Rachel Drummond 4952 Waldenwood Dr. Highlands Ranch, CO 80130
720-344-3634
[email protected]
Objective To discover the underlying mathematics in the natural world by developing algorithms, functional modeling of phenomena, and general analysis of data.
Education BS in Mathematics, Cum Laude, minor in Physics Univ. of CO at Denver (UCD) 5-2000. MS in Applied Mathematics, with Computational Biology Certificate, UCD 12-2007. Master's Thesis compared the mechanical properties of spider silks with their amino acid sequences and modeling their stress strain curves. Special emphasis: algorithms, optimization, biophysics, biostatistics, computational biology, mathematical methods in the physical sciences, continuous modeling, continuum mechanics, SAS, R, Perl, C++, MATLAB, and LaTeX.
Publications Ellen Gethner, Bopanna Kallichanda, Alexander Mentis, Sarah Braudrick, Sumeet Chawla, Andrew Clune, Rachel Drummond, Panagiota Evans, William Roche and Nao Takano “How false is Kempe’s proof of the Four Color Theorem? (Part II)”, Involve, a Journal of Mathematics. Status: proofs delivered. Borderlands 4 and Best of Borderlands, “One in the A.M.” Edited by Elizabeth E. Monteleone and Thomas F. Monteleone. Borlderlands Press 1994, 2005 Brooklandville, MD. Sequitur: A Journal of Consequences Edited by Rachel Drummond, R&D Press, Denver 1992.
Awards 2005 - 2007 Eldorado Canyon State Park Photography Contest Winner including placing prizes, honorable mentions, and staff favorites (winning photographs available on request) 2004 – 2006, 2009 Butterfly Pavilion Photography Contest Winner including placing prizes and honorable mentions (winning photographs available on request) “Blue Pond Dragon” used in Butterfly Pavilion promotional material (coffee mugs, magnets, etc.)
Employment Bioinformatist 2008 OPX BioProducts. Assisted biologists and chemists in the development of K12 E Coli strains which contain the genes necessary for chemical production and associated chemical tolerance. Developed Nephos, an interactive MATLAB GUI designed to similarly orient many proteins with identical cofactors Proposed computational biological studies, including scheduling, feasibility, milestones , identification of necessary public domain data and OPX data, identified practical utility of
the results. Teaching Assistant Math for Bioscientists (MATH5198) 2004, Prof. Steve Billups, UCD Computational Biology (MATH 5610) 2006, Prof Harvey Greenberg, UCD Online Mathematics Tutor 2003 – 2005, Assisted a variety of students with impromptu mathematical questions. Computational Biology Department Webmaster 2003, UCD – Computational Biology HTML, PHP and MySQL Systems Administrator 1998 – 1999, UCD Mathematics Department Unix and Windows operating systems Systems Administrator 1994 – 1997, Expert Internet Service, Littleton, CO Maintained Unix and Windows operating systems; wrote code in shell scripts, Perl and Expect Provided customer support: on-site calls and on-demand programming. Featured in Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Computers, Diane Lindsey Reeves and Peter Kent, Facts on File Inc., 1998.
Other Experience and Interests Hiking and Camping Tessellating the plane in textiles Origami