AI Practice.
I help organizations build and use AI responsibly — governance frameworks, risk and compliance, contracts, data, and incident readiness — designed so engineers can implement them, executives can defend them, and a regulator can audit them.
What I Deliver.
AI Governance
Governance frameworks, policies, and operating models that scale with innovation instead of stalling it.
Risk & Compliance
Identify, assess, and mitigate legal, regulatory, security, and ethical risk across the AI lifecycle.
Contracts & Vendors
Draft and negotiate AI, data, and technology contracts that allocate risk and protect value.
Data Governance
Data governance programs that protect privacy, ensure quality, and unlock the value of what you already hold.
Model Governance
Controls for model selection, testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement — with evidence at every step.
Incident & Response
Prepare for and respond to AI incidents with clear playbooks and regulatory alignment.
How I Help Organizations.
- Risk-aware innovation. Enable AI initiatives with guardrails, not roadblocks.
- Executive alignment. Translate AI risk into business and board-level language.
- End-to-end coverage. From strategy and policy to operations and response.
- Regulatory readiness. Align with emerging laws and standards across the globe.
- Practical outcomes. Frameworks, playbooks, and training your teams will actually use.
- AI governance program design and implementation
- Policy and procedure development
- AI due diligence and readiness assessments
- Vendor and model risk management
- AI incident response and investigations
- Training for leaders, legal, and technical teams
My Framework: Six Layers of AI Governance.
Integrated. Practical. Defensible.
Strategy
Align AI with business strategy, risk appetite, and value creation.
Governance
Establish roles, policies, committees, and decision rights.
Legal & Regulatory
Ensure compliance with laws, contracts, and emerging regulations.
Information Governance
Manage the data lifecycle — privacy, quality, retention, and access.
AI Security
Secure the systems, data, models, and integrations behind every deployment.
Operations
Monitor performance, manage risk, and continuously improve.
This model is built on leading frameworks — including ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 23894 — and tailored to your organization's industry, risk profile, and goals.
Who I Work With.
I partner with leaders building or using AI in complex, regulated, or high-stakes environments.
Companies
Life Sciences
& Insurance
& Consulting
& Energy
& Education
Why Work With Me.
- Lawyer + engineer + operator. I understand both the technology and the law, and I have shipped systems under both.
- Board and executive trusted advisor. I speak to risk, value, and strategy in the room where it is decided.
- AI governance leadership. Member, State Bar of Texas Emerging Technology Committee.
- Author, speaker, educator. I teach, publish, and translate complexity for the people who have to act on it.
- Hands-on experience. I build practical solutions that work in the real world, not reference architectures.
Frameworks I Use.
I align programs to globally recognized standards and best practices.