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Maryland, United States

Supported numerous informatics projects in realms of UI design and automation. Carried out analyses and visualized data from a year-long bio-surveillance study, culminating in writing a client report. Personally implemented a docker containerized version of a Flask GUI for our flagship bioinformatics pipeline. Helped to develop the UI for user-configuration and launching of jobs. I developed the UI for visualization of the pipeline's results by myself. For the visualizer, I tested and used a combination of tools provided by ReactJS, Bokeh, Seaborne, pure HTML, and Streamlit to allow users to seamlessly filter and dynamically view data, even as it was being actively generated by the pipeline in real time – all available to the user right in the browser.

Maryland, United States

Contracted by the National Cancer Institute through ICF to work on the NCI’s epiSphere project – a series of consumer-facing, portable software packages designed to bring powerful GWAS analytics to the consumer, aiding in both cancer prevention and prediction. Exposure to data wrangling, version control, and pulling from databases via API.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Tutored undergraduates for improvement of scientific and argumentative writing ability. Development of long-term academic relationships with students, focused on building writing skills through editing their existing work in all varieties of writing disciplines, such as personal statements, technical reports, and creative writing.

United States

Coach kids aged 2-8 years of age in hourly sessions. The primary goal is to develop gross and fine motor skills, using soccer as the teaching tool.

Virginia State Parks Reservation Center, Richmond, Va

Respond to customer calls and create park accommodation reservations. Other duties include interaction with onsite park staff for site information, processing both park passes and refund paperwork.

Richmond, Virginia Area

I have over 250 hours of volunteer laboratory experience with Dr. Kristoffer Valerie in the Radiation Oncology Laboratory of the Massey Cancer Center at VCU. During this internship, my focus was on CRISPR-Cas9 mediated knock-out of key proto-oncogenes. I testing the efficacy of a lentiviral plasmid containing inserts coding for gRNA:Cas9 endonucleases targeting aforementioned genes. During this laboratory experience, I learned how to extract and purify DNA, use PCR machines, practice the basics of tissue cell culture, conduct gel electrophoresis, do Western Blots, and visualize gels. I also gained a lot of experience designing gRNA and amplification primers.

Falls Church, Virginia

I worked closely with Joe Richardson, a Healthcare Project Manager, to develop and explore a preliminary bioinformatics-mediated solution to predict future inpatient costs based on past beneficiary demographic and medical data. Based in Microsoft Azure, our trained Machine Learning model was capable of assigning new beneficiaries to predicted brackets of medical costs. This probability modeling project, designed as a proof-of-concept study for CITI, may pave the way for future machine-learning-oriented solutions to questions of risk-assessment and prediction.

Master Of Science - Ms, Bioinformatics, 3.61 Cumulative Gpa

Activities and Societies: Simultaneous work as a Graduate Writing Counselor at VCU's Writing Center. Taught and supported numerous courses.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology, Bioinformatics, Pre-Med, Gpa: 3.66

Activities and Societies: Intramural Ultimate Frisbee, Teaching Assistant: BNFO 300 & BIOL 101Double major in Biology and Bioinformatics.