Diego Alcala Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Colorado, United States

Working with experienced construction managers to create a startup utility construction company.- Educate myself and learn about all facets of creating a startup business and the utility construction industry.- Initiate contact and work closely with consultants at the East Colorado Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for support.- Lead author on our business plan and 3 years of financial projections: sales forecasts, operating expenses, cash flow, and income statements.- Purchase, configure, and maintain a tower server running Windows Server for bidding and takeoff software.

Greeley, Colorado, United States

- One-on-one tutoring sessions in math (arithmetic to calculus), physics (algebra and calculus based), and introductory statistics.- Collaborate with other tutors to create 1-hour workshops on various topics: study skills, time management, test taking strategies, etc.- Work with advisers to provide additional support to help students overcome additional struggles, i.e., financial, family-difficulties, health, etc.- Help students understand career path options, study skills, strategies for stress, and test taking strategies.- Maintain records and logs of tutoring sessions.

Golden, Colorado

My researched focused on understanding how many-body interactions alter the dynamics of quantum tunneling of bosons: modeling, simulating, and analyzing ultra cold atomic systems. I was involved with multiple collaborations spanning 4 universities, publishing 6 articles which covered various topics of macroscopic quantum tunneling. • Analyzed and collaborated on the first realization of macroscopic quantum tunneling, demonstrating how many-body interactions necessarily altered the tunneling dynamics. Used a combination of analytical JWKB calculations and simulations to support the hypothesis that many-body interactions altered the tunneling process. • Implemented some of the first simulations of many-body quantum tunneling dynamics using compression algorithm (DMRG) to simulate a wide range of single many-body quantum observables. Used mines high performance computing architecture to simulate and analyze several GB of data with Python, Mathematica, and FORTRAN. • Provided future MQT experiments with guidelines on how to perform quantum tunneling in various trap configurations. Used rapid parameter space exploration via optimization and minimization techniques to give a gross understanding of viable experimental trapping configurations. • Modeled and simulated the interplay between quantum phase transitions the quantum tunneling process, allowing future experiments to probe quantum phase transitions using the dynamical process of quantum tunneling. Used high performance computing architecture with DMRG code to analyze the interplay between the Mott insulator to Superfluid quantum phase transition and quantum tunneling in both escape and double well configurations.

Tutored students in one-on-one and group (3-5 individuals) sessions.- Introductory physics (algebra and calculus based)- Calculus I,II,III- Linear Algebra- College algebra and trigonometry

Greeley, Colorado, United States

Taught a 6 week intensive course on Graduate Records Examination.- Prepared and held lecture 3 days per week for 10+ students.- Ran tutoring style group sessions for hands-on problem solving.

- Measured the effect of atmospheric pressure (via altitude) on the Thiele-Small parameters; a set of electromechanical parameters which describe the performance of loudspeakers.- Compared the use of 3 (direction calculation, added mass, and enclosure) methods with Woofer Tester 1 and 3, finding a consistent and statistically significant change.- Built enclosures to measure the Thiele-Small parameters of several speakers at altitudes of 4,600 and 9,600 feet.- 3rd place award for scholarship and written presentation of research.- Published thesis in 2011 McNair research Journal.

- Lead programmer for an autonomous rover to avoid obstacles while driving towards a predetermined heading.- Used Arduino to coordinate servos, collision detectors, and magnetic compass heading.- Collaborated with team members to design and build the robot.

College Park, Maryland, United States

- Modeled the growth of largely connected components in directed complex networks using FORTRAN.- Collaborated with a fellow TREND undergraduate researcher, graduate student, and advisers to write and debug FORTRAN code, analyzing data sets for systems of up to 2^23 node networks using python.- Won 2nd place for best overall research and presentation at TREND.- Coauthored and published article: Shane Squires, Katherine Sytwu, Diego Alcala, Thomas M. Antonsen, Edward Ott, Michelle Girvan, "Weakly explosive percolation in directed networks," Physical Review E 87 (5), 052127 (2013)

Tutored students in campus tutoring center: College algebra and calculus.- Tutoring center had 2-3 tutors and 5-20 students at any given time.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics

Cyber Security Specialist Certificate, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

1 year program with the aim - "Learn the fundamentals of cyber security, cyber law, vulnerability assessment and digital forensics. Learn.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Activities and Societies: McNair Scholars Program

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics

Education record

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa - Honor Society