Justin King, PMP® — Technology Leader & Builder

Justin King

PMP® · Technology Leader · HRIT Manager, Baltimore City

Nobody handed me a path, so I built one. Eighteen-plus years of Baltimore City service—from front-line support to agency technology leadership, public innovation, and Workday HCM. Today I’m HRIT Manager and the creator of HRIT Codex, building on everything that journey taught me. The job titles changed. The mission didn't.

beat the odds, then automated them

Three eras. One throughline.

Every chapter of my career has been about the same thing: making sure the people of Baltimore — kids, communities, and the city workforce — get technology that's actually built right, not just bought and bolted on.

2008 — June 2025

The Infrastructure Era

Grew from front-line support into agency technology leadership at Baltimore City Recreation & Parks. Set technical direction, developed staff, and led delivery across infrastructure, applications, facility technology, and public access.

2025 — present

The Enterprise Era

HRIT Manager at Baltimore City Human Resources. Leading Workday HCM and connected HR technology work, bringing business needs, integrations, reporting, and platform improvement together with technical and operational partners.

now

The Builder Era

Creator and architect of HRIT Codex. Designing AI-assisted tools that organize complex work, preserve knowledge, map dependencies, and make validation and human review part of the process.

Where I've been

June 2025 — Present

HRIT Manager

Baltimore City Department of Human Resources

Lead Workday HCM administration and optimization and connected HR technology work across benefits, payroll, integrations, and workforce operations. Translate business needs into requirements and system improvements with HR, development, and Finance partners. Represented Baltimore City at Workday DevCon 2026 and developed AI-readiness proposals for leadership and the HRIT team.

Inside the enterprise work

My work ranges from diagnosing calculated-field issues to improving reporting and reviewing approval workflows. A Workday EIB work-contact load processed 179 of 179 records with zero failures in Sandbox and Production, with control cases used to verify the result.

The responsibility includes finding the right owners, understanding dependencies, and making sure the result addresses the operating need.

Workday HCM System Integrations Benefits Technology Process Automation AI Readiness Strategy

2008 — June 2025

Agency Technology Leadership

Baltimore City Recreation & Parks

Set technology direction and led operations, staff development, vendors, procurement, and project delivery across BCRP facilities. My work included the technology scope within a $200M+ capital program, connectivity modernization, public access, and Baltimore’s first municipal E-Sports Lab.

The responsibility behind the titles

I served in a functional Chief Technology Officer capacity during my tenure, while my formal classification was Agency IT Supervisor / Project Manager. I remained deeply involved in technical decisions and delivery as reporting structures changed.

I developed staff through progressively larger assignments and project ownership, while coordinating agency needs with BCIT and vendors.

Capital Project Tech Scope Fiber / LAN / WAN Facility Technology Design Vendor Management Team Leadership

The come-up

Intern to IT Supervisor — every rung, no shortcuts

Baltimore City Recreation & Parks

Intern→ Part-Time Tech→ PC Support Tech II→ Agency IT Specialist→ Agency IT Supervisor

Started at the bottom of the org chart and earned every promotion in the building. When the Specialist seat I vacated never got backfilled, I carried both jobs at once — supervising the team while still working the tickets. End-to-end IT project delivery, agency-wide software and hardware planning, and close collaboration with the Baltimore City Office of IT — the foundation for everything that came after.

IT Project Management Infrastructure Deployment Cross-Agency Collaboration Two jobs, one paycheck

The Builder Era

I’ve spent my career learning what it takes to make technology work for people. Now I’m using that experience to build the tools myself.

HRIT Codex · Creator and Architect

I designed HRIT Codex as an AI-assisted engineering and operations framework: reusable Workday knowledge, request routing, configuration dependencies, automated checks, and documented human review.

It brings structure to complicated platform work and helps preserve the context needed to troubleshoot, plan changes, and hand work forward.

Explore what I’m building

Privacy-conscious device discovery

Lab-validated development. A separate Windows capability combines an employee-facing experience, authenticated delivery, offline queuing, and privacy-minimized evidence for PC Refresh work. The lab path has carried observations from two PCs into a restricted SharePoint projection. Broader deployment is a separate step.

Personal AI systems

I also build agent tools and automation on my own hardware, exploring how useful software can be designed, tested, and operated with clear ownership.

justin@kingbmore — zsh

$ whoami technology-leader → developer $ ls ~/projects hermes/ mission-control/ hrit-codex/ agent-os/ $ cat stack.txt AI agents · APIs · JavaScript/Python · local LLMs · RTX 5090 $ cat approach.txt Understand the need · build · verify · review $

DevCon 2026: Vegas had the flash.
I came back with a plan.

Workday's message from the main stage was unmistakable: the platform is going agent-ready — AI agents, data cloud, developer tooling, and governance all moving together. For most attendees that was a keynote. For me it was confirmation that the agent systems I build at home and the enterprise platform I run at work are converging on the same future.

So I didn't just bring home a badge. I turned my notes into a full AI-readiness recap and pitch — a dedicated developer tenant, an AI governance council, agency-by-agency readiness scoring, and a 90-day path from keynote energy to governed pilots. One version for the DevCon recap committee, one translated into plain language for my HRIT team. It's the conversation I think Baltimore should be having, and I came back ready to start it.

Asks brought back

Action lanes pitched

Day plan proposed

Developer Tenant Strategy AI Governance Council Agency Readiness Model Workday Extend Pro

Justin King at the Workday DevCon 2026 photo wall — crushed_the_trace_route.jpg · best DevCon ever

Workday Build is Agent-Ready keynote slide — keynote: Workday Build is agent-ready

The Las Vegas Sphere at night — the Sphere, thinking about semantics

Baltimore City team at Workday DevCon 2026 — Baltimore City in the building

Projects with receipts

The decisions, delivery, and public opportunities behind the work. Open a story to go deeper.

Medfield E-Sports Lab gaming lounge with the HIGH SCORES mural

FLAGSHIP · $380K+ · 2024

Medfield Recreation Center · Baltimore's first municipal E-Sports Lab

The E-Sports Lab that put Baltimore rec centers in the news

I championed the technical vision for Baltimore’s first municipal E-Sports Lab. I wanted young people to have access to serious technology and room to discover what they could do with it. Getting there took advocacy, technical decisions, and a commitment to quality.

From an idea to a place to compete

The decision

I pushed for the investment and made the technology choices that turned the vision into a working lab. The result included 20 high-performance stations, designed around the experience I wanted young people to have.

What followed

Medfield hosted City Schools’ first esports tournament in May 2024. Schools, coaches, and program partners brought the competition to life, giving the facility a purpose beyond opening day.

Read the original coverage ↗
Read the tournament recap ↗

20× i9-13900K / RTX 4090 Citywide pilot Mayoral ribbon cutting

Multi-year initiative · BCRP × BCIT × BDE

Baltimore City Fiber Migration

Led successive facility deployments that built BCRP’s City-fiber footprint, then helped lead the cross-agency initiative for the remaining 23 recreation centers. The work connected infrastructure planning with a practical goal: dependable access for staff and residents.

The work before the funding

I was working on the connectivity initiative before its later funding announcement. Progress meant working through surveys, conduit, cabling, switching, wireless coverage, procurement, and partner coordination.

Watch the 2021 WMAR interview ↗

Infrastructure modernizationCitywide

2019 · Operational resilience

Keeping essential work moving

Led Recreation and Parks continuity actions during Baltimore’s ransomware disruption, supporting payroll capacity, replacement workstations, endpoint recovery, and coordination with BCIT.

Leadership during disruption

My team established temporary capacity for essential work, remediated compromised endpoints, preserved affected drives for investigation, and assisted BCIT with City Hall account restoration.

That experience continues to shape how I lead: understand the critical services, establish clear ownership, and prepare people to work together under pressure.

ContinuityCross-agency recovery

2024 · Digital equity

West Baltimore Free WiFi

Architected free public WiFi across West Baltimore communities and rec centers — putting real internet access into underserved neighborhoods through strategic infrastructure placement.

Free public WiFiFeatured on WMAR-2

BCRP capital portfolio · $23.1M facility

Middle Branch Fitness & Wellness Center

Technology lead for Baltimore's largest city-owned rec center — 35,000 sq ft, 1,500-patron capacity, three pools, fitness studios, and a maker space. The technology blueprint for citywide recreation modernization.

35,000 sq ftTech foundation

BCRP capital portfolio · Citywide renovations

Multi-Center Renovation Initiative

Technology scope across Chick Webb Memorial (HUD-funded historic landmark), Towanda Aquatic Center, ARPA-funded Gardenville ($15M+), plus Cahill and Parkview — community infrastructure transformed citywide.

5 facilitiesHUD + ARPA funded

Justin King

Three eras. One throughline.

The Infrastructure Era

The Enterprise Era

The Builder Era

Where I've been

HRIT Manager

Agency Technology Leadership

Intern to IT Supervisor — every rung, no shortcuts

The Builder Era

Privacy-conscious device discovery

Personal AI systems

DevCon 2026: Vegas had the flash.
I came back with a plan.

Projects with receipts

The E-Sports Lab that put Baltimore rec centers in the news

The decision

What followed

Baltimore City Fiber Migration

Keeping essential work moving

West Baltimore Free WiFi

Middle Branch Fitness & Wellness Center

Multi-Center Renovation Initiative

Don't take my word for it

Inside Baltimore's first city-run esports lab

Mayor Scott cuts ribbon at renovated Medfield Rec Center

West Baltimore to receive free WiFi

Let's build something

Three eras. One throughline.

The Infrastructure Era

The Enterprise Era

The Builder Era

Where I've been

HRIT Manager

Agency Technology Leadership

Intern to IT Supervisor — every rung, no shortcuts

The Builder Era

Privacy-conscious device discovery

Personal AI systems

DevCon 2026: Vegas had the flash.I came back with a plan.

Projects with receipts

The E-Sports Lab that put Baltimore rec centers in the news

The decision

What followed

Baltimore City Fiber Migration

Keeping essential work moving

West Baltimore Free WiFi

Middle Branch Fitness & Wellness Center

Multi-Center Renovation Initiative

Don't take my word for it

Inside Baltimore's first city-run esports lab

Mayor Scott cuts ribbon at renovated Medfield Rec Center

West Baltimore to receive free WiFi

Let's build something

DevCon 2026: Vegas had the flash.
I came back with a plan.