CRAIG MERRY – Product Manager & AI Engineer
Sacramento, CA • craig@craigmerry.com • (916) 996‑7105 • craigmerry.com • linkedin.com/in/craigmerry

SUMMARY
Product leader and AI engineer with 15+ years delivering enterprise collaboration and AI products. Hands‑on with LLMs, computer vision, RAG, and edge AI; experienced in roadmaps, user research, and GTM. Developer‑first communicator who ships clear docs/demos and drives cross‑functional execution.

CORE STRENGTHS
• Product vision, roadmap, and GTM for AI features
• LLMs, RAG, CV on-device; rapid prototyping and evaluation
• Cross‑functional leadership across Eng/UX/Legal
• Metrics/KPIs, experimentation, and model evals
• Developer experience: docs, SDKs, demos, launch readiness

EXPERIENCE

Northern California Power Agency — Systems Engineer
Roseville, CA • 2022 – Present
• Leading Microsoft 365 migrations and SPFx development to modernize legacy workflows
• Building Power Platform automation to scale collaboration and governance for member utilities
• Driving developer enablement and documentation to improve internal engineering practices

Independent AI Projects & Advocacy — AI Systems Engineer & Product Partner
Remote / Sacramento, CA • Ongoing
• Designed Dronevade edge AI architecture, including data collection, quantized models, and telemetry pipeline
• Built XR captioning demos and accessibility playbooks to help deaf/HoH communities participate in virtual meetings
• Advised product and engineering leaders on evaluating risk, scoping pilots, and crafting GTM narratives for AI features

California Earthquake Authority — Application Administrator Lead / Cloud Implementation Specialist
Sacramento, CA • 2018 – 2022
• Built PowerShell + Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines; cut release time by ~75% while improving documentation and training
• Drove migration strategy, backlog grooming, and stakeholder enablement across IT, compliance, and field teams
• Delivered executive dashboards, KPI reporting, and UX research to prioritize collaboration features

Beacon Safety Co. — Founder & Product Lead (part-time)
Sacramento, CA • Jan 2014 – June 2016
• Defined vision/roadmap; led edge prototyping on Jetson/Raspberry Pi; managed vendors and budgets
• Built a LiDAR-based hazard-detection prototype; won Startup Weekend Sacramento (2014) in the hardware category
• Incubated MapMe.io (real-time device detection analytics) and BikeBus.app (cycling social). Conducted user research, shipped MVPs, defined metrics

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONDENSED)
• Apple (Elk Grove): Ops Lead; process governance and collaboration tooling
• Purple Communications: Ops Coordinator; BI dashboards (Power BI, Python/React)
• Sutter Health: HRIS/SharePoint; Tier‑3 support; portal migrations
• J4 Systems: Lead SharePoint Dev for client projects
• State of California: Developer/Trainer; reduced manual process from 1000 to ~6 hours/week via VBA automation

SELECTED AI SIDE PROJECTS

Dronevade — On‑device drone detection (YOLO, CV, Edge)
• Custom‑trained YOLO with on‑device deployment; avg inference ≈ 2.3 ms; accuracy ≈ 94.2%
• Defined eval metrics; iterated with user feedback to improve precision/recall

BicycleRadar — Predictive collision avoidance (Sensor Fusion, ML)
• Predicts closing speed/distance with ~96.8% accuracy; ~3.2 s advance warnings for riders
• Led UX iterations for HUD/display and audible alerts

LiveCaptionsXR — Real‑time captions anchored to speakers (Android XR)
• On‑device speech + spatial placement for Deaf/HoH; XR‑ready prototyping and UX research

TECHNICAL & PRODUCT SKILLS
• AI/ML: LLMs, RAG, diffusion, CV (TensorFlow, PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLO), NLP, real‑time/edge, sensor fusion
• Product: vision/roadmaps, user research, competitive analysis, requirements, GTM, metrics & KPIs, ethical AI
• Enterprise: SharePoint Online, SPFx, Microsoft Graph, Power Automate, Purview, Azure DevOps, Dynamics
• Code & Tools: Python, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Docker, Git, REST APIs, Jetson, Raspberry Pi
• DX & Accessibility: docs, SDKs, demos, launch readiness, WCAG 2.1 AA

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
• B.A., Political Science — University of California, Davis (Focus: war/genocide/terrorism studies)
• Scrimba AI Engineer Certificate (2025)
• Azure AI Engineer Associate — in progress

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