About Me
Background
- My name is Ezekiel Mueller; I go by Zeke. I live in Atlanta, Georgia. By day I'm a videographer for a construction company, capturing drone footage of site progress and producing safety training videos. I also develop and manage the custom applications and websites that deliver this content to clients. By night I'm a freelance web developer, building, designing, and hosting websites for small businesses. I am planning on majoring in Biomedical Engineering. I am currently doing earned admission to work towards this major. For academic accomplishment I’d have to say it would be getting a 96 in my first earned admission class. See I didn’t do too well in high school from having a different learning method from how everything was taught to having ADHD and personally not knowing how to navigate functioning completely from it. It took getting into the real world and building a career over the past several years to learn myself and what I need to learn better and keep up with deadlines and such to be able to be ready to go back to school to work towards my lifelong dream of getting an engineering degree. I’ve been a tinkerer for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, I was fascinated by cars and building sustainable cars and even went as far as building a prototype in a model car with it driven off its own drag, solar panels, and a hydro-electric system. More recently, I’ve designed and printed an intake manifold adapter for one of my project cars to mount a race intake manifold for a different engine to it. Then at work my drone workload, media delivery became a challenge. Sending 10GB+ folders of footage to building owners and developers after every flight wasn't practical, and they wanted simple access without complicated downloads. I built a custom web server and developed a job-based media platform where each project gets its own link. Now the company can send building owners a single link where they can view the complete drone package, current footage plus flight history, all streamable in their browser and easy to share with their stakeholders. This transformed our delivery workflow from a file management headache into a professional client experience. I love playing TTRPGs (Tabletop Role-Playing Games) in my free time. It's a great way to engage my creativity and problem-solving skills outside of engineering. Outside of that, I make mead and love getting into the details of every bit of the process from fermentation to bottling and packaging.
Interests
- I joined the "Imagine. Design. Engineer!" course to deepen my understanding of the engineering design process and to develop practical skills that I can apply in my future career. The course offers a hands-on approach that aligns with my learning style and goals. I've always loved solving problems and creating new things and enhancing existing ones. From a young age, I found excitement in understanding how things work and figuring out ways to make them better. It's hard to pick one specific area or even a couple areas because I love all fascists of engineering that I have encountered and/or explored. I'd love to develop wearable technologies that monitor worker health and environmental conditions in real-time to prevent accidents and improve safety protocols. I'd also like to explore how biomaterials can be used in more ways than normally intended, such as creating more efficient and sustainable transportation solutions. Engineering can and is revolutionizing every aspect of our lives, even when we as individuals may not always recognize it. I hope to contribute to advancements that improve quality of life and sustainability.
Goals
- By the end of this course I aim to grow my critical thinking and approach to solving problems and creating solutions. For me to identify myself as an engineer, I need to demonstrate a strong understanding of engineering principles, apply problem-solving skills effectively, and contribute to meaningful projects that have a positive impact. Over the next five years, I plan to combine the biomedical engineering degree with my construction industry experience to develop innovative safety solutions for workers. Specifically, I want to apply biomechanics and human factors engineering to design wearable monitoring systems or improved PPE that can predict and prevent injuries on job sites. I'll also leverage my videography and software development skills to create better visualization tools for safety training and incident analysis. My construction videography work gives me unique insight into real-world hazards that most engineers never see - I want to use that perspective to build solutions that actually get adopted by crews in the field. To me, success means continuously learning, growing, and making a positive impact on the world around me. It's about finding fulfillment in my work and contributing to something greater than myself.