jessica granderson - Berkeley Expert Systems Technology Lab ...

JESSICA GRANDERSON
2201 VIRGINIA ST #9 • BERKELEY, CA 94709
PHONE (510) 665 – 3940
EMAIL jgrander@.me.berkeley.edu
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. (Confirmation May, 2007)
University of California, Berkeley M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2001
Harvard University B.A., Mechanical Engineering, 1997
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
• Product development
• User-centered design
• Needs-based design
• Soft computing/Artificial intelligence – monitoring, diagnosis, decision-making
• Multi-objective decision analysis
• Sensor-based mechanical systems
• Experimental design
• Product testing and evaluation
STRENGTHS
• Team management
- Supervised 4 undergraduate research projects, and led laboratory Smart Lighting
research project (4 MS and 2 PhD)
• Research grant, proposal authoring
- Raised approximately $225K, with Professor A. Agogino (Principal Investigator)
• Presentation skills, verbal and written
- Invited speaker: American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual
Conference; College of Charleston; Northwest Indian College; several campussponsored
events
WORK HISTORY
UC Berkeley Professor A. Agogino
Berkeley, CA
Research Assistant
1998-present
• User-centered design: design, implementation, and user testing of intelligent
lighting system for demand response, increased efficiency and occupant and
facilities management satisfaction
• Development of web-based mechanical design guide for instruction in robotics
competitions
• Identification of innovative concepts and technologies for future research
• Research grant authoring: eight written, four awarded
• Collaboration and partnerships with LBNL staff scientists, industrial facilities
management, and representatives from industry and state organizations
(General Electric; CA Energy Commission; Center for Information
Technology in the Interest of Society; UC Energy Institute; NASA)

Shuar Health Project
Berkeley, CA
Engineering Support
Tsuraku, Ecuador
• Design: sustainable safe water systems 11/06 - present
- Design team management
- User needs analysis
- Experimental design, evaluation, assessment
Guatemala Indoor Air Pollution and Health Studies
Berkeley, CA
Engineering Support
San Lorenzo, GMA
• Fuel Efficiency assessment: open-fire vs. cookstoves: 2005-2006
- Field work experimental design
- Statistical analysis
- Efficiency assessment recommendations for future studies
• User-centered analysis of cookstove designs
- Contextual inquiry
- Needs/behavioral assessment
- Acquisition of particulate and thermal sensor data
- Recommendation of design improvements
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
Cooperative Educational/Employment Program 6/00 - 1/01
Mechanical Systems Center, Analysis Branch
Engineering Support
Instrumentation Synthesis and Analysis Lab
• Exist Hard X-Ray, and Next Generation Space Telescope design
• Finite Element Analysis of instrument truss structure
• Determination of suggested design improvements
Astronomy Dept., University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Engineering Support 1996- 1997
Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 2..5m Telescope Design Team
• User-centered design of fiber optic location and support system
• Laboratory testing, evaluation, identification of design improvements
• Enclosure design - sealed, remotely -operated infra-red cloud scanner
SKILLS
• Analytical Software
- Patran Finite Element Analysis
- Hugin and Netica Bayesian Network Analysis
- Matlab
- SPSS
- ProEngineer
- Microsoft Office
• Languages: Spanish, conversational and literate proficiency