Dickinson College
Mathematics Major Jobs and Graduate School Acceptances 2022
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Alexandria Kruizenga
Hometown: Lynn, Massachusetts
Majors: quantitative economics, mathematics
Employer: CornerStone Partners LLC
Job title: investment analyst
Job Responsibilities
Build a strong foundation through training programs that cover Excel skills, multiple analytics platforms and investment analysis. Complete projects to build and deepen technical skills and investment judgment across asset classes.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
My coursework in particular as well as the support of my professors has been instrumental to my success. I have developed critical thinking skills as well as quantitative and communication skills that will be fundamental in my career post-Dickinson.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I’m extremely excited to begin my position at CornerStone Partners, as I believe strongly in the mission of the firm, and I’m eager to do work that matters.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Becoming a writing tutor in the Norman Eberly Multilingual Writing Center. Joining Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity.
Internship Experience
I was an Analyst Development Program intern at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Boston, where I completed two projects to analyze weaknesses in the online auto quote flow and bind funnel and found solutions to streamline the process for customers and improve overall auto online throughput. I utilized Excel, SAS and Adobe Dashboards to build data visualizations, analyze data and come to conclusions that led to actionable recommendations for my team.
Amir Zawad
Hometown: Chandpur, Bangladesh
Major: mathematics
Employer: Asana
Job title: software engineer
Job Description
I will be working in Asana's product engineering team to be a part of the entire product development process. This involves working closely with the data science team to develop iterations and new features for Asana's numerous productivity-based platforms that are helping companies in 195 countries and improving their experience. Work involves full-stack development on numerous features of the platform from start to finish, building CI/CD pipelines to automate tests and deployment of new iterations of each feature at scale.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
The liberal arts education at Dickinson has taught me to develop the intuition to think outside of the box. The rigorous STEM courses, coupled with the creativity and strategic thinking and interpersonal skills that are central to the education provided by Dickinson, has made me stand out amongst many other candidates in very competitive environments. I believe the liberal arts education at Dickinson has truly prepared me to face any obstacles that may come in my way as I step out in the real world.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I am excited about growing as a software engineer and honing my skills to build better and more ethical products that will make a difference in the world. The numerous learning opportunities that I will be presented with will be key in helping me grow tremendously as an engineer and open up more doors in the future, wherever I want to grow. Who knows what will happen in five years' time, but I am sure that when I look back, I will be very happy with my journey.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Coming into Dickinson was a huge step for me. I crossed over 8,000 miles to come to a place that felt completely different from my home, and Dickinson made me feel very welcome and eased my transition to life in the United States. Moreover, as I walked down the steps of Old West during orientation, I was convinced that this institution will give me all the opportunities to be successful and achieve my dreams of being a software engineer. Being inducted into the dean's list and Pi Mu Epsilon honors society instilled in me the drive to be better and go out of my comfort zones to get hold of the opportunities that would change my life for the better. I am grateful to Dickinson for opening so many doors for someone like myself, who came from a small country in South Asia but with big dreams and aspirations.
Internship Experience
- Software engineer intern at Porate Chai, an educational software start-up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Worked on the both the back-end and front-end of the application in an Agile team. Developed, tested and deployed an indexing system for the application's search feature using Kafka, Apache Flink and Elasticsearch, which reduced reindexing time of tutor profiles by 80%.
- Software engineer intern at Gaze.ai, an AI startup based in Singapore. Worked mostly on backend for the new frictionless checkout API, Instant, and cloud microservices. Reduced overall latency of services by migrating API to gRPC. Automated tests on Firebase. Containerized services in Docker and automated deployment using Kubernetes.
- Machine Learning Engineer at General Micro Technology, LLC, a startup at San Francisco, although I was working remotely from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Built and deployed pipelines for the instance segmentation model used in aerial imagery of UAVs, using Mask-RCNN. Also, scraped 4,000+ satellite images in a multithreaded system and developed pipelines to automate the annotation of images.
Lan Pham
Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
Majors: computer science, mathematics
Employer: Microsoft
Job title: product manager
Job title: product manager
Job Responsbilities
- Work on the initial feature planning and design, manage the specifications of their development and monitor their ongoing operation to better understand customer experiences.
- Work collaboratively with teammates to ensure our products exceed customer expectations.
- Communicate throughout the process to understand progress toward delivery, technical challenges and to provide clarity on customer needs using a data-driven approach.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
With the liberal arts education, even though I was preparing for the skills to become a software engineer, I also learned the soft skills that landed me the product manager role.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I get to write new features for the products of one of the biggest software companies in the world.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Becoming a student representative for the data analytics proposal and now it has become a major at Dickinson. I got to interview incoming professors and got involved in the process of proposing the major to become a reality.
Internship Experience
- FinOS, product manager intern, Hanoi, Vietnam
- FPT Software, product manager intern, Hanoi, Vietnam
Alice Agyekum
Hometown: Orange, New Jersey
Major: mathematics
Employer: Columbia University Medical Center
Job title: research assistant
Job Responsibilities
I will be assisting in research on quality and cost-effectiveness in health care.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson has helped me find internships through its vast alumni network, and this has helped me form many connections, some of which I believe can lead to jobs in the future. In addition, I believe that Dickinson has helped improve my writing and thinking capabilities as well as my cultural competency.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I am excited to see how far I can go and how I can make an impact on others and in the world.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Some of my defining moments include the friends I have made and the internships I have participated in.
Internship Experience
I had two internships with UPMC hospitals in Harrisburg. I completed tasks such as research, rotations and CPR/first aid classes and had educational sessions with medical residents.
Yizhen Zhang
Hometown: Shenzhen, China
Majors: music, mathematics
Graduate School: Columbia Univeristy
Field of study: visiting, postbaccalaureate program
Anna Luo
Hometown: Xingtai, China
Major: mathematics
Graduate School: University of California Davis
Field of study: applied mathematics Ph.D.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson's math classes set a firm foundation in theoretical mathematics for me and enlightened my interest in math.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
Learning more math and diving deep into an area in math I love. Make an effort in that field.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
In the group theory intro class in Math 351, I realized my passion fully lies in mathematics.
Internship Experience
Jetzy - project/product manager - online
Jevaughn Ricketts
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Major: mathematics
Employer: Bloomberg
Job title: financial product analyst
Job Responsibilities
As an analyst, we are the frontlines of Bloomberg's global business. We are responsible for creating meaningful customer relationships by extending to their needs and creating products and services that exceeds them. We use the Bloomberg terminal to provide customers with the tools they need to navigate global business and financial markets.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson has prepared me in many different ways. In coming to Dickinson, I learned the value of independence and relying solely on my self. Dickinson taught me that there's a tough world out there, but not rough enough to break me down or trump my goals. I learned that in life you have keep going and keep your head held high.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I am most anticipating working in the field amongst professionals and gaining insight from their experiences.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Some of the most defining moments of my Dickinson experience was declaring my major sophomore year and being inducted in NSLS.
Sweta Tamrakar
Hometown: Kathmandu, Nepal
Majors: computer science, mathematics
Employer: Amazon
Job title: software development engineer
Job Responsbilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, index and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson has prepared me in a myriad of ways. They have helped me discover my passion, overcome my fear and anxiety, face challenges head-on and power through life.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
Working with a team that has a strong sense of community and are willing to help you and teach you new things. I also hope that our interests align because I want to work on projects that I am deeply passionate about.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Working as the technology assistant at the Trout Gallery, tutoring students during my QRA/help room sessions, being a part of CCLA and going on a service trip to South Carolina, leading the Student Alumni Association as the co-president of the organization and, most importantly, building friendships that will last forever. I am grateful to all my friends who have helped me and supported me through my Dickinson journey.
Internship Experience
I interned as the technology assistant for the Trout Gallery, which is the art museum of Dickinson. During the internship, I worked on the configuration and maintenance of the gallery management software. This includes application design, data and database management, issue detection and resolution and technical writing. However, designing the app must be my favorite part of the internship because it taught me a lot about system design and architecture. It also helped me understand the relationship between users, designers and developers of an application that I thought was pretty cool. Overall, I am very appreciative of this experience because I got to interact with so many people at the Trout Gallery, and it introduced me to many new techniques and technologies.
Elly Do
Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
Majors: computer science, mathematics
Graduate School: North Carolina State University
Field of study: mathematics
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I am excited to continue my studies in mathematics and computer science. Despite the fact that my Ph.D. program is in mathematics, I will be able to utilize my computer science expertise, namely coding skills, in my research work. I expect the path ahead to be difficult, and it makes me nervous just thinking about it. However, it is this aspect of my graduate studies that intrigues me. I am convinced that what Dickinson has prepared me will be a tremendous asset in supporting me in reaching success in the coming years.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
- Working on a collaborative mathematics research project with two advisors.
- Making good friends in my majors' department, computer science and mathematics. One of the finest memories I have is hanging out with them to attend departmental and college activities.
- Serving as a resident advisor for two years in a row.
- Serving on the computer science and mathematics department's majors' committee.
Alex Nash
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Major: mathematics
Graduate School: Stockholm University
Field of study: mathematics
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
The Department of Mathematics has really strengthened my proof-writing skills. It has also provided me with several research opportunities that have helped me become a better researcher.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
Learning more math.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Dana Research Project, working on my honors thesis and being a TA.
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Published March 30, 2022