Head of AI Research and Development, Pieces Technologies
Chief Technology Officer, Phytomech Industries
2025 Head of AI R&D at Pieces
Leading cross-functional research, rapid prototyping of AI agents/APIs, and setting technical direction from experimentation to scalable production.
2023 Phytomech Buys the Farm
We moved onto our 20 acre hobby farm in Live Oak, Florida. So much room for activies!
2021 AI Scientist at LifeBio
Architected ML pipelines for long-document summarization, speech-to-text, and distributed training; championed MLOps culture across the team.
2018 AI Scientist at Huawei
Worked on large-scale graph deep learning, visual relation detection, and semantic segmentation; engineered graph databases and ML systems with Go, C/C++, and Python.
2016 Senior Data Analyst at Microsoft
Focused on text categorization and sentiment analysis with AzureML, plus extensive SQL/Python data work and training colleagues in data science best-practices.
2013 Founded WG-APL ➜ Phytomech Industries
- Started as a one man band consulting outfit
- Evolved into Phytomech Industries—an agricultural robotics company
2013 Graduate school at University of Washington
Studied applied mathematics while doing protein-structure prediction for synthetic and systems biology in the School of Medicine.
2007 B.S. in Physics, Lamar University