About me

My foundation is hands-on. I studied Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology at Durham College, then completed a Bachelor of Engineering Technology in Mechatronics at the University of Windsor, graduating with Distinction. Along the way I earned a place on the Dean's Honor Roll and received the General Motors of Canada Automatic Award.

My first role, as a Controls Technologist at SIDAC Automated Systems, put me at the drawing board: I designed five control panels in AutoCAD Electrical, from component selection through thermal and power distribution calculations. That work taught me that every reliable machine starts with an electrical design that has been thought through.

From there I moved closer to production. At Vista Solutions I programmed, commissioned, and supported all of the vision cameras in a GM body shop, using Matrox Design Assistant to inspect sealer, adhesive, and welds, and I trained plant staff to troubleshoot them on their own.

At Onyx Engineering I broadened into process automation, designing PLC, HMI, and SCADA logic for three very different plants (a distillery, a food plant, and a wastewater facility) across Allen-Bradley, Emerson, Modicon, and PlantPAx platforms. I also drew schematics and panel layouts and answered field downtime calls. At S and T Controls I returned to automotive, developing and debugging Studio 5000 PLC and HMI programs for five body shop cells and verifying their wiring diagrams.

Since October 2023 I've been a Controls Engineer at General Motors in Warren, Michigan. I'm automating a manual final line with new-to-industry robotics that assemble doors, hoods, fenders, and their hinges. I've validated automation for EV battery mini-stack production at Factory ZERO and Orion Assembly, and I analyze production and downtime data, which helped cut recurring alarms by 50%.

In parallel, I saw how much engineering time went into manually reviewing wiring, power, and network designs. So I built a tool to do it. As the sole developer, I architected and shipped an AI platform on Python/FastAPI, React, and PostgreSQL/pgvector with an LLM and RAG assistant, YOLO and OCR drawing reading, and single sign-on, backed by more than 1,200 tests and deployed through Docker, CI/CD, and Kubernetes on Azure. It catches problems such as power supply overloads and missing safety devices in minutes.

I'm pursuing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Leeds (expected July 2027), and I'm looking for my next role as a Controls Engineer, Automation Engineer, Software Engineer, or Full-Stack Developer. The work I do best sits where physical systems and software meet: places where knowing how a line actually runs makes the software better, and good software makes the line run better.

I'm based in Troy, Michigan, and open to remote work and relocation.