Lead Bioinformatician

• Jan 2022 - Present

Senior Research Bioinformatician

• Oct 2019 - May 2022

Bioinformatician

• Jan 2018 - May 2022

► Providing bioinformatics research support to external researchers and industrial partners by enabling analysis, facilitating access to datasets, and ensuring optimal use of the Genomics England Research Environment. ► Collaborating internally with the bioinformatics, software, research, infrastructure engineers, and commercial team, to develop and deploy suitable solutions for customers.► Acting as a primary line of support for users of the Research Environment. ► Managing data, QA releases, supporting data intake, and extraction through airlocks and adding external data to our environment, helping with data extraction and generation of data extracts.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

• Oct 2016 - Dec 2017

► Working extensively in R, Python, Perl, and BASH in the Unix environment to handle and analyse large-scale genetic, epigenetic, and gene-expression datasets from next generation sequencing data. Also working with multiple bioinformatic/computational/statistical packages and utilised these to investigate important biological questions regarding regulatory genomics and its impact on human health and disease. • Integration of genomic and genome-wide association data to identify candidate genes and causal variants • Development of next-generation sequencing pipelines for ChIP-Seq and RNA-Seq • Alignment, quality control, and variant calling of whole-exome sequencing data • Application of existing bioinformatic/computational/statistical packages using HPCC • Handling of large-scale datasets such as 1000Genomes, GTEx, ENCODE, and Roadmap Epigenomics • Data analysis using R/Bioconductor, Python, Perl, and shell scripting in the Linux environment

Software Engineer

• Jan 2012 - Sep 2013

► Responsible for all phases of the software application life-cycle which includes: documentation, coding, deployment, maintenance, upgrading, and testing ► Use of Perl, Bash, Python, R, C / C#, Objective-C, Visual Basic, Java Script, HTML ► Supported the design, development and release of iOS applications ► Designed and implemented graphical user interfaces using big data from the company's Smart Metering hardware ► Responsible for project coordination between client, project managers, and the engineering team to ensure deliverables are made