Jordan Jimmy Crabbe - Farmer School of Business

Jordan Jimmy Crabbe
308 N Duncan Street, Apt. # 3
Stillwater, OK 74075
702-292-4021
[email protected]
Profile of Qualifications
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Eleven years experience in teaching.
Excellent data analyst.
Good decision-making abilities.
Excellent problem solving, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
Effective communicator with excellent planning, organizational, and negotiation strength as well as the ability to lead, reach
consensus, establish goals, and attain results.
Highly motivated and work independently.
Bring great deal of zeal and enthusiasm to work.
Proficient in MS Office.
Proficient in the following Statistical Softwares- SAS, R, SPSS, Minitab, JAVA, STATXACT.
Education
PhD. in Statistics
Expected
Oklahoma State University – Stillwater, Oklahoma
Dissertation: Handling the Curse of Dimensionality in Multivariate Kernel Density Estimation
May, 2013
Master of Science in Statistics
University of Nevada -Las Vegas, Nevada
Thesis: A General Mathematical Model of Stenoses
July, 2007
GPA: 3.86
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology – Kumasi, Ghana
Thesis: Seasonal Variation in the Incidence of Malaria Cases Using Time Series Analysis
June, 2001
GPA: 4.0
Teaching Interest
As a teacher, I strive to engage, challenge, and inspire growth and progress in my students. Effective statistics
teaching requires that the instructor adapt to the level of the students. My goals in teaching statistics are to present the
concepts in the simplest, most transparent way, to ensure students become fluent and confident in their problem
solving skills and be able to apply the concepts taught. I do put a substantial amount of time and effort into preparing
for a class since I know that, the amount of time that a teacher puts into preparation of a class directly translates into
how effectively the students learn. I do make my students understand that, no matter how sophisticated the material is,
daily practice is the key to achieving engagement and understanding. I encourage my students to ask questions during
class time since an answer to one person’s question might clear the doubts that other may have. I also encourage my
students to attend office hours since that are another place where their individual problems can be addressed. In our
current time, e-mail has become a major way of information exchange, so I try my best to reply to students e-mails as
soon as possible so that they know I am reachable outside the classroom when they want to study and encounter some
difficulties. Teaching has been and hopefully will remain a central part of my past, present and future professional life.
Face-to-face instructions have continually challenged me to always make my lessons more effective and efficient. The
moment when my students successfully grasp a new concept is a deeply satisfying one and a rewarding task for me. It is
with this great excitement that I look ahead to being a professor, given the experiences that I have had with teaching
over the past years.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Associate
May 2008 - Present
Oklahoma State University Department of Statistics
Stillwater, Oklahoma
• Teach Elementary Statistics, Statistics for Business and Economics, Intermediate Statistical Analysis and Statistical Methods.
• Develop and delivery of lectures, assignments and grading homework, quizzes and exam as well as creation and assessment
of periodic tests.
• Manage classroom to classes averaging 50 students.
• Hold office hours to help students in need.
• Assist and make provision for students with special needs.
• Advised students about how to be successful in their various courses.
Graduate Teaching Associate
January, 2005 – July, 2007
University of Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
• Taught College Pre-Algebra, College Algebra, Pre-calculus, Trigonometry, Calculus-I & II and Finite Mathematics.
• Developed and delivery of lectures, assignments and grading homework, quizzes and exam as well as creation and
assessment of periodic tests.
• Managed classroom to classes averaging 45 students.
• Held office hours to help students in need.
• Assisted and made provision for students with special needs.
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Advised students about how to be successful in the various courses.
Teacher
June 2006 – August 2007
University of Nevada Upward Bound Program
Las Vegas, Nevada
• Designed and taught lessons in math (A.P), Chemistry (A.P), and Physics (A.P) .
• Fostered a classroom environment conducive to learning and promoting excellent student/teacher interaction.
• Developed and implemented daily and unit plans for students.
• Administered tests and evaluations, and analyzed student performance.
Head, Department of Math and Computer Science
Ghana-Lebanon High School
August 2002- March, 2003
Accra, Ghana
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Designed and taught lessons in Mathematics, Mathematics (A.P), and Computer Skills.
Fostered a classroom environment conducive to learning and promoting excellent student/teacher interaction.
Developed and implemented daily and unit plans for students.
Administered tests and evaluations, and analyzed student performance.
Participated in faculty and parent conferences.
Teacher/Founder
June 2001 – January 2005
Private Tutoring Class (High School)
Accra, Ghana
• Designed and taught lessons in math (A.P), Chemistry (A.P), Physics (A.P) and Biology.
• Fostered a classroom environment conducive to learning and promoting excellent student/teacher interaction.
• Developed and implemented daily and unit plans for students.
• Administered tests and evaluations, and analyzed student performance.
• Hired staff, developed and administered budget, coordinated educational activities, and supervised students’ activities.
• Assigned staff in-service programs, and astutely observed staff performance.
Research Interest
My research background and interest have been diverse even though recently my concentration had been on
kernel density estimation, an aspect of nonparametric statistics. While my research interests focus on kernel density
estimation, I am also interested in a number of closely related field as well as wide variety of topics in non-parametric
statistics. My previous research had to do with an area in biomathematics where we utilized a direct approach to
transform the motion and the continuity equations of the blood flow to Bessel equations and then solved to obtain the
property of the blood under stenotic condition and an aspect of biostatistics where we used time series analysis to
analyze seasonal variations in the incidence of malaria cases.
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Oklahoma State University Department of Statistics
Stillwater, Oklahoma
• Assist staff in writing code and analyzing data using the R statistical package.
• Produce written, tabular and visual materials for research reports and presentations.
• Handle and protect confidential and sensitive data with integrity.
• Assist staff in design, execution and evaluation of research projects.
August 2007 – May 2008
PhD. Dissertation
Oklahoma State University – Stillwater, Oklahoma
Dissertation: Handling the Curse of Dimensionality in Multivariate Kernel Density Estimation
Masters of Science Thesis
University of Nevada -Las Vegas, Nevada
Thesis: A General Mathematical Model of Stenoses
July 2007
Bachelor of Science Research Report
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology – Kumasi, Ghana
Thesis: Seasonal Variation in the Incidence of Malaria Cases Using Time Series Analysis
June 2001
Professional Experience
Auditor
December, 2002 – January, 2005
Ghana Audit Service - Accra, Ghana
• Reviewed the integrity of financial information in Government agencies/organization.
• Independently review of financial reports to see if the organizations complied with generally accepted standards.
• Reported serious deficiencies in the accounting policy of the organizations.
• Performed physical count of inventory, reviews of real property and tests of transactions.
• Reported any misappropriation of funds, embezzlement, and financial losses to the organizations and the state.
Data Analyst
July, 2001 – August 2002
Ghana Telecommunication Company - Accra, Ghana
• Imported, cleaned, transformed, validated or modeled data with the purpose of understanding or making conclusions from
data for decision making.
• Monitored the trend in monthly/yearly telephone line subscription/disconnections and kept track of inventory for the
company.
• Presented data in charts, graphs, tables and developed relational database for collecting data.
• Built or designed data input or data collection screens.
• Improved data quality for designing or presenting conclusions gained from analyzed data using statistical tools.
Honors, Awards and Scholarships
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Recipient, Graduate Assistantship Award, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 2007-Present
Recipient, Graduate Assistantship Award, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2005-2007
Dr. Phanord Thesis Award, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2007)
Graduated with First Class Honors( Summa Cum Laude), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, 2001
Recipient, Ghana Cocoa Board Scholarship, Ghana, 1988-1993
Certification
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Intensive Introduction to Teaching Workshop – University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2007)
Activities
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President – Statistics Club, Oklahoma State University (2010-2011)
Vice President – Statistics Club, Oklahoma State University (2009-2010)
President - Mathematical Sciences Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (2000-2001)
Vice President - Mathematical Sciences Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (1999-2000)
Chairman - Queen’s Hall Planning Committee (2000-2001)
Member - American Statistical Association (2010-Present)
Member – American Mathematical Society (2012)
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