M4 Portfolio

** Achievements
  My greatest achievement this module was finally tackling and correctly diagnosing the problems with my React Native app. I feel like I learned so much from the entire process, and I now feel comfortable approaching completely foreign technologies. Diagnosing these errors gave me a chance to re-evaluate the methods I use to attack problems, especially when those problems are poorly documented or obscure. My other achievements include giving a lightning talk on Amazon Web Services, learning JavaScript and React, and successfully connecting myself and others with fellow aspiring pythonistas. When problems were presented, I consistently tackled the more difficult ones, and I am not afraid to pave the way for others by researching and trying new ideas.
  
** New Interests
  I discovered this inning that I was actually very happy working with front end frameworks, and wouldn't mind taking a job described as Front-End or Full Stack. As well, there seems to be a lot of new ground to be covered in the realm of mobile development, and certain technologies that would do well with a greater motocom of accessibility. Seeing as mobile development is one step closer to working with integrated systems, which would be a field I would be happy to work in, I would certainly go after jobs in this field.
  
** Lessons
  Turing has completely changed my perspective on reality and fundementally augmented the way I attack problems of any nature. While it is hard to isolate any one skill that I have developed, I would describe my transformation as 'learning to embody your work'. To elaborate, I feel as though I was never truly able to adequately represent a project, and idea that needed to be shared, or an entity other than myself. Turing has taught me how to be that representative, that source of truth, trustworthy, communicable, and reliable.
  
 ** 30 Day Action Plan
 
 - Link to Schedule: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=530cjmlmaltk23tl2hhukqobhg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FDenver
 
 - Goal to sign an offer: April 4th
 
 - Major Milestones:
    - Daily: at least 4 hours are spent actively searching for jobs, gaining intel, or networking
      + 2 hours looking at postings
      + 2 hours putting in AM email queue
    - March 3rd: Biome mapper open source contributions are complete, it's an awesome codebase
    - March 5th: All BattleBuddy features operational and tested
    - March 7th: List of jobs and action plan compiled for job prospects in San Diego, some emails sent
    - March 8th: Simple ActiveMailer applicatioon built to send emails in the morning
    - March 16th: Mobile app "Ping Timer" is built for Lisa Tansey (mentor), deployed to app store
    - March 16th: Team is gathered for Greenhouse AI
    - March 23rd: BattleBuddy is deployed live to IOS and Android
    - April 5th: DataFiend V3 is operational and profitable (greater than e^x continuous interest rate)
    - Aprils 5th: Job is secured

- Areas of research and development:
  - Practice using mobile applications
  - Practice Python, data science libraries, and Tensorflow
  - Research intricacies of building Greenhouse Management AI with team
  - Buld another site with wonderful, friendly, forgiving Rails
  - Hopefully get a chance to put some crunchy algorithms into practice
  
- Events:
  - Make The Connection Networking Workshop: March 5th
  - Downtown SD Networking Mix+Mingle: March 14th
  - Galvanize Statistics 2-night Short-Course for Data Science: March 19th-20th
  - Let's Talk Python!: March 21st

- Interview Prep:
  - Algorithms: Big red book on alorithms bought and halfway completed (very crunchy)
  - Interview questions: Big green book on coding interview questions
  
- People to check in with:
  - Jeff Casimir office hours
  - Whoever else around campus is available to be annoyed by my interview questions
  - My mentor Lisa
  
- Barriers
  - Keeping focus on the job hunt
    + Solution: keep to the hourly minimum per day and the schedule put in place
  - Keeping sane and not dying
    + Solution: excercising and eating well