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Mission Bay, San Francisco, Ca

Programmer responsible for Animation tool in Chimera molecular modeling suite.

Organized and lead IT group in a major research lab. Responsibilities included application design and implementation to automate data processing, system architecture, design and implementation to expand processing and storage capabilities, including backup and disaster recovery.Manage budget and purchasing requirements, and strategic planning.• Led, directed and collaborated on design and implementation of an automated data processing system in mixed OS environment including implementation of a Sun Grid Engine. This resulted in improvements in data stability, reliability, process tracking, method standardization and reporting. It also enabled a reduction of processing staff by 25%.• Stabilized and standardized heterogeneously assembled servers and storage arrays, centralized data storage from workstations to servers, and aligned data management policy to meet data security requirements. This resulted in improvements in data storage and backup, enhanced data storage stability and superior security for sensitive data.• Expanded the processing for Windows hosts from 3 to 7 servers, Linux hosts from 4 to 17 servers; storage capacity from 35 terabytes to 200 terabytes. This resulted in a net increase in processing volume which supported the process automation project, expanded ability to run more projects. It made it easier for image processors and scientists to do more testing of alternate processing methods.• Streamlined system configuration and management of applications centralizing application installations on shared drives, normalizing home directories, integrating Windows credentials on Linux hosts. This resulted in improved configuration management and stability, increased user ease of use.• Managed 6 person IT staff consisting of programmers, server manager, desktop support specialist and database administrator; the IT group supported up to 75 users, including Principal Investigators, researchers, image processers, and administrators.

Led and managed the Authentication and Authorization Services project for UCSF. Responsibilities included gathering and analyzing requirements from more than 20 departments and application systems, assessed University's short- and long-term needs, assembled and leaded a project team, presented project vision and details to executive and technical audiences, engaged vendors, managed the project budget, and advised on technical issues.Developed a balanced conceptual design for scalable, graduated authentication solutions in the absence of an existing repository of unique user names. The design is platform independent and can be implemented on Windows or Unix systems.Engaged various independent IT departments to develop and promote a single password policy for authentication, overcoming competing policies and divergent perceptions of security they implement, resulting in internal RFC for unified password policy.Proposed high availability (HA) architecture to leverage existing technology initiatives while meeting performance requirements and taking into account limited IT staff experience with HA solutions.Engaged senior IT management to undertake full participation and ownership of project process and deliverables.

Designed and implemented object oriented information and data management systems to acquire and manage genomic data, integrating with existing systems, third-party ordering, and sequence analysis. System included a web front end, database, and automated scripts to maintain data integrity, reduce manual data management, and provide enhanced reporting and tracking of research data.

Manager and technical architecture leader for infrastructure solutions, with a focus on web enabled applications and security. Interacted with operational and application groups to solve problems and provide solutions for future needs and to meet user and customer requirements.Designed and supported implementation and deployment of high availability LDAP infrastructure, based on hardware clustering. This enabled reliance on LDAP for centralized authentication and authorization of applications.Managed application integration team in Computing Technologies, with Java and Oracle programmers.Lead responsibility for web infrastructure technologies and directions, including Java, Perl, web, LDAP, and EJB.Designed and implemented secure technology to enable multiple web and application servers to use Java classes to securely execute server programs as the authenticated user in the host (Unix) environment of the server. This enabled easy migration to the web of critical sequence analysis applications.Organized and led project to replace the Netscape v4 web browser with Mozilla v1.

Provided technologies for unmet integration needs of application programmers and system managers. Managed web development team in Technology Development group of Corporate IT.Designed and implemented Perl modules to access Oracle and Informix (since obsoleted by DBI Perl module). Designed and implemented secure technology to enable Perl based web programs to securely execute as the authenticated user in the host (Unix) environment of the server.Key resource for integration of application systems with particular focus on web, mail, and LDAP.

• Introduced Mosaic at Genentech (precursor of Netscape) in 1993.• Designed and implemented purchase request system.• Designed, developed and released DSQL, a client-server protocol enabling desktop applications to access SQL databases from desktops.• Designed and implemented SQL extensions to AWK programming language for report writing.• Implemented SOCKS for firewall solution and contributed security code to SOCKS project.