David Dakota Blair
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Information New York, NY 10029 E-mail: ******@******.***
WWW: tensen.net
Research Number theory, additive combinatorics, transcendental numbers, model theory
Interests
EducationPh.D. (in progress), MathematicsThe CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Texas A&M University, College Station, TXM.S., Mathematics, May 2007
Advisor: Professor Sue GellerB.S., Mathematics, December 2006
Cum Laude, with Honors in Mathematics
Awards The CUNY Graduate Center
Doctoral Student Research Grant 2012
CUNY Teaching Fellowship, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011
Texas A&M University
Lechner Scholarship, 2003
Texas Interscholastic League Foundation Scholarship
Nelda C. & H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 2003
Academic Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Experience
Graduate StudentSpring 2007
Honors Help Session InstructorFall 2006
Aided students with homework and lab assignments for Differential Equations.
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Undergraduate ResearcherSummer 2005
Participated in Algorithmic Combinatorics on Words, an REU.
Generalized fundamental results on monoids to partial words.
Presented work at MFCS 2006 in Star a Lesn a, Slovakia.F. Blanchet-Sadri, D. Dakota
Blair, Rebeca V. Lewis. Equations on Partial Words.
Publications
RAIRO-Theor. Inf. Appl. 43, 23-39 (2009)
Professional Freelancers Union, New York, NY
Experience
Software EngineerJune 2011 to Present
Provide maintenance and development on Django web apps. Implement advances
to data archival and processing strategy.
Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY
AdjunctAugust 2009 to May 2011
Taught Statistics, Introduction to Mathematics and remedial mathematics courses.
New York Magazine, New York, NY
Junior Software EngineerAugust 2007 to August 2009
Maintain Omniture Analytics implementation.
Facilitate data transformation between legacy and new systems.
Maintain various technical documentation.
Complete Printing and Publishing, Carthage, TX
ProgrammerApril 2002 to August 2006
Implemented online user interfaces for company data for employees, customers.
Developed products that replaced initial paperwork for orders and decreased turn
around time for orders from repeat customers.President of Texas A&M chapter of Pi Mu
Epsilon, Texas A&M University, 2006
Service
Organized and arranged meetings.
Coordinated efforts for student outreach programs.
Redesigned website to conform to web standards and enhance maintainability.Academic UIL
Instructor, Cypress Grove Intermediate School, 2006
Introduced middle school students to mathematics by preparing for UIL math events
including Number Sense, Calculator Applications and the general mathematics test.
Mitchell Symposium on Observational Cosmology, 2004Undergraduate Student Member of Organizing Committee
SEE Math Texas A&M University, 2004
Introduced middle school students to cryptography, graph theory, formal logic and
computer programming.
Other Skills Familiar with Software engineering best practices including Design Patterns,
Agile
methodology and version control (Subversion and Git in particular).
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Proficient Languages: Python, JavaScript, SQL, LT X, PostScript, XSLT, XHTML,
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UNIX shell scripting
Matlab experience: linear algebra, nonlinear numerical methods, polynomials, statis-
tics, visualization.
Computational Mathematics frameworks experience: MAGMA,PARI,SAGE
Also experienced with: Perl, PHP, Fortran, C, C++ Mathematica, Maple, CSS, gnuplot