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Christopher Raffi Dagdigian
(Address provided upon request)
dag@sonsorol.org
(617) 877-5498 [Mobile]
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Research/Work
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Computational methods
for extracting information from biological data. High performance technical
computing and infrastructure technology within R&D environments. Supporting the development of free software tools for life science informatics. |
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| Education |
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Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, Worcester MA
Bachelor of Science with honors, Biotechnology
with concentration in Computer Science, May 1995 |
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| Continuing
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Harvard Extension
School, Cambridge MA
Information Technology, Fall 1998 - present
WPI Technical Educational Center,
Waltham MA
Graduate Certificate, Unix System Admin & C/C++ Programming, July 1997
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| Expertise |
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- High performance computing
(HPC) in demanding life science settings
- Architecting & integrating
large research computing infrastructures
- Linux, Unix and Apple OS
X distributed and cluster computing
- Expert with Sun Grid Engine
& Platform LSF
- Solaris, IRIX, Digital Unix
(Tru64), Linux (Intel, Alpha, PowerPC), OpenBSD, Mac OS X
- Enterprise storage technologies
- SAN architecture & implementation
- Network Storage
- Legato backup implementation,
administration
- Unix system administration
& performance tuning
- Technical writing &
training
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| Employment |
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[1] Founding
partner and principal consultant, the BioTeam
, Jan 2002 - present.
[2] Principal Consultant - Bioinformatics & Infrastructure Technology
Blackstone
Computing (Formally Blackstone Technology Group)
Sept 2000 - December 2001
[3]
Genetics Institute Inc. Cambridge, MA, August 1995 - August
2000
Positions:
- Systems Manager, Department of Genomics (2000)
- Systems Manager, Bioinformatics
Hardware Group (1998-1999)
- Bioinformatics programmer/analyst
(1996-1998)
- Research Associate (1995-1996)
Responsibilities:
- Build, maintain & improve
bioinformatics technical computing infrastructure
- IT capacity planning &
strategic direction
- Scientific programming using
object-oriented Perl
- GCG administration and sequence
database curation
- Analyze data generated
by high throughput cDNA cloning and sequencing project review interpret
sequence database searches record significant findings (1995-1996)
Accomplishments:
- Creation & operation
of the first company-wide Genomics datacenter
- Implementation of mixed
client multi-terabyte switched fabric fiber channel Storage Area Network
(SAN)
- Researched, purchased, configured
and managed the multi-million dollar AlphaServer based technical computing
infrastruture used for high througput cDNA discovery, analysis pipelines
& basic research
- Developed an automated suit
of software tools for high-throughput cDNA handling, analysis, classification
and databasing.
- Developed a "Patent Pipeline"
used by project scientists and lawyers to facilitate high throughput
filing and updating.
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Collaborations |
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Co-founder & board member, Open Bioinformatics Foundation (open-bio.org). The O|B|F currently supports the following free software projects: bioperl.org,
biojava.org,
biopython.org,
biodas.org,
biocorba.org,
bioxml.org.
Founding member and sysadmin of the Bioperl Project.
Co-founder of the Bioclusters mailing list
Conference organizer for BOSC'2001 (open-bio.org/bosc2001), Copenhagen, Denmark
Conference organizer for BOSC'2000 (ismb00.sdsc.edu/bosc2000/),
San Diego, CA USA
Conference organizer for Bioperl-99 (bio.perl.org/bioperl-99/),
Heidelberg Germany
Member, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
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