I'm a systems-level engineer and founder dedicated to building AI products that give people control over their digital identity. For over 15 years, I've designed enterprise systems that remove friction, protect reputation, and automate the mundane. Today, I focus on the intersection of AI clarity, personal identity, and automation.
"I build AI systems that give people clarity and control."
Clarity
Remove friction from digital life.
Identity
Protect what defines you.
Automation
Free people from repetitive work.
Darrance Tezino
Director of Technology · Founder
CenterPoint Energy · Houston, TX
“A reference point of excellence for executive-level technical service.”Supported by a recent CEO letter of recommendation.
Issued by a current industry CEO — attesting to executive-level discretion, technical leadership, and C-suite execution.
The Architecture
Each product solves one core human problem. Together, they form a unified system architected around 7 pillars.
✦ 7 Pillars · 19 Products · 1 Integrated System ✦
RemoveMeAI
Automatically remove your personal data from 150+ data broker sites. Protect your privacy at scale.
Gold connections show how products within each pillar work together — all 7 pillars converging at the center into one integrated ecosystem.
Proof over aesthetics — tangible outcomes that change how people live.
Content removed.
IDFixerAI — negative result deleted from search.
Memory preserved.
AI Soul Replica — your voice eternalized.
Privacy restored.
RemoveMeAI — personal data removed.
Clarity achieved.
DocuHelperAI — legal risk surfaced.
Waste eliminated.
Budget Me Now — $400+ monthly savings found.
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Real results. Real people. Real change.
Darrance Tezino
Founder & Systems Architect
Building AI systems for clarity, identity, and autonomy.
I spent 15+ years building enterprise systems where every decision had to scale across millions of users. That taught me that problems aren't solved with features—they're solved with systems.
But I realized the most important problems weren't in boardrooms. They were in people's lives: reputation under attack, memories being lost, privacy being sold, documents being weaponized, money just disappearing.
So I started building products. Not features. Systems designed to give people back control over identity, clarity, and digital life.
Every product I ship is built on the same principle: remove friction, restore dignity, enable autonomy. That's not a tagline. That's the architecture.
"I build AI systems that give people clarity and control."
That's what I've been doing for the last decade. And it's what I'll keep doing—one system, one human problem, one moment of clarity at a time.
Seven years, seven platforms. Each solving a real problem that others ignored.
Founded first tech solutions venture.
Built Houston's most advanced emergency operations center.
Launched AI reputation management used by 8k+ professionals.
Preserved digital legacies for 3k+ families.
Removed personal data for 12k+ users from 150+ brokers.
Decoded 6k+ legal documents with 94% accuracy.
Helped 5k+ users save $380/month in spending.
From early product creation and Houston media ownership to enterprise IT leadership and AI ecosystem architecture.
Product DesignBefore the technology titles, Darrance showed product instinct through physical design — creating the leather zip-up Polo boot concept as an early signal of functional creativity, market taste, and the ability to turn an idea into something tangible.
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Media FounderBefore enterprise technology leadership, Darrance “Dew” Tezino founded and operated What it Dew!, a Houston urban lifestyle and hip-hop magazine rooted in Southern hip-hop culture, local events, models, sports, DJ Screw, Screwed Up Click, DJ Rapid Ric, Paul Wall, and Houston’s promotion scene.
View WhatItDew photo archive →Created the leather zip-up Polo boot concept — an early example of product vision, functional design thinking, and culture-aware style innovation years before the founder journey expanded into media, technology, and AI systems.
Founded and operated What it Dew!, a Houston-based urban lifestyle and hip-hop magazine covering music, models, sports, and local events. The publication became a regional promotion engine deeply connected to Southern hip-hop culture, DJ Screw, Screwed Up Click, DJ Rapid Ric, Paul Wall, and Houston’s creative scene.
View photo archive →Lead technical event support for high-profile events and managed 40 floating conference rooms. First taste of enterprise-scale AV and the discipline that would define the next 20 years.
Advanced to lead technician role managing global audio-visual infrastructure and executive board support across 6+ regions, including the 2009 Atlanta headquarters build-out — a nine-month future-forward technical integration effort with AVI and SPL before the AVISPL merger era.
Transitioned to IT Desktop Technician providing comprehensive technical leadership for high-profile events and C-Suite executives at one of the world's largest oil-field services companies.
Promoted to IT Coordinator, spearheading technical infrastructure for CEO, President, and global executive team.
Elevated to oversee IT operations, asset distribution, and complex system engineering across Southern & Gulf regions.
Founded technology solutions company, driving growth through strategic planning and comprehensive technology solutions. The first venture — proof that vision builds companies.
Spearheaded development and delivery of comprehensive technology solutions, managing DAS divisions and enterprise services.
Promoted to drive technical vision and strategy, overseeing executive support, IT field services, and mission-critical domains — including the build-out of Houston's most advanced Emergency Operations Center.
Recognized at age 34 as one of the AV industry's most influential technology leaders — honored for innovation in enterprise operations, real-time command center design for oil & gas, and founding AV-JV LLC. "I'm motivated and energized by being able to provide solutions to complex challenges and simplifying those solutions for the everyday user."
Launched an interconnected ecosystem of 19 purpose-built AI systems — each solving a real, previously unsolved problem in reputation, identity, privacy, and financial clarity.
Serving across three leadership and advisory boards, shaping the future of minority tech entrepreneurship, community education, and Houston's innovation ecosystem.
Project History Archive
A visual archive from the 2009 Invesco headquarters technology build in Atlanta, Georgia — a nine-month chapter that connected enterprise AV, executive conference environments, and future-forward integration work with partners including AVI and SPL before the AVISPL merger era.
Atlanta, Georgia headquarters build-out
Nine-month technical integration effort
Collaboration with AVI and SPL before the AVISPL merger era
Future-forward enterprise AV and conference technology foundation
Enterprise Achievement · CenterPoint Energy · NYSE: CNP
When a hurricane knocks out power for millions of people, someone has to be in the room that coordinates getting the lights back on. As Director of Technology, I led the complete technical buildout of this Fortune 500 emergency command center—from vendor selection through final deployment and 3-year SLA management.
CenterPoint Energy delivers electricity and natural gas to 7+ million homes and businesses across Texas, Indiana, Ohio, and Minnesota. When your lights go out, they're the ones who fix it.
An Emergency Operations Center is the command room that activates during disasters. Think NASA Mission Control — but for the power grid. Every department leader sits in one room, seeing the same data, making decisions in real time.
As Director of Technology, he led the technology build-out of this entire facility — selecting the systems, managing the partners, and delivering a state-of-the-art command center on a Fortune 500 timeline.
Visual Documentation · Completed 2025
Main Emergency Operations Center · Floor 24
68′ × 6′ Cyviz X-Series LED wall commanding the entire EOC. Blue-dominant display showing real-time grid operations, weather, and restoration status across all sectors.
By the Numbers
These aren't IT closet upgrades. This is enterprise-grade infrastructure for a Fortune 500 utility serving millions of people.
Main Video Wall
As wide as a bowling lane — this single screen wraps the entire front of the room.
Fully Built-Out
Every room on 2 floors purpose-built for crisis response — from the main EOC to the CEO's private suite.
Independent Channels
Every seat in the main EOC has its own dedicated microphone so every voice is heard clearly during emergencies.
Floors 24, 25 & 47
Two entire floors of command infrastructure plus the CEO's conference room — all on one unified system.
In the Main EOC Alone
AI-powered cameras auto-frame whoever is speaking — no camera operator needed during a crisis.
Total Wall Resolution
The main wall has more resolution than six 4K TVs combined — all in one seamless, touchable surface.
What Was Actually Built
25 distinct spaces — each one engineered for a specific role in an emergency.
The command hub. When a hurricane hits Houston, this is where every department leader sits to coordinate the response. The massive LED wall shows live maps, weather, outage data, and satellite feeds simultaneously. Every seat has its own microphone. Every screen is touchable.
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Following Hurricane Harvey and subsequent major storms, CenterPoint Energy launched the Greater Houston Resiliency Initiative (GHRI) in late 2024—a multi-year plan to make Houston's grid the most resilient coastal grid in the United States. The modernized EOC handles large-scale weather events with improved efficiency and serves as the central hub for disaster response and grid restoration across Greater Houston.
The Complete Build-Out: 25 distinct rooms across Floors 24, 25, and 47 featuring a 68′ × 6′ Cyviz X-Series LED wall, 72 independent Televic microphones, dual security command centers, 10 departmental collaboration spaces, 8 regional team rooms, and 7 support facilities. Three-year extended maintenance with preventive SLA and four emergency visits annually.
"Never before have technology and energy been so intertwined in determining the future course of American innovation."
— Jason Wells, CEO of CenterPoint Energy
Technology Partners
✅ Fortune 500 · NYSE: CNP · $46.5B in Assets
🏆 Most Advanced Utility EOC in the US
Video Evidence
These videos give the biography page a stronger proof layer — connecting the written CenterPoint story to real visual context from enterprise technology and emergency operations environments.
Field-tested leadership
A visual record tied to Darrance Tezino’s professional technology work supporting mission-critical infrastructure, executive environments, and operational readiness at CenterPoint Energy.
Open source video →Operational execution
Video context that reinforces the scale, precision, and real-world execution behind the CenterPoint Energy technology services and emergency operations work highlighted on this page.
Open source video →Federal Emergency Management Agency
14 verified FEMA courses · 4.10 CEUs · Incident Command, National Infrastructure, EOC Operations, and Disaster Mitigation.
Continuing Education Units
4.10 CEUs
14 courses completed through 2025
Introduction to Incident Command System
Completed: 8/12/2024
Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response
Completed: 8/12/2024
Emergency Planning
Completed: 9/20/2023
Introduction to Deliberate Planning
Completed: 4/4/2025
Basic Emergency Operations Center Functions
Completed: 4/4/2025
Flood Mitigation Basics for Mitigation Staff
Completed: 12/2/2024
Introduction to Hazard Mitigation
Completed: 12/3/2025
Continuity of Operations Planning for Pandemic Influenzas
Completed: 3/20/2020
An Introduction to the National Incident Management System
Completed: 12/2/2024
National Response Framework, An Introduction
Completed: 12/2/2024
The National Infrastructure Protection Plan, An Introduction
Completed: 12/3/2025
Introduction to Emergency Management for Higher Education
Completed: 9/20/2023
Credentials issued by the National Disaster & Emergency Management University, an independent study program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Official transcript verified June 2, 2026
The real measure of leadership is the doors you open for others. Every decision Darrance makes is informed by that standard.
Darrance invests directly in emerging tech talent from underrepresented backgrounds across Houston and beyond. Through ComTech Training and hands-on community workshops, he has guided dozens of first-generation professionals into meaningful tech careers — arming them not just with skills, but with the mindset and confidence to lead.
Born and built in Houston, Darrance has channeled time, capital, and technology into Black and minority-owned businesses across the state. From connecting small business owners to growth capital, to building accessible tools for underserved communities — his work is a sustained economic investment in the people and places that shaped him.
Every platform Darrance leads was designed around a simple standard: does it create real opportunity for someone who was overlooked? Privacy tools, financial access, travel equity, legal intelligence, heritage preservation — these aren't side bets. They're a deliberate, coordinated strategy to put technology where it has always been needed most.
Through speaking, mentorship, and building publicly, Darrance demonstrates what's possible for Black and minority tech leaders in Texas. His approach is straightforward: show up, build well, share the path, and prove that innovation doesn't begin or end in Silicon Valley.
Founder & Board Chair
Technology education for underserved communities in Houston, TX
Advisory Board Member
Policy and resources supporting minority-led tech ventures in Texas
Board Advisor
Connecting Houston-area minority founders with capital and mentorship
Core Portfolio
Three products built for real human problems.
Scan, suppress, and rebuild your Google search presence.
"Talented people were losing opportunities over search results they didn't even know existed."
Create a living digital twin that thinks and speaks like you.
"I wanted my children to hear my voice and ask me questions long after I'm gone."
Automatically remove your personal data from 150+ broker sites.
"Reputation damage compounds when your address is for sale to anyone with a credit card."
Portfolio Spotlight
Each solves one real human problem. Click any card for the full story.
IDFixerAI — negative result moved off page 1 in 30 days.
Built by Darrance Tezino · Systems Engineer & Founder