J OSH B ROWNING
3055 W Grand Ave., Englewood, CO 80110
(303) 618-9887; rockclimber112358@gmail.com
Education
• Colorado School of Mines—Golden, CO
PhD in Spatial Statistics: August 2013-May 2017 (estimated)
GPA: 4.0
Won a competition forecasting stock prices one and 60 seconds in the future
Awarded Poate Fellowship, SmartGeo Fellowship
• University of Colorado Denver—Denver, CO
Master’s Certificate in Statistics: August 2010-December 2012
GPA: 4.0
Final Project: Used machine learning algorithms and natural language processing to
predict insults in social commentary
• University of Colorado Denver—Denver, CO
MSc. in Mathematics: August 2007-May 2009
GPA: 3.9
• Colorado School of Mines—Golden, CO
BSc. in Engineering Physics: August 2004-May 2007
GPA: 3.7 (Dean’s List)
Completed degree in 3 years
Minor in Mathematics
Employment
• Mediaplex—Denver, CO
Client Analyst: September 2012 - March 2014
Helped develop IMPACT: Mediaplex’s custom causal model for marketing attribution
Frequently analyzed a client’s entire marketing strategy from a statistical perspective
Developed and packaged R code to generate client reports
Audited client’s data and ad server configuration
Maintained multipled client relationships
• eBags—Denver, CO
Statistical Analyst: April 2011 - September 2012
Built predictive models to determine who would respond to catalogs
Constructed a model which predicts the next category a customer will purchase in
Analyzed web log data to measure site performance
Frequently queried the enterprise data warehouse for all types of ad hoc analyses.
Performed many analyses for marketing to measure campaign performance
Built a cluster model to classify and better understand our customers
• City of Melbourne—Melbourne, Australia
Intern: April 2010-August 2010
Analyzed Missing Data in Pedestrian Traffic Records
• United Launch Alliance—Denver, CO
Mechanical Engineer: August 2007-April 2009
Analyzed separation events
Prepared memos and gave formal business presentations
Developed new analysis tools when necessary
• Various Employers—Denver, CO
Consultant/Instructor/Tutor: 2006-April 2011
UCD: Statistical Consulting with Professor Loren Cobb (October 2010-April 2011)
UCD: Taught many classes, from a high school summer math class to Calculus 3
UCD: Tutor (calculus, algebra, thermodynamics)
CSM: Tutor (calculus, physics, chemistry, statics, dynamics, and circuits)
Programming Experience
• R: Self-taught along with 3 years professional work experience. IâĂŹve developed
proprietary packages, implemented C++ code with the Rcpp package, analyzed datasets
with millions of rows and hundreds of columns using bigmemory, created beautiful
visualizations with ggplot2, and built all kinds of data mining models (for work and for
fun).
• SQL: Three years of professional experience pulling data for statistical analyses.
• Excel: 5 years of professional experience, high level of comfort with all built-in functions
and simple script-writing in VBA
• C++: Self-taught, I’ve used C++ to speed up R code as well as write simple programs
• Additional languages I’ve used: Fortran, LaTex, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, Python
Publications
• J.M. Browning, P.J. Cameron, I.M. Wanless, "Bounds on the number of small Latin
subsquares", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 124 (2014) 41-56
• J.M. Browning, D. S. Stones and I. M. Wanless, "Bounds on the number of autotopisms and
subsquares of a Latin square", Combinatorica, 33 (2013) 11-22.
• J. Browning, P. Vojtechovský and I. M. Wanless, "Overlapping latin subsquares and full
products", Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin., 51 (2010) 175-184.
Community Service
• Humanitarian Trip to Kenya
• Habitat for Humanity Australia
• Denver Rescue Mission
• Mission Trips to Mexico, Peru, and a soup kitchen in California
• Summer Camp Counselor
• Volunteered at a local nursing home
Personal Interests
• World travel, home repair, education, basketball, rockclimbing, data mining, and being a
dad/husband
Note: References and Transcripts available upon request.