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Nathan LaFerney
natelaferney@gmail.com
682-554-4652

Education
Texas A&M University: 3.2 GPA
● Bachelors of Science in Applied Mathematics; Graduation Date: May 2015
● One year of Graduate School studying Mathematics; Dates Attended: Sep. 2015 - May 2016

Skills
● Computer Skills: Microsoft Office Products especially Access and Excel, Adobe
Premiere Pro.
● Computer programming primarily with Python or JavaScript.
● Math tutoring and instruction.
Experience
● Tarrant County College, Instructional Associate: Oct 2019 - Current. Working in the
math lab at the college tutoring students in math subjects such as algebra, calculus and
statistics.
● Huntington Learning, Tutor: March 2019 – November 2019. Worked as a math tutor
covering all subjects from middle school to college math. Also tutored for standardized
tests such as the ACT and SAT.
● Fort Worth ISD, AVID Tutor: February 2019 – May 2019. Assisted AVID teachers
and provided math tutoring.
● Entrepreneurial Endeavor: Oct 2018 - March 2020. Attempted to create my own
software business focused on tools for audio engineers. These tools accept digital audio
inputs, apply effects and pass out the resulting audio to be played back. These tools had
to: conform to a certain format (Steinberg VST3); be agnostic to hardware, operating
systems and audio workstations that may be running them; handle all possible inputs
even if technically invalid; rely on open-source libraries. Challenges included:
researching how different platforms pass/accept audio inputs; developing requirements
that met technical and market demands; develop trouble shooting strategies to quickly
identify bugs and glitches; research on implementing DSP algorithms; learning the
necessary software frameworks; building a website and marketing. These tools were
exclusively written in C/C++.
● Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Associate Operations Analyst: Sep 2017 - Sep 2018. Creating
and maintaining VBA macros for Microsoft Access/Excel, writing Python code to aid the team
with analysis, data cleaning and loading for forecasting models.
 ● Nuclear Power Institute, Graduate Student Researcher: July 2014 - May 2016. Worked on
and later lead a team of undergraduate students investigating the applications of Compressive
Sensing, a technique for compressing data. Team started by investigating the applications to low
powered satellites for NASA and later its applications in image processing. Used MATLAB and
Numpy/Python to develop algorithms. See Papers and Presentations (1), (2), (3).
● Nuclear Power Institute STP Fuel Pool Project, Undergraduate Researcher: Oct 2012 - July
2014. Part of a team that developed graphical software to manage the spent fuel rods in the spent
fuel pool at the South Texas Project nuclear power plant. See Papers and Presentations (4), (5),
(6).

Awards
● Madhava Prize in Analysis, Department of Mathematics, 2015.
● Best Presentation in the Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics Category, Student
Research Week, Texas A&M University, 2015.
● Recipient of the Food Service Association Scholarship, 2011.
● Eagle Scout, 2008.

Publications and Presentations

● (1) R. Kurwitz, M. Pulley, N. LaFerney, C. Munoz, “COxSwAIN: Compressive Sensing for
Advanced Imaging and Navigation,” NASA Scientific and Technical Information,
http://www.sti.nasa.gov, submitted September 2015
● (2) “COxSwAIN: An Application of Compressive Sensing to Image and Video Compression,”
NASA Langley Center, toured facility, 2015.
● (3) “An Application of Compressive Sensing to Image and Video Compression,” Mathematics
and Statistics Category, Student Research Week, Texas A&M University, 2015.
● (4) "An Optimization Method for the Spent Fuel Pool Storage at Nuclear Power Plants,"
Mathematical Association of America MathFest Student Conference, 2014.
● (5) “SEI GUI: Software for the South Texas Project nuclear power plant spent fuel pool,”
Applied Mathematics Undergraduate Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M
University, 2013.
● (6) “SEI GUI: Software for the South Texas Project nuclear power plant spent fuel pool,” a
presentation at the South Texas Project nuclear power plant to the reactor engineers, toured
facility, 2013.