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VP, AI & Analytics

SymBiosis Capital Management · 2023-04–now · Remote · NWA

  • Define and execute the firm-wide AI and data strategy, embedding GenAI, agentic systems, and cloud-native analytics across the entire venture lifecycle: sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio support.
  • Architected and shipped an end-to-end agentic platform: it ingests unstructured pitch decks, uses LLMs (OpenAI and Claude via AWS Bedrock and AgentCore) to extract entities into DynamoDB, agentically enriches profiles against firm criteria in Snowflake, and auto-generates ranked tear sheets and full investment due-diligence memos delivered through Outlook and Slack.
  • Architected an MCP-exposed knowledge graph over a 40k+ document corpus, routing local (Qwen/Ollama) and frontier (Claude) models by task for cost and data-privacy control.
  • Recruit, budget for, and lead a multi-national (US/UK/India) cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, and statisticians, shifting investment decisions from fully manual to automated and evidence-led.

My current role sits where AI strategy meets hands-on engineering: I set the roadmap and standards for responsible AI, and I still architect and ship the platforms myself. The work spans applied ML and decision science. Propensity-score acquisition-prediction models. Time-series analysis of market downturn predictors. Publication-driven signal detection for emerging biotech growth areas. All of it on AWS and Snowflake, with data governance and model evaluation built in.

Research Scientist

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences · 2018-08–2023-08 · Little Rock, AR

  • Engineered a scalable pharmacovigilance pipeline (PhD dissertation) mining massive unstructured social-media corpora with transformer models and weak-supervision frameworks (Prodigy, SpaCy), architecting custom programmatic labeling and fine-tuning workflows before the commercial LLM paradigm.
  • Developed and validated statistical and ML methods for clinical and regulatory decision-making, disseminated through peer-reviewed publications and national conference talks.
  • Delivered analyses and dashboards supporting federal broadband initiatives, translating high-volume data into actionable policy with BigQuery, Python, and Tableau.

This is where the AI-engineering foundation was built. The work was pre-generative frontier NLP: synthesizing novel, high-fidelity clinical and epidemiological datasets out of noisy social-media text. That turned out to be exactly the groundwork production LLM and RAG systems would later require.

Director of Drug Development

Orbis Biosciences · 2015-07–2018-06 · Kansas City, KS

  • Led cross-functional teams of researchers, engineers, statisticians, clinicians, and regulatory experts through complex drug-development programs, including animal trials and first-in-human clinical trials.
  • Directed the design and execution of causal studies for drug efficacy and safety, owning statistical analysis plans, study protocols, and SOPs aligned to FDA standards.
  • Built the firm's first quality-management program and supported QA/QC of cGMP batches used in human studies.

Project Manager

Quintiles (now IQVIA) · 2014-05–2015-07 · Overland Park, KS

  • Managed large multi-national, cross-functional teams running Phase I clinical trials under strict timelines and federal regulations, overseeing protocol development, statistical analysis plans, and SAS code review.
  • Harmonized SOPs for Phase I project and program management; mentored clinical coordinators through promotion to project manager.

Analyst

Kansas Health Institute · 2011-06–2014-05 · Topeka, KS

  • Led public-health research and statistical evaluations on immunizations, early-childhood mental health, and rural health.
  • Produced Health Impact Assessments used by state legislators in policy decisions.
  • Presented findings directly to state legislators, agency staff, and community audiences, translating statistical evidence into terms each room could act on.