ActionableOps

ActionableOps is an AI consulting company that helps businesses unlock AI's potential to excel in their operations. We specialize in guiding companies through the AI landscape with services such as AI governance, Responsible AI, AI Policy development, AI Ethics, AI Training, and AI Implementation. Partnering with industry leaders like Textcortex and MindStudio, we ensure that our clients gain the knowledge and tools needed to thrive with AI.

Founder / AI Consulting

Kansas City AI Club

Primary Purpose: Foster awareness, adoption, and hands-on learning of the latest AI technologies by leading discussions, events, and workshops tailored to real-world business applications.

Key Responsibilities:
 - Technology Trends Leadership in AI
 - Curate and present emerging AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, voice agents, AI-driven automation).
 - Deliver accessible, business-focused insights on cutting-edge advancements.
 - Business Use Case Applications
 - Develop and showcase practical AI use cases (e.g., AI in customer service, operations, or marketing).

Workshops & Education
 - Organize hands-on workshops to teach members how to apply AI in real-world business settings.
 - Guide participants through implementation frameworks tailored to their industries.
 - Event Programming Support
 - Host and facilitate demos at Kansas City AI Club meetups.
 - Develop quarterly in-person or virtual workshop series, such as "AI Applications for Business Success."

Board Chair - Emerging Tech

UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Management

The Regnier Institute Mentor in Residence Program connects seasoned mentors with student entrepreneurs in need of a helpful ear.

Mentor-In-Residence

National Speakers Association-Kansas City Chapter

Speaker

MindStudio

Agency Partner

RunWhen

RunWhen is a platform for troubleshooting complex tech stacks. It helps engineers identify when issues they are chasing lie in their app, their cloud-native platform or their vendors by answering the question: “What do I run and when?”

Advisor

Nobl9

Nobl9 is a service level objective SaaS platform that connects reliability metrics to business goals via a modern engineering workflow. Backed by CRV, Battery, Bonfire Ventures, Harmony Partners Cisco and ServiceNow.

Director of Operations

Code Ninjas

Code Ninjas is the world's largest and fastest growing in person children's franchise startup, that teaches kids how to code computers by building video games. Backed by Eagle Merchant Partners.

Director of Operations / Owner

OMT Brands

OMT Brands created a line of consumable pet products to be marketed and sold online through Amazon FBA and the Amazon, Ebay, Sears, and Walmart marketplaces.

Director of E-commerce Operations

City of Lakewood, Washington

Police Officer

🚀 Founder | Startup Operations Executive | Business Scaling Expert | Data Analytics | P&L Management | Process Optimization | Customer-Centric | Revenue Growth | Operational Efficiency | SaaS | Change Management

I’m Dale Thomas and here’s my story in a nutshell. 

- Authored the best-selling book “The Ultimate A.I. Guide for Small Business Success.” 
- Founded several technology businesses
- 20+ years of operations experience in Start-Ups and Enterprise (Ex - Microsoft) 
- Focused on helping SMB’s make sense of AI.  I specialize in AI agents, AI Consulting, responsible AI, ethical AI, policy creation, governance, and implementation of AI solutions. 

What you’ll get by following me: 
🔥Transparent & actionable AI advice
📆 Tips and Tricks Implementing AI Agents
🔍 Insights on implementing ethical AI practices
📢 Up-to-date information on AI regulations and legislation  

AI Partnerships
* TextCortex AI Partner - get a free account https://textcortex.com?via=ops 

A.I. Education
* MindStudio Certified AI Expert
* The London School of Economics - Ethics of AI 
* University of Pennsylvania - AI For Business
* Vanderbilt University - Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
* MindStudio Certified AI Developer

Struggling to make sense of AI for your small to medium-sized business? 

I’m here to help - so hit that “Follow” button!  

Dale

Dale Thomas

ARIADNE THREAD Solutions

Leading creation of mobile, SaaS and AI customisable chatbot solutions.
Building distributed project teams and network of trust and advocacy.
Check our "services" page.

Founder, Software Development Consultant

My Safety Circle

Founder

Uber Biz

Lead Fullstack .NET Developer

Ipsos

Senior .NET Developer (Fullstack)

NSW Fire and Rescue

Major Projects:
eAIRS (2014-2015)
•	Participated to AIRS system reverse engineering and to the gathering requirements
•	Assessed formalised data gathering requirements 
•	Worked out  Core system architecture 
•	Developed Core system elements (DB structure, DB Server logics and ORM elements)
•	Outlined GUI (Front-End) architecture and developed the skeleton GUI
•	Guided the team to follow the developed design
•       Mentored the development team to ensure the developments standards met
•	Implemented many critical elements and mentored the team in implementing the system in efficient and transparent way.
•	Ensured the developed software runs smoothly in corporate environment (virtualised Windows 2008R2 servers, IIS7, Oracle 11g - 12i databases etc)
Technologies applied: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2012 (VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, JSON, JQuery, JQueryUI, Bootstrap, Oracle11g and 12i, pl-sql, MSSQL2008, 2012, web services(REST)

COMMANDER'S TOOLKIT (2012-2013)
•	took over a prototype and refactored the project to utilise Sencha MVC model
•	Developed  a number of tools for easier positioning and POI graphical representation on map.
•	Designed and developed Graphics library to enable integartion of corporate data into Google map GUI.
•	Performed the database design and development in order to support the Graphics library
•	Designed and developed an enhanced Incident Search tool to allow setting complex search param combinations
•	Made the Commander toolkit able to connect to the online document database and access and display on the device screen the documents real time.
Applied technologies / Tools:  Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, JSON.NET), Sencha2, JQuery, JSON2,  Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL Server  2005, IIS6, 7

Senior .NET Developer  | Tech Lead (.NET, Mobiles, MSSQL, Oracle), SAP Integration consultant

NEMMCO

I was responsible for the improvement of functionality of a number existing business units of Market Management System (MMS) and development of new ones in order to provide project deliveries along the Company’s project plans.
In particular my responsibilities include:
-	application design, code review and optimization, 
-	troubleshooting and working-out  solutions 
-	design and optimization of database related system modules (Oracle, MSSQL)
-	system analyses, reverse engineering of existing solutions and redesigning  them according to current development strategy
-	functional requirements analysis and creating technical requirements on this base, documenting created solutions.

Senior Analyst Programmer

BAT Russia

Responsible for gathering business requirements, preparing business case documents, liaison with outsourced development teams and business departments, communicating corporate IT policies to business departments, running small projects as a project leader.
In cooperation with CS/3 business analyst was responsible for data migration task on SAP HR implementation program. And in cooperation with SAP HR developer-consultant was responsible for integration of BAT Russia inhouse developed applications to SAP HR.

IT Business Analyst

I was responsible for the implementation and on-going support and software development for STREAM project covering the whole BAT logistics network. This network links more than 150 regional product warehouses and over 20 hub warehouses. The STREAM software system was a mission-critical system for documenting and controlling stock movements, keeping the information about distributed stock, and demand forecasting. 
I in cooperation with 2 fellow analyst/programmers created a Business Intelligent solution with a help of Business Objects data mining system. Created a Universe, described business model, wrote report.

Programmer Analyst

Direct Info

Responsibilities:
•	to define  the company’s software development strategy to fulfil the company needs in statistical data processing.
•	to perform the design of business critical system and the design implementation 
•	to manage outsourced company web-site development and to manage several web-projects (online marketing statistical services) as well 
•	Provided training and guidance to the company’s personnel.
•	 Interacted with the customers in the sphere of business need clarification, writing technical specifications and requirements, organising product support and teaching the customer’s staff.

Senior Programmer

Custom mobile and SaaS solutions. Building network of trust and advocacy.

HOW CAN I HELP YOU?  There are at least two ways: 

Firstly, I can help you through the value of my network. You and I might not be in a position to do business today,  it is likely I know people who will be great connections for you.  These people solve various business / personality / health and other problems that I do not address and who you might want to have in your network. In turn, people may find it valuable to have you in their network.
I am always happy to help like-minded others, who share the same paying forward approach.
If you share that, then let's connect here and I look forward to meeting you in person.
   
Secondly, as a professional (Hands-on developer, Architect, Team Lead),  I help my customers resolving complex technology related problems, building effective and efficient software solutions. My team and I manage to deliver solutions in a wide range:
✔	web applications and web sites
✔	mobile apps and SaaS
✔	business intelligence solutions
✔	enterprise service bus solutions (macro- and microservices)
✔	integration solutions including integration with major ERP systems (SAP, NAV and others)
✔	data warehousing solutions and many others

 Specialties and Core Skills
 
✔	Business Intelligence
✔	Business Analysis
✔	Requirements Analysis
✔	Solution Architecture
✔	Software Design & Documentation
✔	Mobile Solutions Development

✔	Oracle Database Development
✔	Microsoft SQL Server Development
✔	Data Migration
✔	Data Warehousing
✔	.NET (VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET)
✔	Web Forms, MVC
✔	Entity Framework 
✔	JavaScript, jQuery, jQueryUI, AngularJS, Bootstrap etc
✔	Sharepoint 2010, 2013
✔	SQL (including PL/SQL,  T-SQL)
✔	Managing hosting in Azure and AWS clouds
✔	SAP 
✔	SAP HR 
✔	SAP FI
✔	ABAP
✔	Delphi 
✔	Object Pascal

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