Summary
Engineer and technology leader focused on the next generation of pharmaceutical manufacturing: AI enablement, industrial DataOps, smart manufacturing, and advanced analytics. I help manufacturing organizations turn fragmented systems and data into trustworthy, AI-ready foundations — defining the architecture, governance, and roadmaps that let data, intent, and analytics flow across the product lifecycle. Thirteen-plus years spanning digital transformation, manufacturing systems, and process automation give me the floor-level grounding to make higher-level strategy real in regulated environments.
Experience
Principal Manufacturing Systems Engineer
Sep 2024 – Present
Vertex Pharmaceuticals — Boston, MA
Own the full lifecycle of manufacturing systems and partner with manufacturing and technology leadership on smart-manufacturing strategy and roadmap. Led the search, evaluation, selection, and the deployment, implementation, and validation of a new SCADA system for the Cell & Gene Therapy (CGT) department. Drive manufacturing ontology and the knowledge/semantics layer, plus industrial DataOps investigations, to advance AI readiness, data enablement, and the next phase of the digitization journey — working closely with manufacturing, engineering, and quality leaders toward commercial readiness, with involvement in batch disposition. Ensure GxP, data-integrity, and system-lifecycle compliance (21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, GAMP 5).
Digital Plant Program Manager
2023 – 2024
MilliporeSigma — Burlington, MA
Built and led a new global Digital Plant Program spanning 62 manufacturing facilities. Defined sector target architecture and digital strategy — MES, historian, batch, and analytics direction — and drove critical solution decisions across the program portfolio with accountability for fiscal, quality, and timeline outcomes. Established the digital roadmap connecting plant-floor systems to enterprise data and analytics.
Staff Automation Engineer
2021 – 2023
Thermo Fisher Scientific — Cambridge, MA
First operating-company role — embedded daily with manufacturing, quality, and validation, shifting from one-off technology deployment to full-lifecycle ownership of systems. Closed equipment integration gaps facility-wide (remote access, maintainability, and Active Directory onboarding to reduce password sprawl). Streamlined automation support with apps to request, track, and self-resolve issues against a known-issues knowledge base, plus an internal issue/resolution tracker for faster reuse of prior fixes. Led development and go-live of a facility-wide alarm management system — all alarms in a single pane of glass with escalation-based notifications — and a centralized batch reporting engine producing consistent reports across any vendor or system. Ran the vendor evaluation, scoring, and selection for an electronic batch record (eBR) system through to a recommended plan.
Senior Project Engineer
2020 – 2021
Constellation Brands — Napa, CA
Process and automation engineering for large-scale production operations.
Senior Controls Engineer
2019 – 2020
BW Design Group — Vacaville, CA
Lead controls engineer for life-science clients; project manager on large single-use-equipment CAPEX programs across the US.
Senior / Principal Automation Engineer
2015 – 2019
NNE (NNE Pharmaplan) — SF Bay Area, CA
West-coast Engineer of Record on greenfield biologics, single-use, and continuous-manufacturing programs; designed and implemented PI Historian from lab to production at a commercial biotech facility.
Field / Project Engineer
2011 – 2015
Panduit — Folsom, CA (Singapore & Hong Kong posts)
Delivered data-center monitoring and control solutions, with global assignments across Asia.
Selected projects
- Smart manufacturing roadmap & AI/data enablement (Vertex). Leading the strategy and architecture to make manufacturing data AI-ready — data enablement, governance, and a prioritized portfolio of AI use cases across the manufacturing systems estate.
- Global Digital Plant Program — 62 sites (MilliporeSigma). Stood up a worldwide digital plant program: sector target architecture, digital strategy, and portfolio governance connecting plant systems to enterprise data and analytics.
- Facility-wide alarm management & centralized batch reporting (Thermo Fisher). Consolidated all facility alarms into a single pane of glass with escalation notifications, and built a reporting engine producing consistent batch reports across any vendor or system.
- Greenfield biologics PCS/BMS. Design and commissioning of a full SCADA suite, process formulation and clean-utility systems, GMP HVAC, and equipment interfaces — SDS/HDS authoring, PLC programming, FAT/SAT.
- GMP OSIsoft PI design & implementation. Historian solution and network architecture across manufacturing lab → pilot plant → production at a major biotech facility.
Education & licensure
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering — California State University, Sacramento (2010)
- Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy — MIT Sloan Executive Education (Apr 2026) · Credential ID 180521792
- Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) — California, CS7550
Affiliations & certifications
- BioPhorum · ISPE · IAAE · Pistoia Alliance
- ISA · NSPE · Tau Beta Pi
Core competencies
AI & Advanced Analytics
- AI use-case readiness & governance
- Advanced & predictive analytics
- ML-enabled manufacturing
- AI accountability (Attributable–Observable–Correctable)
Industrial DataOps & Data Enablement
- AI-ready manufacturing data
- Data architecture & semantic models
- Manufacturing intent & context preservation
- Data integrity (ALCOA+)
Smart Manufacturing & Digital Architecture
- Target architecture, strategy & roadmap
- MES · electronic batch records · historians (OSIsoft PI)
- Review by exception · release by exception
- ISA-88 / ISA-95
GMP, Regulatory & Compliance
- 21 CFR Part 11 · EU Annex 11 · GAMP 5
- Computer System Validation · IQ / OQ / PQ
- CAPA · deviation · change control
Automation & Controls (foundation)
- SCADA/HMI · PLC/DCS configuration
- Batch execution (S88) · system integration
- CAPEX/OPEX delivery, RFP through CSV
Working draft — current-role and Thermo Fisher detail still being expanded. Phone number intentionally omitted from the public page; include it in the downloadable PDF.