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A computer information systems degree, three cloud certifications, and ten years of learning on production systems.
The degree taught me how systems work. Production taught me how they fail.
Formal education is the smaller part of what I know, and I would rather say so. Here is what the classroom gave me, what the certifications cover, and where the rest came from.
BBA, Computer Information Systems
A business degree with a technical core: programming, systems analysis, and information security. Four courses still show up in my work every week.
01
Database Management Systems
Every platform I build has a database at the bottom of it.
02
Network Security and Information Assurance
Where I learned to treat security as a design input.
03
Systems Analysis and Design
Understand the system before you change it.
04
Advanced Programming Techniques
Infrastructure is code, and code has to be readable.
Three of them, with what each one covers.
Designing resilient, cost-aware architectures on AWS. The one closest to my daily work.
Core AWS services and cloud concepts. Where the AWS path started.
Azure services, workloads, security, and pricing, so a design does not have to assume one cloud.
NoteThe part without a certificate
Ten years in regulated environments at Capital One, Mr. Cooper Group, and federal agencies, and now daily work alongside AI coding agents. I keep learning in public: what I figure out goes on the blog and into the tools on this site.
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