As a life learning, I feel the only way to stay relevant in this industry is to keep on learning from everyone around you. With that spirit I also believe in the importance of structured training for developing new skills. I've not stopped learning over the course of my career, it's not a trait or a skill, it's a habbit.
~ Kyle Samson, Senior Software Engineer
February 2012 - April 2012
Received a Statement of Accomplishment for completing a Coursera course from UC Berkeley, Software Engineering for SaaS. Curriculum included the fundamentals of Software as a Service, scaling and performance, Ruby, and Rails.
January 2015 - December 2015
Received a Verified Certificate for completing a Coursera course from Johns Hopkins University in Data Science. Curriculum included the fundamentals of Data Science, R Programming, Cleaning Data, Exploratory Data Analysis, Reproduction, Statistical Inference, Regression Models, Machine Learning, Data Product Development. Certificate can be viewed at https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/specialization/HWFFV3AB9ULK.
July 2017
Code and Mortar afforded me the opportunity for a one month sabbatical. During this time I developed skills in Unity game development and C#. The bulk of my learning was derrived from Udemy courses. During my sabbatical I completed one Udemy course as well as publishing a vlog series chronicling my journey. My course certificate can be viewed on Udemy and the vlog series is available on YouTube.
September 2019 - October 2019
Received a Certificate for completing a Udemy course in Java Spring & Hibernate. Curriculum included introductions to Java Spring, Java Spring Boot, and Hibernate. Certificate can be viewed on Udemy.