Experience
From banking operations to enterprise AI — a 26-year career built at Wells Fargo.
Principal Engineer (Executive Director)
Jul 2025 - PresentWells Fargo
Chandler, Arizona (Phoenix area) - Hybrid
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Lead generative AI engineering initiatives presented to CTO weekly
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Created AI agent framework to automate line-of-business operations
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Built video processing pipeline handling thousands of videos daily
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Co-inventor on two pending patent applications
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Open source: shipped gepa-adk, docvet, adk-secure-sessions, saucier, vramfit, turboquant-vllm, typevet, and judgevet to PyPI
Senior Lead Analytics Consultant (Executive Director)
Jun 2022 - Jul 2025Wells Fargo
Chandler, Arizona (Phoenix area) - Hybrid
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Team's resident expert in GenAI and Agentic AI frameworks including Google ADK and Pydantic-AI
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Architected scalable OCR pipeline processing 500K+ documents using Gemini
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Built reusable data pipelines for document ingestion, OCR, and validation
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Designed modular, scalable architecture reused across multiple teams
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Implemented git-based dev workflow with peer reviews and release standards
Lead Analytics Consultant (AVP)
Jan 2018 - Jun 2022Wells Fargo
Chandler, Arizona (Phoenix area)
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Delivered analytics solutions and CI/CD workflow automation
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Onboarded applications to Cloud Foundry with Splunk logging and security compliance
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Created dynamic databases for automated and manual data ingestion
Technology Manager & Systems Engineer (AVP)
2006 - 2018Wells Fargo
Phoenix, Arizona
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Led 8-9 technicians supporting end-user technology across four admin sites
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Led desktop OS migrations and provided onsite hardware swap support
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Created business intelligence reporting for regulatory compliance
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Two-time Top Performer award recipient (2014, 2018)
Operations & Banking (early career)
1999 - 2006Wells Fargo / Bank of America
Phoenix, Arizona
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Progressed from teller to operations analyst to leadership development program in 5 years
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Selected for Wells Fargo Leadership Development Program (2004-2005)
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Presented SharePoint hosting solution to technology executive leadership
Education
DeVry University
Bachelor of Science, Accounting Information Systems
1998 - 2003