Brian Kues Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta, GA

• Revamped front- and backend of consumption analytics application in preparation for rebranded rollout
• Helped productize AI chatbot micro-frontend POC implemented in React
• Fixed bugs and added enhancements (both back- and frontend) for configuration store microservice implemented in Ruby on Rails/React
• Maintained and enhanced process mapping web application implemented in Python
• Implemented backend microservices in Java to enhance billing platform
• Supported, maintained, and enhanced web application implemented in Ruby on Rails

Atlanta, GA

• Maintained, debugged, and enhanced forecasting, pricing, and optimization models for national media companies

Atlanta, GA

• Designed and implemented optimization model used to generate advertising propos-als for a national media company
• Designed constraints and implemented formulation of advertisement spot schedulingoptimization problem for a national media company
• Designed constraints to eliminate arbitrage opportunities in a revenue optimizationmodel for an international travel and hospitality company
• Identified and explained the causes of incongruencies between the solution from therevenue optimization model and business expectations for an international traveland hospitality company

Atlanta, GA

• Explored alternative approaches to perform multi-product price optimization using sample case study data

Garching, Germany

• Provided implementation support for importing and processing traffic information as well as smoothing traffic information via novel algorithms

Atlanta, GA

• Worked as RA for Professors Alan Erera and Chip White on risk assessment in food supply chains
• Worked as RA for Professor Erera on railcar logistics project with a chemical manufacturer to improve throughput, creating a custom simulation from scratch using Java; also worked on service parts logistics project for.
• Conducted office hours, answered students' emails, and proctored and graded exams for undergraduate course on engineering economy during three semesters as TA; served one semester as TA for graduate engineering economy.
• Studied forward premia in electricity prices under Professor Shijie Deng, creating predictive models in R; studied design of liver cancer screening policies under Professor Turgay Ayer, implementing a natural history.

Atlanta, GA

Assisted in testing scheduling algorithm implemented in Java; analyzed historical train performance with Java program written for that task and displayed the results in Tableau; wrote R script to automate creation of graphs for quarterly reports to management; wrote Java program to evaluate and manipulate geographic data points used to create a railyard.

Columbus, OH

Assisted Professor Suvrajeet Sen in developing model for Dynamic Energy Resource Allocation problem; created small examples of analogous problems and formulated with Markov decision processes, using policy improvement algorithm to find optimal solutions; wrote MATLAB program to carry out the policy improvement algorithm

Mount Vernon, OH

Identified root cause of material nonconformance in weld and fabrication shop; coordinated efforts to determine usability of nonconforming materials; cooperated with union inspectors to conduct gauge repeatability and reproducibility study with newly-acquired FARO measurement arm

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of ISyE Graduate Student Advisory Committee, volunteer assistant coach for women's volleyball teamMinor.

B.S., Industrial And Systems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Four-year letterwinner on men's volleyball teamRequired coursework completed in linear and nonlinear.