About
I am a program manager with a decade of ownership over safety-critical technical programs: aviation life support systems, CBRN protective equipment, ammunition and explosives certification, and aviation maintenance production control. Two of the systems I built outlived my tenure and were adopted across the Navy and Marine Corps.
Since then I have run operations at a payments company through a period of rapid scale, and served as Chief of Staff to the owner of a 16-brand consumer products group with two manufacturing facilities. The job in every case was the same: find the constraint holding the schedule and remove it.
I have never failed an audit or a regulatory examination, in aviation safety or in payments. I am equally at home on a production floor and in a software engineering standup, and the operating systems I build now are AI-first: the tracking, the documentation, and the first pass on analysis run on AI-assisted workflows, with people accountable for every decision.
Credentials
Experience
Co-founder
The OS of indie publishing
Co-founded from my own need as a series author. I wrote the product specification, set the design direction, and designed the Delphi Engine myself: a continuity-review system that chains embedding retrieval, LLM analysis, and a decision model, iterated until it ran 12 reviews and 129 checks on every manuscript. AI coding agents built it from the spec, on Cloudflare.
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AI-native senior care marketplace
My idea, co-founded in 2026. I designed the product experience and brand, landed the first customers, and built the operating foundation for autonomous agents across research, content, social media, and community outreach. Partner-run day to day, with my ongoing ownership of GTM systems.
Read the chapterSalado, TX
A portfolio of manufacturing, brand, and storefront companies
Right hand to the owner of PMB Companies for seven months in 2026. I turned his decisions into shipped outcomes across manufacturing, brands, storefronts, and B2B services, from vendor contract to first production run.
Read the chapterDallas, TX
Payments infrastructure
Nearly six years across three roles, from Director of Operations to COO, then retained by the CEO post-transition to advise on operations, risk, and compliance continuity.
Read the chapterOkinawa, Japan · Craven County, NC
Aviation logistics, maintenance & operations
A decade of ownership over safety-critical programs: aviation life support systems, CBRN protective equipment, ammunition and explosives certification, and maintenance production control.
Read the chapterHow I operate
I write down what got decided, who has it, and when it lands. Then I go get it. Things rarely fail because nobody knew. They fail because nobody was watching the date.
Anyone can roll out a tracker. The test is whether it is still running in month six, after the novelty wears off and the first person tries to route around it. Mine have been.
I handle what I can handle. If I am bringing it to you, there is a reason, and I will have already done the work to make the decision a short one.
I read a P&L and a hazard communication plan with the same attention. Equally at home on a production floor and in a software engineering standup.
Every system I build now assumes AI in the loop: intake, tracking, documentation, and the first pass on analysis. People make the decisions. The tooling keeps the date.
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Agile delivery. AI-first operating workflows. Process design, trend analysis, repair-versus-replace, vendor negotiation, compliance program build, safety program build.
The author journey
I write under the name D. W. Belfield. The Scourge Wars is a twelve-book saga; three of its books have hit the Amazon bestseller list, and the fourth arrives in November. The series is where the long-form muscle comes from, and where Mythener came from too: I built the tool I needed to keep a world of this size consistent.
A twelve-book dark LitRPG saga. A murdered politician is revived by an exiled goddess and must turn refugees into a predatory army.
Alongside
AI-first program manager. Jira, Asana, Monday, ClickUp, Notion, Google Workspace, and Claude, wired into operating workflows rather than used one at a time. Military maintenance and training systems: NALCOMIS and ASM.