Adam Hughes Email & Phone Number

Greencastle, IN, US

London, GB

Greencastle, IN, US

My role at DePauw University is to ensure that each component of our technological fabric is selected and built or implemented in a robust and sustainable fashion in order to enable our students, faculty, and staff to create the most rewarding educational experience possible.It is the mission of the AIS and infrastructure teams to work with our university.

Greencastle, IN, US

• Leader of administrative systems team dedicated to building and maintaining robust, innovative software solutions to enable all members of the campus community to contribute fully to the University’s mission of.
• Direct a diverse team of technology professionals in delivering flexible and secure software systems and integrations.
• Devised and built a repeatable framework for applying Agile project management techniques to steer daily operations.
• Engineered flexible architecture for integrating more than 40 third-party software into a cohesive unit.
• Worked with other senior IT leaders to define technology policies and protocols.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the University and at other institutions to develop best practices and effect process improvements.

Bloomington, Indiana, US

• Provided experienced leadership as a professional software engineer embedded in a robust graduate research program focused on high-performance computing (HPC) and informatics investigations. Key Contributions:
• Spearheaded research projects targeting HPC software development for genome analysis, funded by the National Institutes for Health (NIH).
• Architected enterprise-quality portal to allow scientific researchers to access high-performance computing (HPC) resources and software.
• Mentored graduate students and undergraduate interns in the principles and execution of software development projects, scientific analysis, and professional presentation.
• Organized international conference (CloudCom 2010).
• Optimized biosequence analysis by leveraging cloud and parallel computing paradigms (MPI, MapReduce, Hadoop, etc.), achieving a better than 10-fold reduction in processing time.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

• Leveraged expertise in chemistry, informatics, and software engineering to enable the advancement of world-class drug-discovery research organization.Key Contributions:
• Led global project teams in design and development of software systems to support enterprise resource planning, pharmaceutical research, and drug discovery.
• Formulated and developed lab safety management system under tight deadlines and strict regulations.
• Implemented computational modeling tools in a mixed Linux/Windows environment.
• Interfaced with chemists and biologists to develop detailed system specifications for new informatics and computational tools to enable research activities.
• Managed relationships with external vendors and with external development resources.

• Resuscitated a suite of flagging computational chemistry projects and re-engaged an alienated user base through clear, diligent communication, delivery of world-class software products, and transparent large-scale.
• Managed all aspects of two large, global distributed computing projects
• Supported worldwide user community consisting of several thousand members.
• Prepared disease targets and drug libraries for docking simulation studies.
• Wrote scientific articles and press releases.

Bannockburn, Illinois, US

• Led the technical migration of large-scale, real-time product processing from Chicago to Indianapolis and subsequent consolidation of technical operations to facilitate multiple corporate acquisitions.Key Contributions:
• Managed geographically-distributed IT team for enterprise software development (ERP and workflow) and deployment.
• Designed and led implementation of integration solutions with several large pharmaceutical firms.
• Automated billing functionality for the entire Indianapolis operation.
• Fostered organizational communication through SharePoint sites, blogs, and wikis.
• Collaborated with business units to define best practices and consolidate processing operations.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Enlisted to re-engineer large-scale chemical informatics software, moving from a mainframe setting to a modern J2EE architecture. Key Contributions:
• Designed and implemented object-oriented chemical informatics software in Java/J2EE using the Rational Unified Process and eXtreme Programming methodologies.
• As senior developer, modernized patents processing system to meet government standards and improve performance and reliability.
• Integrated new software products into complex existing software systems.
• Administered release coordination for large (~50 systems) editorial and scientific workflow projects.
• Served on Java Best Practices group to establish company-wide standards for Java/OO development.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Computational chemistry lead on talented team providing onsite expertise in the computational sciences to a world-renowned group of DoD researchers.Key Contributions:
• Trained and guided materials scientists and aerospace engineers in the efficient use of chemistry simulation software to advance their work.
• Selected, procured, installed, optimized and maintained chemistry simulation software for use with government high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
• Conducted simulation research projects.
• Mentored college interns in the development of robust software and tools in an HPC environment.

Ph. D., Computational Chemistry

Ba, Mathematics And Chemistry

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