AI Applications for the Real World.

I'm a lead data scientist and solutions architect at ICF. This is my consulting work, the applications I've built, and the research that came before.

Consulting

Technical lead · 2019–2023

DER Insight

Distributed-energy planning platform for electric utilities. It turned a spreadsheet process into one repeatable modeling workflow across eight modules, and was named Innovative Product of the Year for 2023 in ICF's Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure group.

R · Python · Azure · Power BI
Developer · 2023–2024

CO₂Sight

ICF's decarbonization planning platform. I was the sole developer of its building-sector model: twelve scenario pathways used in climate action plans for Pennsylvania, Virginia, Hampton Roads and Knoxville.

R · ComStock / ResStock

Build over buy

In the new AI world, a small team can build what used to be bought. Three examples from ICF.

Lead contributor · 2026

AI Reporting & Insights Dashboard

Reporting and insights on how AI tools are used across the firm and what they cost.

Go · pgx · sqlc · React 19 · TanStack
Contributor · 2026

Fathom Ideation Engine

Platform that lets teams stand up AI proofs of concept on shared, governed infrastructure. Part of ICF Fathom, the firm's AI offering.

Go · React · Pulumi · Kubernetes
Lead · 2026

AI survey platform

Conversational surveys with sliders and rankings inside the chat, and fixed branching rules. Measures AI coding adoption across ICF's developers.

Python · OpenAI Agents SDK · React · Postgres

Forward deployed engineer

Engineering done alongside clients and domain teams, and deployed into their environments. Three examples.

Developer · 2025

Climate downscaling

Fine-tuned the IBM–NASA Prithvi WxC foundation model and reproduced NREL's Sup3rCC downscaling pipeline in SageMaker.

AWS SageMaker · PyTorch · geospatial ML
Lead · 2025–2026

Infrastructure-as-code agent

Secure-by-default cloud templates with compliance tests, structured so a coding agent can scaffold governed environments from a skill file.

Pulumi · CrossGuard · GitHub Actions
Lead engineer · 2023–2026

Forward-deployed engineering

Four projects built with and for ICF teams: the needs-assessment assistant for HPHS, a policy simulation that replaced a paid subcontractor, sales forecasting and account-based marketing models for the Sightline platform.

Django · Next.js · Azure OpenAI · AWS SageMaker · R · Power BI

Applications

LiveFounder · 2026

trAIning-wheels

A small AI-enablement practice that coaches people and small organizations to use AI themselves, through a three-level ladder from drafting to work product to building systems.

Static site · GitHub Pages
Demo comingBuilder · 2026

VoiceRAG language tutor

Talk with an AI tutor and work through PDF lessons page by page, with voice conversation over a realtime model.

React · FastAPI · Azure OpenAI Realtime · AI Search
Code publicAuthor · 2019

Off-Grid Power Predictor

Predicts household solar output from the weather forecast. The original beat analytical models by 40%.

Python · XGBoost
In progressBuilder · 2026

Harmony Trainer

Upload a photo of sheet music; get a playable, transposable score and a four-part reference harmonization to study.

Python · FastAPI · music21 · OMR
In useBuilder · 2026

Academic Advisor

A research library for planning high school and college: course maps, admissions rules, testing and aid, built from primary-source documents by parallel research agents.

Markdown · AI research agents · source archive

Education

Ph.D., Systems SciencePortland State University
M.S., Energy, Technology & PolicyHumboldt State University
B.S., MathematicsUniversity of Puget Sound
AWS CertifiedSolutions Architect – Associate · Cloud Practitioner
Graduate Certificate, Computer Simulation and ModelingPortland State University

Publications

Contact

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