Talented individual

Lucas Talken 928-***-**** • *****.******@*****.***

Education

Arizona State University - Tempe, Arizona

Member of Barrett, the Honors College

Bachelor of Science in Economics May 2014

● Minor: Psychology

● Minor: Mathematics

● Certificate: Informatics

● GPA : 3.85 // Summa Cum Laude; New American University Scholar: President’s Award

● Completed Honors Thesis Project in animal behavior research laboratory

Experience

International Alliance for the Prevention of HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS Prevention Teacher in India May 2013 to July 2013

● Taught HIV/AIDS Prevention via an interactive curriculum to classrooms of high school and college students in India

● Allied with my peers and an Indian counterpart-translator to teach as a cooperative and cohesive unit

● Educated over 8000 students in 20 schools in both urban and rural communities as an organization of 15 volunteers

● Experienced traveling through India by every form of transportation and interacting with locals of many cultures

Arizona State University – Math Tutoring Center

Math Tutor 15 hours/week September 2012 to May 2013

● Tutored my peers in varying math levels in a fast-paced and demanding tutoring center

● Communicated effectively with each type of students and approached problems from all angles to guarantee learning

English Language Institute in China

English Teacher in China July 2012 to August 2012

● Taught English to a class of students in Hong Kong for 1 month and explored mainland China for 1 week

● Carried out a curriculum and lesson planned for each 3-hour day of teaching

● Facilitated individual learning by guiding my students one-on-one during class time

● Executed class management techniques to oversee my 30-person class of high school aged students

● Adapted to the foreign culture and new environment and learned how to communicate beyond language

Behavioral Economics Research Study - “Contractual Behavior” (approved by Institutional Review Board [IRB])

Experiment Co-Designer / Administrator February 2012 to March 2012

Under direction of Professor Dan Ariely of Duke University // funded for $1000

● Constructed a social economics experiment design to observe contractual interactions between people

● Administered the experimental procedure and collected data from over 100 recruited participants

● Collaborated with my peers to plan every aspect of the study from start to finish

Arkaik Clothing LLC, ArkaikClothing.com - Tempe, Arizona

Intern 20 hours/week March 2011 to September 2011

● Analyzed trends with self-built models and graphs through Google Spreadsheet

● Managed website upkeep and inventory of new and old products

● Provided customer service for customers from over 60 countries around the globe

● Packaged and shipped hundreds of orders through original shipping method

● On-site product sales on tour across country

Skills

● Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook)

● Java, PHP, MySQL, (LAMP), HTML

● Stata, SPSS, R, Mathematica, SAS

● Provides legendary Customer Service

● Solves problems with remarkable Resourcefulness

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