Tim

I am a 35-year-old operations research analyst who lives in Washington D.C. with Chrissy, my wife, and four wonderful kids, aged 7 to 2 months. My professional interests include stochastic modeling, quantitative risk assessment, computational probability, simulation and modeling, technical equity analysis, and computer security.

Want to get an impassioned conversation going? The diversity of my personal interests is a result of my poor attention span. Right now, I’m into family stuff, the CS Lewis institute, web-programming, CrossFit, sketching, and golf. In the past, I’ve been focused on triathlon, chess, german, tennis, rock climbing, piano, running, woodworking, economics, investing and building stuff. I love to read Theology and non-fiction at any chance that I can get, especially finance, philosophy or history. Lowest priority goes to current events, but I try to understand our current environment from Technology Review, the Kiplinger Letter, the Economist and The Week Magazine. I like to read, check out my book list. I love to wrestle around with my kids and be outside. I never get enough sleep. I have a strong desire to write more on this site and start a blog, but the free time I do have I try to spend with my wife and kids. What lacks the most in my life is the margin and time required for spontaneous long, fun talks about all this stuff. Maybe that is what retirement (or is it heaven?) is for.

I graduated from Tippecanoe High School in 1995 and MIT in 1999 with a degree in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering3. After that, I received a masters in Operations Research from AFIT where my advisor was Dr. Jeff Kharoufeh. My last degree was a certificate from Georgetown in Financial Planning. I currently am an analyst in Air Force/A9. I am currently trolling about for a good PhD program that is good enough to hold my interest, but foolish enough to accept me.

My quirks are both numerous and humorous. I hate waste and try to optimise everything. I worry about entropy. I thrive on competition. If I don’t get to exercise I start to feel really restless — I need activity. I pray every day to slow down, listen more, and generally chill out, but I pretty much fail in this department.

My Family

After my faith, the next most important thing is my family. I am incredibly blessed by my wife, Chrissy and children, and there is never a day that goes by when I don’t feel fortunate to have the chance to love them. My parents live in my hometown of Tipp City, Ohio — where I lived from 1984 to 1995. Also in the area with them are grandparents and many other family members.