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Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Owned the technical architecture of tenants which involves translating high level business requirements into system level requirements; identifying gaps and opportunities; and developing roadmaps for returning business value.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Onboarded Talent Acquisition Requisition/Candidate/Applicant data from Fortune 500 companies into the Visier People Analytics Solution through traditional methods and Beta Release technology requiring working closely with in-house R&D teams to follow a co-development processes

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

In this critical customer facing role, we work directly with external customers and internal stakeholders throughout the implementation process of our flagship enterprise solution. Business Intelligence Consultants are ambitious self-starters, consulting-minded, collaborative team players, and highly polished communicators who apply our understanding of data warehousing techniques, database management systems, and applied analytics solutions to architect solutions for our customers. We demonstrate a technical aptitude, coupled with the ability to translate technical information to non-technical audiences in order to deliver clear and exceptional support for our customers.• Guided data discovery consultation meetings with customers to educate, explore options, and gather requirements for delivering value on their business use cases• Created internal and customer-facing assets including best practice documentations in Confluence and ServiceNow

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• People manager• Reviewed new customer onboarding activities and business logic customizations by assessing requirements, evaluating technical implementation design proposals, and doing code reviews• Followed the Scrum agile framework for managing sprint planning in JIRA and leading sprint review and retrospective meetings

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Technical lead• Coached, mentored, and trained up junior and new staff• Gave presentations to small and large groups during training sessions, workshops, team all hands meetings, and new hire info sessions

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Extracted, transformed, and loaded large amounts of customer HR data into the Visier application using Mercurial/Git and proprietary DSL

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Applied data science solutions to biological problems• Built a data pipeline to automatically run & reproduce experimental results (such as the modelling of chromatin states from epigenetic features using hidden Markov models)• Developed a new quantitative metric for model selection• Developed text mining and machine learning approaches to prioritize therapeutics from unstructured text• Created a visualization platform for interfacing with results stored in remote MySQL databases

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Modified machine learning models in Python to discover miRNA promoters• Formulated a semi supervised statistical model and trained it with features from CAGE, DNA-sequencing, and sRNA-sequencing data

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Applied data mining strategies to extract primer text sequences from academic literature• Called APIs to programmatically submit BLAST database queries of extracted primer sequences

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Pre-processed data, developed pipelines, and wrapped third party software using R, Python, and Bash• Produced data visualizations and limited text suitable for scientific manuscripts with R• Launched pipelines for genome analysis on compute clusters to generate data for downstream analysis in Python and Bash• Promoted to full-time following an internship

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Awarded the NSERC - Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)• Worked with collaborators to develop an R package using version control (Git, Github)• Practiced good software development by creating and using unit tests during R package development

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Documented online protocols for internal use and for end users• Setup user accounts on desktops, servers, and wikis• Monitored essential services and hardware using Nagios• Restored and backed up files using Bacula• Provided troubleshooting services• Upgraded to CFEngine 3 and evaluated the automated configuration and maintenance with Vagrant virtual machines

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Annotated Gene Expression Omnibus datasets that were to be imported into the Gemma database with ontology terms • Evaluated lab software across multiple operation systems and reported issues to BugZilla• Updated websites using WordPress and Drupal content management systems• Assessed the quality of microarray data for collaborators in the the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo• Acknowledged for my database curation work in: Zoubarev A et al. (2012) "Gemma: a resource for the reuse, sharing and meta-analysis of expression profiling data". Bioinformatics 2012, 28(17):2272-2273.

• Communicated with supervisors to receive instructions for the execution of experiments• Researched, experimented, and evaluated the method for Marfey’s reaction for enantiomeric resolution of amino acids • Performed and analyzed the purity of compounds by column chromatography, TLC, GC, and HPLC• Multitasked in coordination between between executing experiments, keeping records, restocking supplies, and cleaning glassware

North Vancouver, Ca

• Provided excellent customer service by responding in a timely manner, listening to what the customer has to say, and keeping an upbeat positive attitude• Took initiative to find extra tasks when scheduled duties were completed

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Maintained high standards of customer service during high-volume, fast-paced operations• Handled currency and credit transactions quickly and accurately (Summer of 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009)

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computational Biology (Bioinformatics)

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biochemistry