• Bioinformatics consultant for industry and academic clients in oncology• Managed projects; met and communicated with clients to establish project goals, deliverables, and timelines; communicated results in written and visual formats• Performed in-depth statistical genomic analysis; worked with clients in a collaborative manner to deliver biologically and statistically relevant insight • Developed and maintained pipelines for data processing in Google Cloud environment utilizing Nextflow

• Developed genomic data acquisition strategy, designed experiments, and performed bioinformatics analysis to enable allele design and candidate gene discovery at CRISPR gene-editing agricultural technical company• Established annual milestones and budget to power group goals of target gene discovery and expression modulation

• Integrative analysis of RNA-Seq and methylation (array and sequence based) data to identify associations with PTSD in humans• Met with clients of diverse knowledge bases to determine analytical needs; generated a bioinformatics and statistical analysis plan with accompanying cost and timeline estimate; coordinated with sequencing facility to develop optimal analysis plan for complex projects

• Established best-practices for genome assembly and quality control with Illumina, PacBio, and Nanopore reads in assembly of bacterial, nematode, and plant genomes• Analyze RNA-Seq, methyl-Seq, Exome-Seq, Methylation EPIC bead chip array, proteomic, and metabolomic data

• Streamlined data acquisition by training and managing teams of undergraduates to produce high quality, publishable data from the development phase through the analysis phase of each project• Developed laboratory protocols for flow cytometry and confocal microscopy analysis of three color fluorescent pollen; these protocols optimized data collection, leading to a ten-fold increase in the amount of data collected in a time-sensitive assay• Developed a graphical tool in Java to increase efficiency of fluorescent pollen image analysis; this tool reduced the amount of time it took to analyze each image by fifty percent• Utilized NGS technologies, high-performance computing, and a Unix-based pipeline to identify transcriptional regulators of the meiotic protein, DMC1

• Developed a specialized genotyping-by-sequencing platform and novel downstream software analyses to identify regions associated with phenotypic traits in a polyploid, non-model organism; this project involved genotyping hundreds of individuals at millions of markers• Procured funding from NSF and other agencies, which enabled travel to field sites and use of cutting-edge sequencing technologies• Designed, developed, and maintained the laboratory website• Served as laboratory safety coordinator, which involved performing annual safety training of all lab members, developing and updating the laboratory safety plan, maintaining the chemical inventory, and reducing the number of hazardous chemicals in use

Assisted in the analysis of sequence data for the Oryza evolutionary genomics research project.

Characterized the formation and maintenance of a broad hybrid zone of Aesculus (buckeye) in the southern United States through cpDNA analysis.

Completed a research project on the genetic diversity of Gaylussacia brachycera (box huckleberry) using AFLPs.