01 / Current role
AI & Six Sigma Lead — Tamko Corporate
Scaling AI-driven process optimization across nine plants. Real-time analytics, predictive maintenance, AI-tuned process control, automated reporting.
The role
Lead AI and Six Sigma practice across nine manufacturing plants at Tamko Building Products. The charter is to take what worked at one subsidiary and make it work everywhere, each plant with its own equipment, processes, and people.
What’s actually hard
Manufacturing AI fails when it’s bolted on. It works when it’s embedded — when operators on the floor see the model as a teammate they can rely on, not a black box. My job is the integration layer: the human-AI hand-off, the training, the trust. The tooling is the easy part. The change management is the work.
Pattern
Each plant gets the same playbook in a different order: instrument the process, give the model the right signal, then engineer the human workflow around what the model can reliably do. Real-time analytics. AI-tuned process control. SCADA-driven digital-twin monitoring. AI-assisted shift hand-offs. Each one is a small change; together they shift how the floor operates.
Why it scales
The playbook came from one subsidiary first. Two promotions in roughly three years was the company asking me to take it everywhere. Specific impact numbers are documented internally — happy to talk through them in person, but not on a public page.