Do IT Right Consultants brings founder-led enterprise architecture experience across energy, waste management, rail technology, AI infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, and nonprofit systems of record. We translate complex business and operational requirements into secure, supportable, and scalable technology foundations.
The engagements below reflect representative, founder-led architecture experience — real systems that Derrick Schmenk has designed, built, integrated, secured, and operated across more than two decades in the field — and the discipline we bring to every Do IT Right client engagement.
A sample of the environments and architecture problems behind the firm.
Built a secure, standalone enterprise infrastructure roadmap for a distributed power-generation environment — aligning identity, network, cybersecurity, remote access, monitoring, documentation, and plant-to-enterprise connectivity into a supportable operating model. The architecture supported plant-to-enterprise integration across SCADA, Modbus TCP/IP telemetry, and PI data pathways, with secure collaboration between IT, OT, vendors, operations, and executive leadership.
Architected and scaled industrial AI infrastructure for real-time rail inspection — combining high-speed imaging, GPU-enabled processing, high-throughput storage, remote administration, and operational monitoring to support AI-driven inspection at the industrial edge.
Led distributed IT operations and systems standardization across a national waste-management footprint — improving resilience, service consistency, operational visibility, and support quality across more than 200 sites. Reduced operational friction through process standardization, support-model improvements, and infrastructure rationalization.
Designed low-cost, open-source platforms for nonprofit organizations that needed enterprise-grade controls without enterprise licensing overhead. Delivered centralized authentication, role-based access, hardened hosting patterns, backup and recovery discipline, audit-friendly workflows, and a stronger security posture — preserving budget for the mission.
The same discipline, applied to your environment.
Secure, supportable foundations that connect enterprise IT with field operations — identity, segmentation, remote access, monitoring, and plant-to-enterprise integration.
High-performance platforms where physical-world data is captured, processed, and acted on in near real time — edge imaging, GPU inferencing, and high-throughput storage.
Order for complex, distributed environments: standardized infrastructure, support models, reporting, and governance for better visibility and resilience across sites.
The operational backbone of an organization — clean data models, secure authentication, role-based access, auditability, integration, and long-term maintainability.
Enterprise-grade security without enterprise licensing — open-source systems of record, centralized auth, workflow automation, and data protection that protect the mission budget.
Not a bolt-on: IAM, MFA, conditional access, privileged-access discipline, segmentation, audit logging, backup and recovery, and governance that stays usable for real teams.
Public coverage of the founder-led rail-AI work at Duos Technologies.
From standalone infrastructure to AI at the edge, let's architect a foundation your team can actually run.