Glenn Murray

Current

• Consultant at The National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Research Professor at Colorado School of Mines

Past

• President at Data Logistics, Inc.
• Consultant at Numerica Technology
• Self-employed at Independent Consultant

• Adjunct Professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver
• Member of the Technical Staff at Hughes Aircraft Co.

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Education

• Colorado State University
• University of Colorado at Denver
• University of Southern California

• Loyola Marymount University
• University of Denver - Daniels College of Business
• Grinnell College

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• CSM Department Bio

Glenn Murray’s Summary

Systems Integrator, Application Developer, and Data Management Expert for Scientific and Engineering data problems. I advise on and build LIMS and LIMS-style applications. I write thousands of lines of code and speak thousands of acronyms, but I like English, too.

The work I do falls typically in the 2007 NAICS 5415512 and 541511 classifications.

Glenn Murray’s Specialties:

System integration, Java and J2EE, Web 2.0 (GWT), Swing interface, Systems Biology, Python, LIMS, Geek Management

Glenn Murray’s Experience

• Consultant

  The National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  Providing consultation on scientific technical data management, especially using open source frameworks.

• Research Professor

  Colorado School of Mines

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)

  Software development, training, and infrastructure manager for the
  OpenChem Workbench and an RDBMS-backed GUI for running models using the ABACUSS solver for Mitsubishi. Responsible for use cases, analysis and design, testing and debugging, CVS repository and website maintenance, and deployment on Linux and Windows. These are distributed cheminformatics desktop tools for chemistry researchers and the chemical process industry. Currently the OpenChem Workbench is being licensed as OpenChem Pro through Numerica Technology (http://www.numericatech.com/).
  
  Monte Carlo polymer molecular dynamics simulation software, in Java and C++, employing XML formatting and high-performance Java tuning.
  
  Flame image statistical analysis application for the CSM Water Mist experiment aboard the NASA Columbia space shuttle, in MATLAB, including a GUI. (http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news/news/photos/2002/STS107-MIST.html).

• President

  Data Logistics, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

• Consultant

  Numerica Technology

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2006 — July 2006 (5 months)

  Coding Tomcat middleware and rich client (Swing) interface for multiuser access to the Jacobian modeling and optimization software from Numerica Technology, for systems biology modeling. Currently in use at MIT.

• Self-employed

  Independent Consultant

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — March 2005 (3 months)

  Contract position for developing C# ADO.NET code to gather data from Excel spreadsheets to colorize Visio drawings of floor plans imported from CAD drawings. Some UI design.

• Adjunct Professor

  Metropolitan State College of Denver

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 1995 — May 2000 (4 years 10 months)

  Full-time faculty position. Technical teaching experience in mathematics and computer science to a diverse student body, including Computer Networks, Computer Architecture, Calculus, Math for Poets, College Algebra, etc. as full-time faculty member, including curriculum development, lecturing, evaluation, etc. Development of Mathematica curricular materials for a course.

• Member of the Technical Staff

  Hughes Aircraft Co.

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 1980 — November 1981 (1 year 8 months)

  Real time programming in assembler for target tracking and controlling large lasers, Kalman filtering, simulation in FORTRAN, original statistical analysis of IR sensor data in FORTRAN; award for cost improvements.

Glenn Murray’s Education

• Colorado State University

  Ph.D. , Mathematics , 1987 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Algebraic Geometry, Analysis, Computational Algebra, Bouldering.

• University of Colorado at Denver

  Artificial Intelligence 1985 — 1986

• University of Southern California

  Physics 1981 — 1981

  Took a class in Quantum Mechanics.

• Loyola Marymount University

  Economics 1980 — 1981

  Took Micro and Macro Economics classes.

• University of Denver - Daniels College of Business

  MBA 1979 — 1980

  Started, but did not finish, an MBA program. Took classes in Management, Finance, and Accounting.

• Grinnell College

  B.A. , Mathematics and Physics , 1976 — 1979

  Activities and Societies:

  Chorus, Rugby, Guitar, Piano, Bluegrass Fiddle, Old English Reading Group

Additional Information

Glenn Murray’s Websites:

• CSM Department Bio

Glenn Murray’s Interests:

Mathematics, Climbing, Travel, Asia, Literature, Music, Programming.

Glenn Murray’s Groups:

•    LIMS/Laboratory Informatics
•    Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
•    Grinnell College Alumni
•    Colorado Software Summit

Glenn Murray’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
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