Consultant → Builder

Shipping AI-powered tools with a Kaizen mindset

Full-stack engineer with a growing focus on AI application development. Leading architecture operations by day, building two AI-powered SaaS platforms by night.

Currently: Senior Consultant at Capco, serving as Architecture Operations Lead for a Large Electric Utility + independently building two AI-powered SaaS platforms since June 2025.

Years in Tech18+
FocusAI + Automation
MindsetKaizen
StyleHands-on, ship fast

About Me

Full-stack engineer with a growing focus on AI application development and 18+ years in technology—spanning enterprise architecture, program management, and consulting. My mindset is Kaizen: always learning, always improving, and working toward more challenging problems.

Currently leading operations for an Application Architecture team at a U.S. electric utility while independently building two SaaS platforms: a multi-tenant studio management platform with AI-powered RAG agents and a teacher productivity tool with constitutional AI safety guardrails. Background in co-architecting solutions with stakeholders, deploying to AWS, and bridging the gap between technical implementation and business needs.

I'm not claiming expert status—I'm applying what I learn in real projects and getting hands-on fast. Focus: building AI-powered tools that actually help people.

Beyond the Code

Beyond work, I'm balancing the digital world with real experiences:

  • International travel
  • Hiking
  • Yoga (practicing and teaching)
  • Keeping two feline overlords happy

Committed to building accountable AI systems. Both platforms implement constitutional AI safety guardrails, PII protection, and compliance enforcement—not as afterthoughts, but as first-class architectural concerns.

Ethical AI, Sans Doom

Building AI that helps people while respecting our planet and humanity—useful, accountable systems over hype or vibes 🙄

Thinking back at my Contemporary Issues in Computer Science coursework circa 2005, the topics we covered—automation, ethics, AI, and societal impact—feel more relevant than ever. Every AI company needs to establish their own constitutional framework. Transparency in AI values isn't optional; it's essential for building systems we can trust.

My goal is to build brilliant AI that actually helps people—without torching the planet or our humanity. I'm optimistic about AI's upside, and wary of a future where a few capture the gains while everyone else (and the environment) pays the bill. I favor useful, accountable systems over hype. If that's your lane, let's talk.

Guiding question: How do we use AI to create a better future for all—sustainably, fairly, and with real utility?
  • People-first utility: save time, expand access.
  • Planet-aware: efficiency over waste; footprint matters.
  • Accountable by design: clear guardrails, data respect, measurable impact.

Building & Shipping

Actively building AI-powered platforms with production safety and accountability as first-class concerns.

  • Constitutional AI: Multi-layer safety guardrails, PII redaction, and FERPA compliance enforcement across educational content generation.
  • RAG & AI Agents: Provider-agnostic AI service layer with RAG-powered knowledge base search and 5 purpose-built AI agents.
  • Multi-Model Orchestration: Dynamic model selection based on task type with token tracking, cost optimization, and audit trails.
Focus: Build useful, ethical, and production-ready AI systems — with visible, working projects along the way.

Projects

Portfolio highlights focused on practical AI delivery, automation outcomes, and production-minded implementation.

Teacher Assistant SaaS (Technical Co-Founder)

AI-powered teacher productivity platform with 10+ content generation types, constitutional AI safety guardrails, and multi-language support. Features a teacher personalization engine, department collaboration tools, Google Classroom/LMS integration, and Stripe-powered monetization. Implementation started May 2025; currently in AWS staging pilot phase.

React 18 + ViteTypeScriptNode.js 22AWS LambdaDynamoDBOpenAI (GPT-4o/4.1/DALL-E 3/Whisper)StripePlaywrightVitest

Studio Assistant Platform (Founder & Lead Engineer)

Multi-tenant SaaS platform for boutique fitness and wellness studios. Full-stack TypeScript monorepo with white-label capabilities, multi-tenant data isolation, and 5 AI agents powered by a provider-agnostic AI service layer with RAG-powered knowledge base search. Implementation started March 2026; currently in local development with an AWS staging pilot planned in Q2 2026.

Next.js 16FastifyTypeScriptPostgreSQLpgvectorAWS BedrockStripe ConnectTerraformTurborepo

Community Safety Agent (Prototype)

Multi-agent conversational prototype connecting Charlotte, NC residents to verified local resources. Built to explore agent orchestration patterns, safety-first pipelines, and measurable evaluation practices.

  • LangGraph orchestration: triage → resource retrieval → personalized guidance, with conditional routing for crisis escalation.
  • Safety-as-first-class: pipeline nodes for crisis detection, PII redaction, hallucination filtering, and tone moderation (implemented inline, not afterthoughts).
  • Evaluation-driven: custom metrics, CI gating, A/B prompt testing, and audit logs to catch regressions early.
  • Engineering: FastAPI backend, React chat UI, Dockerized deployment, ChromaDB vector search, and LangChain/LangSmith integrations.
PythonLangChainLangGraphFastAPIChromaDBReactDockerAWS (ECS)
Status: Prototype — built for experimentation and learning (not production-deployed).

Experience

Capco | Senior Consultant

Oct 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Houston, Dallas & Charlotte

Operations Lead (11/2025-present) — Responsible for turning Application Architecture & Reliability strategy into disciplined execution:

  • Running the operating system of the AAR team—planning, intake, prioritization, execution tracking, and cross-tower coordination
  • Enabling architects to stay focused on architecture, reliability, and delivery outcomes
  • Driving architecture and operations excellence for enterprise initiatives

RPA Program Lead (1/2024-10/2025) — Ensured successful delivery of use cases and long-term support to align with organizational goals:

  • Managed 21 resources from multiple consulting vendors and $4.8M annual program budget
  • Evaluated the entire RDLC and continual improvement of ways of working for a globally distributed team across India, Mexico, and the United States
  • Managed key stakeholder relationships
  • Collaborated with various teams across the organization to ensure alignment on data governance and security policies are being followed
  • Technical analyst for complex use cases across the organization

Business Analyst Lead (1/2023-12/2023) for the RPA Program at a large electric utility:

  • Led requirement gathering sessions with stakeholders and subject matter experts
  • Created process definition documents
  • Improvements to the ways of working
  • Project manager for invoice processing
  • Scaled the business analysts on the team
  • Backlog grooming

Integration Analyst (4/2020-12/2022) for a large work and asset management program implementation at a large electric utility:

  • Technical analysis, interface design, and documentation for Maximo middleware components
  • Assisted the data migration team with executions and validations (Oracle PL/SQL)
  • Built out all of the program's service virtualizations (Broadcom Service Virtualization), documented, and deployed
  • Created Postman collection and provided training to the testing team
  • Part of Go-Live mission control to provide technical support and aide with issue triage

RPA Pilot Lead (10/2019-3/2020) - Interacted with executives and subject matter experts to evaluate processes for automating. RPA design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and knowledge transfer. These automations were built and deployed to production using UiPath:

  • Sales Department – Market pricing web data scraping and email
  • Accounting Department – Search vendor web portal to download invoices, submit invoices for posting in SAP GUI, extract exceptions from SAP GUI, and email summary of all the exceptions
  • Customer Service Department – Export reports from SAP GUI, Excel macro to custom format reports, and email report to customers
  • Customer Service Department – Retrieve product data from Salesforce, search vendor web portals for product data (thousands of products), scrape product data and download product images and spec sheets, update Salesforce with updated product data and any related files, and email summary containing possible product data source issues

QMSC | Solutions Architect

Nov 2017 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Houston

  • Managed server/cloud Infrastructure (Amazon Web Services)
  • Robotic Process Automation (UiPath) to convert customer documents
  • Streamline internal processes and implement IT system integrations
  • Technical support

Golden Section Technology | Solutions Architect

Jan 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Houston

  • Head of managed hosting and managed services – generated product offerings, created proposals, and grew monthly recurring revenue from a net loss to over 45% profit margins
  • Aided client services team with technical knowledge and research to assist with converting a lead into a client
  • Cloud architecture (Amazon Web Services) – created internal best practices, migrate customer workloads, cost optimizations, and strong understanding for building highly available architecture
  • Internal process improvement – created policies, documentation, and diagrams in order to ensure smooth product lifecycle
  • Guided offshore development team of 40+ developers for resolving constraints and recommending solutions
  • Provided client facing technical support to immediately resolve onsite issues post-deployment
  • Performed technical assessments and evaluations

Conscious Solutions LLC | Technical Solutions Consultant

Dec 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Houston

  • Created development stack from scratch using micro services architecture for chronic disease management SaaS platform, implemented continuous integration, and created technical documentation
  • Aided with requirement gathering and software application workflow diagrams
  • Handled database design and modeling
  • Managed small team of offshore developers – reviewed code and assigned tasks

AlternaScript LLC | Software Engineer

Oct 2014 - Dec 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Houston

  • Primary PHP back-end developer for eCommerce website
  • Enhanced fulfillment process to ensure product was being shipped out on schedule
  • Integrated affiliate platform and marketing automation platform
  • Generated SQL queries and reports for executives; assisted in data analysis
  • Created new payment acceptance process to increase overall revenue by 10%

ShipStation | Software Engineer

Sep 2012 - May 2013 · 9 mos · Austin

  • .NET developer for the SaaS platform
  • Created internal reports and utility tools
  • Worked with many eCommerce solution integrations and shipping provider integrations
  • Provided technical support for clients

The BHW Group | Software Consultant

Jan 2007 - Sep 2012 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Austin

  • Developed new and maintained existing software solutions for customers (Microsoft technologies)
  • Worked directly with clients to define requirements, track issues and discuss new features
  • Managed the intern team by ramping them up on projects and assigning tasks

Skills Snapshot

Core competencies spanning AI application development, full-stack engineering, and cloud infrastructure—with deep experience in enterprise automation, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, and production AI safety.

AI Application Architecture
Full-Stack Development
Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture
Production AI Safety
Stakeholder & Customer Engineering
Program & Portfolio Mgmt

Portfolio Site Architecture

This portfolio website demonstrates modern static site architecture, deployment practices, and infrastructure as code implementation.

Static HTML/CSS/JS AWS S3 CloudFront CDN Route 53 DNS ACM SSL Terraform IaC Google Analytics
  • Performance: Global CDN with immutable asset caching and no-cache HTML for immediate updates
  • Security: HTTPS everywhere with AWS Certificate Manager and Origin Access Control
  • Analytics: Google Analytics 4 with custom event tracking for user engagement insights
  • Deployment: One-command deploy via AWS CLI with CloudFront invalidation automation
  • Infrastructure: Terraform-managed AWS resources with state management and version control

Let’s Build Something Useful

Looking for someone who can zoom out to strategy and zoom in to ship? I’m your guy.

Location
Charlotte, NC