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Experience

• Implemented a collection of SQL scripts that transitioned health data transformations from third-party software to in-house, saving tens of thousands of dollars a year.

• Served as a dually appointed Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Department. Duties spanned research, service, and teaching. Taught one course per quarter, including C++, Parallel Computing, and Discrete Structures.

• For C++ course, rated in top percentile range for 6 of 13 questions from student evaluations.
• Instructed self-designed graduate-level Graph Processing course based on research.

• Learned commodities basis trading through experience on the Corn and Coffee desks. Investigated trading strategies with the R statistical package.
• Worked on the corn desk during the draught of Summer 2012, where adverse weather drove corn prices to record prices, the highest since the Great Depression. This crisis necessitated daily meetings that closely monitored weather and trading positions.

• Developed simulations of rail systems using the RTC Software program. Rail system simulations model how systems run and are utilized to better understand operations and improve management. Modeled systems span local light rail to large inter-state projects.
• Served on the workplace Young Professionals Network committee, organizing both intra-office and inter-office networking events.

• Developed dozens of rail system simulations used by clients at various levels of government.
• Proposed stationing pattern for the San Diego Trolley incorporated into service.

• Implemented a collection of web apps in C# that simplified account management.

• Implemented a software installer that standardized product configurations across teams.

• Analyzed running gait to advise customers on proper shoe stability and cushioning.

Education

• Investigated distributed problem-solving through agent-based modeling and vertex-centric graph processing. Authored seven papers and delivered six talks. Teaching Assistant for four courses including Algorithms and Computer Architecture.

• Awarded Best Ph.D. Dissertation (student paper) at the 2014 Spring Simulation Conference.
• Published a paper in the influential ACM Computing Surveys journal

• Performed network analysis on the Artist Similarity network for Last.fm
• Implemented the video game Pong in MATLAB