01 / Current role
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.
The role
After three promotions in three and a half years — Quality and Raw Materials Manager, then Operations Manager, then this — I now lead AI and Six Sigma for all of Tamko Building Products. Nine manufacturing plants. My charter is to take the operational AI playbook I built at Allmine Paving and scale it across the enterprise.
What I’m scaling
The work that earned me corporate promotion was, fundamentally, applying military-grade discipline to manufacturing data. Real-time analytics. Predictive control loops. Automation that removes friction without removing oversight. Now I’m pattern-matching that approach across nine very different plants, each with their own equipment, processes, and culture.
How I think about it
Manufacturing AI fails when it’s bolted on. It works when it’s embedded — when operators see the AI as the most reliable teammate on the floor, not a black box. My job is the integration layer: the human-AI hand-off, the training program, the trust-building. The tooling is the easy part.
Why it’s the same job as flying
In the Night Stalkers, I was the Standardization Instructor Pilot — the pilot other pilots trained against, the one who set the bar. Scaling AI across nine plants is the same exercise. Set the standard. Train to it. Evaluate against it. Continuously improve.
The vocabulary changed. The discipline didn’t.