Bob Freeman Email & Phone Number

Member of 20-person volunteer team at national organization advocating for and supporting RCD staff, workforce development, & campus research.Co-Coordinator/Chair, People Network, 2021 – present • Coordinate an online community with five topic areas (Tracks) and membership of ~ 2000 RCD professionals. • Support 10 Track Co-Coordinators with 25 steering committee members across all Tracks to deliver >170 monthly calls, providing networking, professional development, and knowledge-sharing activities.Team Lead, Logistics-Metrics Team, 2022 – present • Lead 6-person team advising CaRCC leadership on member activities via data collection, analysis, and visualization. • Ongoing Logistics member, assisting with operational support to all CaRCC’s communities and activity groups.Co-Coordinator/Chair, People Network Researcher-Facing Track, 2018 – 2022 • Coordinated 35 community calls for RCD professionals who ‘face’ researchers, with almost 2500 persons attending in total. Increased participation ~ 2x over 20 calls (2 years). Grew membership to 880 (17x) while chair. • First to establish 10-person steering committee to improve community input and increase Track participation. Co-Chair, Engagement, 2019 – 2022• Worked with 8-person volunteer team to promote CaRCC’s mission, visibility, and participation. Executed in four strategic areas, 28 detailed activities. Recruited > 20 new internal volunteers. Continuing presently as a member.

A Boston-based bioinformatics, technology development, and integration company. We develop technology solutions towards managing, analyzing, and integrating scientific, clinical, and institutional information in multi-platform environments. We accomplish this via data-centered workflows, UX-design focus, and processes that ensure data compliance, reliability, & integrity. We help our clients optimize their business processes to maximize productivity, maintain/reduce personnel costs, and make work fun once again.Clients include higher education departments, biopharmaceuticals, and medical schools. More info at http://www.bioinfoworks.com.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Lead research computing facilitation with 8 data scientists and IT support team to support research computing & data (RCD) needs for ~100 faculty, ~75 RAs, ~125 doctoral students, and ~250 collaborators. • Onboard >20 incoming faculty / year, assessing research computing and data (RCD) requirements, and making recommendations on IT resources, processes, and service-related partners. • Lead analyst/co-coordinator building cloud platform for data science. Completed market research and analyzed 10 platforms; deployed several on AWS for research. Assisted vendors & IT teams for PoC builds, QA, and user testing.• Guided/managed “customer”-centered, service-minded, high-functioning team of data scientists & support staff to ensure well-executed, day‐to‐day, front-of-house RC service delivery. Escalate with IT infrastructure team partners; review weekly all service delivery/support. • Partnered with 6-person IT team providing tactical direction, guiding improvements, & improving UX for secure data HPC cluster and database server. Increased usage 3x over 4 years to >200 users/quarter, 60% new to HPC. • Developed Research Data Management training program in collaboration with HBS Library Data Program Manager and other service providers. Trained >150 researchers w/ high ratings. Also served on Harvard-wide RDM WG. • Assisted yearly with organization, execution, analysis, and design of 5-year strategic Technology Road Map for RCD resources. Authored >30 use cases informing Road Map and co-wrote project plans & budgets for initial years. • Developed and executed cross-campus, in-person and remote skills training classes with multiple Harvard groups. Utilized Carpentries methods, ran ~40 classes/yr, rated 4+/5, and updated content & delivery based on feedback. • Partnered with on- and off-campus RC centers, including MGHPCC, NERC, & NSF supercomputing centers (ACCESS); and contributed to Harvard & national committees to enable and improve access & usage.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

• Managed outreach, education, and facilitation efforts with science labs at HU and partner institutions to support better use of campus and national high-end computing (ACI) resources, including MGHPCC-hosted “local” 60k-core SLURM compute cluster with multi-petabyte storage. • Lead facilitator for NSF-funded ACI-REF project* and XSEDE Campus Champions. • Met with faculty research teams across various disciplines at multiple Harvard schools for research facilitation engagements to accelerate research through ‘teach to fish’ approach. • Identified gaps in knowledge and skills training of ACI resources use; developed and executed training programs using multiple learning approaches and employing published, pedagogical research. • Assisted Tier 1 & 2 RC support via ticketing systems, chat, and writing technical support documentation. *Two-year, six-university NSF-funded endeavor for research universities: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/blog/aci-ref-program-kicks-off-at-harvard/.

Work under Dr. Marc Kirschner, University Professor and Systems Biology Department chair. • Member of small, dedicated multi-site research team and responsible for managing all expression and genomic data for an emerging model organism.• Designed IT infrastructure to manage and track research data, as well as other computational tools to manage research workflows, visualize data, and streamline research processes.• Performed both on-site and field (wet-lab) research, utilizing molecular biology and HPC computing tools to generate, process, and analyze -omics data.• Key player in several projects: - dorsoventral axis study utilizing a custom microarray, qPCR, and in situ hybridization - comparative developmental gene expression study in three key organisms as revealed by NextGen RNA-seq transcriptomics - Xenopus egg proteomics project through optimized mass spec reference design.Computational as well as wet-lab evolution/developmental biology. http://kirschner.med.harvard.edu/files/html/people/Bob.shtml

Woods Hole, Ma, Us

• Co-designed and led one-week intensive informatics course for 2012 and 2013• Taught Perl & BioPerl programming and RNA-seq analysis modules• Organized sequencing of modules to best maximize learning continuity and content• Designed/executed pre- and post- class surveys; and class web sites

Member of a user relations and business analyst team that assisted with deployment of 2nd generation intranet for Biogen Idec, Inc. Responsible for analysis of existing content, creation of new content templates, and migration of research content to the new intranet. Also responsible for managing relations for six major business areas (one-half the company) in core functions of the company during migration.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Developed, implemented, and managed the first-ever, school-wide center to six life science, research departments with ~100 faculty labs. Worked with CIO to develop, plan, & implement service programs, delivery, and budgets. • Managed a 4-person, mixed team of research and technical personnel providing technology solutions, training, informatics consulting, & RC facilitation, guided by faculty and administrative steering committees.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Provided RC facilitation and bioinformatics SME consultation support to faculty and their research teams on computational approaches to solving research questions. Provided second-tier IT support to 25 faculty labs. • Developed and managed the first-of-its-kind IT resource portfolio for a life sciences department.

Worked under Dr. Benjamin Neel. Studied the role of protein tyrosine phosphatase in signal transduction. Discovered and cloned SHP2, an SH2 domain-containing tyrosine phosphatase. Characterized SHP2 biochemically and in vivo. Utilized bioinformatics tools to help achieve goals, and assisted with setup of first automated fluorescent sequencer for the department.

Ph.D., Virology

A.B., Molecular Biology