Chief Technology Officer
Omicsoft Corporation
Joined OmicSoft, a start-up bioinformatics software company as CTO, also the first bioinformatician/developer, in 2010. Been a driving force to establish the data content and software development team for OmicSoft. As a key member of the leadership team, actively assisted president and the board of OmicSoft in making strategic and major operation decisions. OmicSoft has enjoyed rapid growth and grown into an industry-leading enterprise bioinformatics framework solution and multi-Omic data content provider for both pharmaceutical and biotech users. In Jan 2017, OmicSoft was acquired by QIAGEN Bioinformatics.Achievements: Kept track of latest bioinformatics and biomedical technology advancement and related market force; worked closely with president and marketing team to define long term goals of OmicSoft and actively adjusted/improved product lines according to market demands.Oversaw the genomic content generation process; build data content team from scratch; led development and data content teams to establish the full genomic data retrieval, processing, metadata curation, QC, downstream analysis and data publication processes for OmicSoft's superior Land products. Developed/optimized various data analysis pipelines and analysis modules in OmicSoft ArraySuite for RNA-Seq, microarray, epigenetics data, etc. Collaborated with clients from pharmaceutical or biotech companies and provide consulting services on bio-marker identification, drug target verification and data migration projects that totally multi-million dollars.Oversaw IT operations, led the planning, budgeting and building of IT infrastructure from ground up (data storage, access control and backup; computation resources; software) to support company R&D and operation needs.