Community

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

My Community Involvement

• AWS Customer Council (Member 2020-)
• Springfield Tech Council (Founding Board Member, 2021-2023)
• Springfield Devs (Founding Board Member, Treasurer 2019-2020)
  • Springfield Amazon Web Services User Group (Group Founder/Chair 2018-2021) (code)
  • Springfield .NET User Group (Member)
  • Springfield Python User Group (Member, Speaker)
  • Springfield Data Science User Group (Member)
• Mid-America Technology Alliance (MATA)
  • Forward Springfield (FWD/SGF) Technology Calendar (Founder/Curator 2018-) (code)
  • Springfield Tech Group Leader Monthly Lunch Meetings (Group Founder/Chair 2016-)
  • Springfield Local Tech Directory Brochure (Curator 2017-2020)
  • MATA Website and MATA Weekly Newsletter (Creator/Curator 2019-2020)
  • Hack 4 Good – High School Programming Competition (Creator/Judge 2017-2019) (code)
  • Hack 4 Good – Software Hackathon (Co-Organizer 2018-2019)
• AITP of the Ozarks (Association of IT Professionals) (President 2016-17, Board 2014-19, Member 2013-2020)
  • Springfield Local Tech Calendar (Creator/Curator 2015-2017)
  • Springfield Local Tech Resources (Creator/Curator 2015-2017)
• Springfield Creatives (Member #200, Outreach Committee 2017-)
• Springfield Chamber of Commerce (Young Professionals Leadership Council 2017)
• Nixa Chamber of Commerce (XMIN Planning Committee 2016-2017)
• Springbike Bicycle Club (Board Member/Webmaster 2016-2019)
  • Launch New Website (2016)
  • Launch Online Membership (2018)
  • Launch Springfield Cycling Calendar (2019)

Online Resources

• National Do Not Call Registry

Privacy Checkup

• Clear Browser Data Occasionally – Browsers will store data indefinitely (years!) which uses space and could slow down browsing without much benefit.
• DNS – Learn More, OpenDNS, Cloudflare, Quad9
• Facebook Download My Information – Backup and review your personal data. You will likely be surprised by what you find! Download as HTML if you plan to browse. Download as JSON so you can potentially restore (or analyze) the data to future social media platforms or reporting tools.
• Google Takeout – Backup Google data and review data. Skip calendar, mail, photos, YouTube (exclude videos only) if you are a heavy user of these services and want to speed up the file generation process. You should still review backups from each of these services separately.
• Google MyAccount Activity Controls – Disable tracking by service
• Google MyActivity – View and delete search data
• Google Location History – View and delete location data
• Google Photos – View and delete photos
• Google Downgrade – Delete entire portions of your Google account (e.g. Google+, Google Pay, YouTube, etc)