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Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Serve as face to the customer on all technical issues for company’s software products• Troubleshooting network connectivity issues involving firewalls, port-forwarding, NATtraversal, etc.• Testing software across multiple OS via Virtual Machines• Use of Jira, Confluence, and Zendesk• Scripting with bash, python, SQL, and javascript

Madison, Wi, Us

• Implemented parallel algorithm executed on GPUs to accelerate serial O(n^4 ) computationof time-series stellar spectra. Algorithm encapsulated in GLaDoS C/C++ code.• Used OpenGL, GLSL, and OpenGL/CUDA interoperability extensively in developmentof GPU code/algorithm.• Provided maintenance assistance for GPU compute cluster and ran distributed computejobs on said cluster.• Used MPI and OpenMP to perform distributed computing jobs on CPU cluster.• Used Python to perform various statistical analyses including regression, correlation,maximum likelihood, Markov chain Monte Carlo PDF estimation – datasets varied upto TB-size and were processed and validated to ensure quality.• Combined usage of OpenGL, Python, Blender, and other tools to visualize data viacharts, figures, and movies using colorblind appropriate schemes.• Delivered public presentations to universities, international conferences, and publictelevision audiences.• Querying of SQL databases.• Created and maintained personal website to convey research & interests.• Above responsibilities were shared with coursework until 8/2011. From 9/2011 tillgraduation in 7/2015, software development and data analysis were sole focus.• Thesis defense committee comprised of astronomy and computer science professors.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Held six weekly discussion sections in the introductory astronomy classes;approximately 120 students.• Students evaluated overall performance as 4.78/5.00 – Departmental mean: 4.45/5.00.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Traveled to and began international collaboration with astronomers at University ofCanterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, on behalf of the National Science Foundation(NSF) to implement GLaDoS code discussed above.

• Delivered public presentations focusing on current areas of astronomical research to thegeneral public at Wisconsin State Parks.

Grinnell, Iowa, Us

• Held two weekly discussion sections to supplement students’ instruction in introductoryphysics classes in mechanics and electromagnetism, as well as advanced classes inclassical mechanics.

Bozeman, Mt, Us

• Analyzed energy impact resulting from solar flares and coronal mass ejections to betterunderstand interactions between Sun and Earth; resulted in peer-reviewed journalpublication

• Analyzed historical data on SBA bonds, compiled into reports and pivot tables (MSExcel).

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Astronomy And Astrophysics

Master Of Science (Ms), Astronomy And Astrophysics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Physics