Director, Rapid Development & Innovation · Epiq

I build the AI and automation systems that run the business.

Director-level leader with 10+ years building automation and AI systems. I built Epiq's Power Platform Center of Excellence from scratch and led the development of Eva, a multi-agent orchestrator now used company-wide.

Jordan Bardwell
★ President's Club 2025Microsoft Customer Story ↗
Currently
Epiq
Based in
Tampa Bay
Automating
10+ years

At Epiq, that work has produced measurable results across global operations.

25,000+
hours in annual time savings
$2M+
in cost reductions
~100
engineers on the AI developer tooling gateway
Featured by Microsoft
Microsoft Customer Success Story
Selected by Microsoft for a published story on Epiq's Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and AI-driven automation work.
Read the story ↗

Selected projects

Programs shipped to production across Epiq and Southwest Airlines.

Company-wide · Copilot Studio
Eva
Multi-agent orchestrator

Rebuilt Eva as a multi-agent orchestrator in Copilot Studio, with specialized child agents for each system. Deployed company-wide as Epiq's primary AI assistant; I served as architecture lead on the build.

Eva
Workday
Jira
ServiceNow
Exchange
Client-facing · Copilot Studio
~50K
claimant messages handled
Class action AI agent
Answered claimant questions on eligibility and claims filing, retrieved personalized case information, and escalated to live agents via a custom handoff adaptor.
3 months
8,000
users migrated
ServiceNow → Jira Service Management
600 agents and 8,000 internal users migrated with zero critical service disruption.
AI Foundry
~100
engineers with AI coding tools
AI developer tooling gateway
APIM-fronted Azure gateway routing Claude Code and Codex to ~100 engineers, with usage analytics.
Southwest Airlines
400K
customers refunded
Winter Storm Elliott refunds
Power Automate Desktop across 150+ VMs, keeping Southwest in DOT compliance.
Power Apps · AI Builder
Week → days
employee onboarding time
Launchpad onboarding
Cut employee onboarding from over a week to a few days by automating laptop ordering, provisioning, account setup, and documentation.
Intake → ROI
40+
production solutions tracked
RapidTrack
The enterprise system for managing automation and AI opportunities, tracking 40+ production solutions and 60+ opportunities.

Experience

From desktop support to directing enterprise AI platforms.

Director, Rapid Development & Innovation

Oct 2025 — Present
EpiqTampa
  • Delivered 6,000+ hours in annual time savings and $1M+ in cost reductions across global operations.
  • Co-founded and co-lead Epiq's AI Center of Excellence.
  • Rebuilt LaunchPad onboarding as an agentic workflow; automated vendor invoice processing into SAP via OCR.
  • Executive sponsor for Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout to 2,400 users.

Manager, Rapid Development & Innovation

Mar 2024 — Oct 2025
EpiqTampa
  • Founded and scaled the Power Platform Center of Excellence.
  • Built Launchpad and RapidTrack; launched Epiq's first Copilot Studio agents, including Sophie for IT administrative tasks.
  • Grew the citizen developer community to 50+ builders; recruited and mentored a team of 6 developers.
  • ETL pipelines in Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric for self-service reporting.

System Engineer

Sep 2021 — Mar 2024
Southwest Airlines
  • Led Power Platform adoption, migrating 20+ automations from a legacy platform over 12 months.
  • ServiceNow-integrated app improving resolution quality by ~25%.
  • Model-driven app to audit AI-generated decisions and support model retraining.
  • Automated M365 administrative workflows with Power Automate and Azure Automation.

System Engineer

Jun 2020 — Sep 2021
EpiqKansas City
  • Automated onboarding/offboarding, reducing service desk requests by 30% and delivering $1M annually in savings.
Earlier roles
Desktop Engineer · MSTS2019 — 2020
Systems Engineer I · YRC Worldwide2016 — 2018
Desktop Support Technician · CompuCom2015 — 2016

Credentials

Tools, recognition, and certifications.

Skills

Agents & Copilot
  • Copilot Studio
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Copilot Cowork
  • Agent 365
  • M365 Agents SDK
  • GitHub Copilot Harness
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • MCP
Power Platform
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • Power Automate Desktop
  • AI Builder
  • Dataverse
Azure
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Azure Automation
  • APIM
M365 & Identity
  • Exchange
  • Entra
  • M365
  • Intune
  • Autopilot
ITSM & Integration
  • Jira Service Management
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • Workday
  • SAP
Languages
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • PowerShell
  • JSON

Honors

EpiqPresident's Club2025
EpiqAnnual Excellence Award2025
EpiqAnnual Excellence Award2024
Southwest AirlinesSouthwest Champion Award2022

Certifications

Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert
Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate
MCSE: Mobility
MCSA: Windows 10
ITIL Foundation
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA A+
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Technology Associate
IT Administrator · Centriq Training, 2014

Let's talk.

Open to conversations about enterprise AI, automation, and platform leadership.