- Designed a new approach to statistically test the impacts of wildfire suppression. - Constructed a unique dataset combining data from Zillow (ZTRAX), Microsoft (Building Footprints) and several other large datasets to model fire risk and spread. - Utilized the WSU high performance computer cluster to implement large scale econometric modeling on terabytes of data. - Collaborating with researchers outside of economics by contributing my knowledge of economics to an audience unfamiliar with the economics field.

Lead Instructor for ECONS 320 Money and Banking- Created several activities to simulate actions in financial markets.- Designed lectures, homework and assessments. - Course topics included: Interest rates, management of financial institutions, financial regulation, the money market, the Federal Reserve System, monetary theory, the foreign exchange market, debt and equity markets and financial derivatives.Lead Instructor for ECONS 101 Fundamentals of Microeconomics (3x most recently summer 2020 online)- Designed a summer course to compact 4 months of material into 6 weeks.- Created daily in-class activities to re-enforce and introduce economic concepts to an audience without prior experience.

Fall 2016: Teaching Assistant for Dr. Alan Love. Fundamentals of Microeconomics: Enrollment 426.Managed course grade book and assignments, lectured on fundamental topics. Spring 2016 :Teaching Assistant for Dr. Andrew Cassey. Fundamentals of Microeconomics: Enrollment 306.Managed course grade book, prepared exams and assignments.

Customer Liaison, Data Manager and Teaching Fellow for Econ 418, 419-Liaison and technical adviser for honors economic course students and community customers including the City of Eugene and Oregon Department of Education. - Coordinated a data usage agreement between myself, students in the course and the Oregon Department of Education to obtain demographic and other personal data on teachers, students and administrators. -Managed confidential student data and provided anonymized data to students working working on the projects. -Coordinated with the City of Eugene and undergraduate students from a variety of backgrounds to model parking conditions in Eugene and evaluate a proposal for a new parking fee zone. -Lectured on data management and the implementation of econometric methods. -At the end of the first year I continued to work with Dr. Joe Stone and one of the students from the course to expand upon their work in the course. Graduate Teaching Fellow for ECON 201 Introductory Microeconomics- Taught discussion sections (teaching the course 1 day per week) for 7 sections (approximately 40 students each).Graduate Teaching Fellow for ECON 202 Introductory Macroeconomics-Taught discussion sections (lectures) for 4 sections (approximately 40 students each)

I worked for 5 summers in various capacities for the Twin Falls District Bureau of Land Management, including leading the fire prevention, mitigation and education team and serving as the fire information officer for the district. -Summer of 2010: I worked on the district's fire mitigation, education and prevention team to help decrease the number of human caused fires in the district. -Summers of 2011, 2012: I led the district's fire prevention, mitigation and education team and coordinated dozens of public affairs events. We developed several programs on fire prevention and presented them to elementary schools, community groups and professional organizations. I also started working with the district public affairs officers to develop media plans and press releases.-Summer of 2013: Continued my previous duties and became the primary fire public information officer (PIOF) for the district. I coordinated media briefings, press releases, fire-line visits and interviews for both a local and national audience. -Initially coordinated the press response and served as the sole media point of contact for several fires which would later expand to have over 50 individuals involved in the public affairs effort. One of these fires made national headlines on all the major networks (Beaver Creek Fire). I continued to work on the Incident management team once they arrived and worked to evacuate over 2,000 homes. -Summer of 2014: Continued my previous duties and worked on a fire prevention team called into our district to work on reducing human caused fires. Helped design and manage a $50,000 ad campaign to reduce human caused fires in the district. From 2011-2014 I also fought fire on engines and hand crews when the need or opportunity arose on incidents off all sizes. During my employment I completed the following training courses:S110, S130, S131, S133, S190, S200, S203, S212S215-Fire Operations in the Wildland/Urban Interface S219-Firing Operations

Tutor for PLU's Academic Assistance Center. I provided tutoring to students in the following courses.Stat 231 Introductory StatisticsEcon 101 Introductory MicroeconomicsEcon 102 Introductory Macroeconomics Econ 313 Environmental EconomicsEcon 344 EconometricsHelped several student improve from failing grades in the courses to achieving A's and B's on finals. Worked as the first tutor at the Academic Assistance Center to offer several hours of online tutoring in addition to 5 hours per week of in-person tutoring.