Timeline

My story so far, newest first.

  1. 2026

    1. OctStarted building this portfolio site with Astro, GSAP and Three.js.
    2. OctBegan a website redesign for a multi-location medical clinic as a contract web developer.
    3. AugStarted as a contract full-stack engineer on a national credentialing platform.
    4. AprJoined The Home Depot as a part-time merchandise associate.

  2. 2025

    1. Aug – DecWorked as a Computer Science Teaching Assistant for CSCI 480 (Principles of Operating Systems) at Northern Illinois University, while a PhD student there.
    2. MayGraduated from Illinois State University with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics.
    3. SpringBuilt a parallel version of Dijkstra’s algorithm with MPI and OpenMP (IT 388).
    4. Jan – MayRebuilt the UPFD fake-news detection model with MLflow and Optuna (IT 299 Independent Honors Study).

  3. 2024

    1. DecLearned Go and built a command-line math game.
    2. MarWorked on the NPC Reduction group project (IT 328).

  4. 2023

    1. May – JulMade a game for the ISU Summer Jam.
    2. AprBuilt a simplicial complex graphing tool in Python.
    3. Jan – MayTrained a reinforcement learning spider agent in Unity (MAT 268) and presented it at the ISU Research Symposium.

  5. 2022

    1. DecStarted work on a real-time strategy base-building game.
    2. Jun – AugWorked as an accounting intern at ML Group Design + Development.
    3. JunEarned the Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer certification.
    4. MayStarted the Stored Momentum 2D platformer template.

  6. 2021

    1. FallWorked on Thylla and The Old Gods, the ISU Game Development Club’s semester challenge project.
    2. AugStarted at Illinois State University, and entered Brackeys Game Jam 2021.2 with The World Tends Toward Chaos.
    3. MayCompleted Django Features and Libraries and Introduction to Quantum Computing.
    4. AprPublished the three-part “Representing Quantum Circuits” blog series, built a double pendulum simulation, and completed Python for Data Science, AI & Development.
    5. FebCompleted the Mathematics for Machine Learning specialization.

  7. 2020

    1. DecCompleted Tools for Data Science, Building Web Applications in Django and Graphic Design.
    2. NovCompleted Business Writing.
    3. OctStarted my blog, Schedule, Learn, Program.
    4. SummerBuilt a chess game in Python and Pygame.
    5. Graduated from Glenbrook South High School.

  8. 2016 – 2020 · High school

    1. ~2019Started a 2D fighting game, a top-down open-world game and a flight simulator in Unity.
    2. 2018Built my first Unity project, a mod of Shadow Bots, in a game design class.