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Greater Boston

As a Life science and digital transformation consultant, I solve strategic and tactical informatics problems by leveraging a wide variety of skills to meet the particular needs of the organization and their current and desired digital landscape. I’m particularly focused on situations where the needs and/or the target solutions are unclear and need direction coupled with rapid execution.Activities that span my engagements include:* Strategy development* System architecture* Offshore team creation, management, and technical leadership* Data model design* AWS architecture and implementation (CDK, Serverless Framework, many AWS services)* Implementation (Python, React, AWS) of rapid prototypes and production solutions* API integrations with Benchling, Dotmatics, Egnyte, Twist, ATUM, IDT, Sapio, ChemAxon, HiRes Bio, BaseSpace, CDD Vault, etc.* Mentor/counsel leaders and individual contributors* Requirements discovery* Benchling solution implementation (schemas, templates, configuration, integration, training, adoption)* Evaluation and selection of commercial informatics solutions and services* Job description creation and interviewing for informatics and data science roles

Greater Boston Area

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Working with a fantastic global engineering team surrounded by really bright scientists to change science with software. Our engineering mission: “We create tools that empower scientists to accelerate drug discoveries and improve patients' lives”We are creating solutions that span all phases of drug discovery from target identification through small clinical trials. Leveraging Engineering’s software engineering, scientific computing, data engineering, user experience, DevOps, and cloud teams, and in collaboration with our scientist and informatician partners, we build solutions for data platforms, data analysis, lab informatics, high performance computing (HPC), “sample” logistics and management, scientific digital documents, collaboration, scientific search, portfolio, project and study management, and more.In case we get bored with that, we also have an open source program (opensource.nibr.com), a cloud-first strategy and transformation, and a major platform architecture strategy (focused on services and composable solutions).I’m like a nerd in mud. Best job ever, amazing team, cool and diverse technology, helping patients.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Member of Corporate Technical Strategy team contributing to the development of the 2013 technical strategy for the "new era of computing."Had extreme fun developing strategy, business plan, and architecture for a new SaaS offering. Since this was a "from scratch" offering, this was a great chance to apply lessons learned and modern SaaS DevOps practices that resulted in a web scale (NoSQL backed), cloud deployed, high performance, fault tolerant, very highly available, continuously deployed, REST-based, modular, and functional solution.Additional responsibilities were extensions of my Unica role prior to its acquisition by IBM. Please see below for details.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Led the development and operations of the full portfolio of Unica's OnDemand offerings to deliver best-of-breed products that are delivered with world-class operational excellence.Unica's OnDemand solutions include: web analytics, search bid management, email marketing, email deliverability management, marketing resource management, comprehensive multi-channel campaign management, customer analytics, and web personalization.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Led the development of a suite of enterprise software products for Enterprise Marketing Management. Was responsible for developing software development processes throughout the organization. Later led all development related to our move to SaaS. This included organically created SaaS products, transformations of enterprise solutions into SaaS solutions, and acquisitions of natively SaaS companies.

Held various director-level engineering roles managing software and hardware development and R&D.* Director of Engineering, Advanced Development* Director of Engineering, IP Media* Director of Systems Engineering* Director of Product Engineering* Director of Software and Systems Engineering

Provider of turnkey enhanced fax solutions for enterprises and services providers. Applications included fax-on-demand, unified voice/fax mailboxes, international fax store-and-forward systems, etc. Customers included Bell South, Civil Aviation Authority of Australia, Ricoh Corporation, Massachusetts Financial Services, UNUM Insurance, and Jeppesen DataPlan.

Founded the first commercial fax-on-demand service bureau. This service provided real-time weather and aviation data to commercial and private aviation users. The WeatherFax operation was sold to Jeppesen DataPlan (then a Times-Mirror company) in 1992.

Individual consultant on a variety of hardware and software projects. Developed low level device drivers, high-level application software, VLSI design and simulation, and project management.

Developed hardware designs and software simulations for custom VLSI digital signal processing chips and systems. Focus was on real-time digital image and signal processing, neural network architectures, and bit-serial architectures.

Directed a division of the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems (LEMMS) related to computer hardware modeling, simulation and networking. Supervised and contributed to research projects. Much work related to parallel processor implementations of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) flow graphs.

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: LEMS laboratory member (Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems)Master's thesis "The Design.

Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Sc.B. with Honors.