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Atlanta, GA, US

Remote

• Full ownership of Django web application using REST API calls to return datasets for machine learning algorithms.
• Programmed and designed Rest API's using Django Rest Framework.
• Developed relational schema for scalability to ensure data quality and integrity for database transactions and wrote query views using Django Object-Relational Mapping(ORM) to handle HTTPS requesting.
• Delivered an easy to user, intuitive interface (HTML, JavaScript) to fulfill business requirements
• Redesigned schemas from UKBiobank creating standardization for importing converted JSON data into the PostgreSQL database to offer scalable and reliable solution for data storage.
• Comfortable writing and consuming scripts and using bash scripting and python libraries (Numpy, Pandas, etc) to manage a large, tabular clinical dataset over 500,000 entries (~13gb)

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Assisted with backend feature development for microservices and Rest APIs using the Data Build Tool (DBT) framework to integrate ELT processes into data flows from data warehouses including Snowflake, AWS S3, Red Brick.
• Passionate about the integrity of data and code quality, researching best practices, design patterns, architecture and data structures.
• Improved the performance of existing data pipelines by 5% through code optimization and refactoring on multiple data sources.

Atlanta

• Sequenced large data sets for file pre-processing and end-user sequencing data analysis to determine the effects of dysferlin gene variants.
• Effectively handled and optimized current practices data pipelines, such as updating data collection and normalization techniques to improve overall data quality.
• Streamlined patient data storage by developing Python scripts to automate the process.
• Collaborated with doctors and scientists to publish 4+ publications in scientific journals.
• Highly skilled grant writer bringing in over $200,000 in grants and funds for work related projects.
• Analyzed large datasets to identify trends and patterns, and used findings to make recommendations for process improvements

Tucker, GA

Prepared food product and environmental swab samples for pathogenic testing- Maintained media and reagent production and quality control- Managed reagent inventory and lot number tracking- Adhered to A2LA accredited methods and ISO 17025 standards

San Antonio, Texas Area

Determining effects of cocaine on NMDA/AMPA ratios in the substantia nigra pars compacta- Stereotaxic surgical training for intracranial viral plasmid injections in mice- Mouse brain vibratome sectioning- Electrophysiology training for measuring NMDA/AMPA ratio changeConstructing a Viral Plasmid for Astrocyte Expression of a Light-Gated Potassium Channel.

San Antonio, Texas Area

San Antonio, Texas Area

San Antonio, Texas Area

Performed intraperitoneal injections containing a secondary-serotonin reuptake inhibitor on adepressed rat line- Set up forced swim behavioral tests to record rat immobility time- Analyzed behavioral data using Prism

Houston, Texas Area

- Determined triple-negative breast cancer lysate concentrations of N-acetyl-aspartateusing BCA assays- Conducted DARTS assays and Western blots to determine NAA inhibition of PKM2- Compared metabolite concentrations between cell cultures and patient databases usingstatistical programming in R

Master'S Degree, Bioinformatics

Bachelor Of Science, Neuroscience