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Florida, United States

St Petersburg, Florida, United States

I lead, develop, and instruct the Artificial Intelligence program at Lakewood High School through a 4-course program. The program is designed to familiarize and distinguish key tenets of AI and prepare students for industry careers in AI or related fields.I teach additional CS courses including Research and AP Computer Science Principles.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

I architect curriculum for AI & Data Science education to be adopted by FLDOE through UF’s EQuIPD team. Development includes: learning standards identification, lecture creation, hands-on activity engagement, and assessment/certification preparation.

Provo, Utah, United States

Created and executed custom solutions for configuring and maintaining servers & High-Availability clusters operating on SUSE Linux. Actively engaged and communicated with System Administrators to ensure maximum uptime of full-scale production environments. Highly specialized in AD, SSSD, PAM, Winbind, Samba, and NFS.

Clearwater, Fl, Usa

Represented SUSE, Webroot, and Fujitsu in developing build configurations, creating price quotations, and closing deals to achieve quarterly fiscal goals. Actively maintained pipeline for SUSE and closed over $2m in SUSE sales, creating an 11% YOY growth. Engaged in vendor marketing campaigns for SUSE to facilitate reseller awareness. Established strong communicative relationships with resellers and clients.

Melbourne, Florida Area

Created and implemented REST APIs, code plug-ins, and UI elements for IoT applications. Committed daily pushes to upstream branches in an Agile environment. Worked with connectivity technologies including Bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee, and Z-Wave. Developed using a Linux environment and deployed to Linux-based IoT devices.

San Francisco Bay Area

Troubleshooted, diagnosed, and developed repair solutions for Apple devices and services. Created and led coding and educational workshops for the local Cupertino/Santa Clara community. Sold/ upsold Apple ecosystem products and facilitated new product releases. Closed new business deals for local enterprises. Designated as a polylingual employee for engaging with Spanish and Portuguese speaking clients.

Seminole, Florida

Built custom computers, performed computer repairs and associated services including: storage replacement, memory upgrades, data migration, virus removal, LCD replacement, and system upgrades/optimizations. Utilized in-house Linux tools to diagnose and pinpoint hardware and software repairs. Deployed custom configured operating systems to built machines and recommended distributions for usage.

Bachelor’S Degree, Linguistics (Computational Linguistics)

Worked extensively and intimately within the Computational Linguistics program to analyze, tag, and transform speech data and examine.

High School

Activities and Societies: FBLA, Robotics Team, Programming Team, NHS, Varsity WrestlingSpent the majority of my high school career focused.