CAREER / CV

A career in discovery.

Research, bioinformatics and application development — across biology, healthcare and data science.

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2023 – current

Senior developer Australian Genome Research facility (AGRF), Melbourne, Australia.

  • Applications development for soil bacterial profiles and in-house data assets.
  • Large bacterial datasets and metadata integrations.
  • Predictive modelling and classification of soil bacterial profiles.

2020 – 2023

Bioinformatician / LIS developer, Laboratory Of Pathology, NCI , NIH, Bethesda USA.

  • Methylation analysis and cancer classification based on Illumina methylation data.
  • Historical data harmonization and preparing structural input for Palantir database.
  • RNAseq, MethylationArray and Clinical Sequencing panel report customization.
  • Tumor classifier containerization and workflow optimization.

2019 – 2020

Bioinformatician / ANU RSB Division of Ecology and Evolution (E&E), Centre For Biodiversity Analysis. Canberra, Australia.

  • Developing, optimization and maintenance of cloud systems for high-throughput analysis of sequencing data (variant calling, de novo, phylogenetic).
  • Research database (mySQL) development and integration with historical records.
  • Data quality control metrics extraction and automatic reporting system.
  • Research and analysis for the custom and adhoc projects.
  • Development and optimization of data flow and data management protocol: acquiring, transfer, generation, storage, removal and tracking system.

2016 – 2019

Bioinformatician / Data Scientist, smartDNA Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Computational technology development for bacteria identification.
  • Automatic reporting system and company products development (smartGUTTM test, smartHITTM database, IBS GutDetectorTM, Spectrum DetectorTM ).
  • In-house bacterial sequences database maintenance and versioning documentation.
  • Statistical analysis and experiment design for internal and third parties projects with report writing and follow-ups discursions.
  • Patent developing and patent application lodgement assistance.

2004 – 2016

Senior Scientist / Bioinformatician, Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF), The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Developing and maintenance of core production analysis pipelines: whole-genome and exome sequencing variant calling.
  • Quality control metrics developing and LIMS integration.
  • Statistical analysis for various in-house and clients experiments.
  • Routine bioinformatics paid service and collaboration support.
  • Developing and validation new products and technologies.

2001 – 2003

Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Bioinformation Science (CBiS), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

  • Research project with data mining from the public domain.
  • Establishing local MySQL database and applications development.
  • Statistical analysis and methods comparisons for data clustering.
  • Writing research paper and grant proposals.

1999 – 2001

Postdoctoral fellow, Martyn Smith’s lab, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

  • Developing laboratory and statistical methods for cancer detection.
  • Reports and publications preparation.