Ryan S.

10/2/2014
Seattle, WA

Position Desired

Other Engineering
Anywhere in WA
Yes

Resume

BS/MS Applied Mathematics seeking position as Scientific Programmer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Placed Inc. - Scientist (Aug. 2011-June 2012)
• Worked with millions of rows of data across thousands of daily-active users
• Collected data and built features for Machine Learning
• Worked heavily with Ruby, Linux, and Python
• Intermediate use of Git and MySQL
• Manipulated geospatial data using GDAL and PROJ4
• Mobile App testing and design (Android, iOS)

bitOption.org - Web Devleopment (Summer 2011)
• Learned the basics of web development with Python
• Learned the basics of Git and MySQL


PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE
• Ruby
• Linux/Shell scripting
• Python
• MySQL
• Matlab, Mathematica
• Fortran, C/C++
• LaTeX


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Summer 2010)
• Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science
• Worked with Peter Lauritzen on an Integer-based Polygon Intersection program applicable to atmospheric modeling.

Applied Mathematics Department: Building Linux Cluster (Fall 2009)
• Building/testing a small (six processor) cluster in preparation of a larger, departmental cluster.

Applied Mathematics Department: Mentoring Through Critical Transition Points (Fall 2006-Fall 2008)
• Developed mathematical and data processing skills related search engines, clustering, and content-aware image resizing

Applied Mathematics Department: Mathematical ActionScript Toolkit (Summer 2008-Spring 2009)
• Programming mathematical and numerical packages for use in Adobe Flash Software.

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics REU Program (Summer 2007)
• Research with Mark Rast on measuring Solar Irradiance using feature identification.

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Spring 2007)
• Worked with Michael Gehmeyr on refinement of Matlab code for a solar wind model.


MASTER’S THESIS
Univ. of Colorado Applied Mathematics (Spring 2010)
• Measures of Mixing within the “Blinking Vortex” Map.
• Identification of chaotic/mixed regions of the map’s domain using:
– Finite Time Lyapunov Exponents,
– A novel moment of inertia based technique.


PUBLISHED WORK
National Institute of Standards and Technology (2007)
S.Hooker, R. Geiss, R. Schilt, and A. Kar, "Rapid Inspection of Carbon Nanotube Quality," Proceedings of the 31st International Cocoa Beach Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, 2007.

SCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES , HONORS AND AWARDS

SIAM Regional Conference
• 2009 Conference:
– Presented Research: “Experiments on Mixing: Aref’s Blinking Vortex”
• 2008 Conference:
– Co-Chair of the Morning Session
– Presented research: “Exemplar-Based Multiresolution,...

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