Work
From Vision to On-the-Ground Execution: Global Leadership, Systems Thinking & Practical AI
I’ve spent nearly two decades in the software industry building a Quality Assurance practice from scratch, transforming technical writing teams, and directing global technical training and enablement at Liferay, Inc. Leadership, evolution, and transformation have been at the heart of everything I’ve done. And all of it has happened on an international scale—collaborating with distributed teams, building consensus, and developing emerging leaders across cultures and continents throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
But I’m not a wrecking ball. True transformation—with AI or without—demands creativity, patience, and wisdom from aligned teams. My approach is about building bridges across cultures, roles, and organizational levels. I move just as comfortably across continents as I do between individual contributors and CEOs, developers and business analysts, support teams and marketing. Humility, deep empathy for end users, and building a comprehensive understanding of real business problems are central to how I lead.
At the same time, I'm a hands-on builder with a genuine love for technology. With the emergence of modern generative AI and large language models, I focus on turning the promise of AI into everyday business reality—shaping ideas into working solutions, eliminating operational bottlenecks, mitigating hallucinations and LLM weaknesses, and delivering projects, software, and documentation faster and with higher quality than previously possible.
Beyond the enterprise, I care deeply about the intersection of artificial intelligence and the Christian faith. As AI reshapes how we work, learn, and understand human vocation, I want to help churches, faith communities, and leaders navigate these questions with theological grounding, practical literacy, and discernment. I regularly explore these topics in my writing on tech and faith, and I welcome opportunities to speak, teach, and facilitate conversations for churches and Christian organizations.
Featured Work & Projects
From global enterprise platforms to hands-on side projects and homelab experiments.
learn.liferay.com ↗
Conceived and directed the initiative to build learn.liferay.com from the ground up, leading the global cross-functional team of technical writers, designers, and developers who brought it to life. Shaped the strategy, information architecture, and content vision for a unified documentation and enablement platform that serves tens of thousands of enterprise developers worldwide.
movieranker.win ↗
A fun web app for movie lovers to discover and rank films through head-to-head pairwise matchups using an ELO rating system, alongside curated weekly marquee matchups.
jrhoun.com
Personal publishing platform running Ghost CMS in Docker on dedicated home lab hardware. Wired up end-to-end with custom domain routing, transactional and newsletter email delivery via Mailgun, automated daily backups synced offsite, and privacy-conscious analytics powered by Tinybird.
What I Love Helping With
Areas where I help teams, businesses, and communities cut through ambiguity and solve bottlenecks.
Practical AI Workflows
Helping teams apply the latest AI tools to eliminate everyday bottlenecks—speeding up proposals, drafting technical materials, and building agentic pipelines that solve real operational headaches.
AI & Faith: Speaking & Teaching
Engaging churches, Christian organizations, and leadership teams in thoughtful conversations about AI—unpacking its impact on work, ethics, and human dignity through guest speaking, workshops, and guided discussion.
Cross-Cultural Leadership & Alignment
Building consensus across global distributed teams, developing emerging leaders, and aligning diverse stakeholders across cultures and time zones to deliver initiatives smoothly.
Technical Documentation & Systems
Transforming complicated product architectures and processes into clear, maintainable technical writing, user guides, and internal knowledge bases that keep teams aligned.
Software Quality & Testing
Bringing two decades of QA leadership to establish sensible testing strategies, catch critical edge cases early, and ensure products ship with confidence and stability.
Let's Connect
Have an interesting business challenge to solve, an operational bottleneck to streamline, or want to invite me to speak to your community or leadership team about AI and faith? Let’s talk.