Bruce C. Paul

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TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCIES

Data Engineering Database Design/Analysis Web Application Dev System Admin

SQL Server ASP.NET 2.0 C# C/C++

Python Scala/Java FORTRAN UNIX/Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Contractor, Chicago, Illinois Present

I currently consult on a project that aims to improve the state of science education pro bono

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Available to develop projects in Python, Scala, or C#. Particularly data science projects

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Aon Re Services, Chicago, Illinois 2001 2009

Senior Financial Analyst

Developed ASP.Net 2.0 C# code/web service to automate the process of cost allocation/rate making

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Wrote SQL statements and stored procedures to automate process of cost allocation

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Designed data warehouse for modeled client data and sample portfolios for use in cost of capital allocation

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Composed Python code to perform matrix algebra and other MatLab style analyses

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Priced Reinsurance Treaties and created an index to monitor the state of the reinsurance market

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Validated Catastrophe (Weather) Modeling Software/Devised techniques for comparing insurance portfolios

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Performed rate making for select clients on the East Coast, with internal and external cost allocation

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University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 1991 2000

Graduate Assistant

Predicted atypical low temperature behavior in heavy Fermion compounds

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Developed C/FORTRAN routines to simulate the proposed system behavior and properties

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Generated and analyzed data based on numerical renormalization group techniques

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Adapted techniques documented in journal articles to deepen analysis of datasets

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Employed Unix shell scripts to calculate expected low temperature properties

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University of Chicago Computing Organization, Chicago, Illinois 1991

Software Engineer

System administration on AIX RS/6000 Workstations, which formed an archive of images generated by researchers

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Installed UNIX operating systems

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Benchmarked workstations and operating systems with C routines derived from senior thesis

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EDUCATION

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 2000

Ph.D., Physics

Dissertation: “A Study of a Three –Impurity Kondo Model”

Recipient of Dissertation Fellowship

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1990

B.A., Physics

Recipient of National Merit and Illinois State Scholarships

Composed numerical model in C as part of senior thesis research

VOLUNTEER

Assist regularly at the Chicago Children's Museum

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Work with blind teens to prepare them for college life

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