As a Math Fellow at the Denver Center for International Studies at Montbello, I was assigned approximately ten students per semester to coach and tutor every day. In this role, I planned and delivered lessons intended to fill missing background knowledge, while keeping students up with their algebra class. Because I worked at a turnaround school, the risk of any student dropping out was high. In an attempt to minimize this risk, I tailored lessons around students’ interests; supported them in their extracurricular activities; and kept in touch with their parents or guardians and academic advisers. In order to further maximize the effectiveness of every lesson, each lesson was tailored around each student’s testing data. In this role, I was periodically observed by my manager and trained by her to continually become a more effective instructor. Over the course of the academic year, my median student's understanding of math, as measured by standardized testing, increased by an amount that is about four times what is typically expected of a ninth grader.

During my time as a Teaching Assistant at the Colorado School of Mines, I led two recitation sections in a Principles of Economics class with positive student reviews and feedback from the professor in charge of the class. In this role, I led a series of economic experiments and activities, wherein students learned economic principles first hand; led exam reviews; graded assignments; tracked student performance; and helped students individually during both regular and flexible office hours. In their reviews, many students lauded my flexibility both inside and outside of the classroom, citing approachability; appropriate balance between humor and content; ample and flexible office hours; well-articulated lectures; and quick, thorough, and well-articulated responses to emails.

As an intern with Imerys – one of the world’s leading industrial minerals suppliers – I worked with tens of thousands of pieces of data to build a model in Excel that successfully forecasts electricity invoices for four of their North American mines – twice the number of mines that I was hired to consider. This model very noticeably outperformed their previous attempts at forecasting these invoices. While building this model, I successfully created and maintained professional relationships with representatives of Georgia Power, Alabama Power and Trico Power, as well as many people both within my own office and at various mines and plants across the country. During this time, I had low level access to Imerys’ ERP system and, working under the supervision of the head of Logistics, was able to sit in on several meetings wherein contract negotiations were discussed and purchasing decisions were made.