Leadership · Project Management · AI Application Development

I lead people, run the schedule, and build the tools that ship it.

Twenty-four and a half years in the U.S. Army — enlisted soldier to field-grade officer. Capital project controls on $50M–$250M programs. And a working practice of building AI systems that solve real operational problems — not demos. I sit at the intersection where strategy, execution, and emerging technology have to actually agree with each other.

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Bart Eskind, in suit and tie, at his desk in Clermont, Florida
ESKIND, B. · CLERMONT, FL

Career Critical Path — 2002 → Present

U.S. Army ENLISTED → OFFICER · RETIRED 2026
Eastman Chemical PROJECT CONTROLS · $50M–$250M CAPITAL
WEDI, Buffalo DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Field-Grade Leadership 10TH MTN · SOCPAC · BDE · WEST POINT
Doctor of Strategic Leadership LIBERTY UNIVERSITY · EXP. 2026
Disney Military Fellowship WDW DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Next Chapter AI-ENABLED OPERATIONS LEADERSHIP

NOTE: Overlapping bars are the point. Leadership never left the critical path.

Capabilities

Three disciplines, one operator

Most people bring one of these. The value is in the seams — leading teams through change, keeping complex work on schedule, and knowing when AI genuinely moves the needle versus when it's a distraction.

A-100 / Leadership

Strategic Leadership

Nearly a quarter century leading soldiers and advising commanders — from a 26-country Indo-Pacific special operations theater to brigade formations to the Corps of Cadets at West Point. Leadership under real stakes, with real people, at every echelon.

  • Command-level advisor at SOCPAC, brigade, and division levels
  • Built and led resilience and readiness programs for thousands
  • Doctoral research: developing strategic leaders inside large institutions
A-200 / Project Management

Project & Program Delivery

Formal project controls background — schedule, cost, and scope on major capital programs at Eastman Chemical, and most recently workforce training systems for Walt Disney World Distribution Services.

  • Project controls on $50M–$250M capital portfolios
  • Primavera P6, SAP, earned value, critical path method
  • B.S. Construction Management (LSU)
A-300 / AI Development

AI Application Development

A working builder, not a slide-deck futurist. I design and run multi-agent AI systems, and I build AI-assisted tools that frontline teams actually use — scoped to the problem, shipped fast, measured honestly.

  • Designed TIMON, a mobile-first training platform for Disney Distribution Services
  • Runs a self-hosted multi-agent stack (research, drafting, ops automation)
  • Built the Scheduler Field Guide — live on this site

Selected Work

Proof, not promises

2026WALT DISNEY WORLD
DISTRIBUTION SERVICES

TIMON — Workforce Training Platform

Designed and built a mobile-first training tracker for all of WDW Distribution Services: task inventories, bilingual task breakdown sheets, train-the-trainer guides, trainer qualification standards, and workforce evaluation checklists — briefed directly to leadership with an executive rollout plan.

One person, one fellowship, a production-grade system from a blank page.

2024–2026LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
DOCTORAL RESEARCH

From Support to Strategy

Doctoral dissertation on enhancing strategic leadership among U.S. Army officers in specialized branches — original qualitative research on how technical experts inside large organizations grow into enterprise-level strategic leaders. The same problem every company scaling AI adoption is quietly facing.

LIVEESKIND.ORG
INTERACTIVE TOOL

Construction Scheduler Field Guide →

An interactive CPM scheduling reference I designed and built with AI — plain-English terms, logic ties, live float calculators, a practice network, and a self-check quiz. Of everything on this page, it's the one artifact you can test yourself in the next ten seconds.

ONGOINGSELF-HOSTED
AI SYSTEMS LAB

Multi-Agent Operations Stack

A self-hosted lab running specialized AI agents for research, drafting, advocacy analysis, and dispatch automation — integrated across chat and messaging interfaces. It's where I pressure-test what agentic AI can reliably do before recommending it for anyone's operation.

Credentials

Credentials on record

In Progress · Exp. 2026

Doctor of Strategic Leadership (Candidate)

Liberty University

Graduate

Master of Divinity

Liberty University

Undergraduate

B.S. Construction Management

Louisiana State University

Service

U.S. Army, Retired

24.5 years · Enlisted to Commissioned Officer

Field Notes

Writing from the intersection

Working notes on leading people through change, keeping complex projects honest, and putting AI to work where it actually earns its keep.

COMING SOON

What the Army Taught Me About Rolling Out AI

AI · Leadership

Adoption is a leadership problem before it's a technology problem. What twenty years of leading change in a large institution predicts about your AI rollout.

COMING SOON

The Critical Path Is a Leadership Document

Project Management

A schedule isn't a spreadsheet — it's a statement about what the team believes. How project controls discipline changes the conversations leaders have.

COMING SOON

Building an AI Agent Stack Without Losing the Plot

AI Development

Lessons from running a self-hosted multi-agent system: what agents are reliably good at, where they quietly fail, and how to scope them for real operations.

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