Mark Richards

"Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam"

I will find a way or make one

This is intended to be a place for me to document my cloud journey. Ever since I was young I have loved technology and I have gone from building computers to designing my own circuit boards. In college I took a detour from technology and got a B.S. in Business Administration specializing in Economics. I have spent the last few years working as a data analyst learning about statistics, programming, and data engineering. Follow along with me as I take the next steps to build models and services in the cloud.

For a detailed list of my work experience see my Linkedin Linkedin

Certifications

Azure Adminstrator
(AZ-104)

Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement, manage, and monitor an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment. It requires a deep understanding of implementing, managing, and monitoring identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in the Azure cloud environment.

Azure Artificial Intelligence Engineer
(AI-102)

Azure AI Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge required to build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework.

AWS Solutions Architect Associate
(SAA-C02)

Solutions Architects have a comprehensive understanding of Amazon Web Service (AWS) technologies. They demonstrate the ability to build secure and robust solutions using well-architectural design principles and create distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, efficient, and fault-tolerant.

AWS Certified Developer Associate
(DVA-C01)

Developers have a comprehensive understanding of application life-cycle management. They demonstrate proficiency in writing applications with Amazon Web Service (AWS) APIs, CLIs, SDKs, using containers, and deploying with a CI/CD pipeline.

CompTIA Security+
(SY0-701)

Security+ professionals know how to identify and address potential threats, attacks and vulnerabilities and they have demonstrated knowledge of techniques for risk management, risk mitigation, threat management, and intrusion detection.

Project Managment Professional
(PMP)

Project Managment Professionals have knowledge and mastery of project management concepts, tasks, and techniques that are applicable across virtually any industry and methodology. They are able to speak and understand the global language of project management and have the skills needed to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control, and close a project.

Professional Scrum Master I
(PSM I)

Professional Scrum Masters have demonstrated a fundamental level of Scrum mastery, including the concepts of applying Scrum, and proven an understanding of Scrum as described in the Scrum Guide. As well as demonstrating a consistent use of terminology and approach to Scrum.