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Berkeley, CA

• Building a SAXS open data repository application - Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, Heroku
• Update and add features to the SAXS user mail-in sample system for the doubling of SIBYLS beamline services - jQuery, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, MySQL
• Manage the SAXS Frameslice Web Application - JavaScript, Node, Express, Python
• Maintain application updates / infrastructure

San Francisco Bay Area

• Caramelize that POPSUGAR frontend for an audience of 400 Million+ users via the PHP, Drupal, Smarty, JavaScript, SCSS, MySQL stack in collaboration with editorial, design and production teams
• Received "POPSUGAR Spotlight" award for giving the editors direct control over how feature articles are selected on different channels to serve their 3 Billion monthly views
• Work received "Release Spotlight" in POPSUGAR release notes for updating author, celebrity and product desktop and mobile pages with design team
• Attest to the fact that this is a great and fun place to work! #popsugarlife

Berkeley, CA

• Built the "SAXS FrameSlice", a web-based platform utilizing Node.js and Express with Dropzone file uploading system to reduce load of dedicated beamline computers by over 90% for small-angle X-ray data reduction.
• Minimized number of API calls per user session by up to 500% through refactoring Python small-angle X-ray scattering data processing API to use NumPy and Pandas.
• Designed JavaScript and C3.js visualization system to increase beamline user accessibility to data-processing calculations by more than 1000%, reducing analysis by staff 2 - 4 hrs/day during data collection.

Emeryville, CA

• Created bioinformatics tool using Python to search protein sequence alignments for complex motifs, reducing 1 - 8 hrs of calculation time and eliminating human error by 100% in comprehending regular expressions.
• Enhanced search times by more than 1,000% for fetching related protein sequences from National Center for Biotechnology Information API, with species, length, and percent identity limits using csh and Python.
• Optimized search speeds by > 600% for fetching full-length protein sequences from partial sequences via gene codes using BioPython and the Entrez API.
• Filtered gene expression candidates using Python, reducing work-hours by 99.9% and manual errors by 100%.
• Led engineering team of 2 developers to compile protein structure predictions using Python and multiple APIs, generating gene expression constructs reducing 2 - 3 months of manual work-hours into minutes.

Berkeley, CA

• Obtained $3.5M in DOE ARPA-E funding for engineering enzymes for BioFuel production using sh/csh, sed, AWK, PyMOL and Adobe suite for graphics - 1 patent is underway.
• Solved amyotrophic lateral sclerosis related protein structures by X-ray crystallography and small-angle X-ray scattering using csh, sed, AWK and Python-based Phenix - 1st to relate individual mutations to aggregation.
• Automated rendering of 3D protein and DNA coordinates into publication-quality.png images files using csh, PyMOL and Protein Data Bank API, enhancing process time by over 2400%.

La Jolla, CA

• Secured $1.4M for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) project
• Solved highest resolution ALS-related superoxide dismutase (SOD) crystal structure
• Solved first reaction ligand complex SOD crystal structure and ab initio SAXS model

Nsra And Skaggs Institute For Chemical Biology Fellow, Structural Biology

• Secured $1.8M NIH R01 funding on Mre11/Rad50 structural biochemistry • Dove ~2500 meters in the Alvin submarine to collect Alvinella.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Biochemistry And Molecular Biology

• Fully characterized the IgE binding epitopes of the #1 peanut allergen Ara h1 • Generated predictive computational models of Ara h1.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Chemistry