Education
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Master of Information and Data Science Current
Student
Current GPA: 4.0 GPA (unweighted)
Columbia University in the City of New York Manhattan,
NY
Business Certificate March 2012
Cumulative GPA: 4.0 GPA (unweighted)
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
May 2011
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a Computational Finance Minor
May 2011
Cumulative GPA: 3.41/4.00
High Dean's List
Experience
Private Investor Self Employed, May 2011-Present
-Investor in startup companies in early to mid-stage growth
-Deals and negotiations have included companies whose founders have been
interviewed in Forbes with investment amounts ranging from $100 to over
$25,000 at a time
-Company valuations have been upwards of $100,000 based on equity ownership
and competing offers
IBM Washington, DC
Advanced Analytics and Optimization Consultant, May 2012-March 2014
- Managed the participants for Holiday Mobile Shopping promotion accounting
for approximately 1.025 billion pieces and $226 million in revenue in 12
business days
-Trained and managed new consultants in how to build, develop, and quality
check advanced Excel, SAS, and SQL models and data mining methodologies
-Provided management for promotions by producing documentation required to
ensure the program complied with requirements and achieved the desired
results
-Managed customer earned postage credits by preparing customer reports to
communicate final status in the program. Rebates were distributed to
customers totaling approximately $4.6 million in 12 business days
-Managed the learning, onboarding, and development of new consultants to
the project and IBM with responsibilities including hosting, creating, and
instructing Microsoft Excel and SAS programming classes in excess of 100
consultants with the goal of developing the necessary skills to create
advanced work product and models
-Teamed with a coworker to develop a customer segmentation model with the
purpose of leveraging, reconciling, segmenting, and interpreting existing
customer data across all available data sources
-The model analyzed parcel mail products and the associated USPS customers
while creating appropriate segments in which to cluster USPS customers
based on key prescriptive metrics
-The model divided over $2,500,000,000 in revenue and 1,300,000,000 pieces
of business volume
Battelle Memorial Institute Columbus, Ohio
Research at the Hazardous Materials Research Center, December 2008-January
2011
-Analyzed and handled research grade solutions of chemical warfare agents
via GC/MS
-Built, tested, and operated pressurized cells containing swatches of
chemical warfare suit material to simulate various battlefield conditions
-Prepared, maintained, and manipulated sorbent air sampling tubes and
MINICAMS equipment for Near-Real Time monitoring for nerve and vesicant
chemical agents
-Analyzed, researched, and executed laboratory and quality assurance
programs with success
Carnegie Mellon University Chemistry Department Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Research Assistant, August 2010-January 2011
-Programmed quantum mechanical models on glutamate ion channel binding
mechanisms
-Tested model prediction for binding, solvation, and free energies as
predicted by thermodynamics and quantum mechanical molecular mechanics
compared to experimental data
-Contributing Author of the paper "Molecular Mechanisms of Ca2+ Selectivity
and Mg2+ Block of NMDA Receptors." Biophysical Journal 100.1 (2011): 269a.
Olentangy Liberty High School/Battelle Memorial Institute Columbus, Ohio
Senior Researcher, August 2006-May 2007
-Submitted a group paper to the American Chemical Society on the production
of biodiesel using an original synthetic process from food sources and
fryer grease in collaboration with Battelle
-Tested fuel combustibility and efficacy in diesel engines with success
Circuit City Stores Inc. - Sales Associate Columbus, Ohio June 2007-
August 2007
-Sold computers, cameras, accessories, and insurance policies matching
consumer needs
-Maintained a rate of product return below 5% -Met all sales quotas and
deadlines on time
-Solved consumer technical issues concerning store products
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, Indiana July 2006-August
2006
- Operation Catapult -Designed, built, and tested a solar chimney
(parabolic dish concept) over the course of three weeks on a limited $300
budget then analyzed the data regarding power efficiency in a technical
paper.
-Oversaw and completed project from conception to systems analysis and
demonstration.
-Project Advisor: Professor Richard Stamper, Head of the Department of
Engineering Management.
Skills
Software: SAS, SQL, Monte Carlo Simulation, Hadoop, R, Python, Machine
Learning, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Windows, C++, Java, AMBER,
AMPAC, HARLEM, Mathematica, Matlab, LaTex, Maple, SAGE, Atlas CDS, Unix,
GAUSSIAN, Rasmol, Eclipse
Laboratory: NMR, GC/MS, UV/VIS, HPLC, FTIR, ATD, Chemical and Organic
Synthesis, Design, and Analysis Labs, Molecular Spectroscopy Lab, MINICAMS
Honors and Activities
Best Buddies Volunteer, Summer 2013-Present Dean's List, Spring 2010
Bridge Student Mentor, Fall 2009 High Dean's List, Spring 2008
Private Tutor, Winter 2008-Present Varsity Track and Field,
Spring 2008-2010 Varsity Cross Country, Fall 2007-Fall 2008
Undergraduate Investment Club, 2007-2011 UAA Conference Qualifier, Fall
2008 2006 Chemistry Olympiad Nationals
Math Club, Fall 2007-2011
People-to-People Student Ambassadors Program, June 2003-July 2003