Ruth Kurian
Teaching
Experience
Technical
Trainer, AppWorx Corporation - Atlanta, GA 2000 - 2002
- Trained technical managers
and staff of AppWorx clients on UNIX-based, Oracle driven software.
- Created an Advanced Programming
Course that has generated over $100,000 in revenue this year.
- Presented classes for
such diverse institutions as NASD and Dartmouth University.
- Updated training materials
with each new release of the software.
- Average customer satisfaction
score for class presentations is 4.8 out of 5 possible.
Teaching Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology
-Atlanta, GA 1997 -1999
Sophomore Level Geology Lab:
- Lectured on weekly
topics and answered questions throughout the session.
- Fully responsible for
grading labs and for students' final grades at close of term.
Senior
level Field Methods Course:
- Served as contact during
the week to students needing help with class concepts.
- Organized class field
trip and supervised geophysical data collection and interpretation during
the trip.
Technical Experience
Processing Geophysicist,
Veritas DGC - Houston, TX 1999 - 2000
- Processed seismic surveys
using cutting edge geophysical industry technology, pre-stack depth migration.
- Wrote UNIX shell scripts
to facilitate status queries, data processing and organization.
- Created and submitted
over 90 successful jobs in one day due to productivity gained through the
use of shell scripts.
Staff Scientist, HSI
Geo Trans, subsidiary of Tetratech - Roswell, GA 1998- 1999
- Modeled hydrologic
and contaminant fate transport of sites including a super-fund nuclear waste
site.
- Wrote code in FORTRAN
and used MODFLOW to model these sites.
- Mapped model areas
with GIS software, processed output data with Excel, and used batch files
to run models and perform file maintenance.
- Modeled particle transport
and verified results unsupervised for the Crandon Mines project.
Graduate Research Assistant,
Georgia Institute of Technology- Atlanta, GA 1997- 1999
- Designed and implemented
experimental set-up to study the hydrological regime of a tidal marsh.
- Developed FORTRAN computer
code and used MATLAB signal processing tools to model data.
- Supervised undergraduate
volunteers in field data collection.
Education
Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 1992 - 1999
MS Geophysics, BS Physics
- Presented first-author,
scientific abstract at Southeast Conference of Oceanic Research.
- Completed all coursework
for teaching certification in high school level science and math.
- Coursework in C, FORTRAN,
and advanced JAVA.
- Dean's List, recipient
of the Horace Smith Fund, Maternal Women's and Women in Science Scholarship.