AI engineer and data scientist

Experience

1. 08/2025 – present · Houston, TX

   Enterprise Analytics Translator, Sysco

   Run analytics and data science initiatives across merchandising, pricing, supplier funding and operational reporting. I turn business problems into analytical requirements, models and decision frameworks, and use statistics and machine learning to detect anomalies and measure performance.

2. 2026 – present · Remote, part-time

   AI Engineer, Cignition

   Built an automated feedback pipeline (LangChain, DeepSeek V4 Pro) that turns tutoring transcripts into engagement metrics and structured reports, and a separate RAG coaching pipeline that grounds feedback in internal guidance with sentence-transformers embeddings and ChromaDB.

3. 2026 · Gauntlet AI

   AI engineering program

   An intensive program where I designed, built and shipped a new AI system most weeks, including the call center agent, the clinical co-pilot and the adversarial security platform.

4. Spring 2021 – 01/2026 · Remote

   Program Manager & Co-Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Cignition

   Directed dozens of cross-functional projects across data analysis, research, operations and partnerships with Agile/Scrum, and led data collection for school site operations.

5. Fall 2019 – Spring 2021 · Christchurch, VA

   Director of Innovation and Design, Christchurch School

   Directed the MakerSpace and project-based learning in design thinking, coding and engineering, and administered the Canvas LMS.

6. 2011 – 2019 · Kentucky, Indiana, remote

   Instructor

   Taught Algebra I and II, Geometry and Calculus at Jefferson County Public Schools and Culver Academies, and graduate research methods at Bellarmine University, with courses for Johns Hopkins CTY and Murray State.