Loren Heyns

Optimization
Engineer


Loren's Resume
Industry Input-Output Modeling and Visualization

Supply Chain Impact Analysis
Input-Output reports using the US EPA's environmentally-extended input-output API. The Model Earth website provides environmental impact charts using state and county industry levels and employment data to generate local product Life Cycle Assessments.

Membership Mobility Storm Relocation Patterns

Impacts of Storm Intensity on Travel
Analyzing changes in X.com mobility patterns during storms using social media data to inform storm preparation and recovery geared toward environmentally beneficial outcomes when restoring civic services, water and energy infrastructure.

CrowdSense ML Spatial Data Exchange

Multicamera, Multikey P2P Privacy
In the midst of rapidly expanding spatial data gathering, we find ourselves caught in a digital version of the Tragedy of the Commons, in which siloed firms fail to exchange realtime spatial data due to a lack of standards for de-identification and peer authorized data recovery.


Loren Heyns - CV

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2020 - 2024

Model.Earth Collaborative Framework - Economic Development Report Automation
DreamStudio.com Exiobase Trade Flow SQL, RealityStream ML forecasting, Google Data Commons UN goal tracking with Observable D3 timeline visualizations, Open WebUI Ollama LLM/RAG chatbot integration, Supabase and DuckDB for product lifecycle input-output for international trade reporting. AI image and video generation using .csv prompt storyboards to auto-upload files to Github storage. ModelEarth's Active Student Projects.

2015 - 2024

Film Location Scouting App, Sustainable Material Management Maps
CameraReady Film Location Directory, 360 Birdseye Map Directory for drone footage.
Materials Impact Directory created with partners of the Georgia Center of Innovation,
Georgia Recycling Coalition (GRC) and Costas Simoglou, COI Director of Energy Technology

2015 - 2024

Georgia Dept of Economic Development - Programmer Analyst
Georgia Directory Development for Recycling, Aerospace, Logistics and Defense Exchange contractor resources.
Product Lifecycle Tools Environmentally Preferrable Product directory. Admin IT and web support.

2000 - 2024

CEO Dreamstudio / ModelEarth
CMS Database Systems on AWS for Georgia State Parks. From 2000 to 2015 provided .NET/SQL development for Georgia Department of Economic Development, SCLC, Green Law, and 10 Environmental Education state sites. Developed membership and news systems for Midtown Atlanta, Grant Park, West End and Glenwood Park Neighborhood Associations. Coordinator for open source government projects.

2019 - 2024

US Environmentally-Extended Input-Output Model (USEEIO) - Industry Comparison Tools
ModelEarth Project Lead, Data Visualization and App Development - JQuery, D3, Python, R, React with AWS API
Model.earth grad student team: Cindy Azuero Pedraza, Nazanin Tabatabaei, Yilun Zha
EPA Lead Engineer: Dr. Wesley Ingwersen, US Environmental Protection Agency
Academic Advisor: Dr. Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology

2018 - 2019

Hurricane Impacts on Mobility and Recovery - X.com Geotracking
Storm Mobility Data Processing and Visualization - JQuery, D3, Python, Seaborn, PostgreSQL
Georgia Tech Network Dynamics Lab - Academic Advisor Dr. John E Taylor, Mentor Rachel Samuels

1995 - 2000

Lead Web Engineer, Interactive Planet
Southern Company websites, NationsBank Loan Calculators and Olympic website, MCI email system
Project Management System and Calendar Development
Online project management system for Hands On Atlanta and CityCares (Points of Light)

1993 - 1995

Michigan Information Technology Network (MITN)
Internet Guide to Michigan, Satellite Distance Learning Network publications and technical support
Michigan State University Comm Tech Lab - Interactive video interfaces, Contact management systems

1986 - 1991

UCSB Business Economics BA - Broadband Infrastructure
Student Honors Thesis: Interactive Video Network Analysis - Coaxial vs Fiber Optics
UCSB Communication Studies BA - Media Effects Research Assistant
Research assistant to professor Daniel Linz - Study of human interaction based on eye gaze
Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Student Housing Co-op - Student editor of Honors newsletter

Course Highlights

Data and Visual Analytics - Team Project: Machine Learning for Community Forecasting
Computer Apps for Construction - Spatial Data Exchange for Infrastructure Resiliency with Privacy Protection
Multimodal Transportation - Cut-and-Cover Freight Rail Proposal, Beltline Single-Track Proposal
Responsible Conduct (Ethics) - Group presentation on Cultural Differences in Intelligent Vehicle System Design

Georgia Institute of Technology - 4.0 GPA
CEE 4610 Multimodal Transport A  3 Fall 2018
CEE 6110 Computer Apps-Construction A  3 Fall 2018
CEE 8900 Special Problems A  3 Fall 2018
CEE 9000 Doctoral Thesis S  12 Fall 2018
CSE 6242 Data & Visual Analytics A  3 Spring 2019
PHIL 6000 Responsible Conduct-Res S  1 Spring 2019

DegreeWorks PDF

Michigan State University - 4.0 GPA

Comm Tech Lab. 1.5 of 2 years completed toward Telecommunications Masters. (10-1993 to 05-1995)

UC Santa Barbara - 3.4 GPA

BA Business Economics, BA Communication Studies, Art History Emphasis (09-1986 to 06-1991)

Montclair High School - 4.2 GPA

Salutatorian. Top math and English student in class of 463. Journalism, AP Physics, AP Calculus.

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