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Deputy Project Manager for NASA GeneLab•Complete annual planning, programming, and budgeting for resource allocation for a multimillion-dollar project.• Lead and direct a team of 30 technical and scientific employees.• Define project requirements, roadmaps, and success metrics yearly.• Manage changes to scope, cost and schedule of a multimillion-dollar project and sub-projects.• Coordinate priorities and resources between multiple teams of developers, bioinformatians and scientists.• Prepare and update monthly, project plans and status reports to customers and stakeholders.• Collaborate with other technical and service platform support teams to identify, analyze, and recommend improvements to the current state aimed at leveraging enterprise resources.• Coordinate cross-functional meetings of internal and external personnel related to project.• Allocate appropriate resources to ensure projects are completed within given time and budget.• Utilize company tools and methods to track project schedule, risks, and cost.• Report project status, develop project-related documentation and implement lessons learned.• Participate in project performance review meetings and discussions.• Present at corporate business development activities with contract upper management and center directors.

• Complete annual planning, programming, and budgeting for resource allocation for a multimillion-dollar project.• Lead and direct a team of 30 technical and scientific employees.• Define project requirements, roadmaps, and success metrics yearly.• Manage changes to scope, cost and schedule of a multimillion-dollar project and sub-projects.• Coordinate priorities and resources between multiple teams of developers, bioinformatians and scientists.• Prepare and update monthly, project plans and status reports to customers and stakeholders.• Collaborate with other technical and service platform support teams to identify, analyze, and recommend improvements to the current state aimed at leveraging enterprise resources.• Coordinate cross-functional meetings of internal and external personnel related to project.• Allocate appropriate resources to ensure projects are completed within given time and budget.• Utilize company tools and methods to track project schedule, risks, and cost.• Report project status, develop project-related documentation and implement lessons learned.• Participate in project performance review meetings and discussions.• Present at corporate business development activities with contract upper management and center directors.

• Led a team of curators and bioinformatians and drive deadlines to analyze and publish data.• Coordinated weekly meetings with project management to define database requirements and update on team status.• Provided scientific and technical insight in the design of a multi-omics database and analysis platform.• Define standard metadata and data requirements, novel computational approaches, and tools recommended by the scientific community.• Performed data curation and quality analysis of space bioscience omics datasets for the GeneLab repository.• Process, perform quality control, and statistical analysis of data sets from assays such as RNASeq, whole genome sequencing, and microarray technologies.• Evaluate the tools for accuracy and adequacy in displaying omics data.• Draft clear and concise project documentation and maintain clear lines of communication with stakeholders.• Worked with team on improving database functionality to improve data entry and reporting issues.• Develop training content for the GeneLab data systems and NGS analysis.• Present and demonstrate the database and analysis platform at conferences or other institutions.• Liaison between scientists, engineers, software developers and managements for data processing and analysis tasks.

• Organized and curated large behavioral and clinical data sets to be shared on NDAR website making it broadly available to scientific community. Tasks are completed using various scripting languages and database platforms.• Maintained a large database and data dictionary, providing standards and reproducibility of experiments and data analysis results.• Performed Quality Assurance/Quality Control on submitted data, providing accurate data for sharing.• Performed QC reports and testing on Imaging files and omics datasets using multiple tools and resources.• Worked closely with Principal Investigators and Grant monitors daily to insure data sharing agreements have been completed and executed.• Liaison for the software development team, scientific data team, and client.• Provided support for NIMH Data Archive as Help Desk associate, helping users with data dictionary requests and assistance with submitting data to NDAR website.• AWS Cloud computing experience.

• Bacteriology department-maintain, propagate, and preserve bacterial cultures for distribution• Molecular production: manual DNA extractions, plasmid extractions, cloning, ddPCR, PCR, gel electrophoresis, robot DNA/RNA extractions, and producing Mycoplasma Detection kits• Provide service in Protistology department: revive, propagate, authenticate, and preserve Protist cultures, including performing DNA extractions• Experience in growing and maintaining cell lines for parasite infection• Provide various sample platforms for sequencing and analyze sequence results• Specialized in plating, cell isolation, pipette skills, microscopy, DNA & RNA extractions, and specimen identification• Research and Development on special projects including Cell Line Genomic Project, Nucleation Project and Cryo-Preservation project• Trained on laboratory equipment: ddPCR, rtPCR, AutoPure (Eukaryotic DNA Extraction), BioScreen, MicroCount (Flow Cytometry), Anaerobe chamber, SpeedVac, and Sterilization equipment• Preservation process (Lyophilization and cryopreservation)• Responsible for creating, editing, and reviewing company SOPs, Work Instructions, and Forms• Assisted and conducted experimental design, methods, and procedures on multiple projects analyzing new technology.