Curriculum Vitae
Complete curriculum vitae including education, professional experience, publications, presentations, and achievements in bioinformatics and computational biology.
Education
PhD in Information Science
Drexel University
Specialized in computational biology, reproducible research, and bioinformatics methodology
Master of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
Focus on algorithms, data structures, and software engineering
Bachelor of Science in Biology
Wake Forest University
Pre-medical track with research experience in neuropharmacology
Professional Experience
Product Manager
TileDB
Manage the population genomics product line, including product development, sales demos, customer support, and marketing.
Content Lead
Truwl
Led onboarding of tools, workflows, and high-impact analyses into the Truwl platform.
Bioinformatics Engineer
Panorama Medicine
Developed cloud-based pipelines and analysis for drug repositioning efforts. First employee.
Senior Data Integration Analyst & GRIN Informatics Lead
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
Led bioinformatics core operations and developed tools for genomic variant analysis.
Selected Publications
40+ peer-reviewed publications with an h-index of 30
The role of metadata in reproducible computational research
Cell Patterns, 2021
Hierarchy‐guided neural network for species classification
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Tests of Robustness in Peer Review
Drexel University, 2021
Biodiversity Image Quality Metadata Augments Convolutional Neural Network Classification of Fish Species†
Research Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, 2020
Computational Pipelines and Workflows in Bioinformatics
Reference Module in Life Sciences, Elsevier, 2018
Conference Presentations
Drexel-CODATA FAIR-RRDM Workshop
Drexel-CODATA FAIR-RRDM Workshop, 2019
CYTO2018
CYTO2018, 2018
2016 MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference, 2016
Teaching Experience
Introduction to Data Science (INFO103)
Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics, 2018
Programming for Biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2007
Programming for Biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2007
Key Achievements
- Led four diagnostic, therapeutic and SaaS startups in defining their bioinformatic product strategy
- Founded PhillyR user group and top-20 contributor to biostars.org bioinformatics Q&A community
- Author of O'Reilly book 'Data Mashups in R' and multiple bioinformatics software tools
- Expert in developing cloud-based pipelines for genomics, transcriptomics, and clinical applications
- Proven track record in scaling bioinformatics workflows from research prototypes to production systems