My [TECHNICAL] Work Experience

I have a LOT of different work experience and it is difficult for other to understand what it is that I have done and how it fits into some chronological order. The truth is the experiences don’t really have a logical order because most of my work is project based and I typically work on more than one project at a time. I also take unpaid work as seriously as I do paid work, so the project that were unpaid could have more in depth documetation than a paid position given the time spent working on the project and the skills acquired from that experience.

In this document I will attemmpt to explain all of my technical work experience and the interpersonal and technical skills I learned during each experience. I hope that this document is useful for others who are interested in understanding what I have done and how it plays into my larger skillset.

I am working on explaning in the written form what I have done and how I have contributed to each team I have been a part of. I realize there are early career professionals who are looking at my page and would like to model their page after my own so I would also like to provide a few resources for you to explore.

I don’ work in tech anymore but the life lessons I learned while building up my knowledge of the secor are really important and are useful in other areas of my life especially now. I wanted to create a space that tells that story from first hand experience in casse anyone else does have an interest in understanding how to leverarge technical skills in other aspects of your life, and really buiuld something for yourself.

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Race and Technology a Research Series

Microsoft reserach gathered together a group of academics who are already doing work in the fields that explore the way that racial classifications have negative impacts in the work experience of people of color. I have been keeping up with these talks and I realized something important lately. While most of the professionals presenting their work are social scientists and I am not, they have done a phenomenal job of using metrics and data to analyze trends and interpret the field in which they are working. The most critical part of their work is explaining their findinds to the rest of us, via books, papers, and talks. As I watched some of the talks I realized the presenters were also breaking down reserach methods and qualitative studies which were a required part of their job.

If you are an up and coming data professional I would encourage you to watch one or two of these talks and take note of the way these presenters talk about the research processes that have lead up to thier findings and incorate that method of explaining into your own portfolio.

Microsoft Race Technology Lecture Series

Relevant (Current) Projects w/ Technology Used

Predicting Diamond Prices
Predicting Catalog Demand
Create An Analytical Dataset
Predicting Risk Default
A/B Test
Forecast Video Game Sales