
Group Leader - Research Application Development at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Greater Memphis Area

Group Leader - Research Application Development at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Greater Memphis Area
I am the manager of Research Application Development in the Research Informatics division of Information Sciences at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. I primarily spend my days managing the development and support of Java EE-based applications in support of life sciences research. I have been involved in the development of web and desktop-based applications (using languages including Java, Perl, PHP, and Ruby) for St. Jude since 2000. I have experience developing applications using numerous open source technologies including Spring, Hibernate, and iBATIS.
I am also the project manager for and a committer to St. Jude's open source Shared Resource Management system, STJUDE-SRM (http://stjude-srm.sourceforge.net). STJUDE-SRM was designed to support shared resource/core lab activites at biomedical research institutions. It was originally developed to support the laboratories at St. Jude's Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, but could be modified to support any number of facilities and/or institutions.
Requirements elicitation and analysis, software systems architecture, domain modeling, software implementation (test driven development), project management
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
May 2008 — Present (5 months)
Responsible for managing development, maintenance, and support efforts for applications used by the basic life sciences research community at St. Jude.
(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)
I am the founding member and current leader of the Memphis/Mid-South Java User Group, which exists to support the various needs of Java(tm) technology developers throughout the Mid-South. My current responsibilities include managing the group website, recruiting speakers, soliciting sponsorships and giveaway items, facilitating meetings, and anything else that needs to get done!
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Biotechnology industry)
May 2001 — May 2008 (7 years 1 month)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2000 — May 2001 (10 months)
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Biotechnology industry)
May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 1997 — 2001
2001 Outstanding Senior Student - Computer Science Department
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Memphis/Mid-South Java User Group, Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors' Meeting - Bio-IT Panel