EXECUTIVE BACKGROUND

Engineering fluency. Business judgment. Research discipline.

An AI engineering leader, product strategist, and independent researcher focused on turning technical ambition into accountable capability that organizations can adopt, operate, and improve.

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HOW I WORK

Build. Transform. Research.

These are not phases, a sequence, or a prescribed order. They are a cohesive, interdependent set of capabilities applied in different combinations—sometimes simultaneously—as conditions change. Research and R&D create foresight and challenge assumptions; building turns insight into experiments, products, and capabilities; transformation aligns the surrounding organization; and each continually reshapes the other two.

Capability creation

Build

I begin with discovery: clarifying the problem, users, evidence, constraints, and conditions that make an opportunity worth pursuing. I then translate the strongest opportunities into products, platforms, operating mechanisms, and measurable outcomes—aligning architecture, workflow, decision rights, experimentation, and delivery.

Organizational change

Transform

I connect the capability to the system around it—strategy, incentives, skills, governance, adoption, and operating routines. In practice, that has meant launch readiness, product operating models, organizational change, and executive alignment, so useful innovation can scale and endure rather than stop at a pilot or presentation.

Inquiry + foresight

Research

I practice research across strategy, R&D, product discovery, and independent scholarship. I examine technological, market, competitive, organizational, and human signals; synthesize evidence; test assumptions; and develop informed views of future conditions. The point is not merely to explain what happened—it is to guide innovation, anticipate change, identify emerging opportunities and risks, and help organizations stay ahead.

The through line: inquiry, delivery, and organizational change happen together—each generating evidence, options, and capabilities that reshape the other two.

SELECTED OPERATING RECORD

Public-safe evidence from complex environments.

$80M–$120Mprojected annual savings

AI-enabled infrastructure decision support

73%faster launches

repeatable cloud launch-readiness mechanisms

$50M+annual revenue enabled

product governance and operational execution

~30%delivery-efficiency gain

enterprise software modernization

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

A career built across products, platforms, transformation, and inquiry.

01
Booz Allen HamiltonAI engineering and digital transformation leadership

Led applied-AI products, platform architecture, and transformation work in high-constraint enterprise environments.

02
Amazon Web ServicesTechnical program manager and product owner

Built repeatable launch-readiness and product operating mechanisms for complex secure-cloud services.

03
Enterprise transformation and advisoryStrategy, operating models, and adoption

Connected technical architecture, organizational design, incentives, capability development, and measurable outcomes.

04
Independent research practiceAccountable AI and organizational systems

Developing research across CSCW, network analysis, agent-based simulation, knowledge strategy, and trustworthy AI.

05
United States ArmyCombat Medic · Army veteran

An early foundation in leadership, service, judgment under constraint, and responsibility for consequential outcomes.

ACADEMIC FOUNDATION

Strategy, organizational systems, and technical depth.

Columbia UniversityMS, Information & Knowledge Strategy
Rice UniversityMBA, Corporate Strategy & Innovation
Keiser UniversityBS, Computer Information Systems

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