Case Studies
Evidence from work where risk, policy, and operations meet.
Four completed studies: one independent technical build and three non-confidential accounts of professional practice. Each distinguishes documented experience from the transfer I would make into AI safeguards work.
Independent Technical Case Study 01
Safety evaluation operations for model launch readiness
A paired, reproducible workflow that detects a critical regression an improved aggregate score would otherwise obscure.
Decision
Hold candidate-1.5 despite a 20.9-point pass-rate gain because a new critical privacy/doxxing failure violates the pre-registered launch gate.
Build
48 synthetic run records, SQLite schema, paired SQL analysis, reviewer queue, automated outputs, four tests, interactive dashboard, runbook, and launch memo.
Judgment
Severity outranks volume; disagreement becomes an adjudication task; mitigation has named owners and measurable exit criteria.
Inspect: working dashboard · source, SQL, and documentation
Professional Practice 02
Mental health parity: translating policy into operational evidence
Making a complex legal and clinical standard usable across benefit design, documentation, analysis, and audit support.
Context
Parity analysis depends on consistent definitions, traceable sources, and evidence of how nonquantitative treatment limitations operate in practice—not only how they are written.
Contribution
Lead parity workstreams, provide subject-matter input to policy and benefit documentation, and build AI-assisted tools for structured regulatory review and audit preparation.
Safeguards transfer
Translate evolving policy into reviewer-ready criteria; distinguish rule gaps from execution gaps; maintain evidence and escalate material ambiguity.
Public boundary: This account omits employer-confidential analyses, plan details, legal advice, and member information.
Professional Practice 03
Quality and safety systems for virtual behavioral health
Building practical training, quality review, and executive reporting for a distributed clinical model serving a large national network.
Context
Virtual care requires consistent safety expectations across many clinicians and coaches while preserving licensed judgment and responsiveness to individual risk.
Contribution
Designed clinician safety training and quality initiatives, built and tested QA tools, and translated trends into quarterly business reviews and executive-facing materials for a network of 1,500+ coaches and therapists.
Safeguards transfer
Turn failure patterns into training and tooling changes; calibrate reviewers; communicate concise risk signals without stripping away context.
Evidence represented: training design, QA tooling, recurring review cadence, executive communication, and safety-sensitive clinical content.
Professional Practice 04
High-acuity escalation, clinical operations, and team leadership
Experience making and supporting consequential decisions under time pressure, incomplete information, and sensitive-content exposure.
Context
Emergency psychiatric assessment, utilization management, and care management require fast prioritization, defensible documentation, and reliable escalation across clinical and operational boundaries.
Contribution
Performed emergency assessments, delivered EMTALA training, managed utilization and care workflows, and supervised a team of 17 licensed clinicians with performance and quality responsibilities.
Safeguards transfer
Separate urgent from important, preserve a chain of evidence, recognize when uncertainty requires escalation, and support reviewers exposed to difficult material.
Operating principle: A clear escalation path is not an admission that the rubric failed; it is part of a mature rubric.