ML platform · Platform engineering2026 – Present
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, via CuraCor Solutions
Architecting an enterprise hub-and-spoke MLOps platform on AWS CDK: a shared hub, a versioned construct library, and a template that generates ML projects.
- Hub changes needed to onboard a new model
- 0
- Human decision point for model promotion
- 1
- AWS regions, with disaster recovery
- 2
Read case study →ML platform · MLOps2025 – Present
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, via CuraCor Solutions
Designed and own the AWS CDK platform that trains, promotes, serves, and monitors 37 clinical prediction models across 8 lines of business at Blue Cross NC.
- Clinical prediction models in production
- 37
- Lines of business served
- 8
- Stage promotion: dev, stage, prod
- 3
Read case study →LLM · Healthcare AI2024 – 2025
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Connected Care, via InnoVet Health
Built the VA's first production LLM pipeline: clinical note processing on Azure Databricks, still in automation with an estimated $5M+ in annual savings.
- Production LLM pipeline at the VA
- 1st
- Estimated annual savings
- $5M+
- Batch inference, still in automation
- Daily
Read case study →Predictive modeling · MLOps2023 – 2025
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Connected Care, via InnoVet Health
Maintained and extended the VA's most mature predictive model, which flags discharged veterans at highest risk of 30-day readmission, with MLflow-based MLOps.
- Continuously running ML pipeline in VA history
- Longest
- Readmission risk window
- 30-day
- Scheduled pipelines: dev and prod
- 2
Read case study →Leadership · MLOps2022 – 2023
Mercy, one of the largest U.S. health systems
Led a 10-person data science team and stood up Mercy's first MLOps pipeline on Azure Databricks, including its first real-time models integrated with EPIC.
- Senior and lead data scientists led
- 10
- Models put into production
- 4
- Real-time models integrated with EPIC
- 1st
Read case study →Edge AI · Robotics · Mobile2025 – 2026
Schilke App Solutions LLC
Built a robot platform and iOS/Android app: WebRTC remote driving, an on-device LLM on a Jetson Orin Nano, and YOLO object detection on a Raspberry Pi 5.
- Live video over WebRTC
- 30 fps
- Two-way push-to-talk audio
- 16 kHz
- App platforms: iOS and Android
- 2
Read case study →Computer vision · iOS2023 – Present
Schilke App Solutions LLC
Shipped an iOS app that identifies fossil shark teeth in real time with 18 on-device Core ML classifiers trained on 100,000+ labeled images.
- On-device Core ML classifiers
- 18
- Labeled training images
- 100K+
- Species and genera in the gallery
- 83
Read case study →NLP · Public health2018 – 2019
Florida Department of Health
Applied text mining to EMS clinical notes to sharpen Florida's opioid overdose surveillance, and owned the state's CDC data deliverables for the program.
- Public state surveillance reports
- 7
- Presentations to the CDC and national conferences
- 5
- Oral presentations at CSTE 2019
- 2
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