John M. Morrison
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Education Alternate Route Certification, Teacher of Mathematics,
State of New Jersey, 1993. Ph. D., The University of
Texas, (Stochastic
Processes), 1986. Supervising Professor: Gary L. Wise A. B.,,, 1979
Professional Experience
Teacher and Coördinator,,,
Durham, NC, 2005 - pres. Responsibilities includeDeveloping and implementing an entirely new program in Computer ScienceManagement of relationships with outside organizations, particularly IBM
and SAS
Teacher, Department of Mathematics,
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC,
2000 - 2005. Responsibilities included Teaching Calculus, Precalculus and Computer Science Courses Revision of the existing Computer Science curriculum Switching the Advanced Placement Computer Science Program to
the Java language, and introducing the Python language Working with the School Improvement Group to help complete the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation process Working on the Academic Technology Committee to revise the
school-wide technology plan
Teacher and Senior Member, Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science,
Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Hackensack,
NJ, 1993-2000. Responsibilities included Development of new curricula for sophomore, junior
and senior years, development and implementation of AP courses. Complete instructional responsibility for AP Calculus. Conducting departmental meeting. Hiring of four new faculty members. Planning use of space and personnel. Developing a curriculum in C/C++, including new freshman
programming class Participating in the admissions process by interviewing
applicants, working with a team to create tests, make admissions decisions,
and formulate admissions policy.
Options Research Associate, Cooper-Neff Technologies,
Philadelphia, PA, 1992. Responsibilities included Creating a model for selecting stock baskets to hedge
S&P 500 futures transactions. This model served as an engine
for an X-windows based proprietary computerized trading system that does a weekly volume of over 3,000,000 shares. Creating pricing sheets for commodity futures options used in
the pits at the COMEX and PHLX. Processing and summarizing stock transaction data with UNIX
C shell scripts and the S+ statistical programming language. Researching market microstructure and program trading strategies
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Operations Research,
1986--91, The,
Newark, DE. Responsibilities included Research program on stochastic processes Teaching classes from the freshman to the Ph. D. level in
areas such as probability, analysis, and statistics Representing departmental interests in the college senate Course coördinator for Finite Mathematics
Graduate Research Assistant/Associate Instructor, 1980-86, The
University
of Texas, Austin, TX. Responsibilities included Four years of teaching at the undergraduate level Performing research on stochastic processes and statistical
communication theory and presenting the results at international
conferences.
Computer Skills Operating Systems: Ubuntu and Fedora LINUX (user and administrator), MacOSX, Windows R/S+ Statistical Programming Language C/C++ programming Python (numpy/matplotlib) Mathematical packages: MAPLE, Mathematica, MathCad Markup languages: TeX/LaTeX, XHTML Website administration (XHTML/CSS/PHP on Apache).