Experience

ClearNote Health

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bioinformatics Software Engineer

  • May 2022 - Present

  Remote



Leidos

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bioinformatics Scientist

  • Jun 2021 - May 2022

  Atlanta, Georgia, United States Bioinformatics Scientist working in the Leidos Scientific Computing and Bioinformatics Services group supporting the Advanced Molecular Detection project at the CDC.



The University of Georgia

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Aug 2013 - Jun 2021

  Athens, Georgia I studyed the production of extracellular vesicles in Trypanosoma brucei and their effects on the outcomes of disease. I also explored the use of RNA and proteins in extracellular vesicles for tracking and diagnosis of disease. I have previously worked on exploring the cell cycle of Toxoplasma gondii using molecular and bioinformatic methods.



Berkeley Lab

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • Feb 2006 - Oct 2015

  I work on RegTransBase, a bioinformatics resource of regulatory interactions based on literature and an expertly curated database of transcription factor binding sites.



University of California, Davis

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student

  • Sep 2007 - Sep 2013

  Davis, CA I studied the protein components of the kinetechore in Giardia lamblia using bioinformatics, microscopy, and other molecular tools. I expanded this analysis by looking at the phylogenetic profile of known kinetochore proteins across all Eukaryotes.



Marine Biological Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2003 - Oct 2005

  I worked on assembly and annotation of the Giardia genome, as well as the creation of GiardiaDB (older version, not available any longer), a bioinformatics resource for analysis of the Giardia genome. I also worked on other bioinformatics projects, including KISS (RNA editing database), and the analysis of SAGE gene expression data for a number of different studies.



Envirocare of Utah

• Systems Administrator

  • Jun 2001 - Jun 2003

  From systems administration of core linux servers (email, web, database, firewall, monitoring, file, backup) to report writing, database administration, application development, networking, and a little of everything else.



Morgan Stanley

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Operation Technician

  • Mar 2000 - Nov 2001

  SLC, Utah I worked for the online branch of Morgan Stanley as a operations technician for a large number of Sun servers and Cisco networking equipment. Responsibilities include monitoring processes/jobs, setting up/repairing hardware, problem resolution and coordination with network engineers, database engineers, and systems administrators.