Awards & Honors

Explore my various honors, awards, publications, presentations, and patents.

Individual Honors & Awards

  • Going the Extra Mile (GEM) award, NBCUniversal, 2016
  • Engineering Achievement for Student Welfare, UCLA School of Engineering, 2005
  • Jeffrey Hanson Award for Distinguished Service, UCLA Graduate Students Association, 2005
  • Chancellor's Service Award, UCLA, 2005
  • Charles E. Harless Graduate Student Leadership Award, UCLA LGBT Center, 2005
  • H. H. Chapman Award for Outstanding Computer User, University of Alabama, 1995
  • 1st Place, Undergraduate Student Paper, "Sorting Networks for Parallel Computation", ACM Mid-Southeast Fall Conference, 1995

Organization & Team Awards

  • Best Overall Intranet Honorable Mention for NBCUNow Intranet, Ragan Intranet Awards, NBCUniversal, 2017
  • Best Entertainment App Nominee for Disney Movies Anywhere, Best Mobile App Awards, Walt Disney Company, 2015
  • Mobile Sites & Apps Entertainment Webby Award Nominee for Disney Movies Anywhere, Webby Awards, Walt Disney Company, 2015
  • Innovation Award for Disney Movies Anywhere, Entertainment Merchants Association, Walt Disney Company, 2014
  • Family Choice Award for Disney Movies Anywhere, Family Choice Awards, Walt Disney Company, 2014
  • Outstanding Achievement for Disney Aulani, Internet Advertising Awards, Walt Disney Company, 2011
  • Outstanding Achievement for Disney Youth, Internet Advertising Awards, Walt Disney Company, 2011
  • Outstanding Social Media for Disney Fairytale Weddings Facebook App, Internet Advertising Awards, Walt Disney Company, 2011
  • Outstanding Achievement for ESPN Wide World of Sports, Internet Advertising Awards, Walt Disney Company, 2011
  • Outstanding Achievement for Disneyland Next Generation Website, Internet Advertising Awards, Walt DisneyCompany, 2011
  • Outstanding Achievement for Disney Engagements / Disney Weddings Website, Internet Advertising Awards, Walt Disney Company, 2010
  • Outstanding Achievement for Disney Cruise Line Next Generation Website, Internet Advertising Awards, WaltDisney Company, 2010
  • Outstanding Achievement for Walt Disney World Next Generation Website, Internet Advertising Awards, WaltDisney Company, 2009
  • Outstanding Achievement for Walt Disney World Customized Maps, Internet Advertising Awards, Walt DisneyCompany, 2007

Publications

  • Knowledge Retention after Online Tutorial: Randomized Educational Experiment among Resident Physicians, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008
  • Time course of knowledge retention among residents after an online tutorial, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008
  • Automated expert multiexponential biomodeling interactively over the Internet, Computing Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2005
  • Design factors for educational technology to enhance diabetes care, American Diabetes Association Scientific Conference, 2005
  • Design of a Longitudinal, Focused Tutorial System, Web-based Innovations in Medical Education, Society of General Internal Medicine, 2005
  • Web-based Interactive Survey Environment: System Design and Initial Experience, MEDINFO: World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, 2004
  • Automated Biomodeling for the World-Wide Web, Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Vol II, 2003
  • Automated Biomodeling on the World Wide Web, SIGBIO Newsletter, Association for Computing Machinery, 2000

Presentations

  • Nevermore Chronicles web series episode #1.05, "It Will Be Ugly When We Move Out", 2015
  • Lights, Camera, Stream! Behind the Scenes of Disney Movies Anywhere, Disney Developer Summit: APIs Unleashed, 2014
  • Content Modeling with LEGO, Disney Developer Summit: CMS Discovery 2013

Patents

  • US Patent #6,084,954, "System and method for correlating incoming and outgoing telephone calls using predictive logic", 2000