John M. Morrison

morrison@ncssm.edu

Education

• Alternate Route Certification, Teacher of Mathematics, State of New Jersey, 1993.
• Ph. D., The University of Texas, Mathematics (Stochastic Processes), 1986. Supervising Professor: Gary L. Wise
• A. B., Indiana University, Mathematics, 1979

Professional Experience

Teacher and Coördinator, Program in Applied Sciences, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC, 2005 - pres. Responsibilities include

• Developing and implementing an entirely new program in Computer Science
• Hiring of several colleagues
• Management of relationships with outside organizations, particularly IBM and SAS

Teacher, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC, 2000 - 2005. Responsibilities included

• Teaching Calculus, Precalculus and Computer Science Courses
• Revision of the existing Computer Science curriculum
• Switching the Advanced Placement Computer Science Program to the Java language, and introducing the Python language
• Working with the School Improvement Group to help complete the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation process
• Working on the Academic Technology Committee to revise the school-wide technology plan

Teacher and Senior Member, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology , Hackensack, NJ, 1993-2000. Responsibilities included

• Development of new curricula for sophomore, junior and senior years, development and implementation of AP courses.
• Complete instructional responsibility for AP Calculus.
• Conducting departmental meeting.
• Hiring of four new faculty members.
• Planning use of space and personnel.
• Developing a curriculum in C/C++, including new freshman programming class
• Participating in the admissions process by interviewing applicants, working with a team to create tests, make admissions decisions, and formulate admissions policy.

Options Research Associate, Cooper-Neff Technologies, Philadelphia, PA, 1992. Responsibilities included

• Creating a model for selecting stock baskets to hedge S&P 500 futures transactions. This model served as an engine for an X-windows based proprietary computerized trading system that does a weekly volume of over 3,000,000 shares.
• Creating pricing sheets for commodity futures options used in the pits at the COMEX and PHLX.
• Processing and summarizing stock transaction data with UNIX C shell scripts and the S+ statistical programming language.
• Researching market microstructure and program trading strategies

Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Operations Research, 1986--91, The University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Responsibilities included

• Research program on stochastic processes
• Teaching classes from the freshman to the Ph. D. level in areas such as probability, analysis, and statistics
• Representing departmental interests in the college senate
• Course coördinator for Finite Mathematics

Graduate Research Assistant/Associate Instructor, 1980-86, The University of Texas, Austin, TX. Responsibilities included

• Four years of teaching at the undergraduate level
• Performing research on stochastic processes and statistical communication theory and presenting the results at international conferences.

Computer Skills

• Operating Systems: Ubuntu and Fedora LINUX (user and administrator), MacOSX, Windows
• Bash Shell programming
• R/S+ Statistical Programming Language
• C/C++ programming
• Java
• JavaScript
• Python (numpy/matplotlib)
• Regular expression techniques
• Mathematical packages: MAPLE, Mathematica, MathCad
• Markup languages: TeX/LaTeX, XHTML
• Website administration (XHTML/CSS/PHP on Apache).