About Me
I am a Systems Integration Consulting Analyst for Accenture, in New York.
On this site you can find information about me.
Latest News
February
This month I received the great honor of being accepted to The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Starting this fall, I'll be a PhD student in their OPIM department. I am absolutely thrilled about the chance to study at one of the best business schools in the world, housed at an Ivy League university. Because of this, I've turned down my chance to get an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
2012 - January
This month my graduation from BYU was made official, and I found out that I will be given Magna Cum Laude honors for my undergraduate GPA. As that part of my life ends, another begins, and I've moved to New York and started Java training with my new consulting job at Accenture.December
On Dec. 15, very near the end of the "decision deadline," I received a call from the Yale School of Management (part of Yale University) informing me that I would be offered a spot with the Yale SOM class of 2015. They have selected me to start next fall with their "Silver Scholars" program, and they've also offered me their "Dean's Scholarship" to help support me financially. It's gratifying to see lots of hard work pay off, and exciting to think about what will come next.
November
I've been delighted to find out that a scholarly paper that is about to be published, and on which I am a coauthor, will give me a finite Erdos number. My coauthor Dr. David Cardon has coauthored a paper with M. Ram Murty, who coauthored a paper with Paul Erdos. This means that I have an Erdos number of 3. My next goal will be to get a finite Erdos-Bacon number, a much harder task.
October
My newest BYU Political Review article is up here.
September
I've just uploaded the first video to my NGO's youtube channel. You can see it here.
August
I've just been informed by Accenture that I'll be receiving a full-time offer as a Consulting Analyst. I'm waiting to hear details on the job.
July
I've just submitted another paper to a math journal - this time the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Undergraduate Mathematics Journal. This journal is peer-reviewed and contains papers of high quality. I have high hopes for success in the review process.
June
This month I've officially begun my internship with Accenture. So far I've been working on various aspects of software development, documentation, and testing.
May
The website for my newest venture, Golden Land Education is up. GLE is a new kind of NGO, providing employment opportunities and vocational training to Burmese refugees in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Also, I've been selected as an Associate Content Editor and Columnist for the BYU Political Review for the coming fall semester.
For a long time I've wanted to contribute meaningfully to Wikipedia. At the beginning of this month, I created and authored the wikipedia article on Ridit scoring. This article has been on their "requested article" list for at least several months. So far, I'm the only one who has made meaningful contributions to it.
April
This month, a paper that I've coauthored (see January) has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Linear Algebra and Its Applications. It should be published within the next few months.
March
I've accepted an internship offer from Accenture. I'll spend 10-12 weeks in their Denver office this summer, working on something called "Systems Integration." I'm excited to have the chance to work in the competitive technology consulting industry with a leader like Accenture.
Also, my mini-article "Startup Countries" appeared in this month's BYU Political Review.
February
This month I took the General GRE for the first time. I was happy with my scores: I got a perfect 800 on the quantitative section and a 760 on the verbal section. My analytical writing score was 5.5/6.
January
As 2011 starts, I am excited about the launch of my newest website ZoomWiki. ZoomWiki is a wiki-style website that presents information in a new "zoomable" format. It's meant to be a study aid and time-saver as well as to change the way that information is presented online.
I am also pleased that my mentor Dr. David Cardon and I have submitted a preprint of a research paper to a peer-reviewed journal. The article is called "The Jordan canonical form for a class of zero-one matrices" and it is under review by the Journal of Linear Algebra and Its Applications.