Career Panel Participants
Dana Nickleach University of California, San Francisco Dana Nickleach graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in mathematics and minor in statistics in 2002. Before attending graduate school she worked as a mathematical programmer for the government contractor, Applied Mathematics, Inc. She later received her M.A. in statistics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2005. She worked as a statistician on research grants at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Instruction and Learning and also the Center for Social and Urban Research. She then spent two years in the field of marketing research analytics working for Management Science Associates. This work involved statistical modeling to help answer client's business questions and better market their products. She is now a statistician at UCSF working on public health research grants. In particular she works in the Medical Effectiveness Research Center within the Division of General Internal Medicine. Their mission is to promote health and prevent disease in racially/ethnically diverse populations. |
| Linda Green Archimedes, Inc.
Linda Green graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics in 1990. She was awarded the Association for Women in Mathematics Alice T. Schafer Prize for her undergraduate work. She earned a PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 1996, specializing in three-dimensional topology. After a post-doc at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and a teaching position at the North Carolina School of Science and Math, her interests turned to mathematical modeling of biological systems. Her first non-academic position was with a mathematical consulting company called Applied Math, Inc. In her current position at Archimedes, Inc. in San Francisco, she has worked on mathematical models of diseases including breast cancer and depression. These disease models fit into a comprehensive simulation of the health care system that can be used to analyze cost-effectiveness and make health care policy decisions. |
Steven Moore Apple Steven Moore graduated from Sonoma State in 2007 with bachelor's degrees in computer science and mathematics, receiving honors from both departments. While an undergraduate, he spent two summers as an intern at Apple's main headquarters in Cupertino, returning for a full time job after graduation. For the past year and a half, he has been a member of the Comms QA department, writing programs that perform automated qualification of Apple's AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and Time Capsule base stations. Those same programs also test the wireless capabilities of all of Apple's shipping computers, including the iMac, MacBook, and Mac mini product lines.
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