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Arlington, MA, US

Belmont, MA, US

• Manage and monitor the MIC Core and Clinical Services common IT infrastructure, including storage, backup, and networking.
• Manage and monitor the MIC Clinical infrastructure, including OsiriX, PACS, and legacy RIS.
• Manage and monitor research computing including the Red Hat and Bright/SGE based HPC cluster.
• Oversee desktop support staff.
• Assist researchers with data analysis and software toolchain development.
• Study researchers’ workflows and suggest and implement improvements.At McLean, I have:

US

• Support clients, including many of the Fortune 50, in their use of the Ab Initio ETL software including the GDE, Co>Operating System, Control Center, Metadata Hub, and associated underlying systems.
• Build software solutions on Linux, Solaris, and AIX ranging from low-level system utilities to high-performance data processing engines operating over data warehouse systems spanning tens of thousands of database.
• Implement systems to provide data lineage traceability and provide build systems that supply reproducible reporting to end users.
• Teach internal classes in the use of our technologies, and develop additional teaching materials to enhance existing classes.
• Manage and help develop the internal proprietary Help system as well as its open source (nginx and Tomcat) components.
• Develop and maintain internal-facing dashboards, both web-based and using custom designed hardware based on the Raspberry Pi and Arduino platforms, which help teams visualize the current support workload and notify.

• Developed software (Python, bash, Tcl/Tk, and C, on Linux) for FDA and CE certified robots that assist stroke and other patients with rehabilitation.
• Worked with clinical staff to design research-based treatment protocols and translate these into products.
• Made sure the robots followed Asimov’s First Law of Robotics by implementing multiple redundant safety systems including software and hardware based power-off systems triggering on logical, electrical, and mechanical.
• Rewrote tens of thousands of lines of legacy Tcl/Tk code in (much less) Python
• Developed software in C for an Atmel microcontroller, replacing the PLC in a new product line
• Developed robot mechanical dynamics simulations in Jupyter/IPython Notebook

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

• Focused on heuristic analysis, usability testing, statistics, data analysis, and background research in the service of medical device usability and safety, including human factors testing for regulatory approval.
• Specialized in applying principles of human psychology and cognitive performance to improving usability.

• Developed tools in Perl and shell to monitor Unix systems and networks.
• Supported Unix systems providing financial and other messaging services to 100,000+ customers in a high availability environment.
• Mentored other programmers.
• Created formal documentation of procedures that had previously been passed down orally.

Supported financial message queuing software in a high availability environment. Developed tools, procedures, and workflows for support personnel.

Support for 100s of business-critical unix servers and the world-wide corporate network. Mentoring and workflow development for 1st-tier support.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Neuroscience

B.A. 2003, Psychology; Cognitive Science