Software engineer with diverse skill-set: Scala, Java, and C++. Additional expertise in nuclear reaction physics, analysis of large data-sets and parallel (MPI) numerical simulations. Specialties: data curation, alternative statistical populations, heavy-ion reaction dynamics, experimental nuclear physics, numerical modeling, statistical physics, large data-sets, neutron and charged particle interactions with matter.

Big Data Software Engineer @ Data wrangler. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Postdoctoral Fellow @ Researching the spatial distribution of natural gamma-ray radiation from airborne (helicopter) and ground based systems. To better understand the spatial dependence and variability of this radioactivity, I've helped develop data management, curation and delivery software for multi-terrabyte datasets acquired by mobile systems. I also quantitatively evaluate the performance of gamma-ray imaging and detection systems as well as the performance of their associated classification algorithms. These efforts lead to smarter algorithms and systems capable of alerting users to the presence of nuclear threat sources and man-made contamination in the field. From January 2012 to August 2014 (2 years 8 months) Graduate Student @ Analyzed nuclear reaction data measured by a 1200 element multi-detector array (CHIMERA). Correlations between these detector responses were explored revealing mechanistic aspects of the high-speed collision of two nuclei. Using thoughtful and unique data visualizations, I was able to discover and then present the nuances of the dataset to the scientific community. From June 2005 to June 2011 (6 years 1 month) Rochester, New York Area

Ph.D., Chemistry (Nuclear Science) @ University of Rochester From 2005 to 2011 B.S., Chemistry @ University of Rochester From 2001 to 2005 Michael Quinlan is skilled in: Numerical Simulation, Mathematical Modeling, Physics, Science, MPI, Experimental Physics, Data Management, Algorithm Development, C++, SQL, Git, ROOT, Bash, Python, Matlab