Van Malcolm Yadack

Stadtwerke Tübingen GmbH

Tübingen, Germany

Municipal Utility (300-400 Employees)

Portfolio Manager

• Management of power and natural gas portfolios for both sales and production divisions
• Responsible for statistical analysis, modeling, and forecasting of load profiles and market prices
• OTC trading of power, fuel and CO2 derivatives
• Interdepartmental projects in renewable natural gas production, risk management, and in the founding of a renewable energy sales subsidiary

 

University of Konstanz – Chair of Econometrics

Konstanz, Germany

Research group for financial econometrics and microeconometrics

Research Assistant

• Carried out independent research project "Applications of Wavelets in Financial Econometrics"
• Responsible for statistical programing for various research projects
• Managed large and complex datasets
• Experience with: Stata, R, Splus, Matlab/Gauss, html/php

 

Infoman AG

Stuttgart, Germany

Microsoft CRM Sales and Consulting

Intern in Business Consulting Team

• Trained customers in use of CRM software
• Identified and implemented customer-specific software requirements for two large international firms

 

SEA Language Academy

Sapporo, Japan

School for educational alternatives for Japanese youth

English Teacher

• Led private and group lessons for all age levels
• Taught TOEFL preparatory courses

 

University of Kentucky – IDEA Lab

Lexington, KY, USA

University team for the design and construction of UK's unmanned aerial vehicle "Big Blue"

Team Captain / Project Manager

• Coordinated and served as field captain for a large engineering team
• Participated, achieving 1st in "safety" and 5th overall, in the AUVSI 2006 competition at PAX River Naval Airstation
• Led a subgroup of four students in the design and implementation of aircraft sensory systems
• Managed all aspects of the project budget incl. grants, payroll, equipment, etc.

 

Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments

Lexington, KY, USA

Research group for multimedia information analysis and signal processing

Research Assistant

• Carried out independent research in blind source separation
• Contributed to research projects and discussion groups in probabilistic graphical models

 

Teaching Assistant

• Held office hours for undergraduate signals and systems course
• Assisted professor with grading of course work

 

German Aerospace Center, Institute of Structures and Design

Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany

Developer of composite materials for use in aero- and astrospace applications

Research Assistant

• Assisted with research in non-destructive testing methods for ceramic-composite materials
• Carried out independent study in the calibration of CT instruments for the detection of material irregularities