I am a data scientist that enjoys analyzing data to solve real world business problems. My extensive quantitative and analytical skills have been honed and sharpened during years of rigorous research previously as an astronomer and currently as a data scientist. Specialties: -- fitting models to data -- analyzing large datasets -- Monte Carlo modeling and fitting -- probability and statistics -- devising plans to solve quantitative problems -- image processing -- programming in IDL and Python -- distributed computing using Hadoop (Java, Hadoop streaming in Python) -- experienced with UNIX -- technical writing utilizing TeX