Eli Ramthun Email & Phone Number

Taylor, Texas, United States

Responsible for overseeing all stages of report creation, including data gathering, assembly, analysis, interpretation, and ensuring quality control. Tasked with producing various reports monthly, quarterly, and yearly, detailing trends in generation technology and providing forecasts on resource adequacy as well as risk assessments for future periods. Responsible for updating interactive online reports and managing fundamental data and report production duties.

Austin, Texas, United States

Working in Python, R, and SAS to optimize the strategies of utility-scale energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed energy resource programs. Synthesis of analytics, programming, data visualization, and awareness of industry-relevant topics is utilized to develop analyses, reports, and presentations for a variety of clients.

Austin, Texas, United States

Data pipelining specialist for the project "Smart Decarbonization of the Built Environment in the Nexus of Climate Change, Population Growth and Technology Adoption". Responsible for implementing data management and cleaning strategies in Python to coordinate large multi-modal data sets and model results for an interdisciplinary team.

Austin, Texas, United States

Conducted a literature review for the project "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Buildings and Microgrids" with the Intelligent Environments Laboratory in the Cockrell School of Engineering. Worked to assess state of the art utilization of agent-based models for building energy systems, with focus on heat pumps, thermal storage and occupant behavior, as well as research on applications of multi-agent reinforcement learning for energy management in microgrids.

Austin, Texas, United States

Assistant for research project "Sectoral Feasibility of Green House Gas Mitigation and Clean Energy Transitions" with the Energy Institute. Worked in R to process, visualize and analyze state level and national energy and emissions data utilizing hierarchical and KNN clustering, performed descriptive statistical analysis on large datasets, and developed web-based dashboard to quickly process and analyze U.S. emissions and energy data

Austin, Texas, United States

Assistant for the class "Energy, Technology and Policy" in the Cockrell School of Engineering, an interdisciplinary class focused on the intersection of different systems within the energy sector and U.S. Law.

Austin, Texas

Assisted clients with their IT infrastructure monitoring needs. Worked in Comm100, ZenDesk, and Jira. Wrote and debugged scripts in Groovy, Python, and bash. Cloud based solutions provided for clients using MS Azure, GCP, and AWS.

Managed and oversaw of multiple Linux systems and clusters, network switches, and user accounts. Technologies and systems include Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, LDAP, Xen, RAID/mdadm, ganglia, Docker, PostgreSQL, and qsub. Automated processes via bash scripting, helped on-board and train new sysadmins, and was on call for emergencies and outages. Worked remotely via ssh and ftp as well as on-site for installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

Teaching assistant for ENSU 141 Environment, Society, and Sustainability. Guided classroom discussion, designed and lead lab sessions, and graded assignments. Teaching assistant for CS256 Data Structures (taught in Python) and CS 370 Computer Graphics (taught in C++ utilizing OpenGL). Lead structured lab sessions, graded assignments, and tutored students during open hours.

Responded to calls, assisted walk-in clients, and managed an RT ticket queue, with onsite service support as necessary. Technologies supported include Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, HP Printers, iOS, and Android. Performed computer and accessory hardware support and installation.

Worked as a back-end web developer, experiment designer, and data analyst for a multi-year academic research project focused on resource allocation and monitoring computing clusters. Installed monitoring hardware on cluster computing systems. Developed web monitoring interfaces with PHP, as well as designed and executed experiments via OpenPBS to benchmark and analyze power usage and heat generation relative to different load distributions.

Assistant to college faculty for organization, preparation, and leadership of a 3 week long research experience for undergrad students in Iceland. Multidisciplinary undergraduate students and faculty worked on projects in Iceland related to invasive species control, avian nesting patterns, geographic surveying, ancient DNA sampling and extraction, and glaciology. Worked as a full stack Android developer maintaining and improving our field sampling app, and Arduino developer working with custom sensor suites, and as a GIS specialist managing UAV footage and automating workflows.

Led a class about sustainable agriculture and traditional farming methods by curating and distributing reading materials, leading discussion, and engaging students with hands-on activities on a small farm.

Master Of Science - Ms, Energy And Earth Resources

Interdisciplinary energy studies in areas of geosciences, engineering, management, finance, economics, law and policy.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science And Environmental Sustainability, 3.69

Activities and Societies: Miller Farm Community Garden Convener, Squirrelhacks MC Double majored across disciplines at an academically.