Mile High Forge

Been a minute! But it's been a busy Spring! Finished up the project manager courses on Coursera and got two new fancy badges for my Linkedin profile. There are three courses to complete the full Project Management Cert. I completed the first 2 which centered on traditional waterfall methodologies, and the last one I need to complete is on Agile. Really it's been a great refresher of concepts I've been exposed to in the past but been able to ignore as the "doer" but as the "manager" now I have to...

Well hello again! It was a busy January to say the least. Journal updates were few and far between due to lack of time and brain energy. However, I still managed to complete two out of three courses for my Project Management certificate from CU Boulder's Coursera offerings. Project Planning and Initiation and Project Executing and Controlling were the two courses I found myself engorging my brain on Saturday afternoons. Really these courses are serving as great refreshers for knowledge I haven...

2026 The Year for Learning As part of 2026 goals I want to make learning a part of my life. I am sure at this point I burned myself out a year ago working on my master's in cybersecurity and simultaneously moving into a leadership role. So I've decided to try and spark my life long love of learning. I've tried with some success to use my limited knowledge of interacting with generative LLM models like Proton's Lumo, and Open Ai's ChatGPT to research some topics to focus my learning time on. No...

Hello World! I think this is probably the first "blog" post I've created in well over a decade. Between work, kids, family, and life writing for strangers hasn't been the highest priority. Life has also changed, I find more value in being offline these days than on. With the new year, I've decided to journal my insights and thoughts, if nothing else, out of my head and maybe someone else will find something new, something old, something that makes them ask questions. Happy New Year 2026!!! ...