How I Apply AI In Practice

Business problem first, technology second. Two systems this year: one for a major Alberta lender, one my own.

SIGNAL: AI-Assisted Credit Monitoring

Project Manager

A proof-of-concept decision-support system for commercial credit monitoring. SIGNAL turns document intake into rated, evidence-backed early warnings, with every credit decision left to a qualified human.

Reviewing one borrower's quarterly financials by hand takes an analyst 7 to 8 hours. The team modelled SIGNAL at under 3 hours, with review capacity up 50% to 60%.

I led delivery across a four-person team and helped set the boundaries the system works within: no credit approvals, no risk ratings, no live banking data.

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Agentic AI Job-Search System

Designed & Built Solo

An autonomous agent that has run my own job search every morning since May 2026. It reads overnight job alerts, scores each posting against a structured career profile, and drafts tailored, application-ready documents for the strongest matches, producing roughly 30 high-quality application packages a month.

Nothing goes out without my approval, and the agent was built to stay inside each job board's terms of service even where that cost it capability. That pattern, autonomous intake with structured scoring and a human approving the output, is what makes AI agents defensible inside an enterprise.

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Where I Fit

I am most effective where AI initiatives stall: when technical capability, business execution, and governance are pulling in different directions and someone has to align them.

Applied AI

Getting AI out of pilots and into daily use, with adoption that survives contact with the business.

Roles like: Applied AI Lead, AI Adoption Lead, Enterprise AI Analyst

Applied AI Blog

Digital Transformation

Scaling what works across complex enterprise environments, without disrupting the business already running on them.

Roles like: Digital Transformation Lead, AI Program Manager, AI Change Management Lead

Digital Transformation Blog

AI Governance & Strategy

Keeping deployed AI defensible: oversight, model drift, audit readiness, and regulation that keeps moving.

Roles like: AI Governance Analyst, Responsible AI Analyst, AI Compliance Analyst, AI Risk Analyst

Governance & Ethics Blog

What I've Achieved

More than fifteen years across enterprise IT and digital transformation, much of it inside Alberta's regulated energy and rail sectors. The constraints on change there are the same ones that now govern where AI can and cannot be deployed.

Digital Transformation

Led website redevelopment achieving 300% traffic growth and top search rankings.

Helped build albertaancestors.ca, architecting a 250,000+ record genealogy platform with governance and data quality frameworks.

Enterprise Impact

Supported multi-million dollar enterprise BI deployments in collaboration with SAP's Value Engineering division, while acting as primary liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders at Canadian Pacific Railway.

Regulated Industry Delivery

Alberta's energy and transportation sectors, including TransAlta's wholesale electricity billing system, where regulators, safety requirements and continuity obligations constrained every change.

What Others Say

"Roy and I worked together for six years on digital transformation initiatives for the Alberta Family Histories Society. From concept through launch and ongoing user support, Roy was engaged, dependable, and effective at every stage of the process. His knowledge, skill set, and personality would be a worthy asset for any organization or contract work."

Jim Benedict
Past President & Webmaster, Alberta Family Histories Society

"I worked with Roy on SIGNAL, our AI-assisted early warning system for commercial credit monitoring. He kept our team organized and moving. His real strength is turning complex project information into clear, professional deliverables. He kept the bigger picture in view: business impact, governance, and human oversight. I'd gladly recommend him."

Gurpreet Bajwa
Team Member, SIGNAL Capstone Project

"Roy demonstrated exceptional communication and project management skills throughout my Human-Centred AI course. He consistently contributed thoughtful insights with clarity and depth, while showing strong organization and leadership in collaborative work. I would confidently recommend him to any team."

Reeta Suman
Professor, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

"Roy consistently demonstrated a thoughtful and practical approach to applying ethical principles in real-world contexts. I would confidently recommend him to any team looking for someone capable of engaging deeply with complex problems, particularly in areas related to AI ethics."

Steven Nich
Professor, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

Education & Professional Development

Post-Diploma Certificate, Integrated Artificial Intelligence
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Implementation and maintenance, governance and ethics, human-centred design, applied machine learning

Bachelor of Commerce
University of Alberta

Master's Certificate in Business Analysis (IIBA Accredited)
The George Washington University

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