Expert Details
Statistics and Bioinformatics, Software Design, High Throughput Genomic Technologies
ID: 727055
Texas, USA
In addition to his own expertise, he can bring a team of experts in statistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, and software development from his company to meet your needs.
While heading up a consulting group. He was lead consultant on over 350 fully customized data analysis projects. Most of these projects involved affymetrix microarrays, but they extend across the whole realm genomic research tools. A typical project included experimental design, consultation on desired experimental goals, creation of analysis plan, pricing, execution of the analysis and follow up with the client to insure the projects met their expectations and they fully understood why and what tests were performed. He developed an automated system for those customer that didn't need a fully customized data analysis solution. Over 2500 projects were run through this tool. This tool provided a cost effective means for clients to get the information they needed in a timely manner and at the same time provided significant revenue to his company. He consults with molecular instrument companies to develop the best data processing work flow for their particular new application. Once the best generalized set of methods are determined for the client, his team packages those steps into an automated software solution for the client.He has consulted on analysis of miRNA arrays for several large molecular instrument companies. He has been engaged to develop data analysis software and date presentation tools for several high throughput technologies. These tools are currently in use, under the name of the client company.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2000 | Degree: PhD | Subject: Agronomy | Institution: Texas A&M University |
| Year: 1993 | Degree: MS | Subject: Horticulture | Institution: Clemson University |
| Year: 1988 | Degree: BS | Subject: Agronomy | Institution: Texas A&M University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2007 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: President | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert founded BioMath Solutions in 2007 and is responsible for leading the company. He is also the lead consultant within the company. Under his leadership BioMath Solutions has worked with most of the companies in the microarray field.BioMath Solutions is dedicated to the pharmaceutical / biotech industry, providing research and development consulting- leveraging statistics, computational biology, machine learning, and computer science to provide you working solutions and propel your products or discoveries into the next phase. BioMath Solutions specialize in high throughput genomic technologies. The services range from software and workflow development, and data analysis to informatics related business and market development |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2007 | Employer: Asuragen | Title: Senior Manager | Department: Services |
Responsibilities:Created and led the informatics group at Asuragen Inc. Asuragen was created from a group of scientists at Ambion.Senior manager of a biostatistics, bioinformatics, and computational biology group that provides client-based statistical analysis from experimental design, signal and data processing through biological pathway analysis. Additionally, he was head of an active informatic research and product development program. Responsible for creation of all custom analysis statements of work, costing and pricing for all analysis projects. Led the overall development of throughput analysis tools for mRNA and microRNA microarrays that have become significant revenue drivers. Member of a number of other industry/government committees. Lead the biomarker development team that has led to a significant number of patent applications. Conducted analysis projects for big ten pharma companies Completed development of statistical SOPs in accordance with ISO 13485 and 9001 and FDA GLP guidelines. Was part of the leadership team that implemented GLP practices within the division. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2004 to 2006 | Employer: Ambion | Title: Manager | Department: Services |
Responsibilities:Responsible for establishment, leading and managing of the Expression Bioinformatics/Statistics consulting group within Ambion Services. Expert lead Ambion's analysis portion of the FDA Microarray Quanlity Control (MAQC) project. He was responsible for client interaction, project design, pricing, and execution. He was responsible for creation of all consulting SOPs related to data analysis projects. |
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International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
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| Years: 2007 to Present | Country / Region: Argentina | Summary: He manages a group of software developers in Argentina from the United States. |
Career Accomplishments
| Awards / Recognition |
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| National Merit Scholar McFadden Honor Scholarship Member of Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society |
| Medical / Professional |
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| Postdocs in bioinformatics and computational biology at Texas A&M and University of Louisville. |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| He has over 20 publications, an inventor on 20 plus patent applications, and two recent book chapters on clustering and miRNA analysis. |
Additional Experience
| Training / Seminars |
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| Provides training in applied statistics, experimental design, and microarray analysis to a number of biotech companies. Provided training as part for every software package they have developed. |
| Vendor Selection |
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| Expert has worked with and evaluated most of the statistical software tools that are used within the life science field. Through out this process he has worked with these software vendors. Currently he manages an international software outsourcing group. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Expert has had significant experience in the fields of gene expression, miRNA and microarray analysis. Coming from a biological background has provided insights into analysis software design and analysis approaches that are best designed around the end users needs. Expert is part of the FDA Microarray Quality Control group. Having developed analysis consulting groups focused on the biotech field, he brings a keen understanding of what the biotech sector needs in the way of data analysis and the technical limitations of molecular measurement technologies. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| He has worked with hundreds of clients to meet their data analysis need, at Ambion, Asuragen and now as head of BioMath Solutions. He has worked with a number of genomic instrument companies to design and develop software for image process and data analysis. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
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| English |
Fields of Expertise
applied statistics, design of experiments, gene expression, statistical computer software, DNA microarray, application software design, statistical data analysis, bioinformatics, Type II error, statistical design of experiments, statistical graphics, statistical computing, principal components analysis, Student's t statistic, Student's t test, F distribution, pharmaceutical research and development, educational software, computer imaging software, probability distribution, statistical median, statistical degree of freedom, applied toxicology, multivariate statistical analysis, pharmaceutical research, software design, data correlation, data visualization system, statistical method, Microsoft Windows software, analysis, gene expression regulation, data processing, arithmetic mean, algorithm, gene, networking, multivariate analysis, Latin square, computer software, computational mathematics