Education
- Masters in Stastics, 2005 - Brigham Young University
 - BS in Economics, 2003 - University of Utah
 
Interests
- Data Science
 - Data Visualization
 - Statistics
 - R
 - LDS church history
 - Interfaith dialogue
 
Work Experience
- Senior Scientist – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 2005-2015
 
Research
- Composite sampling
 - Unexploded ordnance
 - Data visualization
 - Building energy modeling
 
LinkedIn Profile
Biography
I am currently at Brigham Young University - Idaho in the Mathematics department as the lead of our data science program. I worked at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory from 2005 to 2015.
While at PNNL I was a primary contributor to the Visual Sample Plan software (VSP) and led the technical development of the transect sampling and multi-increment sampling methods in VSP.
I also worked on ‘big data’ applications with Ryan Hafen using Hadoop technologies as the PRIMA lead data scientist with applications in climate modeling (PRIMA paper and Building Energy paper).
I love the programming language R and am the lead teacher of our key data science class at BYU-I.