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Our business provides digital and automation solutions.

Maryland, United States

Overseeing and performing all software stack version updates on the web server, addressing potential codebase issues due to software updates, and adding, removing, and enhancing webpage content.

College Park, Maryland

Maintain and enhance features to the Hazardous Mapping System, 24/7 fire and smoke operations application written in IDL as an ENVI extension.

• Tutoring students in advanced calculus, algebra, trigonometry, and statistics• Assisting teachers in classroom for the developmental math module course

Department Of Geology

• Composed mathematical documents by researching and employing type setting computer language, LaTeX.• Contributed to National Science Foundation (NSF) funded collaborative research on dynamics of the ultralow-velocity zone at Earth's core-mantle boundary, award number 0911094.• Completed Physical Science Responsible Conduct of Research, Basic Course.• Independently wrote over 2000 lines of code for mathematical derivation and integration, interpolation, and polynomial expansion.• Developed finite element programs to perform integration over 3-D elements.• Translated above programs from MATLAB to FORTRAN.• Constructed interpolation functions using a Gauss-Quadrature interpolation method.

Department Of Astronomy

• Conducted visible image photometry for the Deep Impact Extended Investigation (EPOXI), a NASA funded flyby mission of comet 103P/Hartley 2.• Wrote over 1000 lines of code using the Interactive Data Language (IDL) for processing comet images.• Expanded programming skills, working from command prompt to run scripts in IDL.• Distributed data products for team-based study and characterization of comet.o Examined over 32,000 images, and synthesized to graphically present comet’s light trend over time.o Managed and tabulated several versions of image file details.o Produced results from image inspection for artifacts in their data.• Published data products on web-based NASA archival, Planetary Data System (PDS).•Presented data analyses discussing visible image photometry (300-1100 nanometer range), coma formation and brightness distributiono Lunar Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) at The Woodlands, TX- Undergraduate Poster Session, March 2011.o Univ. of MD Observatory- Open House Event talks, Jan. 2012, Aug. 2012.o EPOXI science team meetings, June 2011, July 2012.o Poster presentation at the Univ. of MD – NASA Goddard Interaction Day, Nov. 2011.• Contributed as a co-author on professional publications. o Shape and Geology of Comet 103P/Hartley 2, Thomas, P.C., et al. in-press 2012, Icarus. o The Complex Spin of 103P/Hartley 2. Kinematics and Orientation in Space, Belton, Michael J.S., et al. in-press 2012, Icarus. o Gas and Dust in the coma around Hartley 2, Bodewits, D., et al. in preparation 2012, Icarus.o EPOXI at Comet Hartley 2, AHearn, M. F., et al. 2011, Science.• Volunteered at the astronomy department display table to demonstrate cometary science during campus-wide open house event, Maryland Day.

• Responded to student/parent financial aid inquiries, ~50 phone calls/week.• Processed financial aid within digital database system, documenting updates resulting from phone calls and correspondence to students/parents, and tabulating account payment details.• Trained ~ 3 new student workers on using digital financial aid database, and on performing data entry updates and financial award notifications.• Assisted with office supply orders and inventory.• Shredded sensitive documents, disposing in recycling dumpster.• Sorted postal mail on daily basis for distribution to financial aid officers.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Geology/Earth Science, General

B.S, Physical Sciences

Activities and Societies: University of Maryland Women's Crew team, bow seat rower Baptist Collegiate Ministry Geology Club S.C.O.R.E.