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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Bellingham, Washington Area

Sequence analysis, pipeline production, open source software, data management, visualization creation, interpretation of results. Contracting and consultation.

Eel grass, macro algae, geoduck, invertebrate surveys.Eel grass transplants.

Analyze DNA sequence data, build methods of organism source identification.

Teaching Cellular and Molecular Biology Lab. Running experiments with class. Teach students the basic principles of cellular and molecular biology. Helping students outside of class with understanding of course materials.

Friday Harbor Laboratory, San Juan Island, Wa

Teaching basic principles of the pelagic estuarine waters surrounding the San Juan Archipelago in Puget Sound Washington. Helping students with the formulation of a research project. Assisting in field collections and sample processing. Teaching and assisting in water chemistry, microscopy, and data analysis for various projects. Help with the writing and presenting of all results from student projects.

Friday Harbor Laboratory, San Juan Island, Wa

Working with a 30 year sub-tidal ecology data-set. The data was mined, validated, and reformatted to be input into a relational database. A user interface was created for use by researchers and students. The goal is to programmatically collect all the data and store it in one data file for later use. The data was housed in many small data files in several physical locations. This job required techniques in: data mining, relational databases, software design, and computer-based problem solving.

Friday Harbor Laboratory, San Juan Island, Wa

Repairing and updating a weather station. Project included working with real-time data acquisition software and coding to allow communications between sensors and data loggers. Soldering new wired connections and working with wiring diagrams to correctly connect systems. Underwater sensor were surveyed for damage and corrosion, and then cleaned. Archived data was validated using custom built Python programs. All real-time and archived data was made available on a webpage linked to Friday Harbor Lab’s website. This job required skills in: circuitry, software design, relational databases, engineering, real-time systems, SCUBA, and web services.

Friday Harbor Laboratory, San Juan Island, Wa

Assisted in seasonal data collection including: photography, fish surveys, point counts, benthic mobile fauna identification, and organism collections. Responsible for correct identification of: benthic invertebrates, fish, algae, phytoplankton, zooplankton, marine birds, and marine mammals. Deckhand responsibilities include: running shipboard computer systems, performing CTD casts, collecting water samples, performing bottom trawls, plankton tows, acoustics, and sediment collection. During this work I operate small water craft and also assist on a larger vessel. I used SCUBA with scientific equipment and was required to multitask in extreme environments.

Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, Wa

Worked to organize the Pelagic Ecosystem Function’s data set. Created a relational database and support structure to distribute the data to both the scientific and public community. Data mining and validation techniques were used along with custom built Python programs.

Scranton, Pennsylvania

Computer based project to support a biomedical knowledge base for use in structure versus function computational prediction. Goal was to contribute to structure-based drug design knowledge-base. My work includes: relational database production and management, cluster/parallel computing, creation of autonomous data mining and protein modeling programs in Python, computational analysis of protein structural information.

Master'S Of Science, Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics

Develop high-throughput computational methods for analyzing environmental metagenomic samples. Study marine microbial community membership.

Research Apprenticeship, Computational Biology, S

Computational assembly of protein structure information associated with the etiology of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). I was.

Research Apprenticeship, Marine Biology And Biological Oceanography, A

Research apprenticeship focused on the inter-annual variation in the physical oceanography of San Juan Channel due to external factors.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Biophysics

Biomechanical research on marine gastropods.