I'm Kelvin McNeil Jr.
AI Solutions Architect with 10+ years building product solutions from zero to one. I architect intelligent systems, LLM compliance workflows, data lakes, and lead cross-functional teams to ship production-grade solutions into regulated federal and healthcare environments.
Highlights
Zero-to-One Builder
Architected AI/ML solutions on AWS (S3, Bedrock, SageMaker) and deployed FedRAMP/ATO-ready architectures into production.
AI for Compliance
Designed and deployed production LLM workflows using AWS Bedrock and Claude Sonnet, transforming executive orders into structured compliance criteria, parsing grant documents, and validating outputs against reporting requirements.
Product & Funding
Raised $20M+ in interagency funding and delivered phased, budget-conscious solutions across 16 federal agencies.
Personal Project
Co-building a real estate SaaS MVP (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Tailwind) focused on transaction workflow automation.
Legacy Modernization
Modernized legacy applications and codebases—decomposed monoliths, designed stepwise migrations, and reduced risk while improving reliability and delivery speed.
Backlog Refinement / Product Roadmaps
Led backlog refinement, MVP definition, and PI Planning across 16 Scrum teams; aligned roadmaps to outcomes, budgets, and KPIs for predictable delivery.
About Me
AI Solutions Architect & Innovation Leader
I specialize in architecting AI/ML solutions and leading product strategy for federal agencies at the intersection of compliance, data, and intelligent automation. My work spans designing LLM-powered compliance workflows, building grants data lakes, and delivering conversational AI that transforms how agencies access and act on programmatic data. I bridge executive leadership, engineering, and policy teams to ship FedRAMP/ATO-ready AI into production—balancing technical rigor with human-centered design and measurable outcomes.
Experience:
10 Years
Location:
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
Work Experience
AI Solutions Architect
Guidehouse Inc.
- Architected and launched an AI-powered Executive Order Compliance solution that analyzed 30,000+ grant applications and recipient documents, helping federal agencies identify policy and compliance risks across active awards.
- Led a small innovation team of product, engineering, and data specialists to design AWS-native AI solutions leveraging Bedrock, Claude Sonnet, S3, Redshift, Tableau, and serverless services.
- Designed document intelligence pipelines that extract, classify, and analyze structured and unstructured grant data using LLMs, reducing manual compliance review efforts across federal grant portfolios.
- Built an AI-assisted Panel Review platform that evaluates grant applications against Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) criteria, accelerating application scoring and improving review consistency.
- Developed explainable AI workflows that generate scoring rationales, strengths, weaknesses, and supporting evidence, increasing reviewer confidence and auditability of AI-generated recommendations.
- Led development of the Grant IQ conversational assistant, reducing agency data-call response times from approximately 48 hours to less than 2 hours through self-service access to programmatic, financial, and compliance data.
- Designed AI reasoning workflows that expose source attribution, generated SQL, supporting evidence, and contextual explanations to improve transparency and trust in AI-generated responses.
- Partnered with engineering teams to architect a centralized grants data lake integrating fragmented federal systems through APIs, batch processing, ETL pipelines, AWS Glue, metadata cataloging, and analytics services.
- Provisioned and configured Azure AI resources supporting secure conversational AI experiences for sensitive healthcare and grants-related datasets.
Director of Product Strategy
Guidehouse Inc.
- Directed product strategy, roadmap development, and modernization initiatives supporting GrantSolutions and 16 federal agencies managing billions in annual grant funding.
- Secured and influenced over $20M in interagency investment funding by developing business cases, modernization roadmaps, and executive-level product strategies.
- Led product planning and prioritization across 16 Agile delivery teams, aligning engineering investments with agency missions, compliance requirements, and user needs.
- Conducted user research, usability testing, and stakeholder engagement activities involving more than 200 federal users, resulting in over 70 validated product enhancements and design concepts.
- Served as the strategic bridge between executive leadership, product teams, engineering organizations, and agency stakeholders to drive successful modernization outcomes.
Account Director | Product Manager
Dovel Technologies LLC
- Served as Product Manager for CDC's grants portfolio, managing backlog items while balancing urgent pandemic aid distribution.
- Scoped and delivered an MVP migration plan to transfer the $80M ONDCP Drug-Free Communities Program into CDC's portfolio.
- Led backlog refinement sessions with CDC and NIH stakeholders, prioritizing integrations and features supporting $8.5B in obligations and 14,000+ awards annually.
- Coordinated with engineering to design API-driven data flows across NIH/CDC systems, enabling real-time portfolio management.
- Raised $3M in development funding to support roadmap initiatives.
Product Analyst
Octo Consulting Group
- Supported SEC's MIDAS platform, refining backlog items tied to analysis of 1B+ equity exchange records.
- Collaborated with compliance and engineering teams to define user stories for dashboards and visualization tools.
- Researched and evaluated crypto compliance monitoring tools, influencing SEC Cyber Unit roadmap direction.
Business Analyst | Associate Product Owner
Dovel Technologies, LLC
- Supported Product Owner role for the Head Start Enterprise System (HSES) integration project.
- Co-defined MVP scope for a $5M investment, delivering the core web-service interface before layering in advanced features.
- Conducted requirement workshops, backlog grooming, and user testing sessions with OHS stakeholders.
Skills
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