Passionate about eliminating wasteful activities and solving problems. Fond of using computers to make it happen.
I am a musician. I started piano when I was four years old and found a love of choral music that occupied most of my time up into college. After a few years pursuing a music degree I realized that, passion notwithstanding, I didn't want a career as a choir director.
I dropped out and found a job while giving myself time to think. I was lucky to have been pointed to a manufacturing facility that valued thinking critically, solving problems, and, above all, continuous improvement. I quickly adapted to that culture and developed a skill for exposing problems and coming up with solutions.
When my team faced a particular problem, I envisioned a software solution that could aid us. My leadership liked the idea, and I set out to find an existing application.
None existed.
Thus began my journey into computer science. I broke the problem down into bite-sized pieces and searched how to do each small problem with Python. I ended with a Python GUI application, a Flask server with MySQL, and a Raspberry Pi module for each operator communicating on a self-contained network.
That project and its later migration to C# led me to enroll at Utah Valley University and transition my career to Software Engineering. I expect to graduate in 2024.
My career interest is to work on low-level systems. I like working with logic, chips, sensors, and data. The final project for my Computer Architecture class was a program written in an assembly language. I was having too much fun and went way past the requirements and made a Variant of Wordle written entirely in assembly for the LC-3.