Applied AI & engineering leadership
On MyCareer.NJ, I designed a shared AWS Bedrock foundation and a portfolio of applied-AI proofs of concept. The infrastructure runs in the state environment. The resident-facing features were not launched, and I do not claim resident outcomes from them.
What applied-AI systems did you design for MyCareer.NJ?
I designed six primary workstreams: a grounded career coach, semantic search, résumé and skill matching, career intelligence, notifications, and content and accessibility automation. The broader portfolio included thirteen secondary proofs of concept built on a shared Bedrock foundation.
Which parts reached production?
The shared infrastructure runs in the state environment. The career coach and other resident-facing concepts remained proofs of concept awaiting a state pilot. No resident used the coach, so there is no resident outcome data and it should not be described as a live MyCareer.NJ feature.
How did you test the career-coach boundary?
The proof of concept went through six pre-pilot reviews, about eighty adversarial cases that blocked merges, and a 210-answer known-answer evaluation. I tested prompt injection, unsupported programs and prices, missing data, topic drift, unsafe certainty, and English and Spanish response behavior. Those tests measure the prototype against a defined suite. They do not make a language model infallible.
What did the fifty-state scan establish?
My time-bounded scan of public workforce services in all fifty states did not surface an equivalent resident-facing conversational coach grounded in program records. That finding oriented the prototype. It is not proof that no comparable work existed privately or appeared later.
What does this site's assistant demonstrate?
It applies the same rule on a smaller public surface: retrieve reviewed material, answer only when the source supports the response, and stop when it does not. The source, server-side model call, refusal behavior, and production tests remain separate so each boundary can be inspected.