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William Shields
Linkedin TopAI Voice | Founder, Synthminds AI
About me
Linkedin AI Top Voice | AI Explorer, Founder & Speaker | Systems Architect | US Navy Supply Officer | Promoting the science of informed decision making through Data Analytics and AI technologies. My team and I are positioned as leading strategists, speakers, instructors, creators and developers within the AI space. We teach the entire suite of No-code AI courses on the Uplimit platform, a digital upskilling and learning platform with courses led by OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Netflix...just to name a few. Our courses received the highest rating and Net Promoter Score from post-course surveys of ANY course on their entire platform. https://uplimit.com/instructor/wes-shields I am listed on Upwork AI Hub as an Upwork certified AI expert, placing me and my team in the top 1% of global talent on Upwork. Recently, I was one of the first 18 members on the entire platform conferred the title of “OpenAI/Upwork Certified OpenAI Expert” which is formally recognized by OpenAI. https://www.upwork.com/experts/openai I'm the founder and Principal @ SynthMinds.AI where my team of 20 AI/ML Engineers, marketing experts, teachers, and entrepreneurs advise clients on AI tools and their business applications or create custom ChatGPT/GPT3/GPT4 prompts and solutions which have empowered my clients to supercharge their productivity and workflow. We have full-stack coding language experience across a variety of machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and neural network natural language processing applications, in addition to extensive experience building and integrating custom API’s for a variety of applications, Chatbot development, working with vectorized databases, embeddings, and large language model fine-tuning. Synthminds offer these services: 1) AI Insights - consulting/research/planning--We’ll help guide you to make the best AI choices for your company with custom roadmaps, market research, and idea validation reports. 2) AI Training - coaching, training, teaching -- We’ll expand your AI literacy and provide you and your team with custom-tailored virtual training for your unique use cases and needs. Take a look at some of the 13 pages of written testimonials our last course received: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shields-wes_artificialintelliegence-chatgptai-chatgpt-activity-7108678407273492480-hXUt 3) AI Solutions - We’re the best Prompt engineers working today take a look (https://youtu.be/xyz31KBxFes), we’ll take care of your photorealistic AI marketing images, or help your setup and deploy 3rd party AI tools into your workflow. We’ll bring your vision to life with Custom built tools, apps, websites embeddings, and plug-ins leveraging the full-scope of possibility offered by generative AI. I hold an MS in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), an MBA from the Mason School of Business from The College of William & Mary and a BS in Quantitative Economics from the United States Naval Academy. I hold graduate certifications in complex network science also from NPS and logistics technology integration from the Kegan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. I have 16+ years of business expertise across a variety of fields such as global logistics, organizational leadership, and wholesale distribution to name a few. I am a published technical writer and a contributor, moderator to multiple AI and prompt engineering communities. Here’s my most recently published conference paper (https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:e14caee1-7623-3f08-b5aa-a3bc90d852f7) from the 2022 CompleNet International Conference on Complex Networks. I’m a top 200 globally ranked ChatGPT prompt seller on Promptbase (https://promptbase.com/profile/synthminds) and my prompts have been liked over 400,000 times on FlowGPT (https://flowgpt.com/@westhesynthmind) Check out our top 10-ranked GPT in the OpenAI GPT's store Professor Synapse (https://chat.openai.com/g/g-ucpsGCQHZ-professor-synapse) Here’s our multi-agent orchestrator, AI voice synthesis, our AI voice synthesis suite, and RAG/Fine-Tuning platform we’ve built, links below: https://www.neuraldreams.ai/ https://www.innervationai.com/ https://www.morpheme.ai/ https://synthminds.ai https://linktr.ee/synthminds
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15 minute session
- - ai strategy validation / evaluation
- - prompt engineering assistance
- - consultation / design of ai workflows
- - interview or seminar/training in ai
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