Current Status: Mastered Prompt Engineering (even got a job doing it to expand my knowledge) and am working on mastering AEO.

What is AEO?

Answer Engine Optimization is a modern marketing strategy focused on getting content featured as direct answers in AI overviews, voice searches, and chatbots, moving beyond traditional SEO's link-ranking focus to provide clear, immediate answers for users and AI.

What is My Plan?

Again, I'm adapting. I'm always adapting. This time, I've decided to augment my SEO knowledge with AEO skills. I'm halfway through an intense course-load (why can't I take the easy road for once?) and look forward to implementing my newly learned skills as soon as possible. I'll start with my own portfolio, then offer to assist a client for free, just to get the hands on experience. If you've read this far and want to BE that client, please contact me!

Completed AI Prompt Engineer Education and Practical Usage:

AI Evaluation & Prompt Engineering Contract Work

For two months, I worked as a contractor with a leading AI company, supporting the evaluation, refinement, and quality assurance of AI-generated content across text, image, and multimodal systems. My work focused on human-in-the-loop review, prompt evaluation, and output validation to ensure clarity, accuracy, and alignment with real-world user intent. I contributed to conversation-to-response evaluation, multimodal comparison tasks, and data quality validation, helping improve the reliability and usability of AI outputs through structured analysis and expert human judgment.

AI Evaluation & Prompt Engineering Experience Gained:

1. Conversation-to-Response Evaluation
2. Prompt Evaluation & Refinement
3. Human-in-the-Loop AI Review
4. Multimodal AI Evaluation
5. Content Quality Assurance
6. Text-to-Image Evaluation
7. Dataset Validation
8. Annotation Review & Correction
9. Visual Grounding & Bounding Box Labeling
10. Image Inpainting Validation
11. Model Output Evaluation
12. Likert-Scale Scoring for Output Quality
13. AI Training Support & QA

"Professional" Ranking:

I have achieved Professional Level AI Prompt Engineering on 3 LLMs. Here's the ranking on everyone's favorite (ChatGPT). Click here to view my ranking, or "street cred" as I call it.

Tools & Platforms:

1. ChatGPT
2. Gemini
3. Contract-Specific AI Evaluation Platforms

Completed AI Courses:

Please visit my Certificates page for the full list. 

I have been accepted, but waitlisted at Maestro University where I will spend evenings over the next few years working toward a Bachelors Degree in AI Marketing. They are currently finalizing the course plans, but will be opening the doors for those currently enrolled in 2026.

Practical Prompt Engineering Experience:

Through a three month long Contract assignment with a leading AI contractor, I've learned many of the skills listed below. I've also had fun on my own learning to create images within seconds using just words. Please scan to the bottom of the page for AI IMAGE and VIDEO examples.