Hi, I'm Alex

I turn data into information

I’m a multi-role data professional. I work with data to find actionable insights and solve real-world problems. This site showcases a few of my projects and background, along with a blog I use as a repository for background materials, lessons learned, and project progress. This progress includes problem definition, data collection, modeling, and deployment. Other topics include the future of work, the synthesis of art and technology, and data-related concepts.

Hey, thank you for visiting. I know we all have other things competing for our attention, so I appreciate your time. I hope you find the site both interesting and useful. I’d love to hear your thoughts and, if you have a cool project, see how we can work together. If that cool project might require a CV on my end, the ‘reach out’ button at the bottom is the best way.

Projects

Earthquakes
Notebook Folium Streamlit
Earthquakes
An end-to-end project which utilizes USGS earthquake data. Data is pipelined to format, process, and save daily and aggregated Parquet files for speed and efficiency. The info icon below gives an expanded but concise description and graphic.
Demo
International Maritime Piracy
Database ETL Pipeline
International Maritime Piracy
The US's National-Geospatial Intelligence Agency's Anti-Shipping Messages database. Code at GitHub, thought process in blog; updates at Kaggle.
Diamonds
Dataset Notebook
Diamonds
The largest dataset of diamond prices on Kaggle! Additional notebook of EDA accompanies the dataset.
Jedi Advisor
Twitter API
Jedi Advisor
Timeless advice gleaned from a war a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Sunspots
Notebook Python Timeseries
Sunspots
EDA of two centuries of daily sunspot observances.
Heartbeat
ML Pipeline PyTorch
Heartbeat
Intermittently working on edge computing automated identification of regular/irregular heartbeats using audio.

Achievements

Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Valid to Jun 16, 2025
Azure AI Engineer
Valid to Dec 25, 2025
Azure Data Scientist
Valid to Feb 9, 2025
Technical Editor for Effective XGBoost by Matt Harrison
March 2023
Tech to Protect Hackathon
Best in Class for Triage (Contest 10)
2nd place Galvanize/Tech Stars Hackathon
Prototyped an app paring Denver breweries & mobile food trucks using Yelp API.

Education

Galvanize Data Science Intensive program
Galvanize - Denver, Colorado

Details:

  • A three month intensive program with weekly projects as well as three individual capstone projects.
  • Topics include Python, relational and non-relational databases, Spark, regression and clustering algorithms, neural networks, and natural language processing.
BS Cognitive Science / BA Philosophy
University of Virginia

Notable achievements:

  • Researched and reverse engineered Buckminster Fuller’s “fog gun”.
  • Teaching assist for stage combat class; mastering both right and left handed choreography for both attacks and defenders.
  • Privileged to take Cora Diamond’s Ph.D.-level class on Wittgenstein.
  • Member of the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union.

Get in Touch

Whether you have feedback or just want to say hello, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Reach out