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Education	Statistics & Computational Finance  GPA: 3.7/4.0 Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1998 - 2002
	Ctr. for Automated Learning & Discovery (CALD) Data Mining and Machine Learning for Professionals Summer School, June 2000 Carnegie Mellon University
	B.S. Physics, 1995 College of Natural Science Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
SoA Exams Passed	Exam 1
Scholastic Honors	Pi Mu Epsilon - Mathematics Honor Society Phi Theta Kappa - Scholastic Honor Society
Experience	UnumProvident Corporation, Chattanooga, TN	Apr 2004-Present
	Assistant Actuary Part of the Financial Forcasting group doing individual valuations and reserve calculations for Life and Disability products.
	Mathematics Department, Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta, GA	Fall 2002-Spring 2003
	Adjunct Mathematics Lecturer Taught four sections of pre-Algebra Mathematics courses. Responsible for developing class lectures, giving exams, grading, and a bit of career counseling.
	Mathematics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA	Spring 2002
	Math Grader   /   Teaching Assistant. Responsible for grading homework assignments and holding office hours to answer student questions about course material. Grader/TA for a 'Numerical Methods' class and a grader for a 'Concepts of Modern Mathematics' class.
	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA	Summer 2001
	Summer Internship The Machine Learning Systems (MLS) Group creates software solutions to problems requiring data mining, knowledge discovery, pattern recognition, and automated classification and clustering. Worked on research involving the statistical learning method of Support Vector Machines. The purpose was to devise a method to speed up the estimation of data models. Used Matlab to implement these research ideas.
	Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA	Jan 1997-2001
	Research Associate Worked in research labs at the Robotics Institute with the responsibility of designing and implementing applications dealing with distributed systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, and the internet with inflexible deadlines. Team member of three labs during my tenure: Lab Manager in the MultiRobot Lab; part of the Technical Architect team with the Speech Group; and Research programmer for the Center for Integrated Manufacturing and Decision Systems.
	Xcellenet, Inc Atlanta, GA	Jan 1996-Jan 1997
	Developer Received an 'outstanding' on my quarterly reviews. Designed a multi-threaded query server to handle customer database requests. At the beginning of this job worked as part of the Quality Assurance team and was responsible for testing new products.
	North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC	Summer 1992
	Undergraduate Research Participated in a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates summer program. Advised by a physicist studying Condensed Matter Theory. Helped design the mathematical routines used to do N-body simulations in the investigation of the behavior of small groups of carbon atoms.
Computing skills	Perl, Java, Excel, Matlab, C/C++, Visual Basic, Lisp, R(S-plus), HTML, Java Script
Leadership	CALD Graduate Student Representative for the Graduate Student Assembly of Carnegie Mellon University (2000-2001.)
Selected Courses	Survival Models & Ruin Theory, Theory of Interest, Statistics for Actuarial Sciences I-II, Discrete Time Finance, Vector Calculus, Differential Equations, Economics, Linear Algebra, Machine Learning, Statistical Approaches to Learning and Discovery, Computational Statistics for Large Data Bases