Experience
Senior Data Scientist · XSELL Technologies
May 2022–present · LLM agent engineering
- Fine-tuned LLMs for agentic voice applications and scaled applications to 100k+ requests per day using vLLM and AWS.
- Applied RLHF, GRPO, and model distillation to improve deployment efficiency.
- Improved a BERT topic classifier from 71% to 92% accuracy.
- Re-engineered a legacy ML stack with PyTorch and CUDA.
Adjunct Professor · Northwest Nazarene University
January–June 2023
Taught an upper-level artificial intelligence course covering heuristic algorithms, reinforcement learning, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.
Data Scientist · In Time Tec
January–December 2021
Developed analytics solutions with Python, SQL, Pandas, and Matplotlib. Refactored an HP printer-error ETL pipeline from two hours to fifteen minutes.
Robotics Development Intern · Green Cut Robotics
May–August 2020
Built operating-system functionality and a Java geospatial route planner for an autonomous lawn mower using gyro and GPS guidance.
Research Assistant · Northwest Nazarene University
May 2019–January 2020
Applied geospatial machine learning to burn extent and fire severity. Compared satellite and drone imagery and presented research at TFRSAC, INBRE, and FDL.
Education
Ph.D. in Computing, in progress · Boise State University · since August 2024
M.S. in Computer Science · Boise State University · 2022
B.S. in Computer Science, B.A. in Mathematics · Northwest Nazarene University · 2021 · Business Administration minor
Selected research
- Learning to Speak Like a Child: Reinforcing and Evaluating a Child-level Generative Language Model · SIGDIAL 2025.
- Incremental, Modular, Distributed, Multimodal Spoken Dialogue with Robotic Platforms · SIGDIAL 2025.
- Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition and Language Understanding in an Incremental Setting · SemDial 2023.
Technical skills
Python, Java, C/C++, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, CUDA, vLLM, AWS, SQL, reinforcement learning, RLHF, GRPO, NLP, machine learning, and software architecture.
Adapted from the résumé shared March 20, 2026. Professional dates and outcomes reflect that source.