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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