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Summary

Health-Biomedical Informatics PhD graduate currently employed as a client-facing project subject matter director with interests in actionable clinical content knowledge engineering for genomic precision medicine, health-oriented and clinical natural language processing (C/NLP), and clinical terminology analytics.

Relevant Employment

Position & OrganizationDescription & Achievements
2020-Present
Clinical Architect (Client Project Advisor) - Life Sciences

@ Clinical Architecture, LLC
(Carmel, Indiana, USA)
Specializing in creating integrated frameworks for data storage, curation, and actionability between basic science knowledge and clinical patient care data. Assisting with all client accounts pertaining to Life Sciences and those who require text mining/NLP capabilities. Providing relevant content-related guidance to and engineering customized information content products for industry-leading clients in various healthcare industries. Regularly conducting information needs and competitive assessments with internal staff, external clients, and publicly-available information.
2018-2020
SIFT (NLP) Product Engineer

@ Clinical Architecture, LLC
(Carmel, Indiana, USA)
Functioned as the lead content engineer for the company's natural language processing (NLP) product (Semantic Interpretation of Free Text; SIFT). Assessed client needs and delivered customized NLP-enabling content, including algorithm stacks and optimized content dictionaries. Created relevant SIFT marketing materials and performed regular demonstrations for external clients. Successfully created and validated an enterprise NLP content toolkit for detecting various aspects of oncology tumor and patient cases.
2016-2018
Research Project Manager

@ Indiana University - Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering
(Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
Directed teams of up to 10 graduate students and faculty members in performing original on the intersection of consumer and clinical health terminologies and natural language processing (NLP)-based algorithms to actualize this intersection. Functioned as a publication editor and manager for three well-cited published works in the field. Provided mentorship resources, including degree project committee advising, to subordinate graduate students.
2014-2016
Graduate Research Assistant

@ Indiana University - Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering
(Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
Utilized client-facing and literature-centered methods to determine technical, data, and cultural requirements for a potential automated scheduling system to be used in high-volume surgical operating room (OR) facilities. Assessed departmental educational needs against existing pedagogy taxonomies and managed the design and authorship of nationally-respected departmental posters and publications to this effect.
2012
Database & UX Design Intern

@ Indiana University - Department of Chemistry
(Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Created and implemented an original entity-relationship model and SQL database solution to curate laboratory inventory content for a teaching lab serving over 500 undergraduate students. Furthermore, utilized front-end web design technology (ASP/JavaScript) and principles to design a user-friendly interface for students to access and staff to modify inventory data.

Prior Internships & Employment: Medical College of Georgia (Augusta, GA); The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD); Quidel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA); Roche Pharmaceuticals (Palo Alto, CA); Eli Lilly & Company (Indianapolis, IN)

Relevant Subject Matter Expertise & Skills

Health Information & Data-Related Business & Leadership
  • Natural language processing (C/NLP) for clinical, consumer, and biomedical research applications
  • Information standardization for genomic precision medicine; translational terminology design
  • Content and information modeling for health terminologies
  • Customization of oncology and onco-biology terminologies
  • Information requirements gathering for medical terminology projects and clients
  • Biomedical simulation algorithms
  • Selection of appropriate statistical techniques for biomedical analysis
  • Subject matter expert (SME) business decision-making expertise in select areas
  • Clinical information requirements gathering in business- and culturally-sensitive contexts across various stakeholder cohorts
  • Integration of diverse team member specialty skills into fulfilling product requirements
  • Marketing materials and presentations for clinical information content products
  • Student education and pedagogy (i.e., course instruction)
  • Mentorship skills with junior students and colleagues
  • Domain Knowledge: Biomedical Sciences Technical
    • Genetics/genomics (including oncogenetics and genomic precision medicine)
    • Onco-pathology; Tumor board/CAP guidelines
    • Social determinants of health (SDoH)
    • Analysis of lab methodology and techniques in molecular (genomic and/or proteomic) studies
    • Clinical pharmacology (receptor binding; neuropharmacology)
    • Metalanguage creation
    • XML mining/display (XSLT)
    • Hypertext Processor (PHP) scripting (advanced)
    • Java (Oracle JVM) language programming (intermediate/advanced)
    • Statistics & analytics software: Excel (advanced), SAS (intermediate)
    • Database design & querying (intermediate - Oracle-SQL; PG-SQL; MS Access-SQL)
    • HTML/CSS (advanced)
    • Javascript & AJAX (intermediate)
    • Web graphics (intermediate)
    • Office suite software, including Microsoft Office & OpenOffice
    • Operating systems: MacOS; Windows; Unix; Linux
    • Network analysis software: Cytoscape, Sci2, Pajek, NodeXL, Gephi

    Education

    Doctorate Studies
    (Completed 2019)

    Indiana University
    Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering | Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
    Department of BioHealth Informatics

    Degree completed: PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) in Informatics
    Major/Specialization: Health-Biomedical Informatics
    Minor: Information Architecture
    Dissertation Topic: Determining the utility of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) patient-generated information over public social media in describing clinically-relevant signs, symptoms, treatments, and environmental factors.

    Master-Level Studies
    (Completed 2014)

    Indiana University
    Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering | Bloomington, Indiana 47405
    Department of Information & Library Science

    Degree completed: Master of Information Science (MIS)
    Project Topic: Design and application of a translational biological-to-medical natural language processing (NLP)-oriented dictionary for identification of actionable clinical concepts in biological neuroscience research literature.

    Undergraduate Studies

    Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, Ohio 44106

    Degrees completed:
    Bachelor of Science in Biology (Molecular), magna cum laude
    Bachelor of Arts with a major in German (Language), magna cum laude
    Minors: Chemistry & Psychology