Ari Berman Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Area

As the CEO of BioTeam, I am responsible for the strategy, direction, industry, growth, and success of the Company. I am passionate about growing a highly talented and diverse staff that accurately represents the life science and biomedical research areas that we serve, and who are motivated to make a real difference in how science is done. My goal is to continue to honor and enhance the exceptional reputation and brand that BioTeam's leadership has created over the years.We look forward to collaborating with you!

Austin, Texas

As the Vice President and General Manager of Consulting Services, I am responsible for every aspect of the consulting services that BioTeam provides to its customers. This includes mangint he consulting staff, business development, contract negotiation, project pricing, project staffing, project management, profit/loss per year, policy determination. My level of engagement in direct consulting work will decrease over time while I help place other highly qualified and effective consultants into the roles of managing our customers' projects. Our goal, as always, is to help scientific organizations reach the cutting edge of technical research capabilities, to be able to effectively provide leadership and to set an example for US research programs, as well as positively contribute to the research potential of the United States and the world.

As the General Manager of Government Services for BioTeam, I am responsible for every aspect of the Government portion of BioTeam's business. This includes business development, contract negotiation, project pricing, project staffing, project management, profit/loss per year, policy determination, and personnel management. At the same time, I still engage in consulting work at a high level to make sure that the directions I set are realistic, that personnel on the projects trust the directions that are set, and to ensure maximum confidence from the customer that the job will get done correctly. Our goal for Government Services is to help Federal scientific agencies reach the cutting edge of technical research capabilities to be able to effectively provide leadership and to set an example for US research programs, as well as positively contribute to the research potential of the United States and the world.

Thanks to some hard work by my team and I, and a string of good luck with our Government customers, BioTeam has promoted me to the position of Director and Principal Investigator and placed me in charge of our Government Business.

My skill sets have always sat at the crossroads between science and technology. I have extensive experience in system administration and high-performance computing (HPC), and, following the receipt of my Ph.D. in molecular biology, I pursued a carrer as a neuroscientist and bioinformaticist for 12 years. I've always sought to bring these two skill sets together into a single career because it was clear to me that science could massively benefit from the analysis benefits that come from HPC. Well, as expected, scientific research has now moved into a realm where it is nearly impossible to perform modern analytic techniques without some form of HPC.Quite by accident, I stumbled upon BioTeam. It seemed that they filled the niche that I have sought to incorporate throughout my career and I was fascinated by it. So, naturally, I joined them and have been happily providing everything from HPC infrastructure to bioinformatics support to life scientists ever since.

My goal was to improve the computational infrastructure at the Buck Institute by upgrading the internal network, building a central Network Attached Storage system, revamping backups, building and maintaining a ROCKS cluster, building a micro-cloud VSphere environment for server consolidation and virtualization, and writing applications to improve the user/IT interaction experience. My primary goal in this position is to revitalize my Engineering and sysadmin skills and to bring the scientific computational environment at the Buck into the bleeding edge of the state of the art.

I am a postodoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Sean Mooney in the Bioinformatics Core Facility. I am working on building bioinformatics tools for aging research.

During my time as a postdoc at the VA Medical Center at UCSF, I worked as a lab scientist on several projects relating to inflammation and neurodegenerative disease. Under the direction of Raymond A. Swanson, M.D., I characterized a new mouse model for Parkinson's disease that implicates chronic inflammation in the development of the disease. In this model, we were also able to completely rescue the age-related neurodegeneration using a potent antioxidant. This preliminary data is now being used as the basis for a clinical trial for Parkinson's Disease.

Institute For Cellular And Molecular Biology

Obtained my Ph.D. in Molecular Biology having studied the long term effects of chronic alcohol consumption and addiction on brain gene expression. The goal was to discover genes that may be involved in the heritibility of alcoholism in the brain. The project involved extensive laboratory research, the use of microarray technology, and a very large bioinformatics effort that resulted in the writing of a microarray analysis suite and web-based data-sharing and exploration system for the analyzed data.

This position included the administration of a large network (100+) of Linux, Unix, Macintosh, and Windows computers, as well as maintenance of multiple servers. I also constructed and maintained several Beowulf clusters and did extensive programming to streamline administrative projects.