Resume

Jeremy Cleland.

Agentic AI engineer with experience building production applications, tool-calling workflows, and ML pipelines. Former Medical Innovation Officer at VetClaims.ai and graduate research assistant at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. M.S. in Artificial Intelligence (2025); retired U.S. Army Special Forces Medical Sergeant.

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Professional experience

August 2025 – May 2026

Medical Innovation Officer

VetClaims.ai · Remote

Developed and shipped prototypes and production agentic systems for veteran disability-benefits workflows in two-to-four-week cycles.
Built multi-agent architectures with tool-calling loops, session memory, and MCP-style integrations that replaced manual handoffs with reliable AI-enabled workflows.
Delivered clinical-evidence pipelines, claims automation, and model-assisted nexus-letter tooling with human review for high-stakes decisions.
Applied prompt evaluation and code-review practices for reliability and controllability while collaborating on product requirements.

January 2024 – December 2025

AI Engineer & Graduate Research Assistant

University of Michigan-Dearborn · Dearborn, MI

Developed ML pipelines for sepsis detection, NLP classification, and reinforcement-learning optimization.
Supported model deployment, retraining, and versioning with Python, FastAPI, MLflow, and Docker.
Built evaluation harnesses and optimized models with ONNX and quantization for efficient inference.

2014 – 2022

Special Forces Medical Sergeant

U.S. Army — 7th SFG(A) · Global

Led cross-functional teams on five partner-nation/combat deployments.
Provided trauma care under fire and developed medical training for host-nation forces.
Developed and delivered tactical medical training for Special Forces medics across six multinational units.

Education

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence

University of Michigan-Dearborn · 2025
Machine Learning concentration

Engineering capabilities

Python · SQL · JavaScript · FastAPI · Docker · MLflow · PyTorch
Agent orchestration · Tool calling · Retrieval · Evaluation · Human review

jeremy@clelandco.com ↗