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• Current appointment: HIV Vaccine Trials Network Lab and Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research & Prevention. Previous: Early Detection Research Network
• Spearheaded statistical support of lab assay development and validation, providing statistical support to individual scientists involved in immune assay research, including study design and power calculation, methods.
• Pioneered automatic data analysis pipeline enabling the immune-correlates analysis of the RV144 Thai vaccine efficacy trial (published in NEJM). This included processing many data types, automated report generation of.
• Optimized R package (pcvsuite) for evaluation of tests/biomarkers for disease screening, diagnosis and risk prediction, including first authorship on paper, which develops and validates a new method for ordinal ROC.
• Launched multiple R packages, including: predictSurvival (estimation of multiple performance estimators for case-control, case-cohort and nested case-control trials with time-to-event data), and mgrp (simulations of.
• Created data mining software suite for analysis of Women’s Health Initiative proteomics project.

Seattle, Washington

MS Biostatistics, August 2010Courses include: Advanced Theory of Statistical Inference, Advanced Applied Statistics, Statistical Learning, Statistical Genetics, Computational Molecular Biology, Wavelets, Statistical Evaluation of Biomarkers, Consulting, Cancer Biology, Cancer EpidemiologyTeaching Assistantships: Biostatistics 503, 512, 513, 517, 518, 540.

Beaverton, Oregon

• Collaborated with scientists to develop informatics infrastructure for support of genetics research.
• Conceived web-based genetics database and user-interface using mySQL, Java, Perl, and Tomcat focusing on intuitive display of pedigrees for colony management analysis.
• Ported SAM (“Significance Analysis of Microarrays”) to Matlab.

Bellevue, WA

• Implemented a hardware abstraction interface for GoAhead’s Self-Reliant product.
• Developed alarming service allowing for remote monitoring of hardware events for multiple local and remote publishers and subscribers.
• Led design and implementation of tradeshow demonstrations showing load-balancing and application failover between clustered nodes in a chassis in coordination with platform partner.

Bothell, Washington

• Senior DSP Software Engineer (1997-2001)Developed signal and image processing algorithms, control software, and infrastructure.
• Architected hardware interface module for proprietary signal and image processing boards in C++. The “manager” initialized boards, distributed control parameters, controlled state, and handled hardware events.
• Improved 2D (B&W tissue imaging) processing on current high-end and mid-range systems using AT&T and Analog Devices DSPs. Researched algorithms using Matlab.
• Led development for “smart” time-gain compensation and digital gain features. Developed user-interface requirements, integrated acquisition software changes, and validated with clinicians.Systems Engineer, Acoustic.
• Created lab and developed procedures, automatic test tools, data analysis software, and system software for estimation and statistical control of acoustic output according to FDA guidelines.
• Supervised engineering team taking measurements for scanhead integration for clinical trials, FDA submittal, and initial production data collection for product release.

Master'S Degree, Biostatistics

Medical Informatics

Master'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

High School