I am starting my career, building skills through practical projects and hands-on practice to prepare for my first role.
A collection of projects and experiments that show how I apply new skills, solve simple problems, and build toward professional experience.
Found and cleaned a data set of ~50,000 IMDB movie reviews and a positive or negative sentiment, Word embeddings, Word2Vec, XGB Classifier Model, Sequential Model Fine-tuned the sequential model to maximize the accuracy when fed reviews for movies.
Gathering and preparing video data to be analyzed for the purposes of training a model Training a CNN for the purpose of classifying videos.
I am starting my career, building skills through practical projects and hands-on practice to prepare for my first role.
I'm Hayden Richards. I am at the start of my career and building practical experience while exploring where I fit professionally. I focus on learning hands-on skills, taking on projects that teach me how to solve real problems, and preparing for entry-level roles.
Experience
Guest Advocate
Target · October 2025 - May 2026
Education
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science / Concentration in Ai, Robotics and Game development · Class of 2026
Elon University
Undergraduate Studies
Skills
Found and cleaned a data set of ~50,000 IMDB movie reviews and a positive or negative sentiment, Word embeddings, Word2Vec, XGB Classifier Model, Sequential Model Fine-tuned the sequential model to maximize the accuracy when fed reviews for movies.
Gathering and preparing video data to be analyzed for the purposes of training a model Training a CNN for the purpose of classifying videos.