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Professional Experience: Research
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2008
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Programmer
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Alias-i, New York, NY
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2006-2007
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Research Programmer
Epigenomics Lab
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Columbia University
New York, NY
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Provided bioinformatics support for researchers investigating the genetic basis
of complex human diseases, including major mental disorders and cancer.
- Wrote Java programs and R scripts for statistical analysis of very large datasets
from DNA microarray and genomic sequencing experiments, and stored results in MySQL database.
- Built website to share experiment results with other researchers via
the human genome browser.
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2002-2004
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Research Programmer
Columbia Genome Center
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Columbia University
New York, NY
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Developed programs and databases for
Geneways,
a system to extract gene interactions from full-text biomedical articles.
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Wrote Java Swing-based GUIs,
and integrated Geneways into the BioSPICE toolkit,
a NetBeans-based platform for biologists.
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2002
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Research Programmer
Computational Genomics Lab
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The Rockefeller University
New York, NY
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Provided programming and user support for analysis tool for genetic experiment data.
System composed of Perl and R scripts, backed by a PostgreSQL database.
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1990-1993
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Research Programmer
Psychology Department
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Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
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- Designed and implemented natural language processing software including
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MOR morphological analyzer, used for corpora analysis and annotation.
- Programs written in ANSI C, running on Unix, Windows, and Mac platforms.
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Professional Experience: Industry
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1999-2001,2005
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Independent Contractor
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Tiger Blue
New York, NY
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2005
client: Buzzmetrics.com (now Nielson Buzzmetrics)
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- Wrote multi-threaded Java programs to spider the blogosphere,
storing feeds and content in a MySQL database.
- Increased processing throughput from 20K to 500K blogs/day, and compiled
database of 2M blogs, 100M blog entries.
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2001
client: Pearson Education
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- Designed and implemented multi-threaded Java application to process
XML documents and store data in both a local and a remote database.
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1999-2000
client: New York Times Company Digital
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- Revamped www.nytimes.com content by e-mail infrastructure, using
JSPs for subscription page, and JDBC to connect to Oracle back-end.
- Designed Oracle database of subscriber information for Listserv mailing lists.
- Wrote Java programs to translate newsfeeds from proprietary data formats into XML.
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1997-1998
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Director of Quality Assurance and Testing
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Viacom Interactive Services
New York, NY
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- Managed team responsible for QA of popular high-traffic websites.
- Assembled a test lab for cross-platform and cross-browser testing, together with
suite of automated site management tools.
- Wrote test scripts for functional and load testing of server-side applications.
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1993-1997
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Software Engineer
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NOMOS Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA
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- Developed software in C and C++ for radiation therapy treatment planning.
- Authored a software test plan meeting the US FDA regulations for software-controlled
medical devices, coding standard, and code review procedures.
- Automated testing activities with code coverage tools and automated test scripts,
wrote regression test suites.
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