PORTFOLIO — 2026

Chris Riley

Community Mental Health Public Policy Applied AI Systems
Positioning

I coordinate care inside Michigan's community mental health system, research AI governance and Olmstead compliance at the graduate level, and build production AI systems that run continuously in deployment. Most candidates live in one of these lanes. I operate across all three.

Currently an ICM / Hospital Liaison coordinating care for adults under court-ordered treatment and complex psychiatric need — finishing an MPA at Arizona State (3.97 GPA) with applied focus on AI policy. The systems below are built and maintained solo.

What I Build
Supporting Infrastructure
ATLAS v4.3Autonomous data pipeline. Screens ~1,927 entities daily, applies multi-factor scoring, persists ranked signals to SQLite. Runs autonomously on Railway.
ChalmersGhostReal-time event processing engine. FastAPI on Railway, 5-phase architecture, WebSocket streaming + REST ingestion, Telegram alerting.
HEPHAESTUSDiscord-native operations bot. Natural-language command parsing via Claude, authenticated GitHub dispatch, pre-flight validation.
RC / QC / MR FrameworkProprietary analytical methodology operationalized in production AI prompt logic. Designed for cross-domain application.
Academic Work
PAF 591 — Graduate Seminar

Municipal AI Policy for the City of Detroit

Solo-authored policy research. Comparative jurisdictional synthesis across the EU AI Act, California AB 2885, Seattle, Mississippi, DC, and Boston. Grade: A+.

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Complete
MPA Capstone — Arizona State University

Olmstead v. L.C. Compliance Gaps in Michigan's CMH System

Applied policy research examining systemic compliance barriers in community-based mental health services. Fall 2026.

In Progress
PAF 555

Hazard Modeling Software White Paper

Technical white paper on computational risk-assessment tools in emergency management.

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Complete
Certifications

17 Anthropic Academy certifications spanning AI foundations, multi-cloud deployment, developer tooling, and advanced agentic architecture — April 2026. Verify All Credentials →

Recommendation
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What distinguished Chris was his ability to see beyond the individual case and identify systemic patterns… He demonstrated a natural capacity for policy-level thinking that is uncommon at the direct-service level.

Carolyn Kowalski, LMSW, QIDP
Supports Coordination Manager, Community Living Services

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I have seen firsthand how Chris approaches leadership, not only with competence but with a strong sense of empathy, inclusivity and humility.

David R. Hodge, Ph.D., MSW
Distinguished Professor · Arizona State University

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