Christopher Coletta, M.S. Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Maryland, US

Baltimore, MD, US

Instructor in the Adult Education program.

Design and conduct bioimage informatics experiments, especially to characterize and quantify disease progression (osteoarthritis in human knees using MRI, pediatric pneumonia using radiological imaging, macular degeneration using fundus photographs, and C. Elegans aging morphology using light microscopy). Analysis of longitudinal epidemiological data.

Lead instructor for BIOF309 Introduction to Python in the Bioinformatics department for Spring 2013 (20 students) and Spring 2014 (40 students). Developed all course materials largely from scratch, including curriculum, reference IPython notebooks, homeworks, and automated homework grading programs using the unittest framework. Course website.

Northport, NY, US

Served as sailing instructor, camp counselor and mentor for teenagers in outdoor adventure camp operating out of the British Virgin Islands. Was both mate and a captain aboard 50-foot monohull sailboats, with length of cruises lasting one to three weeks. Taught windsurfing classes, as well as US Sailing Basic Keelboat Certification courses on IC-24s and.

Architect and implement a small business mySQL database that is fully integrated with the company Drupal-based website. Implement company wiki to facilitate the documentation of business processes.

5,000 hours of on-the-water experience, teaching youth, adult, and non-able bodied students in all aspects of sailing from rigging to racing. Lead mentoring, team-building activities for inner-city Boston youth. Work with sight-challenged, deaf, autistic, and mobility challenged students. Drive launch, serve as dock staff and as official on race committee.

Wrote prototype "PinYourself" Facebook/GoogleMaps mashup application that enabled members of a university alumni association or other organization to pin their location and a map and leave a message for other members to read. Developed on LAMP-based proprietary CMS, additionally using JSON, JavaScript, GoogleMaps API, and debugged using the Firebug plug-in.

Developed add-on applications for commercial CAD systems CATIA v5, and Unigraphics NX, built on top of VISTAGY’s proprietary application platform EnCapta. Co-principal developer for the Quality Planning Environment application. Was responsible for all aspects of implementation from gathering customer requirements, to design, development, testing and.

Annapolis, Maryland, US

Trained U.S. Naval Academy cadet sailing instructors, filling in gaps in sailing skills, and advised best practices with respect to keelboat handling and sailing instruction. U.S. Sailing Association Basic Keelboat Curriculum taught on Colgate 26 sailboats.

Brisbane, Queensland, AU

Keelboat classes taught in Moreton Bay using International Etchells class sailboats.

M.S. Data Science

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Diploma