• My first foray into AI/ML with Sagemaker and the NFL. PHS (Player Health and Safety) were interested in using AI to try to reduce injuries on the field. Although concussions were the primary focus, there were a bunch of sensors on other parts of the player to measure torsion and g’s, etc. At the time they were using an NFC type tech but I’m sure they’ve upgraded since. My job was much more about technical project management than doing any tech work. AWS was “hired” via a mutually beneficial sponsorship so their AI/ML folks were doing most/all of the heavy lifting. Still, I got my hands dirty in cutting up all this footage to be analyzed and ingested by various AWS products to build datasets, etc. This stuff was really, really interesting to me and it really piqued my interest in AI as the real-world nature of it (and helping) made me appreciate the work more.

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