Dan Brown

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Founder and CTO, Occam Education

  • Education

    • University of of East London School of Psychology

      2014 - 2016
      Master's of Science Applied Positive Psychology

      Positive psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning with an aim to understand the factors that enable individuals and communities to thrive.Early research focuses were on organizational efficiency and consulting, and education for gifted youth.For my MS dissertation, I built a survey site using Ruby on Rails, vanilla JS and PostgreSQL (deployed on Heroku) and then conducted exploratory factor analysis using R to hypothesize a 3-factor scale (see dissertation… Show more Positive psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning with an aim to understand the factors that enable individuals and communities to thrive.Early research focuses were on organizational efficiency and consulting, and education for gifted youth.For my MS dissertation, I built a survey site using Ruby on Rails, vanilla JS and PostgreSQL (deployed on Heroku) and then conducted exploratory factor analysis using R to hypothesize a 3-factor scale (see dissertation attached). Show less

    • University of Notre Dame

      2003 - 2007
      B.A. Russian, Arabic
    • Georgetown University

      2009 - 2009
      Arabic Language and Literature, Graduate Studies
    • Georgia Institute of Technology

      2020 - 2023
      MS in Analytics

      Languages: R and PythonTopics: various paradigms of machine learning with a minor focus in reinforcement learning, parametric and non-parametric statistics, computational data analysis

    • Dev Bootcamp

      2014 - 2014
      Ruby on Rails, JS

      Ruby bootcamp featuring Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and other web fundamentals.Final project featured coupling low-energy bluetooth heart rate monitors with a Rails web app that used D3.js to visualize data in real time.

  • Experience

    • Occam Education

      Jan 2009 - now
      Founder

      Manage operations and development of internal education management platform and public mobile apps.

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

      Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
      Teaching Assistant, Regression Analysis
    • Georgia Institute of Technology

      May 2023 - now
      Instructional Associate

      Assistant instructor for the MS in Analytics program, currently Regression Analysis (6414)

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Mentor, Curriculum Consultant and Teacher Trainer

      Issued by World Tech Makers on Jan 2014
      World Tech MakersAssociated with Dan Brown
    • Consultant, Mentor

      Issued by Moringa School on Jan 2015
      Moringa SchoolAssociated with Dan Brown
    • Teaching Assistant

      Issued by Code Platoon on Jan 2019
      Code PlatoonAssociated with Dan Brown