Lehem
Felican Jr.

Director of Artificial Intelligence

Hired into a newly created executive role to define and execute the firm's enterprise AI strategy. Resolution Economics is a national consulting firm providing expert analysis in employment, wage-and-hour, and labor litigation.

• Own the firm-wide AI roadmap — litigation-risk prediction, automated document classification, expert-testimony augmentation, and data-driven insight generation across active matters.
• Architect production data pipelines and AI/ML systems spanning NLP, predictive modeling, and statistical analysis; ensure integration with existing case-management infrastructure.
• Build and mentor the firm's data-science and engineering function across ML engineering, data engineering, and applied data science.
• Define and implement comprehensive data strategy — acquisition, governance, quality, lineage — and ensure compliance with regulations governing discovery materials and expert-witness work.
• Serve as the firm's public voice on AI in legal technology and employment law.

AI Cloud Solutions Architect

Lead architect for a blockchain-powered gaming platform within Binance's ecosystem. Designed and implemented scalable, secure, high-performing cloud architectures across hybrid AWS + on-premise environments.

• Delivered 30% reduction in technology debt and 17% profit increase through architectural redesign, cost optimization, and platform consolidation.
• Designed an AI-driven blockchain architecture combining a chain of LLMs, custom predictor algorithms, and dedicated GPU processing rigs for high-throughput inference.
• Built ML capability stack: Reinforcement Learning for adaptive NPC behavior, GANs for procedural content generation, NLP for in-game dialogue, clustering for player segmentation, anomaly detection for cheating and botting, and predictive modeling for churn and in-game economy.
• Implemented MLOps pipelines for automated training, deployment, and monitoring; layered Explainable AI on player-facing models and Federated Learning to preserve player privacy.
• Core AWS platform: ELB/ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, API Gateway, intelligent S3, ElastiCache, EKS / Fargate / Lambda, SNS / SQS / EventBridge; Kinesis + Redshift + QuickSight for BI.
• Hardened with zero-trust security — AWS Shield, GuardDuty, WAF, private VPCs, IAM — achieving ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR compliance. Designed and validated an active/active disaster-recovery strategy.
• Developed enterprise architecture roadmaps, governance frameworks, and business capability models linking strategy to IT execution; presented investment cases with ROI justification to senior leadership.

Sr. Technology Manager — Digital Forensics & Software Architect

Senior architect leading software development for digital forensics, eDiscovery, and advanced analytics across the firm's investigation and litigation-support portfolio.

• Designed forensic and analytic tools to collect, process, and analyze massive structured/unstructured datasets during breaches, investigations, and litigation.
• Applied early AI/ML techniques to eDiscovery — NLP for document review, biometrics, decision management — laying the foundation for the firm's later enterprise AI strategy.
• Managed IT resources, custom development, and process automation across the firm's forensic-technology portfolio.
• Stack: TypeScript/ES6, React, React Native, Node.js, Liferay, Go, Python, R; AWS, Azure, GCP; Docker, Kubernetes; Hadoop, Spark, Elastic; SQL and NoSQL.

Chief Web & Mobility Architect

Lead Web & Mobility Architect for Dell's Healthcare ICD-10 initiative and digital strategy, most recently for AvMed.org.

• Architected hybrid cloud + on-premise solution on .NET, Azure, AppFabric, C#, and SQL Server, with ESB service layer and content-delivery system for the healthcare payer space.
• Designed SOA strategies and reference architectures; initiated Azure Big Data implementation.
• Led development teams through full SDLC using Agile/Scrum; established policies for lifecycle, security, asset management, and technology governance.
• Performed architecture, infrastructure, and security risk assessments to deliver well-balanced solutions for a regulated industry.

Senior Software Engineer

Built B2B mobile intelligence-delivery platforms using predictive analytics, social profiling, market-trend analysis, AI/ML, computer vision, and big data.

• Drove licensing, integration, and distribution of P.A.M.M. (Predictive Analysis Mobile Monitoring) — proprietary system aggregating dynamic data to infer mobility and preference patterns through a consumer-relevance quantification model. Patent granted.

Sr Software Engineer / Architect (Consultant)

• Developed financial-analysis applications and security-encryption algorithms for commissions, billing, payment, and ETF systems.
• Led ground-up redesign of the commissions system — migrating from VB.NET WebForms + SQL access classes to MVC-4 Razor, Entity Framework 5, jQuery UI, C# business objects, WWF, Web API, Telerik controls, and MS Dynamics.
• Implemented the company's first Azure website and web/mobile services; led adoption of a TOGAF-based framework for information architecture governance.