Marcus Cuda

Current
  • Sr. Software Developer at Freelance
Past
Education
  • University of California, Davis
  • California State University-San Bernardino
Connections
18 connections
Industry
Computer Software
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Marcus Cuda’s Summary

Marcus Cuda’s Specialties:

Creating custom data analysis and management solutions using C#, C++, SAS, and other languages.


Marcus Cuda’s Experience

  • Sr. Software Developer

    Freelance

    (Computer Software industry)

    March 2005Present (4 years 5 months)

    • Developing QuantPro, a set of quantitative analysis tools for Microsoft .NET and Excel.
    • Ported an optimization and simulation program that used Matlab, GAMS, and an Excel Macro to an Excel add-in using C++. Resulting add-in was 25x faster.
    • Created a fluent variable generation API in C#. It allowed the client to quickly generate complex variables.
    • Developed the backend for the TÜSIAD-Koç University Economic Research Forum data download project.
    • Created an application that creates and estimates near-VAR models using C# and dnAnalytics. The application was used in a Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking article.
    • Created a customer purchase simulation program with configurable customer preferences and inventory models using C++.
    • Developed the retail application Simple Server Monitor. Allowed fo monitoring of servers and remote services from user's desktops.
    • Created numerous other data generating, management, and analysis programs using C# and C++.

  • Information System Analyst

    Federal Reserve Board

    (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

    May 2002February 2005 (2 years 10 months)

    • Supported economists and research assistants on computing issues related to current analysis, forecasting, and research.
    • Maintained and improved applications/scripts used to generate economic forecasts.
    • Wrote an object oriented Java interface around the FAME C-API, which was similar to TimeIQ.
    • Wrote a MPI-based C++ program to estimate stochastic volatility, jump-diffusion models on a Beowulf cluster.
    • Created a FAME interface to allow users to read and write MS Excel worksheets directly from FAME.
    • Developed a tool to convert FAME data into XML (SDMX format) as a member of Downloadable Data Project.
    • Created tools to assist users with U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) annual and comprehensive national income and product accounts (NIPA) data revisions.

  • Senior Software Developer

    Evincible

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 2000May 2002 (2 years)

  • Programmer / Analyst

    Social Sciense Data Service

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

    19961999 (3 years)

    • Assisted faculty and graduate students with data manipulation and statistical programming projects using SAS, SPSS, STATA, C++, E-Views, Excel, Java, and other software.
    • Facilitated students’ ability to select, manipulate, and analyze data by creating a DHTML interface to SAS, which is used to teach statistical methods to undergraduate students without proficiency in SAS.
    • Allowed users to query library holdings of Institute of Government Affairs by developing and implementing web page using Perl and MySQL.
    • Created multiple statistical and data manipulation programs in SAS, SPSS, STATA, C++, and Java.
    • Designed and implemented a statistical library in Java.


Marcus Cuda’s Education

  • University of California, Davis

    M.A. , Economics , 19941997

  • California State University-San Bernardino

    B.A. , Economics


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Marcus Cuda’s Interests:

optimization techniques, machine learning, new technology


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