United Way Tech Video

I had the opportunity to record a video for the United Way about tech careers and a little about my journey in technology. A few things I highlighted were: Pick a lane and go at it 100%. You can pursue development, data, machine learning, cloud architecture, productivity, security… but pick a lane and go at […]

Cloud Horizon Models and Changing Responsibility

The cloud can be a somewhat imprecise term. What does it mean to talk about migrating to the cloud or refactoring an application? In order to clear up some of this ambiguity I’ve found it useful to apply Horizon Models to cloud migration efforts. The use of a Horizon Model is to define the states […]

Building a Wildlife AI Twitter Bot with Logic Apps and Microsoft AI for Earth

So, if you’ve been following me for a while you know that I’ve been playing with AI for Earth and using Logic Apps to pull images from OneDrive for analysis. I had the fortune of working with Elmbrook Launch for two seasons and over that time we’ve incrementally improved the platform. The iterations went like […]

Best of Microsoft Inspire 2021

Microsoft kicked off a great Inspire conference this year, with a number of tech announcements, as well as indication of the market through the lens of partners. Check out this 30m of content on the Best of Microsoft Inspire 2021.

Change Agent CTO Podcast Episode 10

A great conversation with Loomis US CIO Kendall Knight. Tremendous transformation happening in the armored car, cash management, and payment space. Don’t miss this episode!

Change Agent CTO Podcast Episode 8

Was excited to have Dr. Robert Hall on the program talking about the transformation of education. We talk about legacy education, the changes due, and the go-forward opportunities.

Improving Inventory with Forecast Accuracy

Had a great conversation with Swami Venkatesh on leveraging Machine Learning to improve forecast accuracy and achieve better business efficiency. We talked about the stages of building models, inputs, and decisions.

Top 10 Ignite 2021 Spring Announcements

We had a great conversation on the Top 10 announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2021. We talked about Azure platform, data, AI, Viva, Power Platform, and others.

Azure ML Seaborn Module Not Found

I was doing some testing in Azure Machine Learning Notebooks and ran into a problem where the module I was looking to use was not working properly. The error I recieved was “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘seaborn’”. The code I used which resulted in this was: This was relatively easy to correct by opening a […]

Creating Digital Lines of Business

Brian Haydin and I had a great conversation on creating digital lines of business. We discussed the way organizations should look at creating digital products, ways to leverage technology, and models to disrupt the market. We also shared practical examples of companies navigating this transformation.

Nathan Lasnoski

Technology is at the heart of the transformation of modern society and business. I engage in innovation, artificial intelligence, disruption, and ethics under the lense that we only do this because people matter.

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