Artificial Intelligence Engineer - Dow July 2025 - Present
- Lead the design and deployment of enterprise AI/ML solutions that connect business strategy with measurable outcomes across supply chain, manufacturing, and corporate functions.
- Build, train, and deploy production models on Databricks using Unity Catalog, MLflow, and model serving with secure, governed, and scalable delivery patterns.
- Design agentic AI systems including retrieval workflows, knowledge assistants, and decision-support copilots that accelerate discovery and productivity.
- Provision and optimize AI/ML environments across development, test, and production using Terraform, Azure, and infrastructure as code.
- Build data pipelines that unify process, ERP, supply chain, and IoT data into trusted foundations for analytics, automation, and AI use cases.
- Created "Agent Bricks," a modular enterprise AI agent framework for retrieval, reasoning, and decision automation.
- Standardized reusable MLOps and infrastructure modules that reduced deployment time and lowered operational risk.
- Delivered Databricks-based AI solutions that improved operational decision-making, accelerated analytics, and unlocked new business value.
Adjunct Faculty - Computer Science and Information Systems - Saginaw Valley State University January 2025 - Present
- Teaching a graduate course in Python programming for the Master of Science in CSIS program.
- Designing and delivering course materials focused on Python application programming, data organization, and mathematical operations.
- Utilizing advanced object-oriented programming features and tools such as NumPy.
- Engaging students in hands-on learning experiences and practical applications of Python programming.
- Collaborating with faculty and staff to enhance the curriculum and support student success.
- Contributing to the university’s commitment to undergraduate teaching, learning, and community-based research.
Associate Solution Manager - Dow Chemical May 2021 - July 2025
- Work with Senior Solution Manager and Solution Managers to define the scope and solution architecture of products.
- Lead the development and support of Web/Mobile solutions.
- Mentor and coach junior developers on the team.
- Conduct regular code reviews and provide guidance on best practices in software and data engineering.
- Understand complex data sources and integrations and develop/implement necessary data flows.
- Implement top-tier security and data protection.
- Develop and optimize ETL processes using Azure Data Factory, SAP BODs, and Event Driven Architecture.
- Performance - Defines controls, measures and KPIs for solution performance and reliability.
- Develop and implement a robust set of services and APIs that power application(s).
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use and sharing across Dow.
- Contribute to the development best practices for the Manufacturing Operations and Dow.
- Help shape and guide the adoption of cloud technologies that integrate or interface with legacy systems.
- Gather requirements and write acceptance criteria and user stories with the customers / product owners collaboratively as part of a team.
- Partner with external vendors and academic institutions to collaboratively design and/or build the best solutions.
- Build and foster relationships to drive integration and cross-team decisions.
Software / DevSecOps Engineer - Dow Chemical's R&D November 2019 - May 2021
- Develop software solutions that support Dow's material businesses.
- Analyze user requirements and create functional specifications.
- Debug and troubleshoot issues in team's app portfolio.
- Perform code reviews and provide feedback to improve code quality.
- Document software design, implementation, and testing procedures.
- Scan and remediate code repositories with static application security testing tools.
- Integrate security practices into the development and deployment of team's applications.
- Train and educate team members on security best practices.
- Led and supported Dow's cloud-native initiative for modern software engineering.
Cyber Security Operations Automation Specialist - Dow Chemical June 2018 - November 2019
- Deploy a solution to track the progress of security incidents from analysis to recovery.
- Build a process where the Security Operations Center can dynamically create use cases.
- Lead the direction towards DevSecOps for modern software engineering at the company.
- Develop and implement automation solutions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of cyber security operations.
- Design and deploy automated workflows for detecting, analyzing, and responding to security incidents and threats.
- Create custom scripts and automation playbooks to streamline repetitive security tasks, such as threat intelligence gathering, incident response, and vulnerability management.
- Work closely with security analysts, engineers, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvement and automation.
- Evaluate and select appropriate automation technologies and tools based on security requirements and operational needs.
- Develop custom solutions for ServiceNow's Security Operations modules.
- Develop and deploy group based privileged identity management.
Cyber Security Intern - Dow Chemical May 2017 - May 2017
- Build threat prevention and network health dashboards with Pygal and Power BI.
- Create a web application that manages black/white listing for the company’s corporate firewalls.
- Setup Juniper firewall development lab, configured policy groups and threat prevention policies.
- Setup logging, SSL Inspection, and connected to advanced threat prevention feeds.
- Automated tracking of potential cyber security threats on social media using bots.
Systems Developer - Dow Chemical September 2014 - May 2018
- Manage custom scripts for extensibility of Microsoft SharePoint sites using JavaScript.
- Create autonomous scripts to ease and eliminate workloads using PowerShell.
- Design data visualizations that showcased Dow manufacturing using company BI tool.