Experience

15+ years building AI/ML platforms, data products, and teams across federal government, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS.

U.S. Food & Drug Administration

Lead Data Scientist – AI/ML Platform Architecture

Jan 2025 - Present | Alexandria, VA | Security Clearance

Federal agency transforming regulatory workflows with GenAI while maintaining FedRAMP High compliance. Leading AI strategy for device submission review serving 200+ regulators.

  • Architected agentic RAG system achieving 85% business alignment in 3 months; established repeatable framework for production GenAI adopted agency-wide
  • Built device submission-linking service improving precision/recall 15-25% with <500ms latency using SageMaker Feature Store and OpenSearch vector search
  • Led 6-person engineering team; reduced sprint delivery timelines 20% and on-call MTTR 30% through IaC adoption and event-driven architecture patterns
Tech: AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Lake Formation, OpenSearch, EventBridge, Lambda, ECS Fargate, Step Functions, Redshift Serverless

Accenture

Senior Data Scientist – AI/ML Platform Lead

Mar 2024 - Feb 2025 | Minneapolis, MN

Fortune 500 e-commerce client needed AI-powered marketing optimization at scale. Led 8-person engineering team delivering end-to-end ML architecture on Snowflake and GCP.

  • Delivered 20% increase in marketing decision-making efficiency through production Bayesian LTV, MMM, and retention models influencing $100M+ ad spend
  • Launched AI-powered mass customization platform improving lead quality and conversion within 3 months; built scalable APIs enforcing SLAs and resiliency
  • Established enterprise MLOps standards (training pipelines, CI/CD, drift monitoring) and dbt conventions; reduced pipeline incidents and accelerated feature throughput
Tech: Snowflake, GCP (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions), dbt, PyMC, MLflow, Looker, Terraform

Agora.io

Director of Data Engineering

Nov 2021 - Nov 2023 | Santa Clara, CA

Real-time communication platform (video, voice, messaging) serving 200+ enterprise customers. Built data engineering function from zero and launched Agora Analytics product.

  • Launched Agora Analytics data product creating $5M+ ARR expansion opportunity; partnered with Sales, Marketing, and Product to deliver in 90 days
  • Built fraud detection ML pipeline cutting incident response time 30% and false positives 15%; improved platform trust and reduced support costs
  • Unified Salesforce CRM and AWS product telemetry with Databricks Unity Catalog; delivered single customer view and 20% faster SLAs; reduced cloud spend 18%
  • Hired and led 4-person engineering team; established sprint cadences, dbt standards, and ML testing frameworks cutting data defects 35%
Tech: Databricks, Unity Catalog, AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, Lake Formation), Salesforce CDC, SageMaker, Step Functions, dbt

IBM Consulting

Data Science & AI Lead Consultant

Jun 2020 - Sep 2021 | Seattle, WA

Healthcare and life sciences AI practice serving Fortune 500 clients. Led architecture and delivery of multi-cloud ML platforms (Azure, Salesforce integration).

  • Led 5-person team building clinical AI for Pfizer cancer biopsy triage on Azure Databricks; reduced screening cycle time 40% with auditable MLOps for compliance
  • Designed multi-cloud reference architecture connecting Salesforce CRM to Azure/Databricks; achieved ~25% cost reduction through platform optimization in 4 months
  • Established reusable MLOps backbone (MLflow, Azure ML, model registry, drift monitoring) enabling safe rollouts with reproducible experiments and audit-ready lineage
Tech: Azure Databricks, Azure ML, MLflow, PyTorch, Salesforce API, Python, Azure Data Factory

SoundCommerce

Data Analytics Architect

Jun 2018 - Jun 2020 | Seattle, WA

E-commerce data platform for retailers. Led 6-person team architecting Customer Data Platform (CDP) integrating Salesforce, commerce, and operations on GCP.

  • Built CDP featured on Google Data Analytics blog; unified customer, order, and product models enabling propensity scoring and next-best-action; reduced operational workload 30%
  • Generated $20M+ GMV across retail partners through enhanced supply chain connectivity and AI-powered marketing activation via reverse-ETL to Salesforce
  • Optimized platform economics reducing compute costs double-digits while maintaining sub-second BI response times; implemented governance and privacy controls accelerating partner onboarding
Tech: BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Dataflow, Looker, dbt, Salesforce API, Reverse-ETL, Terraform

Rithum

Data Analytics Engineer

Nov 2013 - Jun 2018 | Seattle, WA

Multi-channel e-commerce platform connecting retailers and suppliers. Built commerce data platform unifying EDI, API, and telemetry data on AWS.

  • Built commerce data platform generating ~$20M GMV through enhanced retailer-supplier connectivity and supply chain visibility
  • Reduced integration time ~50% through standardized data contracts and versioned APIs; cut break/fix incidents via schema evolution guardrails
  • Implemented near-real-time order lifecycle tracking with Kinesis and Lambda; improved SLA adherence and downstream analytics reliability
Tech: AWS (S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift), Salesforce, SageMaker, API Gateway, ECS

Microsoft

Consulting Data Architect

Mar 2007 - Feb 2011 | Seattle, WA

Built telemetry and analytics platforms for Microsoft Office and Microsoft Store. Early cloud data warehouse work on Azure Cosmos NoSQL.

  • Built Microsoft Office telemetry data warehouse on early Azure Cosmos; improved data accuracy ~30% enabling cohort analysis driving product decisions
  • Created tagless event-capture framework for Microsoft Store; auto-inferred interactions and powered influencer clustering for targeted activation
  • Established dual data-modeling standards (star schemas + document models) with PII governance; improved analyst self-serve and query performance
Tech: Azure Cosmos NoSQL, SQL Server, C#, JavaScript, Service-Oriented Architecture

Education & Certifications

Postgraduate in Data Science

University of Washington

MBA in Statistics

Seattle University

AWS Databricks Platform Architect

Databricks

Security Clearance

U.S. Government (Active)

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