Bridget Thrasher

Current

• Postdoctoral Researcher at Climate Central, Inc.
• Independent Contractor/Data Analyst at Self-employed

Past

• Research Assistant at UC Santa Cruz, Earth Science Dept
• Teacher at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• Research Assistant at SJSU/NASA-Ames

• Web Developer at Oracle

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Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz
• American Intercontinental University
• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

• California Institute of Technology

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Bridget Thrasher’s Summary

Objective:
To obtain a position that utilizes my analytical and problem-solving skills as well as my educational and technical background.

Bridget Thrasher’s Specialties:

Python, Perl, Fortran90, IDL, NCL, SQL, CDAT, NetCDF, GrADS

Bridget Thrasher’s Experience

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  Climate Central, Inc.

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Independent Contractor/Data Analyst

  Self-employed

  (Information Services industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  Finder of things, solver of problems

• Research Assistant

  UC Santa Cruz, Earth Science Dept

  (Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — July 2009 (3 years 11 months)

  * Supplement and adapt regional climate model code base (Fortran) to make use of global paleoclimate data
  * Create and manipulate NetCDF data files to test experimental cases
  * Use NCL and GrADS to visualize and analyze climate model output
  * Present model output results at various venues

• Teacher

  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; WPO; Education Management industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years )

• Research Assistant

  SJSU/NASA-Ames

  (Research industry)

  February 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 11 months)

  * Used theory and observations to research climate of Mars
  * Created finite differencing model of subsurface heat flux
  * Analyzed scientific data using IDL and Fortran
  * Prepared graphics for presentation and publication

• Web Developer

  Oracle

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 5 months)

  * Created product and technology demonstrations for top executives
  * Developed and maintained web-based database applications using PL/SQL
  * Developed and maintain web-based campaign reports using Oracle Reports 6i
  * Created new database schemas for Content Management System

Bridget Thrasher’s Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Ph.D. , Earth & Planetary Science , 2005 — 2009

• American Intercontinental University

  M.I.T , Information Technology , 1999 — 2000

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  M.A.S. , Aeronautical Science , 1995 — 1997

• California Institute of Technology

  B.S , Engineering & Applied Science , 1991 — 1995

Additional Information

Bridget Thrasher’s Groups:

AMS, AGU, Mensa

•    Club ex-Oracle.org
•    Caltech Alumni Association
•    The Parents' Club of Palo Alto and Menlo Park (PAMP)

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