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Issaquah, Wa, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

West Hollywood, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

* Lead quantitative research utilizing natural language processing to study cultural dynamics at large organizations. * Engineer new scientific measures using word embeddings and topic models. * Apply advanced technologies to investigation of social science research questions.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Innovated research methodologies while teaching graduate courses in statistics, NLP, and research design. • Utilized 800k users’ software interaction data and ethnographic/interview methods to study dynamics of social hierarchies. • Crafted new quantitative measures and leveraged casual inference, panel regression, and complex data visualization. • Engineered elastic map-reduce process to parse software log data into a Redshift database.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Drove technical operations and IP development for a B2B Software-as-a-Service startup as we grew from 4 to 50.• Led the technical organization through strategic initiatives and continuous improvements to enhance technical operations. • Engineered 3 data driven SaaS applications, scaling from prototype to user implementation that supported thousands of users while training and directing an offshore team to develop non-UI components of the software. • Governed technology and IP strategy, development, and implementation for patented software that uses machine learning and combinatorial optimization to streamline and coordinate large enterprise sales teams.

Milan, It

Led multidisciplinary teams as large as 50 across 5 companies in quantitative and engineering research projects often researching and developing novel methodologies. Coordinated the activities of engineers, field technicians, programmers, statistical analysts, policy analysts, and subject-matter experts. Presented recommendations to utilities and regulatory agencies for improving future programs and policies, and companies for improving their technologies.Introduced transformative processes in the company, including building a wiki knowledge base, aggregating documentation to more than 50 internal software applications into one repository, and introduced agile development practices in the analytical programming team. Leveraged associated increases in efficiency to fit cutting-edge research into tightly-budgeted projects while keeping projects under budget.Forged new business partnerships and brought on new clients. Built a department of energy analysts and coordinated their participation on dozens of projects. Managed the integration of analytical teams during a company merger, reforming the management structure of the acquiring company to increase flexibility and training and drove performance to highest in the company. Created the processes, including agile development methods, used by the analytical team.

Led a project team of subject matter experts and analysts modeling the impacts of climate change on a small city. Fully designed, implemented, tested, and documented a multiplayer economic simulation game. Both projects resulted in numerous publications.

Built statistical and engineering models for projecting electric generation capacity retirement and investment and a model of transportation stock retirement. Used these models to predict the “carbon shadow” of existing generation and transportation capital.

Formulated accounting software for clearing trade accounts and producing executive summaries of 100 traders' activities.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Sociology

Mpp, Energy Policy

Ba, Political Ecomony, Math

Education record

High School Diploma