Experience

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• United States
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Research Programmer

  • Jan 2014 - Present



Penn State Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Administrator

  • Nov 2007 - Dec 2013

  My primary responsibility was lead programmer/developer with the zebrafish atlas project. I was originally hired to create a website for the purpose of sharing large amounts of interactive histological image data (imagine Google Maps with microscope slides). Within one week I had written a working draft of a "virtual slide" viewer in JavaScript, and the site was online three months later. Much of my efforts since then have concentrated on manipulating and processing large images (up to 17,000 megapixel, 50GB files) for the atlas.My position also afforded me a wide variety of side projects, demonstrating my ability to learn new skills and apply them:* administrator of four Linux servers* moderator of a small forum for BMS571, a course matching graduate students with clinical rotations* wrote parallel code for efficient tiling of massive images (480x performance increase)* reverse engineered the Zoomify pyramidal image format* designed a very high density storage server, supporting up to 2 petabytes per node* designed and built imaging and 3D visualization workstations from 8- to 64-cores and 32-512GB of RAMCurrently, in preparation for the next phase of the atlas (on-slide labeling), I am preparing a complete revision of the viewer code making it faster, more compact, more modular, and better suited to external development. We intend to release the new code as an open source project, a prospect already stirring active interest within the community. Show less

• Research Technician II

  • Jul 2002 - Nov 2007

  Performed surgeries, data collection, histology, and statistical analysis of months-long behavioral studies targeting the gustatory system. Basic lab skills and an exacting attention to detail were necessary.During this time I adopted a side project wherein I gained proficiency with PHP and MySQL by building a survey and database project for the Neuroscience Advisory Committee. Featuring user-login, sessions, dynamic report generation, and search features, this project gathered data from faculty and clinicians across five colleges and guided the formation of The Penn State Institute of the Neurosciences. Show less



PharmServ, Inc

• Vice President

  • Jan 2001 - Jul 2002

  Provided technical assistance for decision making and handled various tasks including trademark application, incorporation, meeting with web designers, and meeting with patent lawyer at this small e-commerce venture. Provided technical assistance for decision making and handled various tasks including trademark application, incorporation, meeting with web designers, and meeting with patent lawyer at this small e-commerce venture.



Gable's Bakery

• Assistant

  • Jun 1994 - Jul 2002



University of Scranton

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Peer Tutor

  • Jan 1998 - May 2000

  My calculus professor recommended me for this position where I tutored six to ten students per semester in the subjects of calculus and physics, meeting several times per week with up to three students at a time. My calculus professor recommended me for this position where I tutored six to ten students per semester in the subjects of calculus and physics, meeting several times per week with up to three students at a time.