Hector Gonzalez-Stahl
Founder, Steelworth. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
A transformation leader with more than ten years of enterprise change, with roles at JPMorgan Chase, The Home Depot, and Dell Technologies, now applying Lean discipline to enterprise AI adoption and governance.
Hector Gonzalez-Stahl is an industrial engineer by training and a transformation leader by record. Over more than ten years he has driven enterprise change across operations, business systems, sales, finance, and supply chain, always from the same starting point: the process itself.
His career runs through the operating core of large enterprises. He engineered order-to-cash processes at Dell Technologies, led supply-chain audit response and yard management systems across 19 distribution centers at The Home Depot, and drove branch network modernization, enterprise network infrastructure programs, and AI-enabled workflow automation as a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase.
That work produced the conviction Steelworth is built on: you cannot automate what you have not standardized. A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Hector has watched automation succeed where processes were first eliminated, simplified, and standardized, and stall where they were not. AI raises the stakes of that rule; it does not repeal it.
He founded Steelworth to bring that sequence to organizations adopting AI, and is completing an M.S. in AI Management & Policy at Purdue University to pair operating rigor with formal grounding in AI governance. The firm is based in Houston, Texas, and works across the US, Europe, and Latin America.
Hector also serves as AI Transformation Partner at GRIPHCON, a US technology consulting firm, and as Operations Director of IACRUZ, the enterprise AI center in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Steelworth works inside that circle.
Hector is a founder-operator as well as a consultant. He builds and operates his own ventures, including an enterprise property-management SaaS platform and a multi-market short-term-rental operation. The methods Steelworth recommends are the ones he runs his own businesses on.
Hector works in native Spanish, fluent English, and working Portuguese, and has operated across the US, Europe, and Latin America.
Where the method was earned
JPMorgan Chase
Vice President, Global Technology Infrastructure
Drove branch network modernization and enterprise network infrastructure programs, including AI-enabled workflow automation.
The Home Depot
Senior Process Engineer, Supply Chain
Led supply-chain audit response and delivered yard management systems across 19 distribution centers.
Dell Technologies
Senior Process Engineer, Order to Cash
Engineered order-to-cash processes spanning sales, finance, and operations.
NKT
Senior Sales Manager, LATAM/Iberia
Led sales across Latin American and Iberian markets.
Fike
Project Engineer, EMEA/LATAM
Delivered engineering projects across EMEA and Latin America.
The method is written down.
Hector authored the frameworks Steelworth applies in every engagement, each built to make a process earn automation before it receives AI.
ESSA
Eliminate, Simplify, Standardize, Automate: the gate every process passes before automation is justified.
Read the frameworkProcess-to-AI Pyramid
A three-layer route that builds applied intelligence on top of automation, and automation on top of standardized process.
Read the frameworkProcess Maturity Model
A five-level scale that locates where a process stands today and what it needs before the next step.
Read the frameworkYou work directly with the founder.
Every engagement starts with a direct conversation about your operation and where disciplined process work can take it.