Collin Starkweather
 
 
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Behind the Scenes
For those who are interested in such things, this site is served off a Gentoo Linux 1U rack mount with an Intel motherboard sporting a 1 GHz Pentium III processor from a family owned and operated colocation facility in lovely Tampa, Florida.

The site is served by the Apache2 web server.

All images on this site were created by the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (the GIMP).

The code base that drives the site is the Apache::PageKit, written in Perl using the MySQL database.

 
Summary
Former top-billing economist at leading U.S. economics consultancy in M&A and finance matters. 4 years experience managing teams of research analysts and software engineers. 8 years experience in numerical optimization, econometrics, and algorithm design. 9 years software engineering and architecture experience. Reputation for delivering value with the highest level of professional integrity.

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Have Laptop, Will Travel
Yunnan Color Cloud Award Following a successful career at a leading economic consulting firm and several high-tech startups in the U.S., in 2006, I decided to take a year away to do something interesting and different. Through a contact in Colorado, I found a position teaching business and economics at Yunnan University.

For my work at Yunnan University, I was recently awarded the Color Cloud Award, the highest honor bestowed upon foreign experts in Yunnan Province.

Having spent a year in China, I have decided to explore the possibility of continuing to live and work overseas and hope to bring value to an employer in China.

Prospective employers can find a summary of my skills and experience and links to detailed descriptions of my past work experience below.

Prospective employers who would like to contact me may do so at

  • E-mail:
  • Phone (P. R. China): 131 088 45046
  • Phone (U.S.): (303)875-2480 (messages only)

 



Skills
Management

   4 years project and personnel management experience
   Managed teams of research analysts and software engineers

Economic Analysis

   M & A / Antitrust
AT&T / SBC
Verizon / MCI
Numerous other merger-related matters
     Finance
Enron
Market timing
Numerous other finance matters, including securities fraud, insider trading, and retirement fund management litigation

Technical Skills

   Numerical Analysis
8 years experience in numerical optimization, statistical analysis, and algorithm design
Proficient with SAS and GAMS
Familiar with Matlab, Mathematica, and Gauss
     Software Engineering / IT
9 years software engineering and architecture experience
Highly proficient in Linux / Unix environments
Highly proficient with Perl, familiar with Java
Proficient with Oracle and MySQL



Experience
Yunnan University, Foreign Expert, August 2006-Present

Lexecon, Economist, April 2004-March 2006
  • Provided economic analysis for finance and antitrust matters
  • Managed and coordinated research staff
  • More detail ...

University of Colorado, Graduate Instructor, August 2003-December 2003
  • Generated ML and GMM problem sets in Gauss and Matlab for Ph.D. level Industrial Organization coursework
  • Taught undergraduate applied economics and finance mathematics

Absolute Performance, Inc., Consulting Software Engineer, May 2001-May 2003
  • Designed and implemented systems and application performance tuning, monitoring, and optimization software
  • More detail ...

The Active Network, Inc., Senior Software Engineer, August 1999-April 2001
  • Served as lead software engineer and architect
  • Managed software engineering projects and personnel
  • More detail ...

 



 
Work

LinkedIn Profile
Résumé / CV
Industrial Organization Numerical Examples
Yunnan University Course Materials

Links
Lexecon
The University of Colorado Department of Economics
Absolute Performance, Inc.
The Active Network, Inc.
Trackvia, Inc.
SAS
GAMS

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