Travis Lee Email & Phone Number

Sarasota, Fl, Us

Sarasota, Fl

College: New College of Florida prepares intellectually curious students for lives of great achievement. As the State of Florida’s designated honors college, New College provides an exceptional education that transforms students’ intellectual curiosity into personal accomplishment. A top six public liberal arts college. Roll: Taught variety of courses and tutorials. Offered training and support for faculty members interested in bolstering the quantitative content of their courses. Available as guest lecturer for class sessions on quantitative topics * Taught personal finance, mathematical economics, and quantitative methods. Led independent study projects. Developed new courses. Taught courses in Networks, Crowds, and Markets (game theory, graph theory, matrix analysis); Quantitative Reasoning for the Humanities; Introduction to Python Programming; Calculus and Math Tools for the Social Sciences; Statistics for Economics; precalculus; calculus 1, 2, and 3; linear algebra; complex analysis and To Infinity and Beyond (quantitative reasoning). Always earned favorable teaching evaluations from students.* Offered workshops in Excel, PowerPoint, Minitab, and college student financial literacy. * Surveyed faculty on quantitative issues. Sponsored senior theses.* Annually required incoming students to take a quantitative assessment to measure their skills with fractions, percentages, proportions, interpreting charts and graphs, and basic probability and statistics. Reported individual results to advisers and aggregate results to faculty at large.* Served as Quality Assurance Manager for colleagues’ Environmental Protection Agency grant.* Consistently sought out professional development opportunities.

Firm: Private institutional investment management complex focused on working toward greater quantification and automation in the development of trading processes.Role: Supported large global group of internal customers including traders and researchers monitoring real-time trading system for algorithms and data jobs, researching profitable trading algorithms, and developing in Perl, CGI, Mason in UNIX and Bash shell scripting.* As de facto Perl developer, automated team’s work, reducing from 8 people working 75+ hours per week without completing the fundamental mission to 6 people completing the work in 30 hours weekly; persuaded team to actively and creatively contribute to the automation project despite initial resistance.* Retired very heavy legacy suite of monitoring software, upon which other groups still relied, though it routinely failed in very expensive ways and crashed the high-performance computers running it.* Designed and implemented innovative changes to software and processes/procedures which significantly improved team performance and success of team's internal customers.

Ithaca, New York

Firm: For-profit firm owned by Cornell University for the purpose of leveraging the Cornell brand to sell professional certifications.Role: Java, PHP, Yii, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Ajax in UNIX environment and Agile Development.* Developed unique Java solution for uniformly packaging and migrating course content in industry standard format (first application of this technology at the firm).* Developed lightweight Javascript solution for tracking students' progress through complex course content.* Researched competing languages and web frameworks for recommendations to management.* Pursued innovative solutions for re-marketing Cornell University computer engineering courses. * Hosted electronic university within Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, & Cloudfront) with third-party monitoring.* Debugged compatibility issues between different internet browsers for electronic classroom (CMS).

Ithaca, New York

Firm: Remittance and payment processing providerRole: Provided infrastructure support, installed custom proprietary software, developed business requirements documentation and established and maintained customer and third-party relationships with banks, hardware vendors and information technologists; development in Visual Basic and SQR (reporting) in Windows environment; installed and maintained MS SQL Server and Oracle databases on various MS server platforms.• Custom installation of proprietary software involving tens of thousands of parameters for configuring optical character recognition (OCR) of various kinds and integration with customer accounting systems.• Debugged wide array of MS Windows bugs related to networking, databases, and Java virtual machines.

• Conducted empirical and theoretical research in development economics including multiple Stata statistical programming research projects.• Developed several empirical and theoretical research projects for undergraduate and graduate students.• Coordinating Teaching Associate supervising lectures of 400+ students and up to eight teaching assistants.• GPA 3.72/4.00

Greenwich, Ct

Firm: SEC Registered securities broker dealerRole: Analyzed pricing data, trends, and underlying fundamentals and implemented new pricing models for electronic trading system in C++ using numerical methods and NAG Fortran numerical library in Unix environment.• Implemented trinomial tree model which allowed the firm to start trading options on bonds profitably.• Analysis, simulation, visualization, and estimation of fundamentals (e.g. volatility) for model calibration.

• Future Professoriate and Teaching Fellow, training all new incoming graduate student instructors• Promoted to Teaching Associate; received outstanding teaching associate award• Taught wide variety of courses including statistics, calculus, and English as a second language.• GPA 3.88/4.00

West Lafayette, Indiana

• Received MacLane Award for outstanding graduate student and teaching award finalist (three years)• Passed qualifying and advanced topics exams.• Taught undergraduate and graduate courses including optimization and ordinary differential equations.• GPA 3.81/4.00

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Economics

• Conducted empirical and theoretical research in development economics including multiple Stata statistical programming research.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics

• Future Professoriate and Teaching Fellow, training all new incoming graduate student instructors • Promoted to Teaching Associate.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mathematics

• Received MacLane Award for outstanding graduate student and teaching award finalist (three years) • Passed qualifying and advanced.

Summer Program In Probability

• Advanced seminars in probability theory • Computer simulations of random walks and other stochastic processes

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics

• Undergraduate thesis on stochastic processes and measure theory with baccalaureate exam • National Merit Scholar, Florida Academic.