HALEIGH WRIGHT

I combine my technical, research, and business expertise to help improve livelihoods through technology

Where I'm Going

With seven years of interdisciplinary education, four years of research experience, and six+ months of consulting experience, I thrive in interdisciplinary settings. I believe that the best solutions result from people with different experiences coming together to reach a common goal.

Everything is connected. I am passionate about making strategic connections between technological solutions and business opportunities to generate meaningful, real-world impact.

In my free time, you can find me near a body of water reading, writing poetry, or oil painting.

Where I've Been

Education

MS, Computer Science

University of California, Santa Barbara

December 2019
College of Engineering
Santa Barbara, CA
Completed all coursework
Cum. GPA: 3.87

Master of Technology Management

University of California, Santa Barbara

June 2019
College of Engineering
Santa Barbara, CA
Concentration in Strategy
Cum. GPA: 4.0

BS, Scientific Computing

University of Pittsburgh

April 2015
College of Letters and Sciences
Pittsburgh, PA
Concentration in Environmental Science
Magna Cum Laude

Experience

Consultant

Flir Systems, Inc.
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Santa Barbara, CA

• Generated specific recommendations for knowledge transfer, retention, and recruitment efforts at a specialized, highly technical firm
• Conducted 30+ internal interviews, 2 internal surveys, 20+ external executive interviews, and research of over 75 case studies and reports; condensed and presented to project stakeholders
• Consistently interfaced with executive stakeholders to refine project requirements with agile-esque approach

Scientific Computing Intern

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Santa Barbara, CA

• Collected and translated data and program requirements from remote network of environmental researchers
• Constructed novel geospatial, graph-based algorithms in python and GIS that have been used in at least one peer-reviewed scientific paper

Project Management Consultant Intern

Zotos International, Inc.
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Geneva, NY

• Managed KPIs for a $5.5m, 2-year Warehouse Management System implementation project at 750k sqft manufacturing and packaging facility
• Developed biannual progress report deck and helped present it to C-suite and executive stakeholders
• Managed workflow documents and Gantt Charts

Graduate Researcher

University of California, Santa Barbara
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
Santa Barbara, CA

• Conducted various research projects related to network science, IoT, data science, and security
• Created novel framework for conducting Life Cycle Analysis on the blockchain via smart contracts using multi-party computation that does not require a trusted third party (unpublished)
• Adapted novel secure messaging protocol IoRTMessenger for constrained devices that does not require trusted party to overcome security flaws in current IoT infrastructures like the Samsung SmartThings platform (unpublished)
• Created scalable, mobile-friendly web app to collect crowdsourced emergency situation and location data, capable of handling 200k+ concurrent connections
• Analyzed performance metrics of current state of the art open-source MQTT (constrained device messaging protocol) implementations (unpublished)
• Adapted novel network-based analyzation technique for natural language processed text/text source data, that reveals the similarity of text sources based on their associated topic content (published)
• Created and solved novel bi-level extension of the max cover location problem, with the purpose of eliminating coverage holes in multi-stage location planning efforts (unpublished)

Editor, Publication Assistant, and Author

The Data Administration Newsletter, TDAN.com
May 2015 - Dec 2017
Remote

• Edited and published over 300 articles on corporate data governance and related topics from international experts
• Regular contributor

Technical Research Consultant

University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Geology and Environmental Sciences
May 2014 - Dec 2014
Pittsburgh, PA

• Advised on technical, code-related design decisions and issues for an interdisciplinary research team
• Constructed the first 3D timelapse of underground B-values (Gutenberg–Richter law) from governmental in-situ earthquake sensor data as part of a larger project investigating the potential effects of fracking on earthquake stimulation

NSF REU Researcher

Ohio Wesleyan University, Dept. of Math and Computer Science
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Delaware, OH

• Implemented a board game in Java and devised a novel game-playing agent that successfully defeated world champion human player (published)

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