Fun Facts

I’m a software engineer by trade, but I moonlight as a bedroom musician. I’ve amassed quite a collection of eclectic musical instruments, the two most recent being an udu and a didgeridoo. I enjoy sharing this interest with people and have been known to give ad hoc lessons to those who are interested.

As far as interests go, it would be faster to write out a list of things I’m not interested in, as that list is much smaller. In addition to musician, I’m also an armchair neuroscientist, linguist

About Me

I’m a dabbler with endless curiosity and many diverse interests. As such, I like to get my hands on anything and everything I can and gain as many experiences as possible. I’ve worked towards several different academic majors, including software engineering, hardware engineering, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science before ultimately settling on science/oregon/portland">computer science. I’ve also supplemented this academic work with industry experience, working as a technical intern for various teams at Intel from my sophomore year in high school until my college graduation in December, 2012. I now work as a full-time software engineer at Rentrak Corporation.

I was the lead software developer for my college senior capstone project. Being the only member of the team with any software development experience relevant to our particular project, my primary responsibility was to educate the other five team members and teach them the skills necessary to successfully complete the project. Additionally, two years ago, I joined Canby High School’s track and field team as an assistant coach. I coached varsity and junior varsity athletes in high jump, long jump, and triple jump--the three events that I competed in back in my student years at Canby High.

First and foremost, I try to discover and understand the student’s learning style. Some students freeze up at the sight of a long paragraph description but grasp a concept quickly with a visual aid, while others need to try to explain a concept in their own words in order for it to click. Additionally, I aim to explain a single concept in multiple ways. This could mean combining several learning styles, or even just reframing a concept within a single learning style (by explaining with different verbiage or drawing different types of diagrams, for example). Overall, I don’t have a static teaching style; my teaching style is whatever best fits the student’s learning style.