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I enjoy combining my dual background in biology and computer science with analytical thinking and creativity to solve scientific informatics problems in dynamic and rapidly changing research environments. I have a track record of successful project and team leadership at the interface between experimental biologists, computer scientists, and software engineers. My programming experience extends over more than two decades, and includes building commercial applications, writing real-time data acquisition software, and developing bioinformatics data integration systems and standards.My research interests are in reusable and interoperable software and data, large-scale data integration, and in building open, sustainable eScience infrastructure. In my role at NESCent, I am involved with and have helped initiate many of the Center’s cyberinfrastructure initiatives aimed at grass-roots building of community capacity. I brought the hackathon program and Google Summer of Code participation to the Center. I also serve in senior roles in the NSF-funded Phenoscape project (http://phenoscape.org) on ontological annotation of evolutionary phenotype observations, as well as the Dryad digital repository for data supporting scientific publications (http://datadryad.org). Before joining NESCent, I worked for almost 10 years in functional genome informatics in the biopharmaceutical sector, where among other things I built SymAtlas, one of the first decidedly gene-centric database integrating genome annotation databases with gene function data. Specialties: Project and team leadership, Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure Development, Software Engineering (Java, J2EE/EJB/JSP/JSTL, Perl, C, C++, R/S-Plus, PL/SQL, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Design Patterns), Data modeling, Relational database development, Data analysis, Algorithm development.

Listed skills include Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics, Perl, and 43 others.