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Hire Jerez T. - Generative AI Architect

Gen Ai Architect

12+ years
bethesda, maryland, united states
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About jerez

I am a seasoned lead data scientist and machine learning engineer specializing in the end-to-end development of AI applications and agents. My work spans the complete AI lifecycle—from preparing AI-ready datasets and prototyping AI-native solutions to evaluating and monitoring AI systems. Leveraging cutting-edge tools and techniques, I deliver impactful solutions across life sciences, healthcare, cybersecurity, and geospatial analysis.Highlights: * End-to-End AI Development: Expertise across the full AI lifecycle, including data engineering, model deployment, MLOps, AIOps, and AI assurance and observability. * AI-Native Solutions: Skilled in using AI to accelerate development, enabling rapid prototyping and delivery of efficient, high-quality systems. * Technical Depth: Proven track record building solutions across GCP, AWS, Azure, Databricks, Palantir, and on-premise HPC environments. * Problem Solving: Exceptional at diagnosing and debugging complex codebases to produce reliable, high-performance applications. * Multidisciplinary Edge: Ph.D. in computational chemistry with deep expertise in algorithm design and model optimization.

Key Skills

adaptabilityai agentsamazon web servicesapache sparkaws cloudtrailazure databricksbig databig data analyticsbiochemistrybioinformaticsbiophysical chemistrybiophysicsc++cell biologycontinuous integration and continuous delivery+44 more

Experience

Gen Ai Architect

Current

Egen

Lead Data Scientist

Mitre

* Principal Investigator for Agentic AI Observability (applying observability to various AI agent frameworks) * Lead full-stack developer (two prototypes) for comparison of legal affidavits to supporting documents and determining cases based on user information using open-source and proprietary LLMs and RAGs including advanced prompting and agents * Fine-tuned LLM and embeddings/retrieval to improve accuracy of LLM/RAG * Leads in the automated evaluation of large language models (LLMs) or retrieval augmented generation (RAGs) * Leads a team of 5 for determining best practices for data management (FAIR principles) including assessing use-cases for ChatGPT (prompt engineering) and AutoGPT in establishing a Data Management Center of Excellence for an HHS agency * Helps in developing and maintaining orchestration pipelines that ingested data from various APIs, transforming and aggregating it into AI-ready datasets used by five organizations for machine learning models * Primary ML engineer to develop pioneering MLOps capability with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) * Secured $280K internal funding and managed a team for Climate-Health Outcomes web app development * Trusted by Senior Leadership on Cybersecurity Data Quality (migration from Splunk to Snowflake) * Contributor to Cybersecurity Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation Analytics (AWS cloudtrail and config) including informing autoscaling cyber policies * Lead developer of scalable analytics capability for geospatial supply chain trucking data (using INRIX data to track travel patterns) * Reverse-engineered and built ML models for diabetes onset prediction for a cooperative of corporate employers * The only data scientist from 10 who reverse-engineered few information to identify an individual in motivated intruder testing (de-identify privacy data from publicly available files) * Helps establish ETL pipeline and machine learning for a Real World Evidence (RWE) study

Machine Learning Engineer

Dcca

* Helps establish a data science team from the ground up * Solved a previously abandoned project (1.5-month data engineering team effort) * Developed proof-of-concepts for upper management: * ● Multivariate, multiple time series financial forecasting * ● Agile task and story points estimation using Natural Language Processing * ● Automated summarization of unstructured text data * Plans Machine Learning Architecture and Solutions using AWS

Education

Georgetown University

Doctor Of Philosophy

Ateneo De Davao University

Master Of Business Administration

Ateneo De Davao University

Bachelor Of Science

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What is jerez's expertise?

jerez specializes in Generative AI Architect, with expertise in adaptability, ai agents, amazon web services, apache spark, aws cloudtrail.

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jerez is based in bethesda, maryland, united states.

How much experience does jerez have?

jerez has 12+ years of professional experience.

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