AI and Data Executive helping companies implement business intelligence to enable business driven decisions and accelerate their journey towards an AI future. Service Line Leader and Practice Leader for Consulting & Business Intelligence. AI leader for the consulting firm providing leadership in the strategy and adoption of AI internally and externally. I am leading the internal development of Generative AI pilots to provide ChatGPT like capabilities on internal company data like contracts or audit documents. This includes the use of Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT-4 to provide precise information on large document data sets,With a background in data science and a deep understanding of industry best practices, I am adept at helping organizations unlock the full potential of their data. I lead a team of data professionals, providing a range of services including data strategy development, data architecture design, data governance, data analytics, and data visualization. Our goal is to empower organizations to turn their data into a strategic asset, driving growth and efficiency.I specialize in providing data-driven solutions for the Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Oil & Gas sectors, with a particular focus on financial reporting and FinOps in Healthcare. Whether you are looking to improve your data infrastructure or gain insights from your data, I can help you achieve your goals and reach your desired outcome. Let's work together to turn your data into a strategic asset.

Board Member at the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry, supporting and advancing the business community in Tennessee.

Consulting leader helping clients achieve their business goals and objectives with data. Engagement Manager for multiple data engagements which include data strategy, data governance, and data analytics. Leader or counselor to +15 data professionals and consultants.• Engagement manager for a project which developed a COVID-19 vaccine and monoclonal allocation method for a state health department. Contributed to the state achieving a ‘Equity’ score that was well above the national average prior to the vaccine supply abundance. • Leveraged cloud database to ingest and store data from multiple data sources and then programmed a model to follow business rules for vaccine and monoclonal antibody distribution. Produced tables and data visualizations including heat maps for vaccine and monoclonal reports.• Lead Engagement Manager for an engagement focused on assessing the data and operating model and providing recommendations on a future state operating model, data architecture, and data governance framework. • Planned and implemented a Data Analytics as a Service (DaaS) business model to provide a ‘squad’ of data resources with a mixed onshore – offshore model to directly support game studios. • Counselor for data professionals providing professional feedback, building promotion business cases, and advising on areas to focus on growth.

Program manager for strategic digital products that will provide a portfolio view of all major capital investments (+50B) across the corporation and the key risks associated with the investments. Interfacing across multiple organizations to include IT, DevOps, and multiple Business Lines to develop and release the products. Setting the digital vision, strategy and roadmap for the business. Innovating and evangelizing the value of a digital program which seeks to improve decision quality and augment risk and opportunity management for investment decisions. A key leader in the broader global projects organization’s data strategy, data governance, and future technology endeavors.• Built and released a cloud-based digital product to provide a portfolio view of major investments. • Built and released a product to capture and steward risk, opportunities, and uncertainties.• Co-author on 2 of top 3 ‘Shark Tank’ innovation ideas from +100 ideas submitted in a large organization• Developed a digital roadmap and pivoted to implementation utilizing Agile methodology.• Manage a team which includes Product Owners, a Solution Architect, Scrum Master, and 7 Developers and Data Engineers.

Leader in digital transformation for the major capital projects organization, responsible for coordinating and driving efforts to radically transform project execution and decision making to a digital and data centric model. Digital influencer to leaders within the organizations to help drive digital transformation. • Innovator in the organization with a remit to explore new capabilities to solve business problems such as the use of knowledge graphs or neural networks on project schedules.• Data Strategist who Initiated the global projects’ data strategy• Digital and data thought leader on building the next generation business opportunity evaluation and decision management framework platform. • Drove efforts in business process modeling in ARIS to define “As-Is” process in order to define pain points and work towards digital enhancements of processes. • Piloted new technology applications such as blockchain in engineering man-hours or automated project team cost forecasting with dynamic organization charts.

Lead Planner for Engineering and Procurement phase of a mega-project consisting of $7 Billion. Supervisor and manager for a team of eight while indirectly supervising the contractor’s planning team of +30 people. • Led the company effort to develop a reliable schedule and basis for progress, man-hours, and performance for a +14 million direct man-hour engineering. • Drove alignment in reporting systems that improved project metrics for +185k deliverables and instituted monthly resource loading of a +60k activity schedule. Improved data system variance to attain +99% alignment and significantly improved the reliability of the data / reporting.• Leveraged data analytics skill set to roll up +200k line items of procurement material and equipment into +2k milestones for integration.

Developed and owned the project schedule and schedule basis for an accelerated, high priority project. Provided expertise in the review and analyses of external contractor, partner, and stakeholder schedules.

Lead planner on +$1 billion offshore project which completed 5 months ahead of schedule and $400 million under budget. Provided commercial and detailed schedule analysis in change negotiations in the reduction of contractor commercial change requests of +$100 million by + 50%.

Implemented cost control, cost WBS, forecasting, and analysis on major capital projects (>$200 million), implemented and stewarded management of change process, contract management (cost and schedule), developing project schedules, and analyzing contractor schedules. Acted as site lead for front end engineering office, developing strong business relationships with contractors project management team and led the commercial cost evaluation on 3 contract evaluations; each in excess of $10 million.

Manager, supervisor, and mentor to Soldiers and Officers in the US Army. Successfully trained, deployed, and conducted combat mission while leading teams in over two tours of duty in Iraq. Awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal.