Education

Udacity

Udacity is an online education provider widely recognized by IT. Nanodegree course material is developed in conjunction with companies such as Google, IBM, AWS, and Lyft.

Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree

12/2018
Development projects using Python3, Flask libraries, HTML5, CSS, KnockoutJS. Please see project READMEs for details.

Projects:

  1. Movie Trailer: server-side Python3 code to store a list of favorite movies, including box art imagery and a movie trailer URL; serve this data as a web page allowing visitors to review their movies and watch the trailers; docs in Markdown

  2. Portfolio Page: replicate a PDF using HTML and CSS; develop a responsive website that will display images and descriptions; docs in reStructuredText

  3. Logs Analysis: create reports from logs stored in a database; docs in Markdown

  4. Item Catalog Application: provides a list of items within a variety of categories as well as a user registration and authentication system; registered users have the ability to post, edit and delete their own items; docs in reStructuredText

  5. Neighborhood Map: single-page application featuring a map of a neighborhood. Functionality includes map markers to identify locations, a search function to easily discover these locations, and a listview to support simple browsing of all locations; uses Google Maps and Foursquare APIs; docs in reStructuredText

  6. Linux Server Config: deploy Item Catalog in an AWS Lightsail environment; docs in Markdown

AI Programming with Python Nanodegree

6/2018
This course focused on neural networks and the foundations of AI: the programming tools (Python, NumPy, PyTorch), the math (calculus and linear algebra), and the key techniques of neural networks (gradient descent and backpropagation).

Projects:

  1. Dog Image Identification

  2. Flower Classification

After completing this nanodegree, I realized that while I find AI fascinating, coding a neural network is not an area I want to pursue.

Milwaukee Area Technical College

Associate of Applied Science (AAS)
Major: Commercial Photography

I interned at UW-Milwaukee, where I got to shoot sporting events. Go Panthers!

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Major: History, Modern China and Indochina
Minor: Comparative Literature
Languages: German, Chinese
Favorite Classes Other Than History: Archeology, Historical Statistics (Math!), Norse Mythology, Historical Mapping (Geography!)