Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder OpsLab — AI-powered scheduling and operations software for military warfighters Chandler, AZ, USA March 2022 – Present
$800K in federal funding won through 3 competitive SBIR proposals (Phase 1: $50K; Phase 2: $750K), contributing to 8 subsequent Phase 3 defense contracts.
94% reduction in scheduling time validated across 8 USAF squadrons, reducing schedule creation from 4 hours to under 15 minutes per weekly schedule.
First place ($30K) in air range management pitch competition, representing the company before defense evaluators and investors.
Built three optimization solvers single-handedly: long-range planning, short-term pilot assignment, and real-time reflow, using a novel precedence-graph rule engine with cascading violation detection.
Delivered SkySchedule platform integration in 75 days; architected IL4-compliant pipelines enabling CUI data handling and meeting DoD security requirements.
Conducted on-site product delivery, training, and feedback collection at multiple Air Force bases; translated field insights into validated product improvements and LLM workflow prototypes.
Built and deployed LangGraph-based natural language querying workflow with LLM-as-judge evaluation; prototyped real-time code generation with AWS Bedrock.
Co-authored peer-reviewed research on deep RL for UAV persistent surveillance (arXiv:2404.06423, 2024); invented calibration frameworks mapping operator preferences to optimization objectives.
Drove AI tooling adoption from zero to universal across the engineering team (Cursor, GitHub Copilot); achieved UK Cyber Essentials Plus certification.
Scaled engineering org from 0 to 15 (OR, backend, UI, contractors); hired, managed performance, and downsized strategically to match engineering efficiencies.
Team Lead, Operations Research Sabre Airline Solutions — Global airline technology — solvers for real-time airline operations Southlake, TX, USA January 2018 – March 2022
First-ever production deployment of RMOps in Indonesia. Served as sole technical POC on-site: designed calibration system to capture scheduling requirements, coordinated live feedback with dev team, and participated in the airline's first optimizer-generated published schedule.
Led RMOps development: large-scale real-time solver for aircraft schedule disruptions, deployed in production by multiple international airlines.
Won first place, Sabre Inaugural AI/ML Hack Day (November 2018).
Received Airline Solutions Champion Award, given to the top 0.25% of employees (2H 2016).
Senior Operations Research Engineer Sabre Airline Solutions Southlake, TX, USA December 2013 – January 2018
Core contributor to Recovery Manager Crew (RMC), one of the most successful crew recovery solvers in the US, enabling major airlines to recover broken schedules during large-scale weather events faster than industry average.