Michael Watson Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, LA, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

I was hired to create sustainable and scaleable tools and processes to convergeEDU to ensure smooth growth,stable infrastructure costs, and improved automateded deployments for our services and products. I worked totransition the teams from individual contributors to a cohesive product and development team.· Managed and supervised a team of engineers, data.

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

Leadership· Provide the C-suite and Board with domain specific expertise· Lead the interdepartmental attendance initiative to ensure personnel, systems, and requirements are aligned· Represent the organization on various education and data related working groups and non-profit boards· Socialize new data systems and integrations to school leaders.

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

Washington, DC, US

• Data Management:
• Provided expertise to the organization on how to handle all sizes and forms of data
• Identified new and unique datasets for research initiatives
• Streamlined and automated data collection with Python, Go, and JavaScript
• Implement ETL pipelines on Amazon Web Services and a standalone Linux stack
• Designed a data lake management system and provided internal API endpoints for easy access and reliable use to conduct our researchTechnology:

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Assembled and managed projects, teams, and tasks through project management skills learned on the job and in master’s level courses. Prepared project management style briefings to update
• Taken on a leadership role by developing new research topics, interacting with the client for briefings and updates, promoting previously published work to new clients, and seeking out funding for new projects
• Leveraged my technical background by implementing and researching data science practices. Often create, develop, and program new or rebuilt models, simulations, and analysis tools.
• Provided non-technical skills to projects and teams through report writing, literature reviews, interview tool development and implementing

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Work in research fields ranging from economics, defense acquisitions, wargaming, to law enforcement, and innovation
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research
• Work in interdisciplinary teams to work through complex problems
• Develop multi-disciplinary tools for models, fits, regressions, and simulations in multiple languages

Columbia, MD, US

• Conduct course on physics for future educators
• Teach laboratory techniques
• Introduce increasingly complex physics and chemistry subjects
• Teach problem solving techniques and promote critical thinking skills

Towson, MD, US

• Conduct optical and electronic research on novel 2-D materials
• Create mechanically exfoliated 2-D materials
• Develop data analysis program packages with MatLab and Python
• Calibrate and maintain several spectrometers and lasers
• Operate a visible-light micro-Raman spectrometer

Towson, MD, US

• Conduct course on physics
• Teach laboratory techniques
• Introduce increasingly complex physics subjects in all main subfields
• Teach problem solving techniques and promote critical thinking skills

Chicago, IL, US

• Operated and maintained Helium Neon and Titanium Sapphire lasers in order to test strain saturation in semi-conductors
• Calibrated and aligned laser
• Participated on a student team that devised, drafted, and edited a strategic plan for a scientific study in semi-conductors
• Supervised and managed less experienced Undergraduate Physics Majors to conduct research at Argonne National Laboratory
• Conducted research at Argonne National Laboratory using X-Ray diffraction

Baltimore, MD, US

• Research and analyzed national school system
• Research economic driving factors for Charter schools
• Authored and presented internal analysis reports to the UMBC’s Economics Department

Alexandria, Virginia, US

• Conduct internal asset audit for East cost region
• Gathered and reviewed confidential financials in order to catalog assets across the East coast region
• Presented research to Vice Chief Financial Officer that helped with an internal audit of the regional office
• Present to department on accounting and financial software usage for increased productivity

Professional Science Masters, Applied Physics

Bs, Physics

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