Last Update: October 2024. Next planned update by June 2026.
This website is a beta-version and subject to change. As of May 2026, information on Work History is out of date, amongst others. Will be updated soon.
This is the static version of this site. To view dynamic pages, go to the GitHub repository linked in Projects, and view the source code under the branch "main".
Brief Introduction
Welcome to my website! My name's Christian, but you can call me Chris (and sometimes I go by Jace) for short! I'm a Spring 2024 graduate with a Bachelors in Computer Science, and I currently work at a university as a mesonet technican!
With this site, I'm hoping to prove I didn't just skate by and pass classes to get the degree, as well as provide information about what I'm interested in and capable of. You'll find a lot of information about my skills, my experience and some random information about the weather (or IS it random?). Please feel free to click through everything, as I hope this will be a showcase of skills and capabiities!
Brief Background
I currently work as a mesonet field tech, but I'm hoping to begin my Master's in the fall of 2027. My undergraduate degree is Computer Science, but the Master's is planned to be an atmospheric sciences degree, hopefully with a thesis. And also, while we're on the subject...if you're thinking that the only atmosphere I'm interested in is Earth's, well...the degree I hope to begin I'm hoping will encompass more than just Earth's. Turns out, the love of the sky isn't limited to our own planets.
I don't have any formal education (yet) in the field, but I do have some experience now working with the mesonet, as well as what I've studied in my free time, and I'm clearly somewhat of a hobbyist. If you're curious about what I've done on my own, you should check out that weather page!
During my undergrad, I worked primarily with Java. I'm the most comfortable with that language overall and most of my projects, personal or school, have been in Java. I did work with PHP as part of a position while I was in my undergrad classes, and I'm currently working on an internal project that uses it for my workplace. I have worked in C++ for a couple of projects, though I'd need to become much more familar with it for it to be a primary language to work with. I don't know if you've notice a trend, but I like lanaguages that are more structured, and need that instead of say, Python. I have used Python occasionally while I was part of a cybersecurity club at my college, but if given a choice, I prefer other languages. Phython tends to be a language I'm not a big fan of due to the less-structured nature of it, to some extent. However, due to how useful it is, I am willing and do plan to get much more familar with it regardless.
I plan to put some of my past personal and school projects on my projects page for download, as well as examples of code I've written as part of them. Feel free to play around with them, and see how their code is written. I hope it will give a good idea of what I'm able to do, programming wise, and my typical style of work.
So..what's up with the tab about the weather?
You might have started forming a picture of why that's there already, but if not, I'll go ahead and explain. The long story short is that I realized about halfway into my undergrad degree that the sky is where I wanted to spend the rest of my career, metaphorically speaking. It was a little too far into the degree to completely change the major, given it would add at least two years additional onto the length and that wasn't realistic at the time, so I opted to finsish out the major I was still interested in, and return for a second degree after, preferrably having obtained a job that would help support that, which I did. I've been working with UGA's Weather Network for two years as of November 2026, and I plan to stick around awhile.
This year, while working at UGA, a few things happened that lead, again, to a pretty big realization - I'm interested in as many of the atmosphere's in the universe I can get my hands on. Er, metaphorically speaking, anyways. Pretty sure touching the atmosphere of say, Jupiter, with my bare hands is a bit of a bad idea...
I was very, very excited to learn that planetary meteorology was a degree, and that I might hopefully be able to have that as my choice for my masters degree. As a kid, I was obsessed with space. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was younger, and somehow I stopped dreaming about it, and I don't quite know why, but I may have gotten a few of the answers to that earlier this year. For now, I'll leave off here, though, because this page is getting pretty long.
I'll put more of the whole story on the "And now, the weather!" page in question, but hopefully that gives you a decent begining of it all.
Go on, check out the rest of my site!
Enough of an intro for now, I'd say. Go ahead and click on over to the rest of those pages and see what I might be able to bring!