Principal Enterprise Architect
Mike Reams
I design and govern the systems enterprises actually run on — ServiceNow, CMDBs, and cloud platforms — and I write about what it takes to change them without breaking anything.
- 26 yrs · enterprise systems
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- AI Consultant
- 2 companies co-founded
Status / now
Leading technical architecture across Sherwin-Williams' enterprise platform estate, and running an architecture knowledge base that an AI curates and architects ratify.
Selected work
All 15 projects →PRJ · 2026
Ad hoc CMDB queries to Governed console
EA Console: A Governed Workbench for the CMDB
A self-hosted console and MCP server for querying and safely updating a ServiceNow CMDB, with a local AI assistant grounded in the architecture knowledge base.
- ServiceNow
- CMDB
- AI
PRJ · 2024
Scattered EA docs to AI-maintained graph
AI-Maintained Architecture Second-Brain Repository
An AI-maintained, governed knowledge base for an enterprise architecture practice: immutable sources in, cross-linked wiki out, run under a written operating contract.
- AI
- Claude
- Enterprise Architecture
PRJ · 2023
WS2012 to WS2022
Key Management Services Upgrade
Moved a client's KMS activation host off end-of-support Windows Server 2012 onto 2022, right after the PKI upgrade.
- KMS
- PKI
- Volume License
Writing
All 14 posts →- 5 min
Two Tiers: Spend the Expensive Model Only on Judgment
Split long-running AI work by how much reasoning it needs: a strong model for judgment and schema, a cheaper model running bounded skills, and one rule that decides between them.AI · Claude - 6 min
Sessions Forget: Designing Resume State for AI Agents
AI sessions lose everything that lives only in context. A resume page, a ruled-out list, and fixed close and boot rituals keep long-running AI work intact across days and machines.AI · Claude - 5 min
Never Let the Generator Grade Its Own Work
How a separate, skeptical AI reviewer — one that assumes the work is wrong, runs the checks, and never fixes its own findings — made an AI-maintained knowledge base trustworthy.AI · Claude