You’re prob­a­bly most inter­ested in these achievements:

  • Man­aged 12 tech­ni­cal con­sul­tants for Uni­ver­sity of Colorado’s $67 mil­lion Epic soft­ware install
  • Achieved a 117% increase in stu­dents pass­ing state sci­ence test, improv­ing scores by 12% over past years
  • Coor­di­nated instruc­tional efforts of 16 teach­ers as the sci­ence depart­ment chair — we achieved a 72% increase in 11th graders pass­ing the state-mandated sci­ence test
  • Deliv­ered $6.5 mil­lion of advanced tech­ni­cal frac­tur­ing and sand con­trol solu­tions to cus­tomers in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Assisted in the early stud­ies of cat­alytic con­ver­sions with Dr. James Dumesic and Randy Cor­tright for Virent Energy Systems

Rela­tion­ship Man­ager — Frac­tur­ing, Aquamost Madi­son, Wis­con­sin (Jan­u­ary 2012 — present)

  • Develop & main­tain rela­tion­ships with water treat­ment com­pa­nies ser­vic­ing the energy industry
  • Use inter­net mar­ket­ing strate­gies to gen­er­ate leads
  • Coor­di­nate ser­vices at the treat­ment site

Tech­ni­cal Con­sul­tant, Epic Madi­son, Wis­con­sin (August 2007 — Jan­u­ary 2012)

  • Man­age 12 tech­ni­cal con­sul­tants sup­port­ing the tech­ni­cal imple­men­ta­tion of the Uni­ver­sity of Colorado’s $67 mil­lion enter­prise soft­ware install
  • Man­age devel­op­ment part­ner­ship to inte­grate MyChart with National Library of Medicine’s Med­line Plus database
  • Lever­age tech­ni­cal problem-solving and man­age­ment skills on the MyChart patient web por­tal application
  • Weekly check-in calls for each cus­tomer, review­ing issues queues, new devel­op­ment, and mar­ket­ing strategies
  • Write qual­ity assur­ance notes for devel­oper fixes; enhance­ment pro­pos­als for new development

Founder & Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, ScienceForAmerica.com (July 2006 — July 2009)

  • Founded online com­mu­nity to empower sci­ence edu­ca­tors as teach­ers and learners
  • 3,000 monthly vis­i­tors, 300 return­ing vis­i­tors, top resources down­loaded over 4,000 times
  • Devel­oped web site scope, devel­op­ment sequence, and marketing
  • Self-taught web site devel­op­ment using the Joomla con­tent man­age­ment system

Chem­istry Teacher, Rice Uni­ver­sity Hous­ton, Texas (May — June 2007)

  • Col­lab­o­rated with uni­ver­sity pro­fes­sors to pre­pare 35 high school stu­dents in advanced chemistry
  • Devel­oped and imple­mented cur­ricu­lum, includ­ing research, lab­o­ra­tory and technology-based instruction

Sci­ence Depart­ment Chair, Chavez High School Hous­ton, Texas (August 2006 — May 2007)

  • Coor­di­nated sci­ence cur­ricu­lum for 16 teach­ers serv­ing 2,500 students
  • Con­tributed directly to 72% increase in 11th grade pass­ing rate for state-mandated sci­ence test
  • Facil­i­tated weekly meet­ings, lead­ing dis­cus­sions to ensure adher­ence to cur­ricu­lum requirements
  • Pro­vided con­cise ver­bal and writ­ten rec­om­men­da­tions to admin­is­tra­tors regard­ing cur­ricu­lum specifications
  • Man­aged grant resources and $20,000 sup­ple­men­tal bud­get sup­port­ing teach­ing and enrichment

Phys­i­cal Sci­ence Teacher, Teach For Amer­ica Hous­ton, Texas (June 2005 — May 2007)

  • Recruited into highly selec­tive pro­gram: national accep­tance rate 15% of 17,000 appli­cants in 2005
  • Aver­age stu­dent per­for­mance top 10% of all phys­i­cal sci­ence teach­ers on campus
  • Achieved 117% increase in stu­dents pass­ing state sci­ence test, improv­ing scores by 12%
  • Com­mu­ni­cated and estab­lished rela­tion­ships with over 350 stu­dents, fam­i­lies and colleagues
  • Informed best prac­tices through use of Excel spread­sheet report­ing tools for stu­dent per­for­mance data

Field Engi­neer, Schlum­berger Mau­rice, Louisiana (Octo­ber 2003 — June 2005)

  • Deliv­ered over $6.5 mil­lion of frac­tur­ing and sand con­trol solu­tions to oil and gas clients in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Lever­aged pro­pri­etary soft­ware to ana­lyze and improve pro­duc­tion and return on invest­ment for clients
  • Devel­oped and imple­mented client-focused mar­ket­ing to high­light strong dis­trict ser­vice qual­ity record
  • Con­tributed to for­mu­la­tion of solu­tions to tech­ni­cal prob­lems in a high stress environment

Research Assis­tant, Dumesic Kinet­ics Group Madi­son, Wis­con­sin (May 2002 — May 2003)

  • Assisted in renew­able energy stud­ies that formed the foun­da­tion of Virent Energy Systems
  • Devel­oped and oper­ated reac­tor appa­ra­tus used for gen­er­a­tion of hydro­gen via liquid-phase pathways
  • Col­lected tem­per­a­ture and pres­sure data, pre­pared catalysts

Process Engi­neer, Cargill Gainesville, Geor­gia (May — Dec 2001)

  • Co-op at soy­bean pro­cess­ing facil­ity– crush and extraction
  • Per­formed best prac­tices study of flash steam reuse in extraction
  • Man­aged instal­la­tion of mois­ture sen­sor sys­tem in stor­age bin

EDUCATION

Uni­ver­sity of St. Thomas — Hous­ton, TX

Texas Edu­ca­tion State Board Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, June 2006

Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin — Madi­son, WI

B.S. in Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing, August 2003

Uni­ver­si­dad de Oviedo — Asturias, Spain

Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing Oper­a­tions and Process Lab­o­ra­tory, Sum­mer 2003

SKILLS

Dru­pal, Joomla, Word­Press, HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, Fireworks