Seattle, Washington, United States
I've spent 15 years at Microsoft and Amazon operationalizing compliance, privacy, and security programs in enterprise software. That includes leading compliance remediation across a 2,000-person org and identifying and escalating AI safety risks for a consumer-facing system. After senior roles at both companies, I went back to school for a second degree in Information Technology focused on cybersecurity and AI governance. At UW, I chaired a seven-figure technology governance body, led a compliance engineering project for the U.S. Air Force, and co-authored research on the gap between audit frameworks like the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF and the reality of multi-agent AI systems, where errors compound across agent chains in ways current frameworks weren't designed to catch. Dean's List every quarter. I graduate in June. I'm focused on senior roles in AI governance, GRC, and compliance program management. The work of making AI systems auditable, accountable, and trustworthy at scale. Open to connecting with anyone hiring or building in this space.
Elected to chair the Student Technology Fee Committee (STFC), a governance body operating under state law, the Board of Regents tri-campus agreement, and the Open Public Meetings Act. Managed a $1.9M budget (~$600K+ annual fee revenue, ~$1.3M reserves). Represented UW Tacoma STFC to the Board of Regents and served on the Universal Access Committee for cross-campus technology funding. - Led AI vendor governance: guided the committee in a review of a generative AI coding license request where the tool only benefited a subset of students, verified free alternatives (GitHub Copilot) before the decision, and identified the emerging governance challenge of evaluating specialized AI tools against general-purpose models. - Authored the FY27 STF Narrative presented to the Board of Regents, including financial projections, allocation rationale, and references to national AI governance trends and peer institution strategies (CSU, ASU, UC).
Led IT seminars across three quarters at UW Tacoma, supporting three core IT courses per quarter. - Instructed seminars across nine core IT courses spanning networking (Cisco), information systems & design, hardware and software systems, programming (C#), database management (SQL), information assurance, human-computer interaction, AI-assisted web design, and technical team management. - Integrated practical applications and industry-relevant skills (GitHub collaboration, resume development) alongside course content Concurrently held two teaching assistantships (Hardware & Software Systems; SQL & Information Management), an undergraduate seminar leader role across nine IT courses, and VP of the Grayhat Cybersecurity Club, where I designed a training curriculum taking students from zero experience to CTF competition readiness. Dean's List every quarter. SET Dean's Award for Outstanding Student Leadership.
Led a compliance engineering project for a U.S. Air Force HR office where SharePoint's default permission inheritance exposed sensitive personnel records, including HIPAA and CUI-protected data, to all users regardless of role or need-to-know status. Sponsored by the U.S. Air Force and National Security Innovation Network (Defense Innovation Unit). - Designed a three-tier RBAC permission model (Command, Department, Individual) and built three coordinated Power Automate flows using SharePoint REST API calls to dynamically break inheritance and apply explicit role-based permissions at both task and file level upon creation. - Architected a metadata-driven permission framework that tags documents with department ownership at upload, enabling automated downstream permission assignment without manual configuration. - Authored the UAT plan, six-tester test scripts covering the full permission hierarchy, a visibility reference model, and a 30-page technical report with deployment documentation for production handoff to Air Force IT. - Ran stakeholder discovery sessions with military leadership to scope MVP requirements, define phased delivery, and align the technical solution with operational workflows processing 20-100+ daily HR tasks across multiple work centers.
Evaluated AI/ML-driven campaign outputs against industry, regional, and enterprise client requirements (including Fortune 100 accounts), identifying where automated execution missed business needs and driving targeted corrections. - Created shared KPIs across US field marketing stakeholders that improved lead submission quality by 80% and increased target accounts reached by 30%. - Maintained program continuity through three organizational restructures in six months.
Led a multi-domain compliance remediation program spanning privacy, security, and finance for a 2,000-person organization, designing and implementing BCDR processes and controls that achieved the org's first-ever green compliance status in four years. Owned the compliance posture across privacy, security, finance, and accessibility, partnering with legal, security, and engineering stakeholders to operationalize requirements across policy domains. - Championed accessibility compliance for all consumer-facing Microsoft.com websites, ensuring compatibility with assistive technology. - Cleared a 15-month MarTech feature backlog in 6 months by partnering directly with corporate engineering teams, managing dependencies, and introducing agile methodologies. - Managed a seven-figure budget across 10-15 concurrent strategic initiatives. Provided structured executive updates to 3 CVPs, 7 GMs, and CMO staff.
Via Prime 8 Consulting. Built the intake and decision processes that determined which campaigns were ready to graduate from pilot into Microsoft's ML/AI-driven marketing platform. - Ran go/no-go evaluations across 4-5 parallel launches per quarter, assessing campaign readiness for automated execution systems. - Transformed stakeholder approval from 3+ months (or stalled indefinitely) to 2-4 weeks by designing structured data collection and decision workflows routed through existing leadership meetings. - Directed automation of a product readiness dashboard that reduced launch delays by 30%.
Built Amazon's Alexa Prize from the ground up: a $3.5M conversational AI competition that launched a consumer-facing Alexa skill. Partnered with DARPA on competition funding and evaluation criteria. Reported directly to Amazon's CEO. - Organized and edited the six-pager that secured CEO approval, synthesizing inputs from principal AI researchers into Amazon's executive decision format under extreme time pressure. - Led AI safety and content risk mitigation for a consumer-facing AI system: stress-tested socialbots for harmful content, identified dangerous response patterns for sensitive user disclosures, and surfaced a user-age verification gap that prompted policy changes to protect vulnerable populations. - Identified that competing university teams excelled at NLP research but lacked expertise in what makes human conversation actually work. Brought in outside experts in conversation and AI personality design to build and deliver a curriculum for competing teams. - Achieved top-5 Alexa skill ranking for 12+ consecutive months through a user acquisition strategy designed to maximize conversational training data for model development."
Managed a $4M+ annual partnership budget for Windows on AWS, structuring cloud credit offerings across tax, legal, finance, sales, and business development teams. Contributed to the growth trajectory that pushed Windows on AWS to a $1B annual run rate. - Designed and ran an enterprise migration program that helped multi-million dollar contract customers move workloads to AWS, maintaining a 10:1 return against revenue targets. - Navigated significant internal organizational bias to secure executive-level visibility for the Microsoft partnership, including keynote placement at re:Invent.