Andrew F. Parker
113 West Lee Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 539-0469 – afp25@georgetown.edu
EDUCATION
Georgetown
University – School of Foreign Service Washington,
DC
M.A. in
Latin American Studies; Certificate in Refugee Policy and Humanitarian
Emergencies May 2010
Graduate
GPA 3.8/4.0
University
of Cambridge – Department of Engineering Cambridge,
UK
One
year of research and coursework focused on Sustainable Development 2005-2006
University
of Maryland at College Park College
Park, MD
B.S.
Cum Laude - Civil Engineering , B.S. Cum Laude - Physics, Spanish minor May 2005
Undergraduate
GPA 3.9/4.0
ACADEMIC Churchill
Scholar. NSF-GRFP Honorable Mention
2005.
HONORS Member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.
EXPERIENCE
Berkel & Company Contractors Inc. Silver Spring, MD
Civil Engineer June 2008 – Present
- Design, estimate costs
and prepare bids for a variety of public and private engineering projects.
- Directly supervise
projects from the contract phase through to completion.
- Control the financial
aspects of the project: budgets, cost and revenue reporting and billing.
Ejeproy – Ejecución de Proyectos Cuenca, Ecuador
Civil Engineer Jan. 2007 – April 2008
- Designed, estimated
costs and prepared bids for a variety of engineering projects.
- Provided
field-supervision of construction activities.
Department of Physics – University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD
Research Assistant May 2003 – Sept. 2005
- Programmed computer
models of particle interactions with nuclei for comparison with
experimental data
- Created circuit elements and other electronic equipment for experiments at the Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
INTERNATIONAL
EXPERIENCE
2007-2008 Ecuador: One and a half years living and working in
Ecuador.
2005-2006 United Kingdom: One year of graduate study at the University
of Cambridge
2005 Ecuador: Three-week implementation trip for a
gravity-flow water system
2004 Belize
and Guatemala: Group leader for
a one-month trip to reconstruct the physical infrastructure of a school for the
deaf
2000 Bolivia: One month spent working with teenagers and
children in Caranavi
1999 India: One month of construction work in and around
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
SKILLS
Languages: Spanish (fluent): Telugu (beginner)
Computer
Skills: AutoCAD, MATLab, Mathematica,
C++, HTML, standard productivity software.
TRAINING
2006
– Spring RedR “Essentials
of Humanitarian Practice” course. The
course aims to “to help ensure the effectiveness of humanitarian
workers
by exploring the concept and principles of humanitarianism and the realities of
work in the field.”