Strengths

Collaboration

Communication

Project management

Innovative

Hobbies

With a focus on continuous learning and growth, I strive to make a positive impact using my domain expertise in education, life sciences, music, and leadership development by leveraging the powers of data analysis, data science, machine learning, deep learning, an artificial intelligence to help others make the best better

Tutoring

Improving skills through side projects

Chess

Banos de Agua Santa, Ecuador Photo taken by Thomas J. James

Hiking

Camping

Bicycling

Volunteering

Trumpet

Piano

Drones

Snorkeling

Self-Motivated

Creativity

Spanish

Teamwork

Leadership

Mentoring

R Programming

Python Programming

Sentiment & Semantic Analysis

Recommender Systems

Teaching

Entomology

Currently...

Brainstorm and initiating development of innovative ideas

Seeking new career opportunities

Developing a recommender system for course selection according to occupation title

Engineering a object-detection and classification app for Yoga-enthusiasts

Expand knowledge through online courses, books, and seminars

Sketching wireframe models for more optimal social/educational-development websites

Daily Yoga & Shadow-boxing

Daily chess

Achievements, Leadership Roles, & Future Goals

Teaching, Volunteering, & Exploring

High School

Road to Bachelors of Science in Biology

Exploring the Andes Mountains

Andrean High School

Core 40 Diploma

Eagle Scout

4-H King Nominee

4-H Camp Counselor

Scouts Senior Patrol Leader

Sports : Baseball, Basketball

Spellbowl State Champion

Music: Marching Band, Concert Band, Theatre Orchestra

Outstanding Achievement in Music

Musical Talent Scholarship

Benedictine University

Schmitt Math & Physics Scholarship

Cuneo Foundation Award Scholarship

Campus Ministry

Knights of Columbus 4th Degree

Intramural Badminton

Brain Surgery

Two-time Hurricane Disaster Relief Volunteer

Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum Tour-Guide & Taxonomist

Concert Band

Jazz Band

Pep Band

Boy Scout Assistant Scoutmaster

Marine Biology Studies in the Exuma Islands, Bahamas

Woody Plants Studies at the Morton Arboretum

Seven years Substitute Teaching

Thirteen Years Professional Tutoring

Boy Scout Troop Committe Chairman

Cub Scout Camp Commissioner

Religious Education Teacher

Food Drive Volunteer

Young Catholic Professional Leader

Naturalist Intern at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge

Knights of Columbus Volunteer

Seizure-free with no medicine for 3.5 years

Ascent Mama (Volcan) Tungurahua

Hike through the Mindo Cloud Forest

Hike crater-rim of an extinct volcano

Hike inside the Amazon

Experience different cultural practices and beliefs

Adapt to living at higher altitudes

Marine Mammalogy Studies at the John G. Shedd Aquarium

Road to Masters in Applied Data Science

Complete 19 Coursera specializations in topics such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI Engineering

Acceptance into the University of Michigan's Masters in Applied Data Science

Society of Learning Analytics & Research Member

Learning Analytics Summer Institute Scholarship & Research Conference at National University of Singapore

2nd Prize in School of Information Capstone Project Expo

Capstone Project: Developing a Recommender System Engine that can recommend online courses according to occupation title

Milestone II Project: Using NLP, Sentiment Analysis, and Semantic Analysis to analyze NBA Twitter text data

School of Information Leadership Award

Here & Now

Seeking new career opportunities

Brainstorming and initiating development of innovative ideas

Continuously expanding knowledge through online courses, books, and seminars

Leading data science, machine learning, and AI teams in the engineering of an educational product

Daily chess

Daily Yoga & Shadow-boxing

Developing a recommender system that assists with online course selection according to occupation title

Developing better user-directed search engines and social/educational-development websites

To be continued...

Making the Best Better Together

Stray buddy ready to hike with us around the crater-rim of Volcan Quilotoa (aka Laguna de Quilotoa), and peaks of Los Illinizas Volcanoes in the distance.