Palm Coast, FL · available · leadership, FDE, or contract
Forward-deployed engineer. Not a slide deck with a GitHub link taped on.
About two years of hands-on GenAI in production, on top of 20+ years making enterprise systems actually run (Lilly, Humana, Southwire, Simon, the State of Indiana). I scope the problem with the people who do the work, build the system, and stay until it’s running. Remote, travel, or relocation for the right role. The Palm Coast house stays.
Three things a recruiter can click, and one thing I can’t name yet. That’s the honest version.
A boss fight that only dies if you actually finish the chore. Pick dishes, laundry, trash. The clock is the boss’s HP. Miss the check-ins and the boss wins. It runs in the browser, offline, no account. Built for the hackathon. Kept because it’s fun and it works.
Goal, constraints, what “done” looks like. I run agents the same way I run a job site: clear orders, then I review anything a customer, a contract, or money will see.
Stripe picked me for a private beta. I co-designed a new way to sell tokens and bill for usage with their team, then launched it in production on AI Pricing Calculators. The method is live. The secret sauce stays with Stripe.
Hands-on testing and feedback on a new, unreleased private model version. I can say I’m in the room. I can’t say whose room. When they lift the name, I’ll put it on the page.
No mockups. These are the URLs I actually operate or shipped.
Founder work, one embedded FDE, then the enterprise years. Full resume · PDF
Earlier: JDC Group / Southwire, OT/IoT and ICS security (2021–23). Tata Consultancy Services, SAFe 5.1 at Eli Lilly and Humana, Power BI for pharmaceutical manufacturing (2019–21). Randstad / Eli Lilly, Cisco ISE (2017–19). Anchor Point / Simon Property Group, Cisco Meraki to 120 malls (2015–17). State of Indiana, 92 county offices and 700 staff (2011–15). US Army, Special Weapons, held Top Secret (1986–88).
ServiceNow is in the enterprise kit. I do not sell a classical MLOps or data-science stack. GenAI production time is about two years.
Leadership, forward-deployed engineering, or contract. Remote is easy. Travel is fine. Relocation is on the table for the right offer. I keep the Palm Coast house.