Stephen C. Ulrich Jr
scu@pobox.com - (510)-459-4377
1590 Le Roy Ave - Berkeley, CA 94708
Goal
To contribute my analytical and communication skills to work for the public good by providing high quality, readily understandable information on government activities.
Qualifications
- Excellent analytical skills, including economic and statistical analysis.
- Communication and group management skills: presentation, facilitation, and support services
- Well developed computer skills, with a variety of applications, including SPSS, Microsoft Office, and other technical software.
Education
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
MA Public Policy -- 2006
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering -- 1999
BS Computer Science -- 2000
Academic Projects
- Low Income Housing Analysis: Examined federal housing market interventions and analyzed the successes and failures of these systems based on a set of economic models.
- Puget Sound Water Quality Authority Stakeholder analysis: Provided a detailed analysis of the failure of the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority in terms of which parties were involved, and how they were involved.
- National Identification Card policy brief: examined the effectiveness and tradeoffs involved in various options for different implementations of a national identification system.
Work Experience
2002--Present Boeing-SVS
Member of the Technical Staff --
Promethean
- Core team member; designed and developed a vision-based, mobile obstacle ranging system for unmanned aircraft in Matlab
- Planned, produced, evaluated and improved formulas and algorithms
- Authored simulations and a GUI interface to the project
- Assisted in data gathering flight tests and analyzed results
2001--2002 Carnegie Mellon University
User Services Consultant --
Computing Services
- Supported Remedy customer relationship management software for technical support, from backend database operations to customization and support for the Help Desk package
- Resolved technical issues for students, staff, and faculty
- Installed and configured Linux and Solaris workstations
- Maintained print spooling operations for all campus computer labs and several office groups
- Composed and published webpages documenting group operations and policies
- Authored and conducted instructional presentations for technical staff
- Administered multiple webservers
2000--2001 Motorola
Software Engineer --
Cellular Base Transciever Station Group
- Revised and expanded network layer two implementation for communication between base stations
- Assisted in general systems level programming of base transciever stations
1999-2000 Carnegie Mellon University
Research Systems Programmer --
Andrew Systems Group
- Deployed and maintained software for the campus computing environment
- Developed software to synchronize parallel collections of usenet newsgroups
- Produced a system to track server usage, and publish it on the web
Volunteer Experience
- Berkeley Free Clinic (2002--2004): Provided medical services, including counseling, testing, examination, diagnosis and treament, under physician supervision