Brian Burt Email & Phone Number

Gettysburg, Pa, Us

Gettysburg, Pa, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Develop, modernize, and containerize software tools

-- Develop and deploy https://www.nostove.com-- Lead effort for software considerations and development-- Developed a React Native mobile app

Flagstaff, Az, Us

-- Develop public, authenticated, (GraphQL) API access to asteroid database-- Full stack development and maintenance of website portal to access asteroid (Postgresql) database-- Routine, programmatic (Python) data aquisition and consumptionDeveloping a database of asteroid physical and orbital characteristics with website and API access to facilitate rapid response observations of asteroids.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

-- Migrate and Upgrade legacy website to Python/Flask Framework-- Migrate and expand legacy database (MySQL -> PostgreSQL)-- Migrate locally hosted infrastructure to cloud services

Cambridge, Ma, Us

-- Develop novel tools for reducing and analyzing and organizing asteroid spectra-- Design and deploy a publicly available database of asteroid spectra statistics

Boston, Ma, Us

-- Build internal analytics dashboard to improve company performance monitoring-- Create in house product catalog management system-- Develop tools to increase process efficiency and reduce risk

Cambridge, Ma, Us

-- Wrote, modified, and maintained IDL and Python software to model composition of asteroids -- Reduced raw asteroid data with IRAF pipeline to produce research quality data-- Maintained Excel database of asteroid information

Flagstaff, Arizona, Us

-- Built Python pipeline to parse astrometric data and search for near-Earth asteroids Developed -- Python software to analyze near- Earth asteroid detection efficiency-- Analyzed data and presented results to guide group research efforts-- Created materials and methods to communicate research and findings at national conferencesExperiment with the Moving Object Pipeline System in relation to use with the Dark Energy Camera for Near Earth asteroid Surveys. The Dark Energy Camera is located at Cerro Tololo in Chile and is a high resolution, 560 mega pixel camera. We are currently using this to detect small asteroids never before detected.

Flagstaff, Arizona, Us

-- Instructed ∼100 students per semester in physics & astronomy-- Designed and modified laboratory exercises to teach students astronomy and physics conceptsAs a Graduate Teaching Assistants at Northern Arizona University I taught three labs (physics and astronomy) each semester for 4 semesters while taking classes and doing research towards the completion of my Master of Science degree. My research focused on the Mars Trojan Asteroids, a very small subset of asteroids near Mars that can help us understand the formation of the Solar System. This research was under and supervised by David Trilling, PhD.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Us

-- Instructed ∼75 students per semester in physics & astronomy -- Held study sessions to tutor students about astronomy conceptsAt Franklin & Marshall College I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree. As a Teaching Assistant, I worked along a full time professor to assist in astronomy labs. I also spent the last two semesters at Franklin & Marshall College researching the detection of gravitational waves using pulsar timing arrays. That research was supervised by Dr. Andrea Lommen, PhD.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Us

-- Built MatLab software to calculate and visualize the sensitivity of pulsars to gravitational waves -- Developed IDL software to simulate gravitational waves produced by binary black holes -- Published pulsar sensitivity results in the Astrophysical Journal and presented at national conferences

Master'S Degree, Physics

Bachelor'S Degree, Astrophysics