# Aaron P. Jones

> Technology executive, 25+ years. Builds the infrastructure AI runs on, and the AI
> that runs on it. Carrier-grade networks, data centers and central offices at
> national scale, the commercial architecture that turns capacity into committed
> recurring revenue, and multi-model AI systems shipped into production.

Based in Aurora, Colorado. Has worked all three sides of the market: service
provider, technology partner, and enterprise customer. Co-inventor on U.S. patent
9,882,833 for intent-based services orchestration, granted 2018, the architectural
pattern underneath today's agentic systems.

Currently technical strategist at Kerzie.ai, an AI venture studio, working across
Back Cover (AI visibility for existing websites), TrueSeat (evidence-based hiring
assessment), and SMB-OS (an AI operating system for small and mid-sized business).

## Pages

- [Full dossier](https://aaronpjones.com/): the complete career record, roughly a
  39 minute read, where every claim opens to its source.
- [The short version](https://aaronpjones.com/brief/): the same story in about a
  minute. The career arc in five moves, the highlights, and what he is looking for.

## Career

- Kerzie.ai, 2026 to present: technical strategist. Architecture, model selection
  and the builds themselves, multi-model across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek.
- AI Unified Consulting LLC, 2026 to present: founder and principal.
- Lumen Technologies, 2025 to 2026: Senior Director, large enterprise, hyperscale
  and neocloud segment. VP-level product segment P&L. Moved enterprises off legacy
  point-to-point services onto AI-ready Network-as-a-Service.
- Speedcast, 2024 to 2025: VP, global systems engineering and managed services.
  Unified a fragmented global managed services and systems engineering operation
  across GEO, MEO, LEO and terrestrial, made repeatable at global scale while LEO
  constellations disrupted the market.
- Calix, 2016 to 2024: Regional VP, solutions engineering, major accounts.
  Accelerated fiber to the home and the managed Wi-Fi experience on it, bringing an
  operator's experience to a platform reinvention already in motion.
- CenturyLink, now Lumen, 2005 to 2016: promoted through five roles to Vice
  President. Operated 4,200+ central offices at national scale, repositioning a
  legacy asset base as a future-proofed blueprint for carrier, broadband last-mile
  access and edge compute rather than one build per service.
- Alcatel-Lucent, now Nokia, 1999 to 2005: led the architecture team on AT&T's IMS
  wireless core and on U-Verse.

## What he is looking for

- Not purely an executor's seat. An influencer's, at the intersection of the
  infrastructure and the service applications that ride it, influencing AI
  infrastructure strategy across data centers, platforms and logical service
  models like Network-as-a-Service.
- Strategic rather than tactical. Setting the motion and the platform economics,
  not running plays designed elsewhere.
- Mentorship is a real part of the offer, not a footnote. Career coaching,
  sharpening someone's value statement, shaping the charter they work inside. The
  job of a good leader is to produce better leaders than themselves, so the seat
  can take more than one shape and team size is not a filter either way.
- Phoenix and Arizona are the target. Denver metro or remote US also works.

## Contact

- [Email](mailto:aaronpjones007@gmail.com): aaronpjones007@gmail.com
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/apjones-ai): linkedin.com/in/apjones-ai
- Phone: 720.749.9474