About Adam Wentworth
From Oil Fields to AI Systems
40 years of solving problems that matter. Here's how a kid from Bakersfield ended up building AI systems for businesses across the country.
The Short Version
I've been solving complex technical problems since before AI was a buzzword. From programming predictive models at Saudi Aramco to managing $36 million in school construction across California, I've learned one thing: technology only works when it's built into a system.
That's what I do now. I help businesses build AI systems that actually produce results, not just demos. I'm not a career consultant who reads case studies. I'm an operator who's spent decades in the field and at the keyboard, building things that have to work under real pressure.
I still manage active construction projects. I still write code. I still solve problems every day. That's the difference between someone who talks about systems and someone who lives inside them.
How I Got Here
Oil & Gas Operations
Started as a field hand, worked up to Company Man and Wellbore Superintendent. Managed drilling, completions, and well intervention for Saudi Aramco, Pioneer Natural Resources, Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, and Aera Energy across the US, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Canada.
AI & Machine Learning at Aramco
Built real AI/ML systems at Saudi Aramco: TensorFlow models, IBM Watson integrations, magnetic flux survey correction, BHA dynamics and fatigue modeling, EM waveform propagation, and Fourier transforms for through-earth telemetry. Production systems, not experiments.
Construction Management
Senior Project Manager at Fonder-Salari Inc. Managing $36M+ in K-12 school construction for Inglewood USD, Bakersfield City School District, and Beverly Hills USD. Full lifecycle: DSA compliance, multi-prime coordination, change orders, RFIs, submittals, and close-out.
The AI Systems Guy
Combining 40+ years of operational experience with AI implementation expertise. Helping businesses build systems that work, measure, and improve themselves through the AOS Protocol. Building Erector.pro, an AI-native construction management platform.
Systems Over Heroics
The AOS Protocol didn't come from a textbook. It came from decades of watching smart people fail because they relied on individual effort instead of building systems.
In oil fields, one wrong decision can cost millions or put lives at risk. In construction, a missed detail in a $12 million school project cascades into months of delays. These environments taught me that the only thing you can count on is your system.
The AOS Protocol is grounded in two proven frameworks: E-Myth systematization (build the business so it runs without depending on any single person) and Kaizen continuous improvement (every system has a built-in mechanism to get better). AI is just the implementation vehicle.
Beyond the Resume
I'm based in Bakersfield, California. Every day I make a 6-hour round-trip commute to Inglewood to manage construction projects. That drive became my thinking lab, my podcast studio, and the place where most of my best ideas take shape.
I've been programming since the Apple IIe days. I'm also a working artist: murals, oil paintings, large-scale sculptures. My ShePower/CRC Black History Mural project and "Keep America Beautiful" wildlife conservation art are probably the work I'm most proud of. I believe creativity and engineering are the same muscle, just applied differently.
My family runs 360 Tan, a tanning salon in Bakersfield. It was actually one of the first businesses where I tested AI voice receptionist systems. When your own family's livelihood is on the line, you build things that work.