Professional identity

The throughline

My work centers on a recurring problem: how to convert incomplete observations of the physical world into reliable operational understanding. I approach that problem through geospatial science, remote sensing, spatial data engineering, uncertainty modeling, systems architecture, and decision-support design.

The same discipline runs through a federal GEOINT methodology, a tactical interface product, a theater cyber architecture, and a precision-agriculture platform: define the decision, identify the evidence it requires, design the analytical method and the architecture that carries it, establish validation and uncertainty controls, and deliver an output the operator can challenge at the layer where it enters. Inference stays separate from decision, so mission weighting guides attention without altering the evidence.

Four dimensions

Current technical interests

• Earth observation and large geospatial models
• Geospatial AI and physical AI
• 3D reconstruction and mapping
• Positioning and localization
• Autonomous systems and sensor integration
• Spatial computing and machine-readable representations of the physical world

How I communicate

With analysts I explain what enters each stage, what a score represents, what evidence drove it, how to read its uncertainty, when review is required, and how to trace it to source. With scientists I defend probabilistic assumptions, model structure, independence assumptions, combination rules, entity-resolution logic, calibration, and alternatives. With leadership I change the abstraction level: the mission problem, why the information environment makes it difficult, what the methodology changes, what the outputs mean, and what the pilot still has to establish. Leadership does not need every probabilistic equation first.

Background

Thirteen years in U.S. Air Force Special Warfare, with collection planning under weather and timing constraints, communications discipline, and decisions under limited attention. A multi-generational agricultural family with ties to nurseries and viticulture, which is where the precision-agriculture work began. M.S. Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence, USC Spatial Sciences Institute, 2026.