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Cambridge, England, GB

Founded and grew Genestack from ground up, pivoting from a bioinformatics app development platform, to a life science R&D enterprise data management and integration product and services business.

Hinxton, Cambridge, GB

Coordinating SYBARIS, an EC FP7 project for finding biomarkers of anti-microbial drug resistance via a systems biology analysis of fungal pathogen interactions with the human immune system.

Hinxton, Cambridge, GB

Gene Expression Atlas search engine of gene activity in tissues, cell lines and diseases, EBI R CLOUD computing platform for life sciences, SYBARIS EU project for finding biomarkers of anti-microbial drug resistance.

Hinxton, Cambridge, GB

• Leader of the ArrayExpress Atlas of Gene Expression Project
• Managed the team software engineering process: source control, continuous integration, issue tracking, unified documentation process, adapted Agile methodology to team needs.
• Identified use cases, wrote the requirements and prototyped the development of the ArrayExpress Java EE 5 infrastructure.
• Successfully applied for a BBSRC grant for the development of Web Services/GUIs for an integrated R/Bioconductor/Java & ArrayExpress distributed computing back-end; managed the development of this project.
• Designed and implemented a meta-analytical framework with quantitative relevance ranking for differential gene expression analysis across the entire ArrayExpress Warehouse data store.
• Designed and implemented the web interface for the ArrayExpress Repository with multi-format content delivery (RSS, SOAP and REST Web Services).

Hinxton, Cambridge, GB

• Designed and implemented a new architecture for Expression Profiler, a web-based platform for microarray data analysis, visualization and annotation.
• Participated in research and development of a novel clustering comparison algorithm for finding optimal mappings between hierarchical and flat partitioning clusterings.
• Participated in research and development of a machine learning method for the reconstruction of gene-regulatory networks via integrative supervised classification.
• Designed and oversaw the implementation of a web-based data visualization platform for complex gene expression datasets.
• Supervised several B.S. and M.Sc. student projects on data visualization and analysis of microarray data.

Newton, Massachusetts, US

• Lead a team of analysts in reengineering a large financial database application from its original flatfile-based design to an RDBMS-based design.
• Worked together with a partner firm on identifying the functional requirements for a large US banking institutions’ project on creating a web site for its fund brokerage services.
• Wrote several successful tender bids for large business clients, involving rapid prototyping and query optimization of large database and web applications with search and retrieval capabilities.
• Lead a team of developers writing specifications, designing and implementing a web-based e-Publishing production wizard tool to be used by major publishers of periodicals to produce regular online editions in a web.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Wrote the specification for an ASP-based integrated listing service for website promotion.
• Developed a prototype for an online scheduling module that functions with the Exchange system and an XML/XSL-based web front-end via the vCalendar standard.
• Investigated possibilities of future product development with a particular focus on the developer channel – XML-based online authoring tools.

Phd, Genetics

B.A., Mathematics, Comparative Literature

Mathematics, Genetics

Transformational Leadership

Strategic Management