I am a non-traditional biomedical scientist. Currently on the Editorial Board of AIDS (https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/pages/editorialboard.aspx). I also consult as a pathogen and sequencing subject matter expert. As a part of my interest in medical education, I have consulted students sitting for the Step 1 of the US Medical Licensure Exam. Science-wise, I am an expert in HIV pathogenesis and sequencing. I have acquired extensive experience in SARS-COV-2 genomics (https://nanoporetech.com/resource-centre/video/lc22/assembly-deconvolution-resolves-sars-cov-2-haplotypes-in-delta-omicron-co-infections), and have been studying Candida auris (https://github.com/GenerGener/Candida_auris) and human monkeypox virus (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.06.22279633v1) genomes and genomic analyses. I have extensive experience with project management, teamwork, and experience with grant writing. My technical skills include long-read (Nanopore and PacBio) and short-read Illumina DNA and RNA sequencing, genome assembly, transcript modeling, molecular cloning, and sequencing quality control. I recently completed a Bioinformatics Fellowship funded by the Association of Public Health Laboratories and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, working at the Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratories.During my PhD I revisited HIV with new sequencing methods, and establishing HIV Informatics as a framework to maximize information from HIV samples. I developed a tractable approach to generate HIV transcript models, prioritize them, and discovered multiple new open reading frames. This more than doubled the known protein-coding capacity of the HIV-1 genome. The new transcript models are available here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MZ242719.1. Noteworthy is that the most common integrase isoform supported by these analyses is GENER4-integrase, a novel isoform MZ242752.1; https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Citation/2022/01010/Anticipating_HIV_drug_resistance_with_appropriate.16.aspx. I took a leave before my fourth year of medical school. At UCC, I served as Interim President of the Class of 2014 in the fall of 2010, Community Service Intervention MS1 Group Leader, Pharmacology (Class) Representative from 2011-2012, Internal Medicine Clerkship Representative for Track C, and President and Clinic Director of Clinicas Padre Venard since July of 2013.