Summary Professional Experience Education Projects
Utah State University
2002 - 2005 Associate in Science

Ultimately, my story in short is this: I grew up in a small town on a farm, which instilled into me a certain work ethic that has pervaded my efforts throughout my life. This spilled over into my educational endeavors in my youth as while I was still in high school I swapped many high school classes for college courses at the Utah State University - Uintah Basin Extension in my local area. In addition to this, I also took additional college courses in the evenings and over the summer over the course of my high school years, with the net effect of me earning an Associate's Degree in General Sciences by the time I graduatedfrom high school.

During this time I took an interest in working with computers and took various computer and programming courses through my high school, the USU - Uintah Basin Extension, and the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College (now the Uintah Basin Technical College), giving me my first taste in the industry that I would come to call my own.

Brigham Young University
2008 - 2013 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

When I went off to college at Brigham Young University in 2008 I chose to major in Computer Science, and in 2013 I graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. Over the years I ingrained the fundamentals through classes such as Data Structures, Algorithm Analysis, and Software Design & Testing, and I opened my mind to the possibilities through classes ranging from Internet Programming and Software Business to Intro to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning & Data Mining.

Books
Ongoing

I am a firm believer that education should be an ongoing and never ending pursuit, not something that ends with the receiving of a degree. While there are many ways in which to pursue this ongoing education, I have always found books to be one of the most potent. As such I've made it an important point over the years to read several books in the fields of software development and business. The following list (by no means comprehensive and in no particular order) includes a few of the books that I've read over the years.

  • The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
  • Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
  • The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll
  • Code Complete by Steve McConnell
  • Building Microservices by Sam Newman
  • Learning RxJava by Thomas Nield
  • Kotlin in Action by Dmitry Jemerov and Svetlana Isakova
  • Deep Learning with Python by Francois Chollet
  • Microservices Security in Action by Prabath Siriwardena and Nuwan Dias
  • Soft Skills by John Sonmez
  • The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide by John Sonmez
  • Effective Python by Brett Slatkin
  • The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
  • Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans
  • Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim
  • The Phoenix Project by Kevin Behr, George Spafford, and Gene Kim
  • The Goal by Eli Goldratt
  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • The Leader's Guide by Eric Ries
  • Rework by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
  • Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
  • Start with Why by Simon Sinek
  • Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
  • The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
  • Unscripted by MJ DeMarco
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
  • The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
  • Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
  • How to Win at the Sport of Business by Mark Cuban
  • The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason
  • The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko
  • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
  • The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
  • The Power of Broke by Daymond John
  • Rise and Grind by Daymond John
  • The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
  • The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
  • Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull
  • Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell