Experience
A journey through 8+ years of building, modernizing, and innovating.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Slalom Build
Jul 2022 – Present
(4 yrs 1 mo)
Detroit, MI
Selected engagements
- Senior AI Engineer & Architect · ~7 mos
Designed an AI-driven system that uses autonomous agent orchestration to modernize legacy mainframe applications, migrating them to a modern, widely adopted backend language.
- • Architected agentic AI workflows to automate documentation, code conversion, and orchestration of legacy systems
- • Implemented autonomous agent orchestration for code documentation, code conversion, and workflow decision-making
- • Established integration patterns for AI-enabled SDLC pipelines
- • Reduced manual effort and enabled scalable, repeatable modernization
- • Continued facilitating "prototype-in-a-day" innovation workshops and executive AI ideation sessions
- • Helped establish CodeScan, an AI-powered modernization-discovery accelerator demoed at an internal Innovation Day, and continue to support it
Agentic AILLM OrchestrationRAGAI-Enabled SDLCCode Modernization - AI Engineer & Architect · ~1 yr
Built an example multi-agent system demonstrating autonomous, human-in-the-loop engineering workflows.
- • Designed multi-agent coordination across architect, coder, and reviewer roles
- • Implemented autonomous planning, implementation, and review loops with human-in-the-loop control
- • Built reusable AI accelerators and templates adopted across teams
- • Used the framework to educate teams on agentic engineering patterns
Multi-AgentPrompt EngineeringSpec-Driven DevelopmentAI AcceleratorsTypeScript - AI Solutions Engineer · ~1 yr
Led prototype-driven engagements to validate future-state, AI-enabled architectures.
- • Delivered "prototype-in-a-day" engagements to accelerate stakeholder alignment
- • Helped stakeholders visualize AI-enabled solutions early to de-risk architecture decisions
- • Accelerated decision-making and contributed to downstream project expansion
- • Introduced fail-fast engineering and experimentation practices
Rapid PrototypingAI StrategyRAGReactNode.js
Software Engineer
Ford Motor Company
Feb 2020 – Jul 2022
(2 yrs 5 mos)
Taylor, MI
Contract Software Engineer
BASF
Jun 2019 – Feb 2020
(8 mos)
Southfield, MI
Software Engineer (Contract)
TEKsystems
Mar 2019 – Jun 2019
(3 mos)
Taylor, MI
Software Developer Project Lead
Wayne State University
Sep 2018 – Dec 2018
(3 mos)
Detroit, MI
Leadership & Community
TrAILblazers Foundry
Co-Founder & Lead
AI Community of Practice spanning Detroit and Columbus
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Wayne State University