I don't live inside Houston limits, but I can be very active via Skype. I've done a lot with traditional A/C designs, swamp coolers as well as solar-fed organic rankine cycles. I have something of a passion of this and I think I could lend a great deal of hands-on experience to your project with regards to cooling and my electronics background is just as substantial.
Feel free to shoot me a message with any questions you might have.
Good luck on your Freelancer job as well as your project as a whole.
-Ryan Kearney
P.S. It would be nice to know exactly what we as freelancers are getting into. I do respect your need for privacy, but it is a little hard to bid when there are so many cooling techniques available with such variance in tolerances.