About · The TekFocus Story
TekFocus was founded in 2002 at the Dallas Infomart as a technical education and consulting firm. In 2010, the firm sold its public training business and shifted its center of gravity toward consulting, advisory, and senior architecture. Sixteen years later, in 2026, Miguel Wood returned to lead the firm full-time as Founder, President & CEO. What carries forward across all three acts is the same operating instinct — experience-led, multi-vendor by deliberate choice, and disciplined about the difference between architecture that looks impressive and architecture that actually gets adopted.
01 / The Infomart Era · 2002–2010
Miguel Wood founded TekFocus in 2002. The firm began at the Dallas Infomart — at the time, one of the most significant technology hubs in North Texas — and from day one it combined two threads that have remained constant ever since: deep technical instruction, paired with practical enterprise consulting. Hands-on labs and certification preparation lived next to architecture work that translated training into real systems for real customers.
TekFocus grew into a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions and became one of the most credible technical training providers in North Texas during the 2000s. The Microsoft-related work in this era included official Microsoft course delivery, custom curriculum development, internal-only Microsoft training content, and training programs for Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) professionals and Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) roles — programs developed to standards Microsoft itself certified and adopted.
At peak scale, the firm operated more than 30,000 square feet at the Infomart, including enterprise-grade classroom and lab environments. Microsoft used TekFocus facilities and expertise routinely. The company employed approximately twenty-four staff at its peak — primarily instructors and consultants — and engaged dozens of contractors alongside them. The revenue was multimillion-dollar. The customer roster included some of the largest enterprises in the country, working alongside multiple federal and government-sector organizations.
Training-era customers (public record)
Among others. TekFocus also served multiple federal government and Fortune-class enterprise organizations during this era.
02 / The Transition and the Planet Years · 2010–2026
In 2010, TekFocus sold its public training business to New Horizons of Texas. The decision closed an era cleanly. Public classroom training had been the firm's most visible offering, but Miguel's interest had been moving toward enterprise consulting, architecture, and the longer engagement cycles that came with senior delivery work. The transition gave the public training business a good home and freed TekFocus to focus on the work the firm was increasingly being engaged for: architecture, advisory, and managed services for organizations that needed senior judgment more than they needed a classroom.
From 2010 to 2011, Miguel served as Principal and National Practice Lead at Statera, Inc. — a senior role with national scope at a Microsoft-technologies consulting firm, and the bridge from the Infomart era to what came next. In December 2011, he joined Planet Technologies as Director and Chief Enterprise Solutions Architect — a role he held until January 2026. The Planet years stretched across fourteen years — through the rise of cloud, the platform transformation of Microsoft, the maturation of AWS and Google Cloud, and the early arc of generative AI. Throughout these years, TekFocus maintained a quieter consulting and advisory posture while Miguel delivered into federal government organizations, state and local government modernization, the Defense Industrial Base, Fortune-class commercial enterprises, and mid-sized businesses navigating cloud and AI adoption. The work was real, the scale was significant, and the lessons are the lessons that now show up in every TekFocus engagement.
Federal agencies Miguel delivered into during the Planet era
Cleared federal delivery experience. Other federal engagements remain confidential.
The era ended on a principle. The expectation in Miguel's role began shifting toward favoring a single vendor over customer outcome. Miguel had spent two decades building multi-vendor fluency — Microsoft depth combined with serious AWS, Google Cloud, and emerging generative AI work — precisely so the recommendation could match the mission to the right tool. The shift was a line he was not willing to cross. He left the position. The vendor-loyalty departure is now one of TekFocus's defining operating principles, and it is the moment the current era of the firm began taking shape.
03 / The Current Era · 2026 Onward
Miguel returned to lead TekFocus full-time as Founder, President & CEO. The firm he came back to is not a reboot of the Infomart-era company and not a continuation of the Planet years; it is something else — an experience-led, multi-vendor, architecture-driven consulting and advisory practice built on twenty-three years of accumulated depth. Cloud architecture, enterprise data platform modernization, generative AI strategy, governance, managed services, and executive advisory now define the firm's center of gravity. The frameworks Miguel refined under federal and Fortune-class delivery — the AI Readiness Framework, the AI-as-Intern model, Commander's Intent for AI workflows, and the AAR habit — are formal TekFocus intellectual property and show up in every engagement.
The current firm is selective by design. TekFocus is built around senior delivery, not around headcount scale. Miguel is the principal architect and engagement leader; the firm brings technical, management, and supporting resources into engagements as the work requires. Engagements scale beyond a single architect without losing experience-led delivery. Based in North Texas with DFW as the operational hub, onsite work across the country is routine; international engagements remain possible on a selective basis.
The original training DNA from the Infomart era has not gone away. It now lives in TekFocus AI Academy (opens in a new tab) — the training and education arm of TekFocus, operating as a brand and program division under TekFokus, Inc. The Academy delivers the same disciplined, vendor-neutral guidance that Fortune-class clients pay TekFocus for, scaled and translated for individuals and small business owners through webinars, online content, and mentorship. Same firm. Different audience. Same frameworks.
Three acts, three different operating modes, one firm. A few things have carried forward across all of them.
The firm started as a technical education company. The current Academy — TekFocus AI Academy (opens in a new tab) — formalizes that DNA for a new audience and a new era, without losing the discipline of the original lab-and-classroom approach.
The hardest part of every engagement has always been the human side — change management, adoption, the gap between deployment and use. The firm learned this in the SharePoint era and has never let go of it. Architecture is only valuable if it gets adopted.
The firm's multi-vendor breadth was operational from the start — Microsoft depth paired with practical fluency across the platforms that mattered. By 2026, the instinct hardened into principle.
TekFocus has always been built around senior judgment delivered at the level of partner-class architecture firms — not around staffing models that scale by adding bodies. The current era is built that way on purpose.
Three acts. Same operating instinct.
05 / Where the Story Continues
TekFocus is an experience-led technology consulting and AI advisory firm. The current engagement areas — cloud architecture, enterprise data platform modernization, generative AI strategy, governance, managed services, and executive advisory — are described in detail in the Approach section. Most engagements begin with a 30-minute executive briefing.
Or read the Approach, Track Record, or Miguel Wood pages.