I turn complex operational data into systems people can trust.
Lead Application Engineer with 14+ years of experience across enterprise healthcare, automation, and data-intensive workflows—now extending that foundation through applied machine learning and generative AI.

ENGINEER. DATA PRACTITIONER. SYSTEMS THINKER.
A production-tested foundation, now applied to data science and AI.
I build at the intersection of software, data, and real-world operations. My work starts with the details—how information is created, transformed, validated, and used—and ends with systems that are more reliable, explainable, and easier to operate.
That perspective comes from more than a decade delivering healthcare technology in production. I pair deep Epic and clinical-workflow experience with Python, SQL, automation, and an expanding data science toolkit. Recent projects include code instrumentation and telemetry, data normalization pipelines, predictive modeling with NHANES data, local LLM evaluation, and on-device computer vision.
Instrument the system, inspect the data, and make decisions from observable behavior.
Design for maintainability, reviewability, and the people who will operate the solution after launch.
Technical quality includes understanding the workflow, constraints, and consequences around the code.
CORE EXPERTISE
Ordered from data and AI outward to the enterprise domain knowledge that makes the work useful.
Applied Data Science & Machine Learning
Turning raw datasets into testable questions through exploratory analysis, feature engineering, model comparison, tuning, and honest evaluation.
Data Engineering & Automation
Building repeatable extraction, transformation, validation, and delivery workflows that replace fragile manual processes.
Generative AI & LLM Systems
Evaluating local and cloud model workflows, prompt strategies, AI agents, and practical human-in-the-loop applications.
Enterprise Software Engineering
Designing durable applications, code-generation tools, rules, and integrations for complex operational environments.
Healthcare Data & Clinical Workflows
Applying strong domain knowledge across perioperative operations, clinical configuration, reporting, billing, and governance.
Integration & Interoperability
Connecting systems and operational events through interfaces, APIs, structured data, and clearly governed handoffs.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Concrete work with scope labels that distinguish production delivery, data science study, and personal experimentation.
Enterprise Legacy Code Analysis & Instrumentation
Python automation and runtime telemetry for evidence-based modernization of a legacy Epic codebase.
Determining which routines were active, obsolete, or safe to retire would have required months of manual code review.
Built a Python framework to analyze Epic M routines and programmatically insert execution tracking across the codebase, then used production metrics to distinguish observed activity from dormant code.
Converted code discovery into a repeatable, data-driven process and gave modernization decisions a stronger evidence base.
Provider Data Normalization Pipeline
An extraction and transformation workflow for cleaner, standardized enterprise imports.
Provider records arrived with inconsistent formatting and required a largely manual cleanup process before they could be imported reliably.
Developed a Python workflow to extract source data, apply repeatable normalization rules, and produce standardized records for downstream Epic administration.
Replaced repetitive cleanup with an auditable transformation pipeline and improved consistency across the import dataset.
Enterprise Reporting Platform Migration
Programmatic migration of recurring reports after the retirement of a legacy platform.
A large portfolio of enterprise reports needed to move to a new delivery model without recreating each configuration by hand.
Built Python automation to generate report configurations, XML definitions, and batch email delivery workflows from structured inputs.
Significantly reduced manual migration effort while creating a more consistent and repeatable configuration process.
Clinical Outcome Prediction with NHANES Data
An end-to-end supervised learning project using public demographic, laboratory, and clinical data.
Assess whether a clinical laboratory outcome could be predicted from a mixed set of NHANES variables while maintaining a sound evaluation process.
Performed exploratory analysis, preprocessing, feature engineering, model comparison, and hyperparameter tuning in Python with scikit-learn.
Compared regression approaches—including Random Forest and Gradient Boosting—to identify the strongest-performing method and understand model tradeoffs.
Self-Hosted LLM Development Environment
A local environment for hands-on evaluation of open-source language models and AI-assisted workflows.
Understanding LLM tradeoffs requires direct experience with inference, model behavior, prompt design, privacy, and deployment constraints.
Designed and maintained an Ollama-based environment to evaluate Mistral and other open-source models, experiment with prompts, and prototype AI-assisted development and automation workflows.
Built practical intuition for the differences between local and cloud AI—including capability, latency, control, and operational complexity.
On-Device Computer Vision Application
A Kotlin Android application performing real-time object detection with local model inference.
Integrate a machine learning model into a responsive mobile camera workflow without relying on a remote inference service.
Combined TensorFlow Lite with Android’s Camera2 API to capture frames and run object detection directly on the device.
Demonstrated an end-to-end edge ML workflow with responsive inference, offline operation, and hands-on mobile model integration.
TECHNICAL PRACTICE
The recurring themes behind my experiments, prototypes, and technical deep dives.
Protocol & Exploit Analysis
Breaking down how protocols behave, where trust assumptions fail, how exploits move through a system, and which defensive controls actually interrupt the path.
Security concepts explained through systems thinking, prerequisites, observable behavior, and mitigation.
Application Prototyping
Developing small applications and automation utilities to explore APIs, data flows, user interactions, and deployment constraints in working code.
A bias toward learning by building—not stopping at a diagram or a tutorial.
Data Science Concepts
Turning statistical and machine learning ideas into reproducible notebooks, model comparisons, and explanations grounded in real datasets.
Emphasis on assumptions, evaluation, and what the results can—and cannot—support.
EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
A long enterprise engineering track record paired with focused graduate study in data science.
- 2019 — Present
Lead Application Engineer
TriHealthLeads complex application, automation, data transformation, reporting migration, and custom Epic development work supporting enterprise healthcare operations.
- 2016 — 2019
Senior Application Engineer
TriHealthBuilt governance reporting, clinical quality logic, electronic billing validation, and workflow automation across perioperative systems.
- 2011 — 2016
ServiceNow Developer + Programmer / System Analyst
Premier HealthDelivered ServiceNow workflows, Epic implementations, integrations, and SQL reporting for a 13,000+ employee healthcare system.
Master of Applied Science in Data Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
In progress • Expected December 2026
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Wright State University
2011
TECHNICAL TOOLKIT
Tools and concepts I use today, organized by the kind of problem they help solve.
- Python
- SQL
- scikit-learn
- ETL
- feature engineering
- model evaluation
- Generative AI
- LLMs
- Ollama
- AI agents
- prompt design
- local inference
- Epic M
- Kotlin
- REST APIs
- JSON
- XML
- TensorFlow Lite
- Epic
- HL7
- OpTime
- Anesthesia
- Cogito
- Data Courier
Let’s build something useful from complex data.
I’m always glad to compare notes on applied AI, data science, healthcare technology, automation, or the engineering work required to make ambitious ideas dependable.