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About me

Technology, judgment, and the work between them.

Patrick Phillips

The short version

I'm a technology and AI executive, author, and adjunct professor at Westminster University.

My work spans enterprise AI strategy, governance, and implementation. I bring more than two decades of experience across engineering, IT, operations, and large-scale transformation.

I've learned that the hard part is rarely recognizing a promising technology. The hard part is building the operating model, trust, governance, architecture, and leadership habits that let it produce durable value.

That is what I write about here. Sometimes it is enterprise AI and agentic systems. Sometimes it is security, productivity, organizational design, or wonder. The common thread is a desire to understand what the change means once real people and real institutions have to live with it.

20+ years

Leading technology

Engineering, IT, enterprise architecture, operations, and transformation.

Still building

Learning through use

I test ideas by making systems, not merely commenting on them.

In public

Writing to think

Essays are how I pressure-test an argument and invite better ones.

The book

The Augmented Enterprise

Lean Operating Discipline for the Agentic Enterprise. The book connects AI capability with the way work flows, the authority we delegate, and the judgment leaders remain responsible for.

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Teaching

AI fundamentals for leaders.

At Westminster University, I teach leaders to understand new technology, try it in real work, and defend their decisions about where it belongs. The tools change quickly. The need for clear reasoning, responsible implementation, and human judgment stays with us.

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Elsewhere

Keep the conversation going.