Hello, my name is James Popiolek

I am currently working full time as a business analyst at Vizient Inc, and taking this course to pursue a web development certificate at Collin. Prior to this course, I did my undergrad at TCU in information systems and had some baseline exposure to Python, R, and SQL. Mainly I want to use this course to expand my skills and become more effective at my current job, while also evaluating whether a move to a position as a developer would be of interest for me.

Hobbies: I am a big musician, primarily a guitar player. I've dabbled in working on cars as well.

Favorite Website: Google and Stack Overflow, these saved me many times when doing assignments in undergrad

Favorite Movie: Gladiator with Russell Crowe or Inception

Favorite Tech: I'm really excited and curious to see where OpenAI and the other AI developments recently will take us

Favorite Destination: I would go back to Madrid, where I've been fortunate to spend a semester studying in the past