Thomas Jagger:
CLASS OF 1973

East High SchoolClass of 1973
Pueblo, CO
Roncalli High SchoolClass of 1973
Pueblo, CO
Chaminade College Preparatory SchoolClass of 1973
St. louis, MO
Heaton Junior High SchoolClass of 1970
Pueblo, CO
Franklin Elementary SchoolClass of 1967
Pueblo, CO
Thomas's Story
Life
I left Pueblo for St. Louis in 1973 to graduate Chaminade College Prep in St. Louis. I attended Regis College in Denver for 3 years before finishing with a degree in Electrical Engineering as Washington Univ. St. Louis. I attempted to get a PhD in Applied mathmatics, but gave up with a Masters. From this point I ambled through jobs with Lincoln Laboratories, MIT (Cambridge MA) and Digital (Maynard MA, Nashua NH). Where I met Linda my current wife in 1983. We were married in 1985 and still are today.
I moved to Colorado to work at Digital Support (database) and then quit to contract for MCI. I got tired of work and went to FSU to get a Phd in theoretical statistics which I finished in 2000. I have published several papers in Climate reserach on Hurricane activity. My first job was at Statistical Sciences now Insightful. At the urgings of Profesor Elsner (Dr. Gray's counterpart in Hurricane Prediction). I quit to contract with his company Climatek in Tallahassee Florida Currently I am self employed statisical consultant investigating Hurricane Activity and behaviour. I have climbed mountains all over the world with Linda, including Kilimanjaro and Mt. Rainier, and always enjoy a good long hike. I consider my PhD my biggest accomplishment, because it was completed w...Expand for more
hen I was 45.
I continue to work with graduate students on their dissertations and am always looking for papers to write or review. I do most of my writting, and software consulting via the internet, from my home in Denver Colorado.
School
Studied much in High School. Roncalli closed in 1971 so went to East High school for 1971-1972, followed Marianists to St. Louis to Chaminade College Prep.
College
Regis College 1973-1976 on 3/2 program, with Washington University for EE degree / BA. Never got the BA from Regis.
Washington Univ 1977-1981 for Masters in Applied Mathematics
Florida State University
1995-2000 for Phd in Statistics.
Workplace
Worked at Lincoln Laboratories for one year as programmer
Worked for Digital Equipment Corporation as Software Engineer and Course Developer, then support specialist for Rdb a relatinal database. After Phd worked as Statistical Programmer/ algorithm developer at Insightful, Seattle.
Now work for myself as Software Engineer/ Programmer Statisical Analysis and scientific researcher. I have a research program associated with Department of Geography at Florida State University and collaborate regularly with Dr. James Elsner a full professor in the department. Our specialty is Bayesian analysis of Climate events.
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