Lately, I have been researching data analysis tools and techniques. I got light exposure to SQL in college by querying databases in some of my project apps. After my latest MERN stack project that used a non-relational database (NoSQL), I wanted to double back to SQL and get some more indepth experiece with it beyond my schooling. I have been exploring and cleaning datasets from sources like Kaggle with MySQL, then importing them into Microsoft Power BI to create hypothetical project dash boards. To determine what kind of questions I want to answer in these projects, I think of hypothetical business situations to build questions from, and I have also been having ChatGPT play the role of share holders to give me objectives as well. You can find a link to my published projects below, along with documentation of what datasets I'm using, how I cleaned them, and what questions I was seeking to answer and why I chose those questions.

 My first coding project since becoming employed as a Healthcare Simulation Technician was Chaotic Events. It is a web app designed for TTRPG players of any system (Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, GERPS, etc.) to create and share interactable random event tables for their games. It is a MERN stack application employing MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js to deliver a fun interface and social experience to users. Its biggest feature is allowing users to share, rate, save, and use event tables without the need of dice. I wanted to make it as an example of a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) application and as a way to get back in to coding and learn a new tech stack. It has lots of fun features beyond simple CRUD functions, and I hope it can serve as a place for people to be expressive and find help for a hobby that I really love. I had a lot of fun designing it, trying to strictly use HTML and CSS with no outsise UI and make it remeniscent of the early days of the internet filled with more colors than just blue, gray, and white. It is truely a passion project for me, and links to its home page and source code can be found below.

 Currently, I am employed at Radford University as a Healthcare Simulation Technician. At Radford, we provide a CLinical Simulation experience so realistic, that hours spent in our sim lab are treated as double when qualifying for clinical hours required on a degree. As a Simulation Technician, my duties have helped me grow a highly specialized talent set of IT, AV, room staging, nursing knowledge, operations, student data analysis, and so much more. the most important skill set this role has developed in me is the proper management, maintenence, troubleshooting, installation, and allotment of our incredibly specialized real and simulated nursing equipment ranging from simple IV pumps to full body patient simulators that can do everything a human can short of getting up and walking around. The role is very technology centric, requiring the direct management of fifteen and counting patient simulators of various makes and models, a small hospitals worth of medical equipment, roughly fifty computers and laptops, and an entire AV system. Alongside these technical skills, I have also developed a knack for moulage (medical makeup) and inventing low budget yet fully functional task trainers for our students to use. These task trainers include an ultrasound capable model of a knee that can allow students to practice joint injections and a wearble belly which is compatible with a real bladder scanner, all hand made with all the functionality of professional equipment for a fraction of the cost. Perhaps my favorite accomplishment in this position so far was attending the yearly VASSA conference and presenting "Tech Troubles Unlocked: Escape Room Challenge for Sim Facilitators" with our center's Simulation Operations Specialist, Rick Ballard, and Director Christina Keller. It was a highly interactive presentation that taught non-technical attendees the basics of troubleshooting, then invited them to participate in an escape room like challenge to really make the lesson stick! The slides can be found below, along with a handy reference that dives deeper into what a Simulation Technician's skills are, provided by the The Gathering of Healthcare Simulation Technology Specialists (SimGHOSTS).