Education

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

Master of Information and Data Science Current

Student

Current GPA: 4.0 GPA (unweighted)

Columbia University in the City of New York Manhattan,

NY

Business Certificate March 2012

Cumulative GPA: 4.0 GPA (unweighted)

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry

May 2011

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a Computational Finance Minor

May 2011

Cumulative GPA: 3.41/4.00

High Dean's List

Experience

Private Investor Self Employed, May 2011-Present

-Investor in startup companies in early to mid-stage growth

-Deals and negotiations have included companies whose founders have been

interviewed in Forbes with investment amounts ranging from $100 to over

$25,000 at a time

-Company valuations have been upwards of $100,000 based on equity ownership

and competing offers

IBM Washington, DC

Advanced Analytics and Optimization Consultant, May 2012-March 2014

- Managed the participants for Holiday Mobile Shopping promotion accounting

for approximately 1.025 billion pieces and $226 million in revenue in 12

business days

-Trained and managed new consultants in how to build, develop, and quality

check advanced Excel, SAS, and SQL models and data mining methodologies

-Provided management for promotions by producing documentation required to

ensure the program complied with requirements and achieved the desired

results

-Managed customer earned postage credits by preparing customer reports to

communicate final status in the program. Rebates were distributed to

customers totaling approximately $4.6 million in 12 business days

-Managed the learning, onboarding, and development of new consultants to

the project and IBM with responsibilities including hosting, creating, and

instructing Microsoft Excel and SAS programming classes in excess of 100

consultants with the goal of developing the necessary skills to create

advanced work product and models

-Teamed with a coworker to develop a customer segmentation model with the

purpose of leveraging, reconciling, segmenting, and interpreting existing

customer data across all available data sources

-The model analyzed parcel mail products and the associated USPS customers

while creating appropriate segments in which to cluster USPS customers

based on key prescriptive metrics

-The model divided over $2,500,000,000 in revenue and 1,300,000,000 pieces

of business volume

Battelle Memorial Institute Columbus, Ohio

Research at the Hazardous Materials Research Center, December 2008-January

2011

-Analyzed and handled research grade solutions of chemical warfare agents

via GC/MS

-Built, tested, and operated pressurized cells containing swatches of

chemical warfare suit material to simulate various battlefield conditions

-Prepared, maintained, and manipulated sorbent air sampling tubes and

MINICAMS equipment for Near-Real Time monitoring for nerve and vesicant

chemical agents

-Analyzed, researched, and executed laboratory and quality assurance

programs with success

Carnegie Mellon University Chemistry Department Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Research Assistant, August 2010-January 2011

-Programmed quantum mechanical models on glutamate ion channel binding

mechanisms

-Tested model prediction for binding, solvation, and free energies as

predicted by thermodynamics and quantum mechanical molecular mechanics

compared to experimental data

-Contributing Author of the paper "Molecular Mechanisms of Ca2+ Selectivity

and Mg2+ Block of NMDA Receptors." Biophysical Journal 100.1 (2011): 269a.

Olentangy Liberty High School/Battelle Memorial Institute Columbus, Ohio

Senior Researcher, August 2006-May 2007

-Submitted a group paper to the American Chemical Society on the production

of biodiesel using an original synthetic process from food sources and

fryer grease in collaboration with Battelle

-Tested fuel combustibility and efficacy in diesel engines with success

Circuit City Stores Inc. - Sales Associate Columbus, Ohio June 2007-

August 2007

-Sold computers, cameras, accessories, and insurance policies matching

consumer needs

-Maintained a rate of product return below 5% -Met all sales quotas and

deadlines on time

-Solved consumer technical issues concerning store products

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, Indiana July 2006-August

2006

- Operation Catapult -Designed, built, and tested a solar chimney

(parabolic dish concept) over the course of three weeks on a limited $300

budget then analyzed the data regarding power efficiency in a technical

paper.

-Oversaw and completed project from conception to systems analysis and

demonstration.

-Project Advisor: Professor Richard Stamper, Head of the Department of

Engineering Management.

Skills

Software: SAS, SQL, Monte Carlo Simulation, Hadoop, R, Python, Machine

Learning, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Windows, C++, Java, AMBER,

AMPAC, HARLEM, Mathematica, Matlab, LaTex, Maple, SAGE, Atlas CDS, Unix,

GAUSSIAN, Rasmol, Eclipse

Laboratory: NMR, GC/MS, UV/VIS, HPLC, FTIR, ATD, Chemical and Organic

Synthesis, Design, and Analysis Labs, Molecular Spectroscopy Lab, MINICAMS

Honors and Activities

Best Buddies Volunteer, Summer 2013-Present Dean's List, Spring 2010

Bridge Student Mentor, Fall 2009 High Dean's List, Spring 2008

Private Tutor, Winter 2008-Present Varsity Track and Field,

Spring 2008-2010 Varsity Cross Country, Fall 2007-Fall 2008

Undergraduate Investment Club, 2007-2011 UAA Conference Qualifier, Fall

2008 2006 Chemistry Olympiad Nationals

Math Club, Fall 2007-2011

People-to-People Student Ambassadors Program, June 2003-July 2003

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