Resume
Summary
Senior software engineer with nearly a decade building production systems for the U.S. Navy. Today I work in R&D Decision Intelligence at NIWC Atlantic's Multidisciplinary Research Center, building AI/ML systems in PyTorch — including FRIDAY, a drone-swarm intelligence research project presented at the 2026 Naval Applications of Machine Learning workshop. I came up the NAVWAR career ladder from Junior Scientist to Technical Project Lead, owning subsystems like AUTOSERD and shipping mission-critical software across SEMS, CLPTS, and a legacy HIV Management System migration. Master of Computer Applications from Vanderbilt — ranked the #1 U.S. master's program by Fortune the year I graduated — plus a graduate cybersecurity certificate from the Naval Postgraduate School. Off-hours I build AI-driven applications: a personal-finance planner, a daily short-form content factory, and an autonomous coding-agent fleet. Backend, data, and agentic systems are where I'm strongest.
Experience
Download Resume- AI Engineer at the Multidisciplinary Research Center (MRC), developing machine-learning systems in PyTorch.
- FRIDAY — "Finding Responsive Intelligence in Multimodal Analysis" — an R&D project on drone and drone-swarm intelligence, presented at NAML 2026, the Naval Applications of Machine Learning workshop (Distribution A — cleared for public release).
- Oversee project budgets in the $3,000–$7,000 range.
- Technical Project Lead on AUTOSERD (Automated Support Equipment Recommendation Data) — earned full ownership of all tasking and customer interaction for the subsystem.
- Senior Scientist on SEMS (Support Equipment Management System) and Technical Lead on CLPTS (Closed Loop Procurement Tracking System).
- Promoted to ND-4 Senior Scientist (2020); built Python automation and custom Java mini-apps for PDF and matrix-data processing.
- Promoted ND-2 → ND-3; generated half of all new incoming software screens using JDeveloper, Java, and PL/SQL.
- HIV Management System (HMS) — migrated a legacy system from D.C. to New Orleans; automated full job functions with PowerShell, cutting work from months to hours, and wrote thousands of lines of MySQL.
- New Professionals Councillor, Student Intern Mentor, and recruiter; earned multiple civilian service awards.
- IT support for a school managing thousands of IoT devices.
- IT support and maintenance at the family law firm (Locke Meredith, Sean Fagan & Injury Attorneys) — where I grew up learning the family business.
Education
Vanderbilt's program was ranked the #1 master's program in the United States by Fortune the year I graduated. Coursework spanned classic AI, machine learning, distributed systems, PyTorch, and agile development.
A military-grade focus on confidentiality, integrity, and availability — classic encryption, key exchange, and verification.
Graduated in the top 10% of my class. Active in ACM, the National Honor Society, hackathons, and campus ministry. A deep grounding in computer architecture, data structures, and mathematics.
Certifications
- Professional Scrum Developer™ I (PSD I) — Scrum.org, 2019
- New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute (NORLI) — Alumnus, 2023
- Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management (ACQ 101) — Defense Acquisition University, 2018
- Fundamentals of Systems Engineering (ENG 101) — Defense Acquisition University, 2018
- Basic Information Systems Acquisition (ISA 101) — Defense Acquisition University, 2018