Brian W. Colder
Brian Colder, Ph.D.
Employment
- Independent Consultant - Multiple Contracts - 10/2005 - 6/2006 - Continued as Technical Project Manager and Chief Scientist for SAGE. Led technical volume preparation for two proposal efforts, both with multiple external teammates, to perform advanced technology research for the intelligence community. Provided cognitive science expertise on proposal effort for commercial client. Continued as neuroscience consultant on classified project, and analyst on classified project.
- Booz Allen Hamilton - Associate - 2/2002 - 10/2005 - Technical Project Manager and Chief Scientist for SAGE, a $5.3M cognitive science research project that uses state-of-the-art computer interface technology to assist analysts in uncovering novel intelligence from massive data. Developed cognitive science data collection laboratory and performed experiments to collect data for building ACT-R cognitive model for SAGE project. Technical Project Manager and Lead Developer for ARM-IR, a risk management software application implementing Booz Allen's Analytical Risk Management methodology employed widely in the intelligence community. Designed psychophysical test on classified project. Analyst on classified project.
- Folio FN Inc - Quantitative Financial Programmer/Analyst - 10/1999 - 10/2001 - Developed the Advanced Folio Creator, a Java EJB application that constructs security portfolios to meet user-specified criteria, including optimizing weights so that folios have desired fundamental characteristics, or minimizing risk of portfolio. Coded custom optimization software to minimize risk of a selected set of stocks. Managed interaction between Research and Applications Development teams. Developed business-critical SQL subroutines and batch applications.
- Quantitative Financial Strategies - Software Developer - 6/1999 - 10/1999 - Used C++ and Informix ESQL to develop enhancements to internal trading and accounting applications. Worked closely with traders and financial researchers to construct GUI interfaces for entering and maintaining international bond pricing data.
- Manugistics - Software Developer - 6/1998 - 6/1999 - Designed and coded heuristic algorithms to minimize order transportation costs. Led the development of an enhancement that significantly improved solution quality and reduced runtime for traveling salesman problem with tight time windows and multiple stops at a single location. Developed improvements to simulated annealing algorithm that decreased runtime up to 80% for some clients. Worked closely with reference-able clients to ensure enhancement meets business needs.
- New Jersey Neuroscience Institute at JFK Medical C - Postdoctoral Fellow - 1/1996 - 5/1998 - Independently assembled, constructed, and operated a functional magnetic resonance imaging laboratory performing research in the neural basis of consciousness. Developed experimental protocol, including speech stimuli and data analyses. Wrote and assembled C, IDL, MATLAB and UNIX shell code using Solaris and HP-UX operating systems to perform 2D correlation analyses on brain images. Consultant to neurosurgeons on use of medical imaging applications to perform stereotactic neurosurgery. Lecturer in neurology resident program at JFK Medical Center, and Neuroscience Ph.D. program at Rutgers University, Newark.
- Rutgers University - Postdoctoral Fellow - 12/1995 - 4/1996 - Modeled neurophysiological data using techniques from non-linear dynamics. Wrote and assembled C, Fortran, and AIX shell code to calculate the correlation dimension of electrical impulses recorded from the brains of epileptic patients.
- Universite De Rennes 1, Rennes, France - Postdoctoral Fellow - 1/1995 - 4/1996 - Applied a signal processing model designed to localize earthquake tremors to find the source of electrical impulses inside brains of epileptic patients. Wrote and assembled C and IRIX shell code that applied linear algebra to neurophysiological data and models of human head conductance.
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