Courses Completed

As an independent, vendor-neutral IT consultant serving businesses across Gunma, Saitama, and remotely throughout Japan, I believe staying current isn't optional — it's the foundation of trustworthy advice. Because I don't hold vendor certifications that could tilt my recommendations toward specific products, I invest instead in continuous, platform-agnostic learning across cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, data science, and AI. Below is a running record of the courses I've completed over the years, organized by skill area — reflecting the breadth of knowledge behind every cost-optimization strategy and open-source solution I recommend to clients.

Cybersecurity

• Quantum Cryptography and the Future of Cybersecurity — Jonathan Reichental (completed 2/17/2021)
• AI Accountability Essential Training (2019) — Barton Poulson (completed 12/2/2020)
• Ethical Hacking: Hacking IoT Devices (2019) — Luciano Ferrari (completed 8/13/2019)
• Tor and the Dark Web: Exploring the Basics (2019) — Mike Chapple (completed 6/4/2019)
• Protecting Your Network with Open-Source Software (2015) — Jungwoo Ryoo (completed 7/7/2018)

AI & Machine Learning

• Next Generation AI: An Intro to GPT-3 — Jonathan Reichental (completed 1/26/2023)
• Introduction to Quantum Computing — Jonathan Reichental (completed 2/11/2021)
• Apache Spark Deep Learning Essential Training — Jonathan Fernandes (completed 7/2/2019)
• Introduction to Machine Learning with KNIME — Keith McCormick (completed 6/7/2019)
• Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning (2018) — Doug Rose (completed 6/8/2018)

Data Science & Statistics

• Become a Data Scientist (completed 1/25/2020)
• Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals (2019) — Barton Poulson (completed 1/25/2020)
• Data Visualization: Storytelling (2016) — Bill Shander (completed 1/20/2020)
• Excel 2016: Managing and Analyzing Data — Dennis Taylor (completed 1/19/2020)
• Data Science Foundations: Data Mining — Barton Poulson (completed 1/16/2020)
• Statistics Foundations: 1 — Eddie Davila (completed 9/18/2019)
• Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals (2016) — Barton Poulson (completed 7/22/2019)
• Data Science & Analytics Career Paths & Certifications: First Steps — Jungwoo Ryoo (completed 7/2/2019)
• Bracketology Club: Using March Madness to Learn Data Science — Brian Tonsoni (completed 7/2/2019)
• Julia for Data Scientists First Look — Barton Poulson (completed 9/6/2018)

Cloud & DevOps

• Learning Kubernetes (2018) — Karthik Gaekwad (completed 10/21/2019)
• Learning Cloud Computing: Serverless Computing (2018) — David Linthicum (completed 6/12/2019)
• DevOps Foundations: Going Cloud Native — Karthik Gaekwad (completed 5/30/2019)
• Firecracker First Look — Arun Gupta (completed 3/30/2019)
• Learning Jenkins (2018) — Michael Jenkins (completed 11/20/2018)
• Docker Essential Training: 4 Storage and Volumes — David Davis (completed 8/14/2018)
• AWS CloudFormation for Beginners — Aater Suleman (completed 8/8/2018)
• Docker Essential Training: 2 Orchestration — David Davis (completed 6/23/2018)
• DevOps Foundations: DevSecOps (2018) — Tim Chase (completed 2/25/2018)
• Learning Amazon Lightsail — Sharif Nijim (completed 2/24/2018)
• Cloud Architecture: Advanced Concepts (2017) — David Linthicum (completed 10/30/2017)
• Learning Cloud Computing: Serverless Computing (2017) — David Linthicum (completed 10/26/2017)
• Learning Cloud Data Storage — Joseph Lowery (completed 10/25/2017)
• DevOps Foundations: Containers (2017) — David Linthicum (completed 10/4/2017)
• Learning Cloud Computing: The Cloud and DevOps (2016) — David Linthicum (completed 9/25/2017)
• DevOps Foundations: Infrastructure as Code (2017) — Ernest Mueller (completed 9/6/2017)
• Learning Ansible (2017) — Jesse Keating (completed 7/17/2017)
• Google Cloud Platform Essential Training (2017) — Lynn Langit (completed 7/11/2017)

Networking & Systems Administration

• Learning IP Addressing — Kevin Wallace (completed 9/7/2019)
• IT Service Desk: Monitoring and Metrics Fundamentals — Brett Moffett (completed 8/30/2019)
• Windows Autopilot Essential Training — Andrew Bettany (completed 3/31/2019)
• CCNP Routing (300-101) Cert Prep: Router and Routing Security — Greg Sowell (completed 11/16/2018)
• Learning Cisco CLI Switch Configuration — Denise Allen-Hoyt (completed 11/13/2018)
• Learning Ubuntu Server — Scott Simpson (completed 11/5/2018)
• Learning Nagios — Josh Samuelson (completed 10/3/2018)
• Linux System Engineer: Networking and SSH — Grant McWilliams (completed 8/24/2018)
• Linux Foundation Cert Prep: Remote Access (Ubuntu) — Scott Simpson (completed 7/10/2018)
• Ubuntu Linux: Network Administration — Scott Simpson (completed 4/7/2018)
• Learning IPv6 (2014) — Mark Jacob (completed 2/13/2018)

Web Development

• No-Code Planning Principles for the Web — Jen Kramer (completed 2/24/2023)
• Learning Vue.js — Michael Sullivan (completed 4/18/2022)
• Django Essential Training (2021) — Leticia Portella (completed 4/12/2022)
• Learning Static Site Building with Hugo — Nate Barbettini (completed 12/19/2018)
• Learning MongoDB (2017) — Kirsten Hunter (completed 12/15/2017)
• Learning Git and GitHub (2015) — Ray Villalobos (completed 9/3/2017)
• MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications — Drew Falkman (completed 7/4/2017)

Marketing & SEO

• Content Creation: Strategy and Tools (2022) — Joanna Yung (completed 3/5/2023)
• Understanding Social Media Algorithms for Creators — Sam Dey (completed 1/24/2023)
• SEO: Link Building in Depth (2017) — Peter Kent (completed 10/16/2017)

Project Management & Agile

• Learning Bubble — Jen Kramer (completed 2/22/2023)
• Stay Lean with Kanban — Doug Rose (completed 3/6/2020)
• A3 Problem Solving for Continuous Improvement — Sam Yankelevitch (completed 8/27/2019)
• Agile Development Practices — Harrison Ferrone (completed 1/22/2018)
• Scrum: The Basics — Kelley O'Connell (completed 1/13/2018)

Business, Management & Soft Skills

• Leading Virtual Meetings — Kevin Eikenberry (completed 3/5/2020)
• Freelancing Foundations — Jay Clouse (completed 1/23/2020)
• Get Unstuck: Make a Plan to Move Your Career Forward — Emilie Aries (completed 12/19/2019)
• Designing a Presentation (2019) — Tony Harmer (completed 6/18/2019)
• Be a Better Manager by Motivating Your Team — Big Think (completed 5/29/2019)
• Managing Teams (2018) — Daisy Lovelace (completed 1/1/2019)
• Building Professional Relationships — Skyler Logsdon (completed 12/31/2018)
• Learning Personal Branding — Chelsea Krost (completed 12/18/2018)
• Learning Brainstorming — Stefan Mumaw (completed 12/6/2018)
• Communicating Across Cultures (2018) — Tatiana Kolovou (completed 11/5/2018)
• Managing Employee Performance Problems (2018) — JoAnn R. Corley (completed 10/30/2018)
• Finding a Remote Job (2016) — Mike Gutman (completed 9/10/2018)
• Foundations of Corporate Training — Ajay Pangarkar (completed 9/5/2018)
• CV Success Master Class — Careercake (completed 7/28/2018)

Other / Specialized

• Learning Data Governance (2016) — Jonathan Reichental (completed 11/13/2019)
• Electrical Systems: Panel Boards, Frequency Drives, and Transformers — Christopher Randall (completed 6/19/2019)
• Tech Sense — Morten Rand-Hendriksen (completed 6/10/2019)
• Learning Salesforce CPQ — Christine Volden (completed 12/31/2018)

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