ABOUT ME
I'm a Database Developer and IT Youth Apprentice currently working at Dane County School Consortium. I specialize in website development, database management, and documentation writing.
With experience in both technical and customer service roles, I've developed strong skills in problem-solving, communication, and organization. I'm particularly interested in AI development, automation, and sustainable technology solutions.
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Database Management
- Website Design
- Documentation Writing
- C# Programming
- AI Development
- Customer Service
- Critical Thinking
- Organization
- Communication
- Learning Quickly
- Planning
- Proactive and Self-motivated
WORK EXPERIENCE
Database Developer / General IT Youth Apprentice
Jan 2024 - PresentUpdating company website with new information/developments, maintaining and improving company internal software, managing, editing, and adding to the company database, writing all documentation for general IT procedures, as well as database documentation, resolve user issues in an efficient manner, schedule projects, take feedback and use it to improve company website and internal software, and communicate with team on projects.
Tech Specialty Associate
Nov 2023 - Jul 2024I kept track of inventory, stock shelves, communicate with tech team on goals and tasks, give customers specific recommendations based on their needs, and solve any issues with products customers may have.
Cashier
Jan 2022 - Nov 2023Provided customer service by assisting shoppers, restocking shelves, and maintaining a clean store environment. Processed transactions efficiently, managed inventory, and collaborated with team members to ensure smooth daily operations.
Interior House Plant Expert
Feb 2023 - Aug 2023 (2023 Season)I would keep an inventory of all the house plants, plan out the care needed for plants under my watch, solve any issues regarding plants under my watch, provide customers with recommendations based on their needs, as well as fix any issues customers had with their plants they had purchased.
SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES
TECHNICAL SKILLS
SOFT SKILLS
EDUCATION
Evansville Highschool
2021 - 2025Currently attending high school while participating in the Youth Apprenticeship program.
CERTIFICATIONS
PROJECTS
AI Thaddius Assistant
AI task scheduling agent that communicates in natural language, takes the users to-do list and finds time in their google calendar.
SAGE AI Education Assistant
A specialized AI agent hosted on a server on my local machine, SAGE gives specialized responses to help the user learn based off of past material provided by the user.
Internal Data Management Application
Built a WinForms C# application and designed its underlying SQL database to enable non-technical internal users to view, edit, and update company data through a user-friendly GUI.
Automatic Hydroponics
Designed an automatic hydroponics system, using Raspberry Pi Pico W, I would be able to see the nutrient in a hydroponics setup, and have it automatically, graph, log and dispense nutrient.
BEYOND THE OFFICE
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Donation Garden
Gardening has always been around me. I used to watch my parents garden throughout the summer. They were always very particular about it. Obviously, being the oldest child, they would drag me out and put me to work, picking, pruning, cutting, working, digging, for hours during the summer. I hated every minute of it. It often felt pointless, the leaves would just grow back right? This mindset stayed throughout most of high school, I didn't enjoy gardening all that much. At a certain point however, my parents presence in our gardened lessened, old age, busy lives, whatever it may be, they simply couldn't, or didn't have the time. To this day i do not know quite what caused me to jump up and work on the garden, but i did. I worked every day of that summer on that garden, sure, it wasn't as good as it has once been, but it was slowly becoming mine. The summer that followed, i took charge, the garden was not partly mine, it was mine. this meant i had to plan, and for the first time, i was the one driving the ship. I had one goal when designing the garden, I wanted it to be as efficient as it could possibly be. I did just that, mathematically calculating out every inch, guaranteeing that i could produce as much produce as possible. when this eventually worked, i had produced way more than any of my family members could ever eat. I decided to donate all this produce i had to charity, eventually i donated over 200 pounds of fresh produce to families who needed it. I cannot wait to do this again this summer, and I'm sure i can produce even more!
Environmental Club
The environment has always been incredibly important to me. growing up in rural Wisconsin, it surrounded me always. When I entered high school and saw an environmental club, it drew my attention. I never ended up joining, due to time restraints. Those time restraints would be lifted during my junior year, and i joined. At first, everything was scary, the large crowds at events, networking with strangers, and even the actual electronics behind some of the solar projects, it was all daunting. Slowly, it all became more familiar to me, i slowly settled into this fast pace environment. The year following, the president position was opened up. I lunged at the opportunity to make some real change. Many of many changes were not on the actual end goal or current projects of our environmental club. instead, i fought to streamline it, make our work more impactful with less effort, have what we do go farther, reach more people. I removed most of the redundant burdens that often weigh down high school clubs and schools, and pushed forward focusing on being as streamlined as possible with what we were doing. Having experienced this position and pathway, it has opened my eyes in a way i don't believe would be possible without it, and for that i am truly grateful.
PASSION PROJECTS
Butterfingers
This project was born out of a simple question, "it can not be that hard to build" while watching pacific rim with my family, spoiler alert, it is. I started almost immediately, designing, drawing first drafts, and testing electronics. The first two months of this cycle were all failures. Over, and over again the device was either not strong enough. or not mobile enough. Hands are apparently incredibly dexterous and that dexterity is difficult to give any force to with the limited recourses i was able to salvage. Eventually, i was able to create a working version. The hand and arm were able to function, being both strong, yet dexterous, janky, yet functional. This project is certainly not finished quite yet, i still have the rest of the torso head and other arm to go, but its an incredible start on what my childhood self would have considered fiction.
Wind Turbine
This is one of my favorite projects I've ever done. You don't often get the chance to work with industrial machinery like this! I obtained the generator for this project from the my school district. The only reason I was able to take it, was because of its label as "broken". Hearing this, I had the idea for this project and ran with it. I had never delt with electronics, or electrical engineering on this level what so ever, so to say this was biting off more than i could chew is an understatement. After finishing some initial designs, the real construction began. Taking old barrels from a local soybean plant, i fashioned it into the base as well as the blades of the turbine. Seeing this beauty spin for the first time was truly magical in every sense of the word.
Plastic Bottle Recycler
With my position as president of the environmental club at the local high school, I was privy to see much of the uncomfortable workings behind the scenes. One of these uncomfortable truths, was the incredible amount of waste that my school produced especially the recyclable waste that would just get thrown in the trash regardless. The other was the abysmal funding to our stem lab and related programs. To combat both these issues at once, i decided that I would design a largely automatic device that would transform plastic bottles into useable 3d printer filament. it took many months of repetitive trial and error, many failed designs, and hours of research, but eventually, i made a first reliable prototype. Eventually, I donated this to the school so the students in the stem lab would be able to create their own filament, and create with out limitations.
