Research appointments, education, teaching, and earlier technical and operational experience.
Clarkson University, AVHBAC Laboratory
Developed simulation and evaluation workflows for GNSS-denied navigation, state estimation, sensor fusion, and lunar surface perception. Investigated visual odometry, pose-graph optimization, and terrain-referenced localization. Released ofiqpy on PyPI under AVHBAC.
Kymera Systems LLC
Develop agentic and multi-agent research prototypes combining heterogeneous models, structured tool use, and evaluation workflows. Build verification workflows, experimental agent-memory systems, and public research software as an individual contributor.
Clarkson University, CITeR
Conducted face-image-quality and biometric evaluation research involving attribution faithfulness, calibration, uncertainty, and data quality. Built reproducible Python workflows for counterfactual analysis, perturbation testing, and standards-oriented measurement.
Clarkson University
Advisor: Jeanna Matthews. Member, Explainability & Transparency Group, since September 2026.
Maryville University of Saint Louis
Conferred December 2024.
American Military University
Completed during Army service.
Developed graduate-level materials and delivered nine guest lectures for EE622, covering advanced biometric systems and Transformer architectures across biometric modalities.
A free, 35-lesson curriculum from Python foundations through applied machine learning and XGBoost, with instructional notebooks and supporting materials.
Explore the curriculumInvited seminar, Clarkson University, January 22, 2026.
Three-session public research seminar series, Clarkson University, June 18, June 25, and July 2, 2026.
Medical operations, personnel leadership, technical training, information management, and deployed communications, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Data and Operations Analyst, September 2015 to January 2018. Army assignment at the Defense Health Agency, supporting operational analysis, information management, and data integrity.
Educational Technology Specialist, July 2013 to September 2015. Army assignment at the Defense Health Agency, developing medical training, simulation, and instructional systems.
Signal Plans and Operations, Kabul, 2012 to 2013. Army responsibilities included technical advising, fiber-network work, and deployed communications.
Personal responsibilities and self-directed technical study preceding graduate education in artificial intelligence.
My graduate research in biometrics at CITeR was supported by DHS Science and Technology.
Details in the academic CV (PDF)