Drew Breyer

Solution architecture · Regulated systems · Applied AI

Drew Breyer

I design security-minded enterprise systems for financial institutions and help the people responsible for them make clear technical decisions.

More than twelve years across solution engineering, enterprise CRM, cybersecurity, and applied AI in regulated environments. The independent work here applies the same discipline to finance and practical systems: state the assumptions, expose the tradeoffs, and make the result understandable.

Selected work  ·  Finance research  ·  Contact

Professional work

Selected engagements

Work I can discuss in depth. Client and program details remain abstract where the engagement is confidential.

Global customer experience platform

Fortune 50 capital markets

Led architecture and stakeholder alignment for a customer-facing platform connecting CRM, identity, analytics, and downstream services. The work required a control model that could meet regulatory and security expectations without making adoption an afterthought.

Architecture · CRM · Identity · Security

Enterprise CRM modernization

Insurance & banking

Owned technical strategy across a portfolio of CRM transformations, including integration design, access controls, data ownership, and adoption planning for programs serving thousands of users.

CRM · Integration · Compliance · Adoption

AI-assisted advisory workflows

Financial services

Designed workflows that pair conversational tools with live enterprise context while preserving permissions, source traceability, and audit boundaries. The interface was the visible layer; governance and integration were the system.

Applied AI · Agents · Architecture · Governance

How I work

One system, several disciplines

The common thread is a complex decision under real constraints: security, integration, governance, adoption, and an audience that needs the tradeoff stated plainly.

Solution architecture

Architecture, integration, and stakeholder alignment for enterprise programs spanning customer platforms, identity, analytics, and downstream systems.

Cybersecurity & risk

Threat-aware design, least-privilege controls, and governance that can withstand audit, operational pressure, and incident response.

Applied AI

Agent and conversational workflows built around real constraints: data access, auditability, system boundaries, and measurable outcomes.

Executive communication

Technical decisions framed in terms of business risk, operating tradeoffs, and the evidence a senior stakeholder needs to act.

Research and writing

Solved Problems in Personal Finance

Nine cited, interactive publications about durable financial decisions. The sequence moves from arithmetic, evidence, and model boundaries to purpose, non-sovereign assets, and the forms of control a household actually owns.

Series overview, methods, and glossary

  1. The Arithmetic of Fees ↗

    What do recurring costs do to long-horizon wealth?

  2. A Wide & Deep Pond ↗

    Why does diversification change the range of outcomes?

  3. The Yield Illusion ↗

    When is investment income a label for total return?

  4. The Myth Ledger ↗

    Where do familiar personal-finance rules stop working?

  5. Retirement Money Secrets: An Evidence Review ↗

    What does an income-first closed-end-fund strategy establish?

  6. The Employer Stock Transition Guide ↗

    How should a household price the decision to diversify employer stock?

  7. The House Percentage: A Note for Michael Batnick ↗

    What does the vig take, and how sharp do you have to be to clear it?

  8. What Money Is For ↗

    Once the arithmetic is sound, what is the money for?

  9. The Bearer Asset: Bitcoin, Crypto, and the Price of Control ↗

    What can a non-sovereign asset be worth when it pays no cash flow?

Professional prototypes

Methods made concrete

The demo harness ↗

Field manual

A worked example of using custom agents, MCP, and browser automation to carry a Dynamics 365 demonstration from account research through delivery. It shows the operating method around the demo, not only the finished screen.

Agent systems · Enterprise demos · Research workflow

Stablecoin wallet concept ↗

Mobile prototype

A USDC-backed banking concept that follows conversion, remittance, and 2-of-3 threshold custody through a regulated-bank experience. The prototype makes security and product tradeoffs inspectable on a phone.

Digital money · Custody · Product design

Other projects

Personal systems and field guides

Smaller tools built around interests I practice: photography, training, and food.

The a6700 field guide ↗

Field manual

A practical course, recipe deck, and toolset for photography and video with the camera and lenses I use.

The Engine Room ↗

Training tool

A deterministic daily training programmer grounded in interval, concurrent-training, spine, and recovery literature.

Bowl Forge ↗

Nutrition tool

An exact-gram meal calculator that uses constrained least-squares fitting and reports honest deltas when a macro target is infeasible.

Background

Recognition and credentials

Awards

  • Microsoft Innovation Award 2025
  • Titanium Dynamics Deal Winner · Microsoft 2020
  • Living Our Culture Award 2018
  • Oracle Best Presentation Award 2016
  • Oracle LaunchPad Program 2013

Education and certifications

  • M.S. Cybersecurity · University of Texas at Dallas
  • B.S. Communication · St. John's University, Collegeville
  • CompTIA Security+
  • Microsoft Certified · Dynamics 365 + Applied AI
  • Conversational Spanish

Sourcebook

Reading and references

A maintained list of sources I return to across risk, financial systems, security, enterprise technology, and decision-making. It is curated reading, not a list of my publications.

Browse the sourcebook

Contact

A useful next conversation

For senior solution engineering or architecture work in regulated environments, connect with me on LinkedIn.