02 / Career
Career
Twenty years in Army aviation, including the 160th SOAR. Three promotions in three and a half years at Tamko, from one plant subsidiary to corporate AI and Six Sigma Lead. Embry-Riddle for both degrees. And the side projects that prove I still build, not just lead.
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AI & Six Sigma Lead — Tamko Corporate
Scaling AI-driven process optimization across nine manufacturing plants. Real-time analytics, predictive maintenance, AI-tuned process control, automated reporting.
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Operations Manager — Allmine Paving / Tamko
Full plant accountability for safety, quality, production, cost, and people. $242K/year in documented annual savings, 35% downtime reduction, zero OSHA recordables.
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Standardization Instructor Pilot — 160th SOAR (Night Stalkers)
Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The most elite helicopter unit in the U.S. military. The pilot other pilots trained against.
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From Paratrooper to Pilot — Army Aviation Foundation
82nd Airborne paratrooper. Sniper school. Medevac crew chief. Warrant Officer flight school. The path from boots-on-ground infantry to Tier-one aviation.
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This Site (And What It Demonstrates)
Astro on Cloudflare with a cloned voice agent, retrieval-augmented Q&A over this CV, custom WebGL hero, resume-mirror, and View Transitions. The site is the demo.
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Education — Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Master of Science in Unmanned Systems. Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics. The technical foundation under the operations career.