Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · New Rochelle, New York, United States

• Full AI engineering function from architecture and model selection through deployment and governance.
• $10M+ attributable client revenue through AI product launches, demand generation, and marketing automation
• Built the AI stack (MCP orchestration, RAG pipelines, eval harnesses, governance agents) from zero to 458 production tools in under two years
• 458-tool MCP orchestration layer enabling bidirectional workflows between Claude and Jasper AI, reducing research time 87% and A/B variant creation 98%
• Shipped Computer Use agent workflows (Anthropic Agent SDK) for browser automation and legacy web apps lacking APIs
• 5 production RAG systems at ~50 QPS and sub-300ms P95 latency with agentic retrieval patterns, improving accuracy 40% and cutting inference cost 65%
• Serverless RAG on AWS Lambda + Bedrock processing 100K+ queries/month at ~70% lower cost than EC2
• Cost-aware model routing across LLM providers with SLMs for high-volume subtasks and prompt caching cutting costs up to 90%
• Eval harness (RAGAS, LangSmith, Promptfoo) with 1,104 tests across 29 suites as CI/CD hard stops gating hallucination, latency, quality, and cost
• Governance agents (Llama Guard, NeMo Guardrails) monitoring tool use, flagging policy violations, and tracing agent decision chains via Prometheus
• Self-healing agent architectures: circuit breakers, rate limiting, priority queues, automatic failure recovery
• Multi-tenant knowledge base with per-client isolation for ABM, syncing brand guidelines and briefs across AI platforms via S3
• Assessed 6 ad platforms (Google, Meta, LinkedIn, DV360, TTD, Reddit) and 3 budget tools to define AI-driven campaign automation foundation
• Stable Diffusion and Adobe Firefly in multimodal creative pipelines, cutting asset production time ~40%
• 15 years of game AI (UE5, Unity) provided the design vocabulary for production LLM agent orchestration

Apr 2001 – Mar 2023 · 21 yrs 11 mos · New Rochelle, New York, United States

• Founder and principal engineer. Over 22 years the engagements grew from early web platforms to enterprise search at IBM, classified mission planning for the Air Force, critical infrastructure cybersecurity at Dragos, and global logistics at Atlas Air.
• 40+ production systems, ~90% client retention, 75% repeat business for IBM, U.S. Air Force, Dragos, Phoenix Contact, Publicis Groupe, Atlas Air, Fox Sports, Bayer HealthCare, ADP, IFF, FIS, Shubert Ticketing, and Bremer Bank
• IBM global search modernization: 3x query performance, 80% cost reduction, direct commendation from the IBM CTO
• Green-field mission-planning tool for U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command (AMC DMR) at Scott AFB in a classified AWS environment
• "Hawk" system for Atlas Air centralizing global flight scheduling, cargo logistics, crew management, and compliance
• AWS SageMaker and Azure Cognitive Services/ML/Databricks for predictive insights, identity management, and audience targeting
• Cybersecurity and data platforms for critical infrastructure at Dragos (ICS/OT security)
• Mission-critical Rust and Go platforms achieving 99.9% uptime for defense and logistics clients
• Games and simulations in Unity (2010) and Unreal Engine (2014), shipping behavior trees, AI perception, and real-time multiplayer
• Distributed teams of 4-20 engineers across 12 time zones, coaching 5 engineers to senior roles
• 3-year technical advisor for Polywork (Product Hunt Golden Kitty, 50K+ users in 48 hours)