Profile

I use AI ethically and responsibly to solve business problems. I focus on crafting usable, functional products based on data that champion the user – whether I’m fine-tuning LLMs, creating AI Automations, improving usability through design, or building user-friendly and intuitive websites – it’s always been about the user.

Skills

General AI Skills: Prompt Engineering, Prompt Testing, Prompting Research and Evaluation, Inference, Deployment, RAG, Agentic AI

Computer Vision: OpenCV, Hugging Face Diffusers, OCR, Tesseract, PaddleOCR, PDF parsing, PyMuPDF

Language Learning Models: Fine-Tuning, Evaluation, RAG, Transformers – Hugging Face, Langchain, Langgraph, OpenAPI, Vertex AI

Machine Learning: PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Linear Algebra, Deep Learning

Development: HTML, CSS, SASS, Python, Twig, JavaScript, React, SQL, WordPress, Drupal, GitHub, Version Control, CI/CD, Agile development

Data Science: Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Excel, Tableau, Power BI, Hugging Face Datasets

CX, UI, UX Research & Visual Design: Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, Wireframes, Prototypes, Mockups, User Testing, Split A/B Testing, Brand Guides, Marketing collateral, Design Automation, Generative AI for Design revisions.

Website Accessibility and Adaptive Design standards of ADA, WCAG 2.1, 2.2 & Section 508

Experience

AI Model Validation Expert – Machine Learning & Mathematics, Handshake — 09/2025 – Present

• Writing or refining prompts for LLMs to evaluate their responses
• Evaluating model outputs (choosing the best response, ranking responses, or writing my own)
• Assessing accuracy, fairness, or domain-specific reasoning

AI Training Data Specialist, iMerit Technology — 08/2025 – 09/2025

• Accurately generate, annotate, and label diverse datasets following detailed, project-specific guidelines.
• Review and validate annotations to ensure consistency, accuracy, and alignment with data ethics standards.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists and machine learning engineers to meet specific dataset requirements.
• Utilize annotation tools (e.g., Labelbox, Prodigy, etc.) and contribute to refining annotation guidelines and quality control processes.
• Identify, document, and report data quality issues, edge cases, and unclear scenarios to continuously improve datasets.

RAG & OCR Powered Workflow Automation, Extern, Outamation — 06/2025 – 09/2025

• Built modular AI-powered pipelines to process 200+ page mortgage blob files – combining OCR (Tesseract, PaddleOCR), PDF parsing (PyMuPDF), and RAG techniques for intelligent data extraction, classification, and search.
• Developed a document retrieval system using Llamalndex and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), optimized for multi-document mortgage blobs. Enhanced precision through chunk tuning, metadata filtering, and evaluation of open-source LLMs like Mistral and Phi-2.
• Conducted end-to-end evaluation of the document intelligence system on 200+ page mortgage blobs-benchmarking OCR accuracy, RAG retrieval quality, and routing performance. Delivered a technical report outlining model trade-offs, optimization strategies, final deployment recommendations, and built a UI for demo purposes.

Drupal 10, 11 Developer Program + Project work, Debug Academy — 02/2025 – 06/2025

• Focused on modern Drupal 10 & 11 Theme development, Site Building and creating Single Directory Components for the Drupal.TV video directory website.
• Partnered with development team in rolling out user-friendly mobile first website that increased engagement rate
• Implemented Drupal AI module to fully integrate with backend and reduce image SEO issues

Lead CX / UX & Accessibility Specialist, Amazon TenMarks Education — 2015 – 2018

• Product & Curriculum-Inclusive design for a web-based, adaptive K-12 math program that included lesson plans, curriculum, and exercises for 7,000 school districts.
• Complete identity and asset redesign led to 27% licensed software sales increase
• Onboarded 7,500 new k-12 users to the learning lms platform post-launch

Instructor & Mentor – UI & UX Design, DesignLab — 2015 – 2017

• Mentor students online for their Design 101, UX Research & Strategy, and UX Interaction Design courses.
• Mentored up to 25 students per session. Held 1:1 weekly mentoring sessions remotely.
• Evaluated competency tasks and capstone projects, giving thoughtful feedback that encouraged growth while acknowledging concept mastery.

Webmaster, Reliant Funding — 2014 – 2015

• Oversaw the day-to-day management, maintenance, and optimization of the company website, ensuring uptime, security, and optimal user experience across desktop and mobile platforms.
• Managed website content updates, landing page creation, and site navigation enhancements. Implemented SEO best practices, conducted keyword optimization, and improved site performance metrics, resulting in a measurable increase in organic traffic and engagement.
• Ensured website compliance with accessibility standards (WCAG), GDPR, and other relevant legal and organizational policies. Maintained and improved internal documentation for website procedures, style guides, and digital asset management.

Education