Now

Below is a little bit of what I’m working on and doing now, updated every once in a while.

Professionally

After spending the prior five years modeling renewables, energy pricing, and energy efficiency programs, I’ve joined the Enterprise Analytics & AI team at the Tennessee Valley Authority. My team focuses implementation of and education around… well… analytics & AI for the enterprise. We take on cutting-edge proofs of concept and enable our citizen data scientists to do the same. Right now, we’re focusing heavily on generative AI, so I’ve been improving our enterprise CMS search using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and supporting our rollout of Microsoft Copilot. I also develop R Shiny apps that facilitate statistical testing of our groundwater and geochemical monitoring programs and support the near-term forecasting models within our AMI meter data sharing program.

Academically

This summer, I completed my 8th semester (of ten) in my Master’s of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. I’m now waiting to receive my final grade from semester 9 and am very eager to knock out these last few classes. I’ve been taking Graduate Algorithms, which is infamous in the program. I was glad to be able to leverage my experience in prior algorithms classes. It’s a nice change of pace to be studying a core computer science competency after spending the summer on classes that overlap more with my specific work at TVA. I appreciate the variety.

Personally

I’m looking forward to the rest of the 2025 movie release slate and am passing the 150-film mark in my Letterboxd diary for the year. I really enjoyed Weapons in theaters and had the amazing experience of watching Stand By Me in the last showing of the Toronto Outdoor Picture Show for the year. Recently, I watched Train Dreams, which has been my favorite movie of the year so far.

I’m wrapping up my yearly theme, the Year of Holding Things Loosely, and thinking about what I might take on in the new year. Holding Things Loosely has been an exercise in opening myself up to the life happening around me, letting go of a little control over things I can’t actually control, and letting life wash over me. While that’s been a productive exercise and definitely helped guide me through some challenges specific to this year, I would like next year’s theme to help set me up for the future.

Oh, and I’m updating this the week before the final round of the 2025 F1 season. Let’s go, Lando. I hope that doesn’t age poorly.