I was hired in March as a Senior Technical Trainer, to help build and run the Accelerated Performance Training initiative. Though we used edX courses for some of the course, I evaluated the courses, designed supplementary assignments, designed and ran the labs that took up the end of training, and held office hours for students.We also had significant trouble setting up the labs, so I worked with IT to package the lab software in a VM and deploy it on Azure. I'm somewhat proud of this, because it required quit a bit of pushing and commitment on my part!APT does most of its hiring during the summer. After working on the VM during the fall, I volunteered to help of our state accounts doing dotnet development. For that account, I designed several services in C# and PowerShell, while also helping to mentor some junior developers.Unfortunately, while I was working on the Wisconsin account, the APT program was terminated; therefore, instead of returning to training, after finishing up on Wisconsin, I was moved to the Puerto Rico account, where I've been doing batch financial development. I'm working with C, C++ and Pro*C programs, both adapting existing programs and writing new ones; writing, debugging, and editing our C-shell job scripts, and writing BASH scripts for my own use; writing supporting utilities in Python; working with our Oracle database, both to debug programs and to establish testing data; and working with IWS scheduling units.

During my last semester at GSU, I took part-time work teaching at the University of West Georgia. I lead a Special Topics class on Neural Networks with Tensorflow.This required me to create a syllabus and course materials from scratch with only a few weeks' head-start. I wrote content covering gradient descent, creating a basic network with numpy, creating a basic network in tensorflow, the vanishing gradient problem, different activation functions, normalization, CNNs and LSTMs.

I was admitted to Georgia State University as a Master's student; re-admitted as a Ph.D. student; got as far as proposing my dissertation; but wasn't able to finish it, and ultimately graduated with a Master's degree.I worked on a number of projects, among them using RBMs to encode sound data, crawling web-pages to extract text details, and using NNs to classify EEGs; however, none of them got as far as publication. My dissertation was going to be on developing spiking neural-network circuits capable of general problems, but my advisor felt like it was too ambitious and instead had me work on a novel RBM he was developing.

I was hired as a Research Scientist 1 at GTRI.I got to work on a diverse array of projects. While at GTRI, I modified a physical simulation that my group maintained; conducted a large simulation using their cluster; wrote an GTK/OpenGL visualization tool; did a lot of GUI work on a program to automate the cluster; and wrote a JSP/Lucene application to allow for searching of their documentation.