Louis Burns Email and Phone Number

I co-own Laurie's Books, which is an independent used bookstore. I do most of the backend operations, accounting, buying, marketing, analytics, payroll, on-site maintenance, remodeling, and other tasks as needed.

We research and develop interactive media related to community and economic development and long-term prosperity.

I develop mental models that map the beliefs, emotions, strategies, and behaviors of experts so that other people can learn them. I've completed models of copywriting, design, being likable, day trading, fighting, and have nearly completed one on incremental real estate development. I've created demographic and location intelligence reports for real estate developers and cities. I've mapped undersized lots, the performance of mixed-use developments, spatial relationships of building permits, and tax values across a city to name a few.Past projects include a wide range of marketing-related activities including direct response copywriting, market analysis (demographics and location intelligence), content management, product development, and personal coaching. One example was the District 55 fall conference. We had zero marketing budget and only access to about 100 emails of the district executive committee. Through our promotions, we were able to double the previous attendance to over 200 paid attendees and ended up with a $4000 profit even though our target was to break even.

I taught across six different cohorts of six-month data science and FinTech boot camp cohorts including lecturing, running quizzes and activities, curriculum repo maintenance, review sessions, tutoring, grading, project development, and evaluation. I was also informally involved in curriculum development for FinTech. I helped pilot and refine the grading rubrics. Technologies we covered in the data science boot camp are Excel, VBA, Python (pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), APIs, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, web scraping, ETL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, online mapping, R, Tableau, machine learning, neural nets, and big data technologies such as AWS and pyspark. Technologies we covered in the FinTech boot camp are Python (pandas, pyviz, scikit-learn), SQL, APIs, time-series, classification, natural language processing, AWS, deep learning, algorithmic trading, blockchain, solidity, and decentralized finance (DeFi).

I conducted demographic studies in support of REDP's mission of attracting economic development to Richardson for a semester. Some projects included mapping out and updating known employment centers and economic clusters, skilled workforce accessibility, and compared cost/benefit for various competing cities. We also mapped out client companies as a relocation study.

While briefly in architecture school, I was the teaching assistant for an architectural structures course. My duties included conducting a study session and managing the construction materials lab.

I was a National Guard officer candidate for two years before opting to go active duty. On active duty, I was stationed in Vicenza, Italy and deployed to Afghanistan as an Airborne Medic with the 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade where I worked in the field hospital there treating US personnel, allied forces, and local nationals. I completed Airborne School in early 2005.

I primarily helped new home buyers get their first house. I also practiced commercial real estate periodically throughout 2013-2016 while in grad school.