Education
Indiana University
I transferred to Indiana during the Spring of 2020. My reasoning for transferring from a highly selective, rigorous program to Indiana University was that the increase in opportunities would make up for the lack of academic rigor. I was happy to find several very high quality professors at Indiana University as well as opportunities I never imagined. Since I transferred with all the core classes of my computer science major, I was able to continue and "specialize" in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Leanrning (pre-transformers era) although so many roadblocks existed to getting my business and accounting credits transferred that I instead gave up my accounting major.
Little 500
Prior to the Fall of 2020, I had taken up cycling as a part of my Ironman Indiana training program and I had decided it was the most fun of the three sports. I joined the Bloomington Bicycle Club when I arrived on campus is the Fall of 2021 as well as joined the Forest Residence Hall Cycling team. I raced in the Little 500 at the end of the year (a rare senior rookie cyclist) and this was the most rewarding experience of my college career.
Washington and Lee University
I was a computer science and accounting double major at Washington and Lee University, although only declared for a relatively short period of time. In my two years at W&L I was a teaching assistant, tutor, and I worked in the on-campus makerspace. I also served as the first app-developer for Mock Convention, building a reasonably integrated app experience with some documentation on my projects page.
Mock Convention
I was a freshman when I asked the Mock Convention team to "hire" me as the app developer for the first eco-friendly convention. Prior to interviewing, I had sought to work with the data/analytics team but was not selected. To ensure this would not occur again, I stubbed out an iOS app with fake data prior to my interview so that I could ensure there was no doubt that I could accomplish this feat.
When I began the MockCon project, I was oblivious to the scope, and ultimately built a number of tools to accomplish my objectives and serve a cohesive experience. Some of the challenges were generating QR codes for admission for several thousand attendees, formatting and sending a reliable email with these codes, building a secondary ticketing system in case users did not have their tickets readily available, and many other systems.
Makerspace
In the Washington and Lee Makerspace, I was responsible for providing general advice to students as well as assisting an art history professor with their point cloud diagram representations. This involved taking several hundred million data point lidar scans and splicing them into smaller 100-million point models to add to a variant of the Potree software I set up. The point clouds were collected on the professor's trips to Italy as apart of his class. Where artwork or statues were present, 3D models were inserted to provide a higher degree of resolution than point clouds can provide.
Triathlon
ViewI began training for Ironman Indiana in January of 2021 after realizing I was no longer in the same shape as I graduated high school in 2018. I needed a life change, so I found an extreme event to embark upon. I finished the race, although slowly, and progressively become more hooked on traithlon training.
Triathlon has been challenging to balance with work post-college, although I have achieved this by ensuring that I make time for fitness after work is done. I am beginning to assemble a triathlon page so that I can keep track of workouts and other data that Strava and Garmin do not provide for.
GitHub Activity
I have used the same GitHub account for my professional career and most of my collegiate career. Although the vast majority of work I have accomplished is in private repositories, when a POC is needed I generally build and publish something that proves a basic principle of what I am attempting to accomplish. Examples are my serverless-app-runner project and simple-lucee-server (a wildly empty template for coldfusion development).