Service and Awards#

Awards and Honors#

  • President’s Award for Innovation, Southern Methodist University — October 20, 2020

  • 1st Place, Poster Competition for Chemistry, Research Day, Southern Methodist University — February 10, 2012

  • 2nd Place, Poster Competition, Chem-Bio Symposium, University of Texas at Dallas — March 26, 2008

  • Four-year varsity letterman; co-captain of the Texas Tech cross country and track teams — August 2001 to May 2005

  • Recognized by Texas Tech University and the Big 12 Conference for excellence as a student athlete

Certificates#

  • Project Management Certificate, Southern Methodist University — December 2023

University Activities and Committees#

  • Southern Methodist University Enterprise Architecture Board (EAB) Chair-Elect — August 2023 to May 2024

  • Southern Methodist University Enterprise Architecture Board (EAB) — June 2021 to May 2024

  • COVID-19 Spring 2021 academic facilities allocation taskforce (Data Ninjas for Operations “Room of Requirement” and “Sorting Hat”) for the SMU Office of Information Technology and Administration — September 2020 to May 2021

  • COVID-19 Fall 2020 academic facilities allocation taskforce (Data Ninjas for Operations “Room of Requirement” and “Sorting Hat”) for the SMU Office of Information Technology and Administration — May 2020 to August 2020

  • Member of the campus-wide Clowder implementation group — February 2020 to May 2025

  • Member of the Open OnDemand HPC Portal implementation group — April 2019 to December 2019

  • Search committee member, SMU Office of Information Technology Data Science Consultant hire — 2018

  • Search committee member, SMU Office of Information Technology HPC Consultant hire — 2018

  • Search committee member, SMU Office of Information Technology Senior HPC Systems Administrator hire — 2017

  • Member of the core group tasked with the planning, design, acquisition, and implementation of SMU’s ManeFrame II (M2) cluster — 2016 to 2017

Service and Outreach#

  • SMU Reads Facilitator, Lab Girl by Hope Jahren — Fall 2018

  • Led the Southern Methodist University and University of Texas at Dallas joint team application to the Super Computing 2018 Student Cluster Competition — Spring 2018

  • Designed the book cover image for Fundamentals of Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization; Tsarevsky, N. V.; Sumerlin, B. S., Eds.; The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013

  • Graduate Student Assembly Representative, SMU Department of Chemistry — August 2011 to August 2013

  • Introduction to Computational Chemistry for High School Instructors — 2011

  • Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee Member, American Chemical Society — Fall 2011

  • Chemistry Graduate Council Treasurer, Southern Methodist University — 2011

  • American Chemical Society Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee — Spring 2011

  • Chemistry Graduate Council Secretary, Southern Methodist University — 2010