Applied AI Engineer Senior Associate – Data Analytics and AI Practice
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) | Raleigh, NC – January 2024 – Present
- Helped grow an AI incubator into a full-scale AI & Automation Program within a leading healthcare organization, building strong trust with the C-suite. Projects contributed to $1.88M of a $2.2M impact and helped secure a $3.6M contract extension
- LLM Agent System: Built an AI agent system using LangChain ReAct, FAISS, and AWS services to identify high-impact risk-adjustment records with batch OCR, multi-step LLM reasoning, embeddings search, and frontend UI, leading to a $1M ROI pilot and $4M annualized impact
- LLM-Based Document Processing: Designed and deployed a large-scale text-LLM extraction and NLP pipeline using AWS (S3, Textract, Lambda, Bedrock, LangChain), reducing processing time from 12+ months to days. President shouted out the use case company-wide
- XGBoost Model Development: Built an XGBoost model for a payer with 700k members, saving $1.9M annually through improved subrogation and payment recovery, integrating the model into the payer's existing claims workflow
- Cost Reduction Analysis: Analyzed patient claim data using SQL and Python, identifying inefficiencies and eliminating ineffective vendor services, resulting in $800k in annual savings
- AI Pod Leadership: Led an AI development pod with three team members, collaborating weekly with C-suite executives and healthcare clients to showcase results, resolve blockers, and refine strategies
- LLM-Driven Pharmacy Policy Tool: Built a secure workflow tool using LLM agent and RAG to compare policy document versions, detect changes, and generate structured summaries. Reduced review time from 2.5 hours to 5 minutes
Nonprofit Advisor
Activate Kids 501(c)(3) | Raleigh, NC – October 2023 – February 2024
- Led the strategic merger with Activate Good, creating a unified entity with over $840k in combined budget and a
team of 7 full-time staff. Successfully integrated missions and operations, enhancing program efficiency,
stakeholder engagement, and community impact
President, Founder, Chairman of Board
Cooking Up Character 501(c)(3) | August 2021 – October 2023
- Orchestrated the operations of a board of six industry professionals, delivering service-learning programs in
public schools and parks to 700+ youth, amplifying community impact by $70k
- Developed and implemented innovative service-learning initiatives, empowering youth to become proactive
changemakers, increasing program participation by 27% year-over-year
- Strategized and implemented innovative problem-solving frameworks for youth, driving a 20% year-over-year surge in the organization's community impact
Technology Consulting Summer Associate
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) | Boston, MA – June 2022 – August 2022
- Led B2B customer interviews, deriving critical insights used to code and develop Python-based data analytics models utilizing 300k data points, directly influencing strategic cost reduction decisions adopted by Executive VPs
- Developed a PowerBI dashboard to monitor 70 KPIs, enhancing vendor productivity and system reliability significantly
Business Analyst Intern
Vita Safety Partners | Raleigh, NC – June 2022 – August 2022
- Supported clients by conducting comprehensive research and analysis of the emergency services market
- Enhanced a CRM database encompassing over 10,000 leads, catalyzing a 15% improvement in lead conversion rates
- Analyzed multi-platform data to create tailored marketing strategies, boosting campaign effectiveness by 10%
Strategy Consultant
Nike | Chapel Hill, NC – January 2022 – August 2022
- Developed and pitched Nike's 'Like New' circular economy initiative, allowing customers to exchange lightly used apparel
for credit, fostering a closed-loop system that enhances sustainability and expands market reach through recycling
