From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 02:44:55 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Add career synposis and outlook
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Add career synposis and outlook
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 * Experience
+** Career Synopsis & Outlook \hfill Ready to be your Sr. Director of Data
++ A proven, transformative leader of teams that enable businesses to
+  harness the value of scientific and business data to achieve
+  business goals in biotechnology and other biology-adjacent
+  industries.
++ Significant experience mentoring, coaching, managing, and leading
+  managers and individual contributors from the entry level to
+  principal level, enabling them to develop into their full potential
+  as leaders and contributors.
++ Extensive scientific, computational, analytical, and business
+  background coupled with a history of effective communication with
+  diverse audiences enables bridging the needs and requirements of
+  challenging stakeholders and earning their trust and buy-in even in
+  complex, highly regulated environments.
++ Seeking opportunities to grow, lead, and transform organizations
+  with larger scope and impact.
 ** Director of Data Science and Analytics at Ginkgo Bioworks \hfill 2022--Present 
 + Directed a geographically distributed team of managers who lead
   teams of data engineers, system administrators, statisticians,
@@ -42,28 +58,28 @@
 + Hired, managed, and developed team of 5+ Data Engineers, Systems
   Administrators, and Business Analysts working within the Biologics
   R&D unit of Bayer Crop Science enabling data capture, data
-  integration, and operationalization of data analysis pipelines
+  integration, and operationalization of data analysis pipelines.
 + Developed and supervised implementation of data capture,
   integration, and analysis strategies to increase the value of
   genomics, metabol\-omics, transcript\-omics, spectroscopic, phenotypic
-  (/in vitro/ and /in planta/), and fermentation/formulation process
+  (/in vitro/ and /in planta/), and fermentation/formulation process.
   data for discovery and development using AWS, python, postgresql, R, and 
 + Lead the development of multiple systems while coaching, mentoring,
-  and developing developers and engineers
+  and developing software and data engineers.
 + Served as a key collaborator on multiple cross-function and
   cross-divisional projects, including leading the architecture of a
   life science collaboration using serverless architecture to provide
   machine-learning estimates of critical parameters from
-  spectrographic measurements
-# ** 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.
-# + Provided vendor-level support for complex systems integration issues
-#   on Debian GNU/Linux systems.
+  spectrographic measurements.
+** 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.
++ Provided vendor-level support for complex systems integration issues
+  on Debian GNU/Linux systems.
 ** Research Scientist at UIUC \hfill 2015--2017
 + Architected and engineered systems to store, retrieve, and analyze
   complex R&D data including behavioral healthcare data (PTSD),