Experience

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  Us army

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2021

  Operations officer

  Supervised 7 enlisted personnel and planned annual, unit training events. Deployed to Afghanistan and worked with international partner forces to drive intelligence and targeting operations

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  Kentucky department for public health

  Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

  Data epidemiologist
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  Leidos

  Jun 2021 - Mar 2024

  Support CDC clients in developing bioinformatics workflows. Workflow development is primarily geared towards Nextflow scripting and nf-core based pipelines but support is also provided for a wide variety of projects built with different programming languages and platforms Develop and automate user account management workflows and manage directory access protocols via nfs4, SMB, and POSIX ACLs in a Linux based environment. Provide full stack support for web servers built primarily in PHP and Perl. Support bioinformatic workflow development and post-deployment maintenance

  • Bioinformatics Developer

    Jun 2023 - Mar 2024

  • Bioinformatics Operations Specialist

    Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
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  Asrt, inc.

  Mar 2024 - now

  Bioinformatician

  Develop bioinformatic pipelines in Nextflow to assist in the analysis of metagenomic samples. Develop best practices for basecalling, QC, alignment, and assembly of long Oxford Nanopore reads. Ensure pipelines are flexible and reproducible through the use of containers and Git version control. Tailor workflows to cooperate with the on-prem HPC environment and adjust resource allocation parameters accordingly. Curate genomic reference databases to optimize processing speed and classification accuracy Show less