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.
- Design and operate governed Databricks AI platforms using Unity Catalog, MLflow, model serving, and medallion architecture patterns for secure, scalable delivery.
- Build agentic AI and contract intelligence solutions using retrieval workflows, OCR, embeddings, vector indexing, information extraction, and knowledge assistants.
- Provision and optimize AI/ML environments across development, test, and production using Terraform, Azure, infrastructure as code, and reusable MLOps modules.
- Own Synapse SQL warehouse FinOps for manufacturing and IT/OT analytics workloads, including workload-group design, resource governance, and automated scaling policies.
- Implement Azure DevOps and Azure CLI automation to scale Synapse compute during batch windows while protecting SLA performance and controlling spend.
- Strengthen reliability for inherited critical systems by resolving production defects, overhauling logging, and improving automated test coverage after team transitions.
- Build data pipelines that unify process, ERP, supply chain, and IoT data into trusted foundations for analytics, automation, and AI use cases.
- Create "Agent Bricks," a modular enterprise AI agent framework for retrieval, reasoning, and decision automation.
Adjunct Faculty - Computer Science and Information Systems - Saginaw Valley State University January 2025 - Present
- Teach a graduate course in Python programming for the Master of Science in CSIS program.
- Design and deliver course materials focused on Python application programming, data organization, and mathematical operations.
- Use advanced object-oriented programming features and tools such as NumPy.
- Engage students in hands-on learning experiences and practical applications of Python programming.
- Collaborate with faculty and staff to enhance the curriculum and support student success.
- Contribute to the university’s commitment to undergraduate teaching, learning, and community-based research.
Associate Solution Manager - Dow Chemical May 2021 - July 2025
- Defined product scope and solution architecture with solution leaders across manufacturing and operations initiatives.
- Architected real-time SAP ECC ingestion on Azure Service Bus, including delta-capture pipelines for work orders, headers, documents, and notification domains.
- Designed event-driven integration patterns with Azure Functions, Redis caching, Synapse ingestion, and downstream APIs to reduce ECC load and improve application responsiveness.
- Built publish-notify patterns and data access services that gave warehouse consumers low-latency access to new data while protecting ECC performance and controlling platform costs.
- Developed and optimized ETL pipelines using Azure Data Factory, SAP BODs, and event-driven architecture to support operational and analytical workloads.
- Administered Synapse RBAC and schema-level security controls across non-production and production support groups to enforce enterprise data governance.
- Defined solution KPIs, improved reliability controls, and developed reusable services, APIs, and shared libraries for broader adoption across Dow.
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
- Deployed a solution to track the progress of security incidents from analysis to recovery.
- Built a process that allowed the Security Operations Center to dynamically create use cases.
- Led the direction toward DevSecOps for modern software engineering at the company.
- Developed and implemented automation solutions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of cyber security operations.
- Designed and deployed automated workflows for detecting, analyzing, and responding to security incidents and threats.
- Created custom scripts and automation playbooks to streamline repetitive security tasks, such as threat intelligence gathering, incident response, and vulnerability management.
- Worked closely with security analysts, engineers, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvement and automation.
- Evaluated and selected appropriate automation technologies and tools based on security requirements and operational needs.
- Developed custom solutions for ServiceNow's Security Operations modules.
- Developed and deployed 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.
- Created a web application that managed black/white listing for the company’s corporate firewalls.
- Set up a Juniper firewall development lab and configured policy groups and threat prevention policies.
- Set up logging, SSL inspection, and connections 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
- Managed custom scripts for extensibility of Microsoft SharePoint sites using JavaScript.
- Created autonomous scripts to ease and eliminate workloads using PowerShell.
- Designed data visualizations that showcased Dow manufacturing using the company BI tool.