I help launch build out initial tech infrastructure, software, databases, for biotech companies funded by top investors. I also come in to work with existing teams to extend existing systems. For some companies I'm the entire engineering team. In others I do specialty work that the execs want that is independent of regular staff.

Headed engineering for a stealth startup. Diagnostic for infectious disease: "hypothesis-free" pathogen detection.

Consulting on bioinformatics and IT infrastructure.

I focused on helping take the analysis software systems at the Institute and bend them to the needs of cancer clinicians, with the goal of closing the loop between classical research and clinical decision support.

I led a team that grew from 5 to 20 software engineers with the goal of turning the work of computational biologists into a rapidly-iterating analysis engine. We created The Genome Modeling System, with APIs for data tracking, automated documentation, search, and verifiable reproducibility. We sequenced the first complete cancer genome and published it in Nature in November 2008, then scaled that system to sequence dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of genomes per year. I hired developers for my own group, and also seeded other teams with talent from running an agressive talent recruitment and evaluation campaign. I initiated a program to begin public release of software under open-source licenses (LGPL). By the end of 2012 the ecosystem created had led both programmers and computational biologists to contribute over 1500 shareable components to our analysis system, eclipsing the largest single public project of its kind in quantity by nearly 50%, with approximately the same volume of code.

I led an initial experimental small team to attempt to integrate federated groups of analysts into the larger IT infrastructure of the organization, that previously just serviced laboratory tracking. This experiment led to the creation of the subsequent Analysis Pipeline Group, which put analysis engineers under more formal leadership.

As the group I worked in absorbed the other development groups around it, I took an assistant manager position, and led the database and software architecture aspects of a developing large-scale Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). During this time, replacing manual activity with automation led us to be the most cost effective large-scale sequencing center in the U.S., and the second highest funded. I partnered with the head of Systems to convert our operation entirely over to Linux. I introduced automated testing. I oversaw the creation of a data warehousing and OLAP system for reporting. I also oversaw the integration of the first "next-generation" sequencing technologies, starting with the 454, and ending with Illumina (then Solexa) NGS.

I began work at The Genome Sequencing Center near the peak of the Human Genome Project. They had brought on-line large databases to deal with a data scale up and were hiring professional software engineers to re-architect the organically grown academic systems into something to cope with the scale.I initially brought on-line data management for DNA library preparation to feed into newly developed touchscreen systems. I authored the software application used by management to organize the projects to handle each piece of our assigned human chromosomes. I wrote a software APIs which became the exclusive way for the software system to access their large Oracle database for the following six years.

Development and planning for application of genomic and bioinformatic methods to a clinical sequencing environment. Customized software to bring on-line NGS analysis pipelines.

As a contract software developer I was one of a team of 20 developing IT infrastructure replacement for an office product distribution company. I implemented parts of their purchasing interface, parts of their product data management interface, as well as the entirety of their just-in-time inventory algorithm back-end, and the interface used by purchasing agents to review it. I also built the integration layer with their warehousing solution, and a testing framework used to examine and validate cross-database integration tests.