Resume
Charles Jones
AI Platform Engineer · Marine Engineer · Phillipsburg, NJ · charlie@callcharlie.io
Twenty years in engine rooms, seven building software — concurrent, not sequential. I design and ship governance servers, agent runtimes, and static web platforms with a focus on proof and scale.
Experience
Founder / Principal Engineer · Call Charlie Holdings LLC
Jan 2026 – Present
Everything above. Sole operator: product, engineering, infrastructure, growth, and the AI toolchain that multiplies one seat into a team. 1.35M production pages shipped across two properties in the company's first seven months.
TypeScript · Astro · Google Cloud Platform (GCP) · BigQuery · Cloud Run · Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Chief Engineer · Vessels to 55m · M/Y Bad Company
Aug 2024 – Jan 2026
Sole engineer under MCA Chief Engineer certification; concurrently built software and development infrastructure aboard — the period in which LLM-assisted development matured from working practice into the production toolchain that now runs Call Charlie Holdings.
Marine engineering · LLM-assisted development
Chief Engineer & Fleet Engineer · 44–55m, six-vessel fleet · Fleet Miami / M/Y Usher
Jun 2021 – Mar 2024
Chief Engineer aboard M/Y Usher and Fleet Engineer across a six-yacht fleet: maintenance strategy, budgets, crew training, vendor relations, documentation oversight, emergency response — readiness guaranteed across all hulls simultaneously. Adopted large language models into daily engineering practice from their public release in late 2022 — operations tooling, documentation systems, and the first agent experiments, built from the engine control room. Qualified MCA Chief Engineer Officer (III/2 Y2), examined and passed March 2024.
Fleet engineering · Maintenance strategy
Field Service Engineer / Project Manager · concurrent with fleet duty · Marine Network Services
Jun 2023 – Dec 2023
Vessel IT infrastructure at enterprise standard: network administration, cybersecurity, Starlink installation and integration design, WiFi backhaul, 5G upgrades, SD-WAN configuration, prototyping; AV/IT systems oversight through the M/Y No Bad Ideas refit. The engagement began in the engine control room — Starlink integrations designed dockside during fleet duty — and became the bridge from marine systems into full-time software and network engineering.
SD-WAN · Starlink · Cybersecurity · Network administration
Sole Engineer · 38m Heesen · M/Y Sea Axis
Nov 2020 – Jun 2021
Sole engineer on an active charter vessel across ten Exumas charters: built the preventative-maintenance system; repaired and commissioned auxiliary systems including the vessel monitoring system; planned the ABS yard period three to four months out.
Preventative maintenance · Vessel monitoring
Chief Engineer (temporary) · 46m · M/Y Excellence
Jul 2020 – Nov 2020
Carried the vessel through its ten-year ABS survey and yard period: recommissioned main propulsion and generation after overhaul, closed all contractor work across power, hydraulics, steering, electrical and plumbing.
ABS survey · Propulsion recommissioning
Department Lead · Advanced Mechanical Enterprises
2018 – 2020
First professional chapter in machinery data: condition monitoring and predictive maintenance for marine and industrial assets; laser and optical alignment procedures perfected; welding department certified through ABS for four alloy families.
Condition monitoring · Predictive maintenance · Laser alignment
Project Manager / Combination Welder · American Marine Repair Inc.
Mar 2006 – Apr 2018
Twelve years from certified welder to Project Manager: led the three-year M/Y Arcadia rebuild from bare hull, with every system installed and commissioned (engines, generation, fuel, HVAC, water, fire defense, electronics, wiring); fabricated and shipped M/Y Voyager's complete superstructure; liaison to Lloyds, ABS and USCG surveyors; led and trained a team of six.
Project management · Structural welding · Systems commissioning
Education
A.A.
Miami Dade College
2014 – 2014
Master Welder Certificate
Earle C. Clements Academy
Lloyds and ABS 4G/6G structural and pipe welding certifications (2018).
2004 – 2004
Skills
Fluent / daily: TypeScript & JavaScript (Node), Astro / SSG architecture, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — Firebase Hosting, Firestore, Cloud Run, IAM, BigQuery, Cloud Scheduler, Claude Code & agentic development toolchains, MCP server development, Enterprise technical SEO, Structured data / schema, HTML / CSS
Working proficiency · AI-directed: Python, SQL (BigQuery analytics in production), Bash, Network engineering (SD-WAN, Starlink, cybersecurity fundamentals — field-deployed)
AI platforms: Anthropic Claude (agents, MCP, evaluations), Google Gemini / Vertex AI (Agent SDK, Model Garden)
Practices: Manifest-verified deploys, Gated release pipelines, Observability & honest-failure instrumentation, Security-first IAM (keyless service accounts, least privilege)
Selected projects
callcharlie-ops
A governance Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that executes filed protocols rather than restating them — and refuses when the estate has moved since the ruling.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) · OAuth 2.1 · Cloud Run · BigQuery · Python
Ingenium
Agent identity and agent governance built from contracts down — a cryptographic seal at genesis, append-only state, and a turn cycle that can refuse.
Agent runtime · Cryptographic identity · Append-only state
WebMCP readiness
Making an independent business site legible to AI agents on purpose. The platforms ship agent-readiness to businesses; almost nobody authors it themselves. That gap is the service.
WebMCP · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Structured data · Astro · Static output
Certifications
- MCA Chief Engineer Officer — Certificate of Competency (United Kingdom)Maritime & Coastguard Agency · Yachts to 3000GT / 6000kW · CoC 5158521 · qualified 7 March 2024, valid to 14 March 2029 · a national-authority examined credential, verifiable with the UK MCA · 2024
- STCW suite — Approved Engine Course 1 & 2, Advanced Firefighting, Medical First Aid, Human Element Leadership & Management, Survival Craft & Rescue Boats, Designated Security DutiesMaritime Professional Training, Ft. Lauderdale · —
- TWIC — Transportation Worker Identification CredentialTSA / DHS · federal security threat assessment including FBI fingerprint background check · renewed 2025, valid to May 2030 · 2025
- Google Cloud and AWS professional cloud certifications — IN PROGRESSListed as in progress because they are not yet earned. · 2026