elJuez

Jacob Frie

HRIS, data, and agentic AI. Dallas, Texas.

I build AI agents and automation that work inside real enterprise systems, with the controls regulated organizations need: read-only access, audit logs, and a human approving every production change.

I wrote my first program in BASIC in 1985, built and cabled PCs in the 486 era, and have spent the decades since putting new technology into production. I'm a US Marine Corps veteran. El Juez Productions is where I build things on my own time.

Work

2020 – now
Senior HRIS Analyst

UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
- Designed and run a human–AI engineering model: AI coding agents read the codebase, implement changes and redeploy through governed releases, with human review, staging first and least-privilege access. Most requests reach production the same day.
- Built nearly 50 automated HR processes and reports, versioned in Git with automated tests, monitoring and staged releases with rollback, and no production failures.
- Automated UKG floating holiday and bereavement processing, removing about 300 hours of manual work a year.
- Led the Interfolio implementation for faculty appointments, including the integration between Interfolio, Taleo and PeopleSoft HCM. Administer Taleo Enterprise and PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 position control for a 20,000-person employer.
Joined as HRIS Business Analyst in 2020; promoted to Senior in 2022.
2013 – 2019
Human Resources Systems Analyst

Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas
- Administered and developed the firm's HCM systems, then supported its move to Workday: data migration through EIBs, integrations in XML, XSL and Workday Studio, and calculated-field reporting.
- Configured benefits eligibility and rate tables, and built the annual performance review process.
- Built turnover, retention and census reporting in SSIS and SSRS, and ran role-based security that kept PII and HIPAA data restricted.
2013
Database Administrator

WorkflowOne, Addison
- Supported SQL Server database migrations and built notification and bulk data-handling procedures.
2010 – 2013
CRM Application Administrator

Noble Royalties, Addison
- Built the data warehouse, BI dashboards and balanced scorecards for business units at an oil and gas royalty company.
- Used machine learning to help process division orders, around 2011.
2009 – 2010
Adjunct Instructor

ITT Technical Institute, Arlington
- Taught data and voice cabling, personal computers, operating system theory and database development.
2007 – 2009
Business and IT Consultant

Friedays Inc.
- Led ERP and MRP system implementations and conversions.
1999 – 2007
System Administrator

Tipper Tie, Inc.
- Customized and ran the company's Siebel CRM, which won Gartner's 2001 award for best CRM implementation at a midsize company.
- Administered SQL Server, including disaster recovery and security and performance audits.
1985 – 1999
Where it started

Backup Systems, Sanford, North Carolina, 1995 – 1999
- Built PCs from the 486DX to the Pentium, installed Windows 3.1 through 98 and NT 3.5 and 4.0, delivered them to clients and trained the people who would use them.
- Pulled, terminated and tested structured cabling: twinax, Cat 3 to Cat 5, and fiber.
- Tore down and rebuilt PCs in industrial plants.
- Ran software remediation for Sprint and Weavex, June to October 1999.
Before that: writing BASIC programs, starting in 1985.

Education

North Carolina Wesleyan University

Bachelor of Business Administration, Computer and Information Sciences, 2007

Tools I work in

Python
SQL
PowerShell
Claude and LLM agents
Evals and guardrails
PeopleSoft HCM
Workday
Taleo
UKG
Interfolio
SQL Server
SSIS and SSRS
Siebel CRM
Git
Vercel
PC hardware
Structured cabling

Working on AI automation, HR systems, or data in a regulated environment? I'd like to hear about it.

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Jacob Frie

Work

Senior HRIS Analyst

Human Resources Systems Analyst

Database Administrator

CRM Application Administrator

Adjunct Instructor

Business and IT Consultant

System Administrator

Where it started

Education

Tools I work in