Objective
A research position in an organization with challenging programming opportunities and a need for knowledge and curiosity in biology.
Summary
- More than ten years experience in Linux and Windows operating systems and programming in C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and Bash.
- Intermediate-level or better experience in Mac OS X, C#, Perl, Erlang, Assembly, and XML/XSD/XSLT.
- Experience designing, normalizing, and optimizing large-scale biological databases.
- Ability to easily break down any problem into manageable parts, to find and use resources to solve problems which I don’t know the answer to, and to work in a team.
- Extreme curiosity and passion for functional genomics and bioinformatics.
Related Work Experience
Lead Developer – Ontological Discovery Environment
Oak Ridge, TN – January 2006 to Present
- Designed interface to allow allow remote scientists to upload, share, and analyze gene-centered phenotypic data in a web-based environment.
- Integrated data across multiple databases, species, and experiment.
- Built real-time analysis tools for cross-species comparison of any gene sets stored in the database.
Lead Programmer – MindFull Research Informatics
Waco, TX – June 2004 to July 2005
- Collaborated with a team of four people to design and complete the merging and cross-referencing of multiple public biology databases:
LocusLink(Entrez), Swissprot, HomoloGene, UniGene, Gene Ontology, Mouse Gene Project, Rat Gene Database, PubMed. - Worked with a private lab to add experimental data to database for quick and easy access to relevant information.
- Designed and implemented a Java client to access the database using scalable, modular, and flexible code along with the ability to quickly search the quarter of a million rows with user-defined queries.
Student Technology Support – Baylor University, Information Commons Unit
Waco,TX – February 2003 to May 2006
- Designed and implemented web-based Lab Check Database System to account for over 1500 computers in more than 50 distinct labs campus-wide.
- Developed print statistics software to show printing usage for the campus, over 200 network printers used regularly by over 14,000 students and faculty.
- Assisted Students and Staff with any problems relating to software or hardware.
- Installed, configured, and maintained computers in all campus labs.
Education
| Bachelor of Science in Informatics – Baylor University, Waco,TX – May 2006 | ||
| Major: Bioinformatics | Minor: Chemistry | Major GPA: 3.4 |
- 68 hours of upper-level courses in Biology and Computer Science with an A average.
- Honors Program student all four years.
- Research completed for Honors Program Thesis and for Special Topics in Developmental Biology.
- Inaugural member of Baylor’s first undergraduate research journal, The Pulse.