About

For most of my career, I've operated at the intersection of business and technology—specifically, teaching data science and AI to business school students, and teaching business to data science students.

This intersection is where I live professionally. At Vanderbilt University, I hold a dual appointment: I'm an Associate Professor of the Practice of Finance and Data Science at the Owen Graduate School of Management, where I teach MBAs and executives how to think strategically about data and AI. I'm also Affiliated Faculty in the Data Science Institute at the College of Connected Computing, where I teach M.S. in Data Science students how to connect their technical work to business value through classwork and capstone projects.

This dual role isn't accidental—it reflects exactly how I work as a consultant. The gap I bridge isn't technical, it's conceptual. AI consultants who come from computer science struggle to speak the language of business strategy. Business consultants understand strategy but don't deeply understand AI's capabilities and limitations. I do both, because I live in both worlds every day.

This combination is unusual. It means I can talk credibly with your C-suite about strategy and organizational design, while also understanding what AI can and cannot actually do. I won't oversell AI's capabilities or underestimate the organizational change required to adopt it effectively.

• 14+ years as a Finance professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, the last 8+ emphasizing data science, AI, and their business applications.
• 8+ years in the Data Science Institute, teaching and working on projects in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
• 5 years as Director of Graduate Studies for the M.S. in Data Science, overseeing experiential learning (internships, capstones) and working with industry partners to scope real-world AI/data science projects.
• 5 years in management consulting at Accenture (large-scale business transformation and technology development).
• 3 years leading a software development team at TIAA-CREF (intersection of business requirements and technical delivery).
• Active AI researcher and practitioner.

Everything on this site—content, code, images—was created using the AI augmentation approach I teach clients, in about a week of part-time work around a full-time professor role and four school-age kids.

• Content: Written by me, augmented by Claude Opus.
• Website: Built using Claude Code (AI-assisted development).
• Images: AI-generated by Meta.AI (prompts developed with Claude).
• Logo: Fiverr Logo Maker.

This isn't about replacing human expertise—it's about amplifying it. The strategy, judgment, and domain knowledge are mine.

AI is changing how work gets done—but access to it is now universal. Your competitors can buy the same models you can, so the tool itself is no longer the advantage. The organizations that thrive won't be the ones with the best AI; they'll be the ones who use it well: reliably, with judgment, and by redesigning how the work is done rather than just doing the old work faster. That's organizational strategy, not technology procurement. And that's what I do.