Evan Putnam

 Over a 10 week period, I worked alongside two other students to design, develop, and test a Lightweight Drone Simulator. The project was under Dr. Cihan Tunc, a professor from University of North Texas. The purpose of the project was to develop a tool that can be used to simulate a large number of drones and their behaviors as effeciently as possible. The difference between our simulator and others is that ours is focused on drone behaviour and a user can manipulate interactions through a configuration file.

 The Photo Metadata Extractor Tool (PMET) is designed to speed up the process of cataloguing SuDoc numbered books, with the possibility of expanding the tool to fit other document identifiers. The prototype tool makes use of machine learning to convert images to text, then we access OCLC's WorldCat Search API to search for a corresponding document from the Library of Congress registry. Finally we process the request results into a CSV file to be used by library staff. This tool is the semester project for my capstone course, CS 458 Software Engineering.

 I made this website to showcase my skills and projects in one place. The site is running as a Digital Ocean droplet using a LAMP stack. Using what I learned from CS 279 Intro to Linux and CS 328 Web Apps, I built this website and set up and configured the virtual web server to host this site. I used PHP to generate my project list as well as consolidate headers and footers into standalone files. The site also has a corresponding SSL Certificate in order to have the '.dev' top-level domain. I've also made sure this site is mobile friendly.