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Study Lead Biostatistician for Early Development Clinical Trials at Amgen, Inc. Responsibilities include contributing to Protocol writing, development of Statistical Analysis Plans, and other various reports. Contributing to the development of software tools for the monitoring of clinical trial data quality.

Program management role at Amgen Inc. Delivering Customized Assay Statistical Software Tools to diverse scientific groups within the Company. Responsibilities include communications, requirements gathering and execution, QA/QC of SAS programs and web parts, validation, and documentation.

Architecture of a new Software Platform for [Life Sciences] Research. Provided expertise in Probabilistic Methods, Probabilistic Reasoning, Probabilistic Databases, Graphical Models, Machine Learning. Built relationships with collaborators in Pharma, Biotechnology, and Medical Research institutions to develop requirements related to inference based on uncertain large high-dimensional data.

Researched and developed workflows and algorithms for the analysis of omics data. My goals included the understanding of the Biological processes underlying the data and the problem at hand, as well as the rapidly-changing technologies utilized for data gathering and measuring. Tasks included designing, prototyping, testing, documenting and supporting of methods selected for inclusion in Company’s products. Involved in customer collaborations and presentations of analytical solutions (proposals and then results) to their biological questions.

Supported the Avanced Statistical Methods in S-PLUS, a cutting-edge statistical software package. Co-created the S+SpatialStats module for S-PLUS--the best-selling module in the history of the Company. Co-created S-PLUS for ArcView GIS, an extension to ESRI’s ArcView GIS. Principal Consultant in many scientific projects where duties spanned the full development cycle, from writing business requirements to solution delivery.