Colin Fritz
Austin
Summary
Results driven technical leader with a track record of driving more than a hundred million dollars in direct business value through the implementation of AI systems. "Every business is just an algorithm".
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder & CEO
Strategia
12.2025 - Current
- Crafted Data/AI vendor strategy and data engineering backend for FanFlux, a sports sponsorship intelligence SaaS. System processes 20Billion data points every day, trains ML models to predict sponsor performance, with monthly spend of 75k just for data supplier cost.
- Took FanFlux product from struggling to onboarding enterprise customers like Allstate Insurance in less than 120 days.
- Crafted AI vendor strategy for Compass Surgical, identified 1.1million in immediate EBITDA savings across 60 surgical centers.
- Added 1million in EBITDA in under 6 months by leading AI vendor integration at Kizuki Ramen.
AI Engineer ~ Managing Consultant
Capgemini
07.2022 - 12.2026
- Led teams of AI/ML software engineers designing, building, and scaling products to production for Fortune 500 clients.
- Responsible for technical and career development of junior and mid level talent. Built and led internal GenAI Incubator of 50 employees to continuously build Agentic tools for client demos and automating internal work.
- Owned more than 10million dollars annually in technical sales pipeline. RFP responses to financial modeling, through to leading delivery with my engineering team.
- Raised venture capital from the internal investment board to recruit a team of engineers and subject matter experts to build one of the first Agentic accelerators at Capgemini. Ultimately driving 30million dollars in sales across European data governance initiatives. Positioned Capgemini as a thought leader in Agentic design.
- Tech stack for products built include Azure web apps, Azure VMs, python, react, fastAPI, Azure cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Azure functions, Langchain, LangGraph, pytorch, Snowflake, Azure Databricks etc.
AI Engineer ~ Senior Consultant
Capgemini
02.2021 - 01.2022
- Built internal Agentic chatbot for 10,000 employee users at Ahold Delhaize. Eliminated 1million dollars in annual labor spend on internal customer service tasks.
- Built dynamic pricing, demand forecasting, and inventory optimization solutions in Azure Databricks for GAP Inc. Achieved 5% in margin lift across a 40 store A/B test deployment of the solution.
- Built a custom product using a YOLO based computer vision model to automatically extract information from vendor product photos and enter the data into Ahold Delhaize's master data management system. Eliminated 1million dollars in data entry labor annually.
- Built a full production deployment processing 400k lease documents using Azure ML/Document intelligence on Azure Databricks, storing them in a Neo4j knowledge graph, and exposing the graph through an Agentic chatbot to enhance the leasing SMEs ability to process leasing changes using purely natural language communication. Thousands of hours in efficiency added annually.
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Northern Illinois University
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Graduate researcher in the electrical engineering college focused on building machine learning systems for electrical circuit design, motor control, and predictive maintenance.
- Three semesters of purely extended Masters Thesis research hours in the electrical engineering department.
- Designed electrical systems for UTC Aerospace as a paid full time Co-op electrical engineer in the electromagnetics laboratory for four semesters.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL05-2019
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL05-2017
Skills
- Leadership and business turnarounds
- Azure architect and software engineer
- AI & Agentic system architect
Timeline
Founder & CEO
Strategia
12.2025 - Current
AI Engineer ~ Managing Consultant
Capgemini
07.2022 - 12.2026
AI Engineer ~ Senior Consultant
Capgemini
02.2021 - 01.2022
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Northern Illinois University
01.2017 - 01.2019
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
Northern Illinois University
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Northern Illinois University