Immediately after graduating from my high school, my college academics followed with two years at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

In the spring of 2015, I transfered to the University of Southern Mississippi and switched my major to Computer Science where I graduated with a 3.0 GPA average in the spring of 2019. Here, I learned various programming langauges and technologies and had many great instructors. I enjoyed all my coursework of which were Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming, Intro to Artificial Intelligence, Database Management Systems, Operating Systems, Theory of Programming Languages and Algorithms, Software Engineering I and Software Engineering II.

In the summer of 2018, while still at USM, I had the unique opprotunity to do a three month internship at NASA John C. Stennis Space Center, Mississippi as per a recommendation by one of my instructors. The internship project specifically dealt with helping the National Data Buoy Center and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration main operation for gathering weather data for the public use. Here, I gained my first real world software development experience and what it would be like to work in the software development industry.

For my project, I created a database back end using MariaDB and testing it using the Eclipse IDE for the Java Programming language. In addition, I also created supporting charts and graphs of bouy coordinates using MATLAB. In my last week, I gave a presentation in front of the NDBC staff where I demonstrated some of the database functionalities along with all supporting front end test code and any other graphs or charts which I had produced.

In November of 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I managed to secure a fully remote (and then hybrid) full time software development position in Metairie, Louisiana, with a federal government contracting company based in Juneau, Alaska called Goldbelt Inc. While employed with Goldbelt (and its subsidiary - Goldbelt Nighthawk), I worked on a personell management software called My Navy Assignment- as part of a continuing contract for the United States Navy.