David Mischel Email & Phone Number

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.