Profiles of Some Mathematics
Graduates in the U.S.
Marc A. Fusaro
Research Assistant
Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System
Marc Fusaro is a research assistant in the Research and
Statistics division of the Federal Reserve System. "I work in Washington
DC in a glorious marble building facing the Vietnam memorial," Marc says.
"I am in the Economic Activity Section, which is on the front lines of
monetary policy. We are the people who forecast and study the economy for
the Governors of the Federal Reserve and Chairman Greenspan." Marc has
a B.S. in mathematics from the University
of Scranton.
Arnitra
DuckettBA Mathematics
Educational Markets Manager
Upon receiving my Bachelor's of Science
degree in May of 1995, I began my career with Texas Instruments, Inc. as
an Educational Markets Manager (EMM). As an EMM, my job is to create awareness
and demand for classroom technology. I have always been aware of the connection
between mathematics, science, and many other subjects. However, the connection
between mathematics and business became more apparent as I began working
for a major corporation. Because of my involvement in both the mathematics
and business communities, I plan to pursue a Master's in business administration
in order to strengthen my bond between mathematics and business.
Rina Schneur
Operations Research Specialist
PTCG Inc.
Rina Schneur works for PTCG, a software development company
that specializes in developing optimization and decision support software
for the transportation industry.
Rina has a B.S. in Civil Engineering (Fluid Mechanics)
from the Technion, Israel, and
a M.S. and Ph.D. in Transportation and Operations Research (a field of
Mathematics) from M.I.T.
Bernard
McCabeVice President
Bernard McCabe is a Senior Vice President
of Daniel H. Wagner Associates (DHWA) in Malvern, Pennsylvania, where he
is responsible for the firm's strategic planning and marketing. The function
of the firm is to apply mathematics to a consulting and software development
environment. "We design mathematical models of many different kinds of
phenomena and situations," he says. "These include searching for lost or
valuable objects or tracking objects of military interest. We also develop
mathematical models for financial applications: evaluating complex investment
options, portfolio design, risk-based pricing of loans."
Yvonne Zhou
BA Mathematics and Computer Science
Macalester College
Software Engineer
Cray Research, Inc.
In May 1991, I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics
and computer science from Macalester College in Minnesota. Since then,
I have been working at Cray Research on a scheduling program for the Cray
Supercomputers. The manager who hired me later told me that the reason
he picked me was because I had a very strong background in mathematics.
Ron
BousquetBA Mathematics and Computer Science
MA Mathematics
R&D Projecy Manager
I graduated from Potsdam College in May
1989 with both undergraduate and graduate degrees. I immediately began
working for Hewlett-Packard as a software development engineer. Within
my first six months, it became apparent that what I learned in the realm
of mathematics might even be more important than what I learned in computer
science. But what I found most useful about my mathematics training was
not simply the facts I learned. Rather, it was that it taught me how to
learn. I was able, with little or no supervision, to pick up a journal,
or a textbook, or a manual, and get the information I needed to be productive.
Rol Fessenden
BA Mathematics
SUNY, Binghamton
MA Geology SUNY, Binghamton
Director of Inventory Control
L.L. Bean
I graduated in 1969 from the State University of New
York at Binghamton with a BA in Mathematics, and in 1974 I received an
MA in Geology. My current interests are in customer testing and in mathematical
modeling of the merchandising process. At Bean we attack the forecasting
problem at every stage of the process. We analyze historical sales data,
model forecast uncertainty to design contingency plans, and analyze catalogue
displays to understand how some can be more successful or attractive than
others.
William
L. Anderson
President
Elements Research
William L. Anderson is president and owner of Elements
Research, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Since 1977, his business
has developed software for engineering, medical, and scientific applications.
Bill has a BS Mathematics from The
Citadel and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Florida
Institute of Technology.
As the examples in his mathematical
applications list show, Bill believes that mathematically trained individuals
can often reduce a complex problem to a model that can be implemented in
software.
Leslie F.
Donnelly
Media Specialist
DeMasi Middle School
Leslie Donnelly is a Media Specialist at DeMasi Middle
School in Marlton, New Jersey.
The mission of the media center is to support the curriculum
and to provide resources and instruction in information processing skills.
The Media Specialist has three roles: information specialist, teacher and
instructional consultant. Leslie performs media center operations such
as ordering, cataloging, and processing of materials, answering reference
questions, as well as teaching classes to groups and instructing individual
students, and working with teachers to develop lessons.
Leslie has a B.S. in mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon
University, a Ed.M. in secondary mathematics education from Temple
University and a M.L.S. in library science from Drexel
University.
David H. Wheeler
Systems Analyst
Ford Motor Company
David Wheeler is an analyst with Plant Floor Systems
at Ford Motor Company, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he is primarily responsible
for the analysis of operations on the floor of the assembly plant. The
entire group is responsible for all systems, from printers to data collection
on assembly machines, within the Rawsonville Plant of the Electrical and
Fuel Handling Division. It is their responsibility to collect data and
perform analysis which will result in the improvement of the production
process.
David has an M.S. from Carnegie
Mellon University in applied mathematics, and a B.S. in mathematics
from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
He joined Ford three and a half years ago as the result of recruitment
efforts by Ford on the Carnegie Mellon campus.
Duncan A. Buell
Research Staff Member
Institute for Defense Analyses
Duncan A. Buell is member of the research staff at the
Center for Computing Sciences (CCS), Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA),
located in Bowie, Maryland. The business of IDA is research in mathematics
and computation in support of the mission of their sponsor, the National
Security Agency (NSA). The mission of the NSA, a government agency,
is to protect U.S. communications and to produce foreign intelligence information.
Duncan has a B.S. in mathematics from the University
of Arizona, an M.A. in mathematics from the University
of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University
of Illinois.
David
L. BrownTeam Leader, Numerical Analysis and Parallel Processing
David Brown is the team leader of the Numerical
Analysis and Parallel Computing team in the Computing Information and Communications
(CIC) division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
"The Scientific Computing Group," explains
David, "is a group of mostly Ph.D. scientists who do research in the areas
of numerical methods for fluid dynamics, combustion, and radiation transport,
and who also study and evaluate advanced computer architectures.