Chris France

40 years building technology. Now building with AI.

Operations Manager, Digital Practice & Technology · AECOM

What I've Built
Query-Driven Memory
Persistent AI memory with vector similarity retrieval. Memories reinforce with use, decay over time, and resurface automatically when relevant.
React · FastAPI · Qdrant · Ollama
Model Security Scanner
Automated LLM vulnerability testing across 10 attack categories — prompt injection, jailbreaking, data extraction. Scans local and cloud models.
React · FastAPI · Ollama · Claude API
Local RAG System
Private document-grounded chat. Upload documents, ask questions, get sourced answers. Fully local — no API keys, no cloud dependencies.
Docker · Qdrant · Ollama · Open WebUI
AI Inference Cost Calculator
Total cost of ownership for GPU builds vs cloud inference. Break-even analysis across 6 hardware tiers over 36 months.
React · FastAPI · Recharts
Datacenter Demand Simulator
Monte Carlo capacity forecasting across compute, storage, power, and cooling. AI-powered scenario analysis with decision timelines.
React · FastAPI · Ollama · Recharts
DC Optimization & Valuation
Datacenter investment analysis for PE/VC. Financial modeling, M&A valuation, and deal memos across 14 global markets.
React · FastAPI · Recharts
AssetPulse
Transit asset management platform built on public MBTA data. FTA condition scoring, capital planning, and state-of-good-repair analysis across 200+ assets.
React · FastAPI · SQLite · Recharts
CIO in the AI World
12-lecture executive education course. Strategy frameworks, live demos, and implementation playbooks for enterprise AI adoption.
React · FastAPI · HTML5 Slides
Enterprise Production Platform
Full-stack model health scoring with 31 automated metrics, 209 passing tests, C# cloud extraction pipeline, and 15 dashboard pages.
React · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · C# · Autodesk APS
Orphan X — Autodesk DevCon 2026 First Place
Winning hackathon entry at Autodesk DevCon 2026 (Amsterdam). AI-powered MEP audit tool that detects dead legs in hospital domestic-water systems — a leading source of Legionnaires' disease. Extracts Revit topology via Dynamo, sends it to a remote MCP server for Claude analysis, then colors elements in the model by risk severity. "AI saves lives" theme — humanitarian framing won the room.
Python · Dynamo · FastMCP · Claude · Revit API · SSE/JSON-RPC
Black Hat Attack Vectors Stopped
Adversarial security suite that thinks like an attacker, not a developer. 217 individual tests across 18 attack categories — JWT forgery, RBAC and IDOR escalation, SQL/code/path injection, file-upload abuse, race conditions, supply-chain compromise, Linux privesc, post-exploitation, tunneling bypass, LLM jailbreaks, container escapes, TLS & header hardening, and AI-powered source-code review via Claude Code Security. Every production app I ship is pushed through this suite as a build gate before it goes live — the count keeps growing as new attack patterns surface.
Python · pytest · Nmap · OSCP-aligned · OWASP · Claude Code Security
DevOps Portal
Infrastructure control plane for AI-powered apps. App registry, GPU monitoring, deploy/rollback, LLM load balancing, API cost tracking, and an embedded AI ops assistant — all from one dashboard.
Next.js · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Docker · Prometheus · Grafana
Ask to Cash
Enterprise lifecycle platform tracking projects from BD pipeline through proposals, execution, and closeout. Role-gated dashboards, win/loss analytics, and lessons learned engine.
React · FastAPI · SQLite · Autodesk OAuth2
AI Executive Assistant
IP-protected email triage across multiple accounts with local LLM classification, calendar-aware meeting prep, real-time action item extraction from transcripts, and prioritized briefings — all processed on-device.
Python · Ollama · IMAP · CalDAV · Whisper
CIO in the AI World — Courses & Book
AI Strategy & Leadership — The Book
Volume 1 of the CIO in the AI World series. 15 chapters, 200+ pages. Every framework personally implemented. Every cost comparison uses real numbers.
Kindle · $9.99 · Available on Amazon
Courses
Foundation Course
7 lectures · The AI inflection point, LLMs demystified, finding your $250K moment, legacy code, shadow IT, offshore arbitrage, SaaS renegotiation.
Udemy · 1 hour · 7 live demos · Enroll on Udemy
Advanced Course
8 lectures · IT strategy, CIO communication, build vs buy, leading teams, AI governance, 90-day roadmap, team building, vendor risk.
Udemy · 1 hour · 8 live demos · Enroll on Udemy
I've been working with AI since the 1980s at IBM — back when it was expert systems and neural nets that couldn't scale. I started as a software engineer and know first-hand how tedious it is to build and maintain code manually. Over 40 years I moved into leading technology organizations — managing teams, budgets, and enterprise infrastructure. I understood deeply what needed to be built and how painful and costly it was to build it.
In December 2025, AI finally caught up. Claude Code changed the equation. In my first 10 weeks, I built 9 applications and 43,000 lines of production code — not by writing code full-time, but by directing Claude in focused sessions between meetings, conference calls, and life. I'd describe what I needed, kick off a build, and come back to working software. The portfolio keeps growing. The traditional estimate for just that initial sprint: 2–3 specialists, 17 months, $250,000+.
10 wks
First sprint
vs 17 months traditional
9
Apps in that sprint
43,000 lines of code
1
Person
vs 2–3 specialists
~$500
Tool cost
vs $250K+ traditional
Claude Code doesn't replace developers. It eliminates the translation layer between "the person who knows what needs to be built" and "the person who knows how to build it." When those are the same person — augmented by AI — the result is transformative.
Every project on this page was built with Claude Code (Anthropic).