Skip to content
SHEET 05 — ABOUTEDU · CERTS · STANDARDS
§ 04About

An engineer who became an AI/data product manager — and stayed close to the math.

My master's thesis applied neural networks to multi-variable statistical quality control more than two decades before the current AI wave. The intervening years were spent learning that great data and AI products are mostly about the boring parts: governance, data quality, evaluation, and the operating model that holds them up — lessons sharpened in one of the most regulated industries there is.

EDUCATIONEDU

Education

M.Eng., Systems Engineering
North Carolina State University · Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute
Thesis: A neural-network approach to multi-variable statistical quality control.
B.S., Industrial Engineering
Texas A&M University · College Station, TX
CERTIFICATIONSCERT

Certifications

STANDARDS & BOARD SERVICESTD

Standards & Board Service

THOUGHT LEADERSHIPPUB

Thought Leadership

The Enterprise Agentic AI Series — a three-book set published at microwaterfall.com on enterprise AI adoption, AI-assisted software delivery, and citizen-AI governance.

  • · When Machines Prefer Waterfall — Agentic Delivery Lifecycle & Micro-Waterfall Methodology.
  • · The Anti-Agile Manifesto — Specification-Driven Development.
  • · Lunchtime Launches — Two-Speeds Model & Entropy Tolerance Scale.
OFF-CLOCK — FIRST ROBOTICS MENTORSHIPFUN

Off-Clock — FIRST Robotics Mentorship

For years I've mentored high-school students in the FIRST Robotics Competition — the global STEM program founded by Dean Kamen where 3,400+ teams design, build and compete with 125-lb industrial robots on a six-week build clock. It's the closest thing to an enterprise product launch a teenager can experience: real engineering, real deadlines, real sponsors, real failure modes. The work that pays the bills changes; the love of helping a kid see their first subsystem actually move does not.

TEAM 3735EST. 2011 · KLEIN ISD
"We take the world by storm."

Multi-year lead mentor for the Klein ISD district-wide team drawing students from all five Klein high schools. Coached design, build, scouting and outreach across 16 seasons of competition in the FIRST In Texas district.

TEAM 8177EST. 2020 · TOMBALL ISD
"Engineering mayhem one robot at a time."

Helped stand up Vector as a brand-new rookie team at Tomball Memorial High School — sponsors, build space, safety program, first competition strategy. Six seasons later: 3 event wins and 21 awards.

MORE ON FIRST ▸ firstinspires.org · thebluealliance.com · frc-events