Senior AI Platform, Generative AI, and Cloud Engineering leader with 18+ years of IT experience and 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise-scale AI platforms in highly regulated environments (financial services, healthcare). Proven expertise in AI Center for Enablement (C4E) models, agentic AI, AI receptionists and conversational agents, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI governance frameworks. Strong background in data engineering, cloud modernization, and large-scale AWS migrations, with multi-cloud delivery across IBM Watson, Azure, AWS, and GCP. Known for building governed, reusable AI platforms, enabling developer productivity, and partnering with architecture, security, data, and business stakeholders to deliver compliant, scalable AI capabilities.