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* Audit prospect sites for suggestions on how to optimize for AI crawling.* Participate in customer interviews to evaluate the viability of the product.* Research and introduce new AI models to the platform as they become available.* Manage our pricing plans and purchase flow.* Cold outreach on LinkedIn and other platforms.

* Oversee the marketing and development roadmap, ensuring timely execution and achievement of key milestones.* Manage contractors and their deliverables.* Shape product features with Basecamp's ShapeUp methodology. * Actively participate in product development, with a specific focus on multiple products: Wafris-hub (our web interface for managing rules and.

• Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
• Advise startups on their product business models and potential viability
• Implemented yearly strategies: profit targets, marketing, self-publishing, and moving into business nichesSoftware Development and Consulting
• Audited select agent SQL databases to ensure compliance with CDC regulations
• Development and support of a CDC regulated Java LIMS for tracking select agents
• Developed leaderboard dashboards for automotive and military based clients to identify/select elite performersData Analytics

* Participated in weekly leadership calls regarding overall direction of the company, personnel, and marketing/sales/product strategies.* Led planning for sponsored and held events. Planning included sponsorship negotiations, speaker submissions, and presentation prep.* Held weekly pipeline generation meetings to research targeted account and potential.

* Enabled marketing touchpoint tracking by working with a 3rd party to integrate with our CRM.* Analyzed how inbound and outbound marketing efforts impacted lead gen, meetings, pipeline and revenue.* Produced insights for Executive Summaries and QBRs. * Lead effort to build context specific CTAs improving conversation rates across all articles.

• Presented “Lessons Learned from a year of TDD and BDD”
• Presented “Video Games and Source Control” lightning talk (http://bit.ly/1bv4Rhz)
• Presented “Its Never an Engineering Problem” to CVREG (http://bit.ly/1eJwRgX)
• Hosted and facilitated a Coderetreat for the Global Day of Coderetreat
• Hosted and facilitated a RailsBridge event
• Market and schedule speakers for the group

• Managed and launched several Ruby/Rails based applications including the Code for America Brigade project
• Built and collaborated on a Backbone.js based PhoneGap app for the iPhone

• Initiated and updated the development infrastructure including source control (CVS to Git), company wide wiki (TWiki to MediaWiki), and bug system (in house to FogBugz)
• Initiated and performed the transfer of user tools from internal network to external services
• Mentored an intern to learn industry practices of a software developer as well as learning more about bioinformatics (JAVA, PHP, R, Git, Linux)

• Worked with clients to determine software needs
• Wrote Software Requirement Specifications for clients
• Led the completion of a customized version of INCOGEN’s GenePort software for an individual software client.

• Expanded functionality of INCOGEN’s JAVA based GenePort software
• Designed and programmed a parser for the ACE sequence format for INCOGEN’s GenePort software
• Designed and programmed a parser for the import of flat files (OMIM.txt, MorbidMap.txt, etc.) from the OMIM database
• Designed and programmed a parser for the Uniprot/Swissprot database data
• Wrote the microarray section for a grant proposal (BISTI)
• On-site installations of GenePort software

• Design website front-end using Dreamweaver to edit PHP, HTML, and CSS code

• Write daily publications on bioinformatics and programming related topics
• Compose and maintain a frequently asked question section on common queries regarding bioinformatics

Richmond, VA, US

• Investigated and implemented a SQL relational database solution for laboratory's data
• Programed Perl scripts to perform various tasks on bioinformatics related data; typically Affymetrix Array data
• Paired with PhD candidates on using R for their statistical analysis
• Redesigned and maintained lab computer network
• Reprogramed an existing C++ application to JAVA for cross-platform support o Development process included extending functionality and improving the graphical user interface

Richmond, VA, US

• Paired with students on the use of BioBIKE a LISP based biology programming environment
• Conducted tutoring sessions on Bioinformatics/Programming related topics
• Monitored and encouraged student development via weekly labs and grading of midterm and final

Master Of Science, Bioinformatics

Bachelor Of Science, Major Computer Science, Minor Physics