology is ‘risk’ oriented. We must make the government operate more like the private sector.
Get rid of government employee protection. If they can’t do the job, fire them.
Flatten government management. If a manager can not do the job below them, they’re expendable.
Do NOT protect whistleblowers from the people they’re condemning. If an allegations is made, they must stand behind it.
At the very beginning of every conversation I ever have, I ask myself, “What is the reason for the conversation?” If it’s a debate, I ONLY ask questions. Sure, the questions are strategized to get the opposing party to follow their own answers to my side of the debate. Educate any operation with that philosophy and I guarantee you, there’ll be more efficient meetings.
The most obvious inefficiency is ‘legislation’. Reduce laws, reduce legislation. Where laws can’t be reduced, redesign them to ‘incentivize’, not legislate.
Web, web, web. Focus group on improving all data flow operations through better web design. I consider myself an expert in this area. Don’t subscribe to the lazy way of building websites. Build them using RAW coding practices and established standards, NOT de facto standards. Design them to be modular, secure, scalable, monitorable, and maintainable.
Simplify the tax law.
Disclosure. The public needs to be better informed. Remove lobbying and replace with government funded ‘social’ wiki that provides all statistics in graphs, with any increment and any duration and every single one citing their source and funders. Allow for full overlay of graphs so the public can see correlations. Removing lobbying alone will relieve time constraints on government employees. A well designed data platform will alleviate lies and allow for getting to truths more quickly, which fundamentally is always more efficient.
Quit prejudicing the elite educational system. They are no better than anyone else. The data platform above will allow for any citizen to contribute, learn, and formulate their own beliefs without the influence of media narratives fitting a well funded monopoly.
Cap the size of companies. This will force divestiture, allow for a more mobile free market, and allow the government better insight.
Redesign the monopoly laws to incorporate monopolistic practices on ‘debt’ and ‘knowledge’.
Reduce overconsumption. My wife is severely EHS. We live on very little electricity with very little impact. I’ve learned there is little ‘need’ for so much of what is advocated today. As a consequence, I’m able to live the life I recall as a child. If we allow generations to bypass the importance of nature, there’ll never be a consensus on protecting it. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Teach them to fish, they eat for a lifetime. Appreciating and respecting nature will go a lot further than legislating it’s survival.
Mandate a percent ‘work-from-home’ for white collar jobs. Goto a 4 day/32 hour work week by replacing holidays with that bankable 5th workday of the week.
Improve citizen health. A healthier retiring population will put less strain on the government health systems.
Stop the military machine. Increase the military budget with the single condition that each protected patent have a shorter life span AND an alternative consumer application. By mandating tooling for alternative use, a company will be less likely to fight the traditional military model while at the same time maximizing our technical military advantage.