Converse Griffith Jr.

*** *. ******** **. *** F, Yellow Springs, OH 45387

acqlzv@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile - 937-***-****

Experience:

1.Botanist, US Forest Service, Kisatchie National Forest, Calcasieu Ranger District, Boyce, LA 2004-2013

o Analyzed success in fulfilling forest management plan objectives on the 600,000 acres of the

National Forest using Landsat satellite imagery and ERDAs Imagine image-processing software

o Arranged for 1930s and 1940s era aerial photographs of portions of two ranger districts to be digitized, so they could be used as background layers in a Geographical Information System (GIS) system to measures changes in forest cover

o Recorded GPS & other field data of rare plant & rare plant habitat surveys using ArcMap, a GIS software package

o Drafted 3 environmental assessments to control invasive exotic plant species infesting dozens of acres

o Analyzed effects of timber and fire management on rare plants and their habitats

o Wrote decision memo to allow for removal of brush and trees that were encroaching on pitcher plant bog and calcareous prairie habitat on the Kisatchie Ranger District of the Kisatchie National Forest

2. Trainee Botanist, US Forest Service, National Forests and Grasslands of Texas, Lufkin, TX 2002-2004

o Conducted surveys for rare plants & invasive species in areas where timber management planned

o Composed reports on the effects of timber management on rare plant species

3. Postdoctoral Associate, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 2000-2002

o Analyzed experimental results from quantitative genetics experiment using SAS

o Drafted portions of papers published in peer-reviewed journals

o Supervised undergraduate workers in lab

o Kept track of expenses

o Collected data weekly from larger (~6000 plants to start) experiment

4. Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 1993-2000

o Taught laboratory sections in introductory biology, mycology, plant ecology, and microbiology

o Analyzed results from doctoral research using SAS and Systat (analysis of variance and covariance, linear discriminant functions), wrote simulation model in Visual Basic

5. Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 1990-1993

oTaught laboratory sections in plant taxonomy, general biology, plant physiology, & ecosystem ecology

oAnalyzed master’s thesis data with SAS (analysis of variance, regression)

Education:

MS Applied Statistics, GPA 3.2, Wright State University, Dayton, OH May 2015

PhD Biology, GPA 3.8, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY August 2000

MS Botany, GPA 4.0, University of Georgia, Athens, GA May 1993

BA History, GPA 3.2, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH June 1988

Technical Skills:

Statistical software: SAS, R, Minitab, Systat

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, ERDAS Imagine, ESRI ArcView & ArcMap

Wright State Statistics Courses:

Survival Analysis – survivorship and hazard functions, Kaplan-Meier non-parametric estimation, Cox models, etc. of mostly medical data usually using SAS, occasionally R

Clinical Trials basic study designs, sample size determination, randomization process, response variables using R

Computational Statistics – logistic regression, principal components in the context of regression, discriminant analysis, cross-validation, ridge regression, the lasso, employing R

Categorical Data Analysis - odds ratios, contingency tables, log-linear models, exclusively using SAS

Statistical Methods I & II - regression, nonlinear regression, ANOVA, repeated measures, experimental design, etc. using SAS

Advanced Topics in Biostatistics – generalized linear models, boot-strapping, mixed models, analyzed with R or SAS

Statistical Theory I &, II – probability, expected values, functions of random variables, maximum likelihood estimation, pivotal quantities, tests of hypotheses

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