About

Last updated 07/11/2024

Long Term Objectives

Learn as much as possible about as much as possible, and prioritize opportunities that increase exposure to new things and concepts.
Contribute to the research and development of automation tools and applications with human cooperation and collaboration at the forefront.
Develop and maintain applications/projects/spaces that encourage purposeful and user controlled content consumption and creation in ways that are easily accessible to those with little technical knowledge.

Work: CIBC - Systems and Process Analyst co-op - Term ends in December.
Active Projects: Crolls, Homelab (link coming soon), NRG AI research externship.
Education: Transferring to Thompson Rivers University (Computer Science BSc.) in the Fall.
Hobbies: Indieweb webdev, systems administration, experimenting with multimodal LLMs, chess, and cooking.

Graduated Brock Highschool with a 96% average.
Completed one year full-time, and one year part-time at Lakehead University/Georgian College in Barrie/Orillia in a Computer Science BSc. program.
Completed a 12-month co-op in project management at CIBC - my work primarily concerned coordinating the completion and estimation of project requests, JIRA administration, and data analysis.
Briefly administered a public mail server and corresponding webmail application for myself, my friends, and some internet strangers before succumbing to the abyss that is mail reputation issues.

Taking initiative beyond the scope of my role to improve the project or organization as a whole.
Understanding technical and non-technical problems, breaking them down, and fixing them.
Doing the "reading" and paying attention to the little things.

Consumer robotics.
Building effective evaluations for multimodal LLMs.
Effectively collecting, utilizing, and actioning data (through data engineering, governance, and reliability work).