PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Two years of experience in geospatial intelligence analysis and collection. Expertise with digital cartography, image processing, computer technology, GIS software, geospatial production techniques, remote sensing, and photogrammetry. Performed executive management in the Department of Defense as a non-commissioned-officer-in-charge of daily military administration and organizational planning. One year of AmeriCorps VISTA experience in operations research for the University of South Maine and the Dean of Student Affairs. Five years of doctorate training on diplomatic, political, and rhetorical exchanges in U.S.-China foreign policy. Produced academic writings on cross-national engagements and strategic planning policies. Presented research at national conferences, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and U.S. Army Special Operations Command.

CORE SKILL

Mission Analytics Operations Research Strategic Planning U.S.-China Foreign Policy Geospatial Intelligence

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

Geospatial Engineer Course - Distinguished Honor Graduate, Department of the Army

DLPT: 2 /3 Mandarin Chinese

DLAB: 104

confidential

Geospatial Engineer, 2012 2014

Performed cartographic, topographic and terrain data analysis. Performed digital manipulation of topographic information by querying, viewing, evaluating, and downloading digital data.

Key Results

• Collected and processed military geographic information from remote-sensed imagery, digital data, intelligence data, existing topographic products, field surveying, and other collateral data sources
• Drew, scribed, and digitized cultural, hydrographic features on overlays or in digital formats
• Extracted data from GIS software and used varying analysis methods to arrive at results
• Created visual representations of geospatial data using complex procedures such as analytical modeling, three-dimensional renderings, or plot creation
• Produced products utilizing geospatial techniques derived from Multi-Spectral Images, Hyper-Spectral Imagery, Light Detection and Ranging, Synthetic Aperture Radar and Electro-Optical Imagery
• Analyzed, reported, converted, and transferred data using specialized applications program software
• Followed customer guidance and policies to respond to questions concerning the proper and correct usage of names, various Romanization systems, and the treatment of descriptive information on customer products.
• Advanced map reading skills native maps, secondary source maps, historic maps used for extraction and comparison, imagery mapping for stereo and mono extraction at various resolutions
• Prepared files and maps for work, entering data to maintain and update the associated records.
• Scanned geo-reference, research, and order map sources and commercial imagery that will be used as reference sources as well as verify the proper spelling of names and other metadata.
• Route Analysis, IED Analysis, Cover and Concealment, River Crossing, Helicopter Landing Zone, Sniper Ling of Sight, Combined Obstacle Overlay, Urban Analysis, Surface Configuration, Relief and Surface Drainage

ArcGIS, ArcMap Spatial Analyst, ArcMap Network Analyst, 3D Analyst, ArcMap Military Analyst, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox, ArcView, ArcSDE, ERDAS IMAGINE, Google Earth, TerraExplorer

confidential

Operations Research, 2008 2009

Provided statistical calculation and analysis of University of Southern Maine' admission, retention, and grade-point-average data. Created statistical visual products that reflected multicultural student population's GPAs. Developed strategic plans for future multicultural academic achievement programs.

Key Results

• Gathered and analyzed statistics from on admission, enrollment, and retention records
• Monitored statistical patterns in the institution's retention data for future strategic planning activities
• Developed and maintained databases to perform data modeling with formal entity-relationship data models and data definitions to support analysis and evaluation.
• Produced histograms with student GPA queries
• Used advanced knowledge of modeling and measuring techniques, mathematics, statistical methods, engineering methods, operational mathematics techniques, and other principles of scientific and economic disciplines in determining solutions.
• Built statistical methodologies for trending, outlier detection and predictive model building
• Designed experiments involving categorical and continuous variables.
• Utilized statistical methods to provide interpretation of statistical reports to identify trends, aberrancies, or significant changes that warranted intervention
• Briefed University Dean with visual products on statistical trends of the institution's official records

Created future data collection templates and logic models for the institution's administrative records and step-by-step protocol for how to extract, analyze, and project data

confidential

PhD Candidate, 2009 2015

Completing dissertation on U.S.-China foreign policy and literature. Designed and taught rhetoric and literature courses to 150 undergraduates.

Key Results

• Designed and instructed undergraduate curriculum on freshmen composition and introductory literature survey course
• Developed new analytic method for Information Warfare with spatial concepts and LDA algorithms
• Created Information Fusion applications that combined quantitative and qualitative techniques
• Used spatial concepts, semantics, and references to deconstruct writing patterns and literary themes
• Identified and analyzed human and commercial networks in American/Chinese literature
• Applied graph theory in mathematics to draw rhetorical styles
• Used mathematic matrix formulas to show wordplay as rhetorical deception technique
• Applied probability models to represent word pattern, semantic, rhetorical device, and metaphor
• Sketch Up, Logism, Meshmixer, Art of Illusion, TopMod3d, draw.io

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

confidential

Executive Management, 2013 2014

Managed and directed daily operations of Psychological Operations company by drafting strategic policies, managing all administrative operations, projects, and reports, and organizing files and records

Key Results

• Managed Special Operations unit's orderly, planning, training, program, scheduling, tasking, payroll, human resource, and administrative operations
• Maintained and updated an organized system of 100 personnel's administrative records
• Produced information by transcribing, formatting, inputting, editing, retrieving, copying, and transmitting text, data, and graphics.
• Conserved executive's time by reading, researching, and routing correspondence drafted memoranda
• Initiated, implemented, reviewed, and edited company' operational policies and strategies priorities
• Maintained executive's appointment schedule by planning and scheduling meetings and conferences
• Managed calls, calendars, and event arrangements and trained and supervised other support staff
• In-processed new military personnel for orientation
• Managed the unit's tasking and leave requests, senior executive staff weekly brief, personnel accountability reports, Adverse Action files, medical files

PUBLICATION

Wu, Josephine, and Wandi Zhang, Boxun Xie, Maoxin Wu, Xiaodi Tong, Jayant Kalpoe, David Zhang. Detection and toxin-typing of Clostridium perfringens in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tissue by PCR. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 47.3 2009 : 807 810.

Ye, Fei, and Josephine Wu, Trish Dunn, Jizu Yi, Xiaodi Tong, David Zhang. Inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 activity in head and neck cancer cells by genistein. Cancer Letters, 211.1 2004 : 39- 46.

SELECTED PRESENTATION

• Analytic Tradecraft Language. U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Forthcoming.
• Visual Information Analysis. Defense Intelligence Agency. Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington D.C. February, 2015.
• MMF: Debriefing Analytics in Military Mission/Performance Applications. U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. December, 2014.
• The Politics of Rhetorical Deception. U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphia, Maryland. March, 2014
• Information Fusion: Data Retrieval and Visual Encryption. U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphia, Maryland. March, 2014
• Modeling Language in Codes. Sergeant Time Training. U.S. Army Special Operations Company. Fort Bragg, NC. April, 2014
• Computational PSYOP. Brief to U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Psychological Operations Commander. Fort Bragg, NC. February, 2014
• New Information Warfare. Brief to 82ND Airborne Division Commander. Fort Bragg, NC. February, 2014
• Mixed Analytic Methodology in Military Intelligence. Brief to U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Intelligence Division Commander. Fort Bragg, NC. January, 2014
• The Politics of 'Rhetoric' in Global Literary Form. Transnational Race/Class/Gender Workshop. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Urbana, IL. September, 2012
• Memoir of a Sino-U.S. Migrant: Historical Crossings of a Transpacific Frontier. American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. November, 2012
• Politics of Re Form in a Sino-West Aesthetic, 1860-1949. Invited talk for Professor Richard Jean So's seminar, Transnational America. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. May, 2012
• Transpacific Encounters: Catastrophic Aftermath in the Asian Diaspora. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Brown University, Providence, RI. April, 2012
• Sino-U.S. Diaspora: Self-narrativization and Transpacific Identity in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America. C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA. April, 2012
• Transnational American Dream Denied: An Impossible Diasporic Journey in Gish Jen's Typical American . 25th Annual Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference. Florida Atlantic University. Boca Raton, FL. April, 2011
• The Melancholy of Inverted Passing: Racial Trauma and Terror in Toi Derricotte's The Black Notebooks. 52nd Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, IL. November, 2010
• Gangbang Revisited: Political Economy and Feminist Politics in Racialized Pornography. 34th Annual Midwest American Culture Association Conference. Minneapolis, MN. October, 2010