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Education & Continuous Learning

Built on academics.
Shaped by curiosity.

A career built on formal education, professional certifications, and years of self-driven technical learning. From a business degree in Montana to applied AI engineering today, I've never stopped expanding what I know and what I can build.

Formal Education Certifications Self-Taught Technology AI & Emerging Tech

Where I'm Growing Now

Current Learning Tracks

I actively invest in staying current with emerging technologies and applied AI systems. These are the disciplines I'm exploring, building with, and integrating into real-world solutions right now.

AI Engineering

Building production AI systems — from API integration and model orchestration to tool-use architectures and evaluation frameworks.

Agentic Solutions

Designing autonomous agent systems that reason, use tools, manage memory, and execute multi-step workflows with minimal human intervention.

Prompt Engineering

Crafting structured prompts, system instructions, and context architectures that drive reliable, high-quality output from large language models.

Generative AI

Applied generative AI across text, code, and content — using foundation models to accelerate creative and technical workflows.

Natural Language Processing

Understanding how models process, interpret, and generate human language — from tokenization and embeddings to semantic search and retrieval.

Machine Learning

Core ML concepts, model training principles, and practical application of classification, regression, and recommendation systems.

Academic Foundation

Formal Education

The academic groundwork that shaped how I think about business, technology, and marketing — and the professional development that sharpened it.

2006

University of Montana

Missoula, Montana

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration

Marketing Management Information Systems

Undergraduate degree with complementary emphases across business strategy, marketing, and technology — a combination that defined the cross-functional trajectory of my career.

2009

University of California, Irvine

Division of Continuing Education

Internet Marketing Certificate

Professional certificate focused on digital marketing strategy, analytics, and online campaign management during the early growth era of search and social.

2001

Benilde-St. Margaret's

St. Louis Park, Minnesota

High School Diploma

Professional Credentials

Certifications

Industry certifications that validate depth across analytics, marketing automation, paid media, and technical foundations.

Analytics & Paid Media

Google Analytics

Google Skillshop

Google Ads

Google Skillshop

Marketing Automation & Platforms

Pardot

Salesforce

Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe

Marketo

Adobe

Technical & Professional Development

Computer Science

HarvardX

Certified Marketer

General Assembly

Independent Learning

Self-Taught Technology

Beyond formal education and certifications, I've spent years teaching myself the technologies that shaped my career. This is the hands-on knowledge developed through real work, independent exploration, and a relentless drive to understand how things are built.

Web Development

Building websites and applications from scratch — from semantic markup and responsive layouts to dynamic server-side logic and modern JavaScript.

HTML CSS JavaScript PHP

Email Development

Hand-coded HTML email templates, responsive email design, cross-client rendering, and deliverability optimization across ESP platforms.

HTML Email

Analytics & Paid Media

Measurement strategy, conversion tracking, attribution modeling, campaign optimization, and turning data into decisions across paid channels.

Analytics Paid Media SEO

Creative & Production

Visual design, photo editing, motion graphics, and video production — from concept through final delivery using professional creative tools.

Photoshop Illustrator Premiere Final Cut

Systems & Integration

Connecting platforms, automating workflows, and building data pipelines between systems through APIs, webhooks, and integration middleware.

API Integration Git

Product & Process

Agile workflows, sprint planning, cross-functional collaboration, and product thinking applied to marketing technology and operations.

Agile Product Management

Education never stops.

My career has never been defined by a single degree or credential. It's been shaped by continuous learning — across digital marketing, web development, creative tools, enterprise platforms, and now AI systems. Every role I've held has expanded what I know. Every technology I've picked up was driven by a problem I wanted to solve.

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