Business Leadership
Strategy, operations, stakeholder engagement, partnerships, commercialization, organizational problem-solving, and translating business objectives into executable initiatives.
Antonio “Tony” Sabarez II
Who I Am
I work at the intersection of business, finance, technology, and innovation.
I'm Antonio “Tony” Sabarez II, a Technology & Business Transformation Leader with more than 20 years of experience spanning business leadership, enterprise systems, financial and operational analysis, business intelligence, product development, software architecture, innovation, and hands-on technology execution.
My career has never fit neatly into a single box—and that has become one of my greatest strengths. I have worked from both sides of the table: as a business and technology leader responsible for strategy, operations, financial planning, products, partnerships, and organizational decisions, and as a hands-on architect and engineer capable of designing and building the systems needed to execute those decisions.
Technology is a tool. The objective is solving the business problem.
Professional range
Five disciplines, connected.
Financial Planning & Analytics
Forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, KPI development, management reporting, financial modeling, operational analytics, and turning financial and business data into decision support.
Product Leadership
Identifying problems worth solving, defining product vision and requirements, prioritizing capabilities, designing workflows and user experiences, and moving ideas toward usable and commercially viable products.
Technical Leadership
Enterprise and solution architecture, ERP and business systems, databases, data integration, APIs, AI architecture, cloud infrastructure, security considerations, connected technologies, and modernization.
Engineering Execution
Hands-on development across software, data, analytics, AI, mobile applications, automation, integrations, testing, deployment, and production-oriented systems.
I also incorporate modern AI coding agents and agentic software-development tools into a disciplined workflow while retaining human ownership of system design, technical decisions, review, validation, security, and production readiness.
Execution capacity
AI-Augmented Engineering
The emergence of AI coding agents has significantly expanded my execution capacity. I use these technologies as part of a disciplined engineering workflow—not as a substitute for architecture, engineering judgment, or accountability.
I remain responsible for understanding the business problem, defining requirements, making product decisions, designing the solution architecture, establishing technical direction, reviewing implementation, validating functionality, testing, addressing security and operational considerations, and determining when a solution is ready to move forward.
- 01Business Problem
- 02Analysis
- 03Requirements
- 04Product Strategy
- 05Solution Architecture
- 06Engineering Plan
- 07AI-Agent-Assisted Implementation
- 08Human Review
- 09Testing & Validation
- 10Deployment
- 11Measurement & Improvement
AI has expanded what I can personally execute. It has not replaced the expertise required to execute it responsibly.
Inventor perspective
Innovation & Intellectual Property
Innovation has been a recurring part of my professional career. I am a named inventor on multiple U.S. patent applications and two issued U.S. patents, with inventions spanning supply-chain traceability, product authentication, workforce performance systems, geolocation, agricultural workflow technology, communications automation, and accessibility technology.
My intellectual-property work reflects the same approach I bring to transformation: start with a meaningful real-world problem, understand the operational and user requirements, identify where existing approaches fall short, and design a practical solution. Patent-confidential implementations, proprietary architectures, trade secrets, unpublished inventions, and other protected information remain confidential.
Public record
Patent & Invention History
Public identifiers are presented at an appropriate level. Published applications remain applications; only the two families below marked as issued are presented as issued U.S. patents.
Published Patent Application
Method and Apparatus for Preprogrammed Informational Reply to an Identified Communications Connection Request
Communications automation · individualized communications response
- Publication
- US 2016/0285788 A1
- Filed
- March 25, 2015
- Published
- September 29, 2016
- Inventors
- Antonio Sabarez II
Published Patent Application
Method, System and Device for a Geolocational Tracking and Management of Agricultural Workflow
Agricultural workflow · geolocation · traceability
- Publication
- US 2013/0179204 A1
- Filed
- January 11, 2012
- Published
- July 11, 2013
- Inventors
- Antonio Sabarez II
Issued U.S. Patent
Method, Apparatus and System for Crowd Sourced Counterfeit Detection and Brand Assurance
Product authentication · brand assurance · identifiers · crowdsourced verification
- Publication
- US 2014/0252080 A1
- Issued patent
- U.S. Patent No. 9,767,326 · September 19, 2017
- Inventors
- Abel Gonzalez · Alvaro Gonzalez · Antonio Sabarez II
Published Patent Application
Method and System for Associating Container Labels with Product Units
Container identification · product units · produce logistics · traceability
- Publication
- US 2014/0337186 A1
- Filed
- July 22, 2014
- Published
- November 13, 2014
- Inventors
- Antonio Sabarez II · Abel Gonzalez · Alvaro Gonzalez
Issued U.S. Patent
Method, Apparatus and System for Transparent Tracking of Worker Performance
Worker productivity · piecework · identification · enterprise data
- Publication
- US 2015/0012338 A1
- Issued patent
- U.S. Patent No. 9,965,736 · May 8, 2018
- Filed
- July 23, 2013
- Inventors
- Abel Gonzalez · Alvaro Gonzalez · Antonio Sabarez II
- Related later published filing
- US 2019/0050608 A1 · filed March 29, 2018 · published February 14, 2019
Published Patent Application
Method and System for Tracking Shipped Units During Movement of Goods Within Supply Chain Channels
Supply-chain tracking · shipped units · barcodes · RFID · product movement
- Publication
- US 2015/0012457 A1
- Filed
- July 2, 2013
- Published
- January 8, 2015
- Inventors
- Abel Gonzalez · Alvaro Gonzalez · Antonio Sabarez II
Published Patent Application
Method and System for Associating Location Attestations with Derived Location Data
Location verification · GPS · mobile data · location attestation
- Publication
- US 2017/0171700 A1
- Filed
- September 25, 2014
- Published
- June 15, 2017
- Inventors
- Antonio Sabarez II · Abel Gonzalez · Alvaro Gonzalez
Published Patent Application
System and Method for Providing Visual Sign Location Assistance Utility by Audible Signaling
Accessibility · connected devices · non-visual navigation assistance
- Publication
- US 2024/0105081 A1
- Filed
- September 26, 2022
- Published
- March 28, 2024
- Inventors
- Michael Roy Conover · Antonio Sabarez II
Operating across disciplines
Bridging Business and Technology
One of the most important things I bring to an organization is the ability to operate between disciplines that are often separated. I am equally comfortable discussing a business problem with executives and stakeholders, analyzing its financial and operational implications, translating it into requirements and architecture, and working directly with the technology needed to build the solution.
- What business problem are we actually trying to solve?
- What is the financial or operational impact?
- What data do we have—and what information is missing?
- What process should change before we automate it?
- What should the product or system actually do?
- Is there an opportunity to solve the problem in a genuinely new way?
- Does that innovation potentially create protectable intellectual property?
- What architecture will support it?
- What should be deterministic, and where can AI genuinely add intelligence?
- How do we build, test, deploy, measure, and improve it?
That ability to connect strategy, finance, operations, product, innovation, architecture, and engineering execution is central to how I approach transformation.
TS2Dev
What TS2Dev Represents
That is ultimately what TS2Dev represents. TS2 is me—Antonio “Tony” Sabarez II. Dev is Developments. And “Developments” means more to me than software development: the development of businesses, systems, products, processes, analytics, intelligence, intellectual property, technology, and solutions.
TS2Dev brings together the disciplines that have shaped my professional career rather than forcing them into separate identities. It represents my ability to analyze, envision, architect, build, and improve.
What I Ultimately Do
Understand the problem.
Connect the right disciplines.
Design the right solution.
Build what is needed.
Measure the results.
Keep improving.
I want technology to serve the business—not the other way around.