* Experience
** Research Scientist at UIUC \hfill 2015--2017
-+ Primarily responsible for the planning, design, organization,
- execution, and analysis of multiple complex epidemiological studies
++ Wrote software for automated data extraction, transport,
+ transformation, and analysis of large biological datasets using R,
+ perl, C, SQL, python, groovy, and make running on very large
+ computational clusters and cloud platforms.
++ Lead small teams to complete complex epidemiological studies
involving epigenomics, transcriptomics, and genomics of diseases of
pregnancy and post-traumatic stress disorder.
-+ Published results in scientific publications and presented results
- orally at major scientific conferences.
-+ Wrote and completed grants, including budgeting, scientific
- direction, project management, and reporting.
-+ Mentored graduate students and collaborated with internal and
- external scientists.
-+ Performed literature review, training, and applied new techniques to
- maintain abreast of current scientific literature, principles of
- scientific research, and modern statistical methodology.
-+ Wrote software and designed relational databases using R, perl, C,
- SQL, make, and very large computational systems.
++ Successfully communicated with scientists of diverse backgrounds
+ through scientific publications, oral presentations at major
+ scientific conferences, problem solving consultations with internal
+ and external researchers and team, and compelling visuals.
++ Budgeted, provided scientific direction, project management, and
+ reporting for multiple NIH, NSF, and internal grants.
++ Administered OpenStack and AWS-based cloud platform computational
+ resources for bioinformatics analysis pipelines.
** Postdoctoral Researcher at USC \hfill 2013--2015
-+ Primarily responsible for the design, execution, and analysis of an
- epidemiological study to identify genomic variants associated with
- systemic lupus erythematosus using targeted deep sequencing.
+ Designed, budgeted, configured, maintained, and supported a secure
- linux analysis cluster (MPI/torque) with a shared filesystem (NFS
+ Linux analysis cluster (MPI/torque) with a shared filesystem (NFS
over gluster) for statistical analyses.
++ Primarily responsible for the design, execution, and analysis of an
+ epidemiological study to identify genomic variants associated with
+ Systemic Lupus Erythematosus using targeted deep sequencing.
+ Wrote multiple pieces of software to reproducibly analyze and
archive large datasets resulting from genomic sequencing.
+ Coordinated with clinicians, molecular biologists, and biologists to
produce analyses and major reports.
-** Postdoctoral Researcher at UCR \hfill 2010--2012
-+ Primarily responsible for the execution and analysis of an
- epidemiological study to identify genomic variants associated with
- systemic lupus erythematosus using prior information and array based
- approaches in a trio and cross sectional study of individuals from
- the Los Angeles and greater United States.
-+ Wrote and maintained multiple software components to reproducibly
- perform the analyses.
** Debian Developer \hfill 2004--Present
+ Maintained, managed configurations, and resolved issues in multiple
packages written in R, perl, python, scheme, C++, and C.
+ Resolved technical conflicts, developed technical standards, and
provided leadership as the elected chair of the Technical Committee.
-+ Developer of [[https://bugs.debian.org][Debbugs]], a perl and SQL-based issue-tracker with ≥ 100
- million entries with web, REST, and SOAP interfaces.
++ Developer of [[https://bugs.debian.org][Debbugs]], a perl and SQL-based issue-tracker containing
+ ≈ 1 million issues with web, REST, and SOAP interfaces, as well as
+ NoSQL indexes using BDB.
** Independent Systems Administrator \hfill 2004--Present
+ Researched, recommended, budgeted, designed, deployed, configured,
operated, and monitored highly-available high-performance enterprise
+ Full life-cycle support of medium and small business networking
infrastructure, including VPN, network security, wireless networks,
routing, DNS, DHCP, and authentication.
+** Postdoctoral Researcher at UCR \hfill 2010--2012
++ Primarily responsible for the execution and analysis of an
+ epidemiological study to identify genomic variants associated with
+ systemic lupus erythematosus using prior information and array based
+ approaches in a trio and cross sectional study of individuals from
+ the Los Angeles and greater United States.
++ Wrote and maintained multiple software components to reproducibly
+ perform the analyses.
* Education
** Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology \hfill UC Riverside
** Batchelor of Science (BS) in Biology \hfill UC Riverside