AI Strategy & Implementation

Integrating strategy, engineering, and change management to drive AI impact at scale.

  • MBA candidate at Northwestern Kellogg
  • Experienced data engineer and digital transformation leader
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About me

I focus on turning promising uses of AI into systems people can rely on. My engineering background helps me understand what it takes to build them, while my work in operations and studies in finance and strategy shape how I evaluate their value to a business. I start by understanding how the work gets done today. Conversations with the people closest to a process often reveal where the real problems lie, and whether AI would meaningfully help. From there, I stay hands-on with the build and work alongside business owners and technical teams to make the solution fit.

What interests me most is how that work translates into lasting improvements: closing the books faster at month’s end, turning messy documents into client-ready proposals, and using data-driven insights to optimize pricing. Getting there takes more than a functioning system: people need to understand it, trust it, and be able to maintain it. Across industries and company sizes, I want to help teams make that transition, with a clear connection between the technology they adopt and the results they see.

Experience

Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University Booz Allen Hamilton Procter & Gamble

What I bring to the table

  • Foundational data infrastructure
  • Workflow automations
  • Use-case identification & prioritization
  • Quantifying financial impact and ROI
  • Change management & adoption
  • AI governance & compliance

Certifications

  • Databricks Machine Learning Professional
  • Booz Allen AI Engineer Expert
  • AWS Data Analytics Specialty
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate