I Spent Years Finding What Was Limiting Business Growth. Now I Build the AI Systems That Fix It.

I did not start in AI systems. I started in a garage in Niagara Falls, New York, assembling a computer with my brother, learning what happened when you took a machine apart. That same instinct followed me through high school at Niagara Falls High School, where I ran the OSC21 media and news studio, managed equipment, and learned that good systems fail quietly and bad ones fail loudly. At SUNY Fredonia, I co-founded The Raphy Report, a student-run production that grew into the first organization in the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator operated solely by students, with over 50 interns across ten disciplines.

After Fredonia, I managed operations at Access 12, Dunkirk's local broadcast station. I ran fiber, set up device automation, and rebuilt the broadcast infrastructure off a single laptop onto a reliable system. That project made the connection concrete: infrastructure is not a cost center. It is the backbone of reliability. From there, a decade in digital marketing and demand generation at InVue Digital (a Hearst agency) and Transcat (NYSE: TRNS) built the measurement and systems thinking that now drives every AI engagement.

In 2025 I went deep on AI infrastructure. Not the hype, the systems. Six Google Cloud Generative AI certifications in three months, built and tested against real business problems before I said a word about it to clients. That work led to founding Cobham Consulting Group with Larnelle Cobham in August 2025. The goal was simple: find the operational problem, design the system, and build it. No vendor relationships. No platform bias. One person accountable to the outcome.

Andre Cobham
AI Automation Consultant & Systems Architect

B.S., Business Administration and Marketing. At SUNY Fredonia I founded The Raphy Report. A multi-topic news and variety web series that moved into the university's business incubator and was covered by Buffalo Business First., with TRR Productions growing to over 50 interns and co-founding V3 Studios, the incubator's first student-founded tenant.

I earned these in three months in 2025 because I wanted to understand the full stack of what I was recommending, not just the surface layer. Generative AI Leader Specialization, Gen AI for Transforming Your Organization, Gen AI Foundational Concepts, Gen AI Apps for Transforming Your Work, Gen AI Beyond the Chatbot, and Gen AI for Navigating the Landscape.

My home office runs a Proxmox hypervisor serving multiple VMs. Ollama handles local model Inference. llama.cpp sits underneath for quantized deployments. I test models from Hugging Face, run them through real business scenarios, and only recommend what works at the scale a growing business actually needs. I do not recommend cloud tools I have not used. I do not recommend local infrastructure I have not run myself.