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I am trained as a Scientist and Engineer and have always been interested in technical problems within (though not limited to) those disciplines broad boundaries. I also have great interest in the open source and open information movement, web development, energy and the environment, entrepreneurship and the interplay of them all. I live in New York City.
Currently I work as an independent software developer and data consultant. I specialize collecting and interpreting both explicit and implicit datasets available on the web.
At Majestic I worked in R&D as a data analyst. My primary role was to develop novel research products through the acquisition and analysis of proprietary datasets. During my tenure at the company I created a new data product which saw sales of $750K in its first 6 months of existence. I continue to consult for Majestic after resigning from my position in May of 2009.
Research & Development at an Art & Technology non-profit. At Eyebeam I developed Personal Kyoto (a web app for tracking and reducing your electric use), Slash/Links (a Rails based open source software tool for sharing bookmarks) and helped design synthetic meteor trajectories for Bill Dolson's Reentry piece.
As an engineer at JPL I designed a GUI interface for a trajectory optimization program as well as an initial guess program that helps the user provide more physically appropriate starting guesses to the optimizer. I also did numerous preliminary design and feasibility studies for spacecraft trajectories.
My Research Assistantship work involved the analysis of altimetry data from a number of satellites. I also studied and implemented multiple algorithms for spacecraft trajectory optimization.
At the University of Georgia College of Education I was responsible for the computing needs of the entire River's Crossing center that housed hundreds of faculty and staff of the college. The work included installation, maintenance, and repair of hardware and software on PC, Apple, and Linux/Unix platforms.
I was one of two network engineers responsible for creating the computing environment of this Athens Georgia Internet Cafe.
Throughout High School I built and repaired computers at an Atlanta PC shop.
MS Aerospace Engineering Sciences
BS Physics Cum Laude
Continuing Education classes in art & design.
Summer 2009
HousingTracker provides semi-realtime monitoring of Real Estate trends such as inventory, asking prices and affordability.
Personal Kyoto is a web based electric consumption monitoring (and reduction) tool for New York City residents.
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