Cathie Currie

Areas Cathie Currie is Knowledgeable in:

Techniques Cathie Currie Uses:

Cathie Currie's Problem Solving Skills:

1. Systems -- operations, TRIZ
2. Cognitive science -- task analysis, process skills, diagnostic
3. Communication -- promotion methods

Cathie Currie's Problem Solving Experience:

1. I developed a statistical reporting program to automate education reports, resulting in the saving of 1 FTE PhD position in a small medical school staff.
2. I revised a proposal submission and presentation for a $2.2 million center grant, bringing the project from an initial fail, to a first ranked success.
3. I developed a set of statistical programs to detect and identify valid data records from computer hard drives and other media to salvage and build a verified dataset for a mismanaged major ($2.4 million) grant.
4. I identified an education error in psychiatric differential diagnosis, and suggested corrective instruction.
5. I wrote a mainframe program to automatically shift analysis through SPSS and SAS systems in a single run to reduce computing time and increase efficient use of system and human resources for massive datasets.
6. I revised standardized evaluation designs into valuable systematic feedback systems for medical-behavioral research programs.
7. I detected a decision error that produced significant risk in a major blood bank screen for HIV, and alerted CDC who implemented a correction.
8. I advised a science and technology organization on how to develop their field and market their problem solving method.
9. I detected/corrected a major error in interferon research: I told Columbia interferon research conference attendees to look for multiple interferons, they had incorrectly assumed interferon was a singular entity. Several interferons have now been found.