Employment

• 1995-June 2008.  Final title: Principal Economist.  Freddie Mac, McLean, Virginia
  • Managed team of 4 PhD- and Masters-level statisticians.
  • Worked with business areas to integrate statistical models into their processes.
  • Responded to internal and external model and process audits. 
  • Developed statistical models to predict home values.
  • Developed statistical models to predict borrower income.
  • Developed statistical models to identify risky loans.
  • Assisted in productionalization of models for integration into business processes.
  • SAS programming and database management.
• 1993-1995. Research Assistant.  Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment Laboratory, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 
  • Tested and used experimental software for Kriging (a method of spacial interpolation).  Validated results and interacted with software developer.  Compared different Kriging methods.
  • Conducted trend tests on seasonal data and compared performance of different trend tests.
  • Research in time series methodology. 
• 1991-1993. Undergraduate Research Assistant.  Survey Research Unit, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina.  Chapel Hill, NC
  • SAS Programming, database management.
  • Selected stratified sample and advised client on proper data collection procedures for the Division of Environmental Management's Inspection and Maintenance Program Audit Study.
  • Selected stratified sample for North Carolina Pharmacy Dispensing Cost Survey.
  • Database management and report preparation for Child and Maternal health Care Study.

Education

• North Carolina State University. Master of Statistics, 1995.
• University of North Carolina. BS in Biostatistics with Distinction, 1993.

Patents

• United States Patent 7,289,965 titled "Systems and Methods for Home Value Scoring" issued October 30, 2007.
• United States Patent 7,340,431 titled "Systems and Methods for Determining the Value of Assets" issued March 4, 2008.
• United States Patent 7,451,095 titled "Systems and Methods for Income Scoring" issued November 11, 2008.
• United States Patent 7,593,890 titled "Systems and Methods for Determining the Liklihood that a Loan Closes" issued September 22, 2009.

• Operating Systems:  Windows, Unix.
• Applications: SAS, S-Plus, Excel, Word.

Publications

• Meyers, T.P., Finkelstein, P., Clarke, J., Ellestad, T.G. and Sims, P.F., 1998. A multilayer model for inferring dry deposition using standard meteorological measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research, Washington, DC. Vol. 103(D17): 22645-22661.