I am an Epidemiologist for the HIV Surveillance Branch (HSB) as a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/NCHHSTP/DHP/HSB). As a dedicated member of the newly formed Implementation and Evaluation Team, our team's mission is to support the branch's mission of collecting quality HIV surveillance data, implementing best practices across the nation for our funded state and local HIV surveillance offices and building tools for our nation's best qualified scientists in preventing the spread of HIV. We strive for quality, clarity, and timeliness as the information is disseminated among the national public, community-based organizations (CBOs), and across other government agencies.Currently, I am the lead project officer for an award-winning data visualization dashboard to enable our staff members to provide accurate, insightful technical assistance to state and local jurisdictions funded for HIV surveillance, guiding them on how to best assign their resources towards preventing an outbreak of HIV. This dashboard aims to overhaul the entire workflow of our branch, efficiently saving hundreds of hours for our staff each month and creating a centralized portal for all their data needs. Previously I have led a project on another award-winning bioinformatics application conducting pair-wise alignment of HIV sequences to allow state and local health departments to effectively visualize and identifying clusters of HIV transmission. This allowed public health departments to focus their resources on potential transmission hotspots and prevent the potential of future HIV outbreaks. I have served in numerous Epi-Aids for CDC in outbreak investigation and I have led the data collection team during many of these. My passion is merging the two disciplines of science and technology together in order to modernize the public health arena. I've developed myself as one who tries to bridge the communication gap between scientists and programmers in order to maximize the benefit we can achieve with our current systems. Being creative, ensuring data integrity, and exploring new ideas for visualizing our work to the public domain are tenets that I have for bringing public health into the modern age.