Recent Experience
Nimbus Therapeutics
Head of Information Technology
August 2020 - Present
Nimbus Therapeutics is a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We use a computational chemistry platform, enabled through our partnership with co-founder Schrödinger, to pioneer the application of computational chemistry to design treatments for substantial and underserved human diseases with a focus on metabolic diseases, cancer, and immune-inflammatory disorders. We use our platform to rapidly tackle well-validated targets which results in medicines with high potency, selectivity, and other desirable drug-like properties.
As the Senior Director of IT, I lead IT strategy, vendor relationships, solution delivery, user adoption, and lifecycle of IT platforms. My current focus is on aligning & executing a multi-year roadmap with major transformation and rebuilding the application ecosystem to support Research. It’s important to invest time to understand the scientific workflow and then reverse engineer the technology to support the workflow. Our Information Science and IT Engineers work as a team on the continuous support of our computational Chemistry platform as well as large projects aimed at improving our existing systems and infrastructure while meeting our requirements for uptime.
Starting in 2020, we have been designing, constructing, and implementing information systems and software solutions for in silica discovery, data generation and data analysis including a biotech focused AWS environment to support our discovery and target identification processes. During this build-out, we have been working closely with our industry partners to make sure the stack is consistent across all of our scientific disciplines.
We use AWS, Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform, Python, GitHub, and whatever else it takes to administer and scale our environment using automation and infrastructure as code. In 2020 - 2021, we have been moving to High Performance Computing in order to support our FEP analysis by leveraging AWS Parrallel Cluster
Decibel Therapeutics
Director of Informatics & Information Technology
April 2019 - August 2020
Decibel Therapeutics is focused on discovering and developing new therapeutics to protect, repair and restore hearing for a broad range of people with impaired hearing.
Decibel plans to combine recent innovations in hearing science with leading diagnostic tools, biological insights, modeling, and therapeutic delivery techniques. We are working on a comprehensive approach to define the underlying biological causes of impaired hearing and to develop a pipeline of therapies for specific patient populations.
As the Director of Informatics & IT at Decibel, I lead our managed service providers in support of our Scientific Computing Team as well as acting as an AWS Architect and Security Engineer. Our MSPs work as a team on the continuous support of our corporate and lab environments as well as large projects aimed at improving our existing systems and infrastructure. We support scientists working at the cutting edge of inner ear biology, genetics and genomics, bioinformatics and microsurgery. We are entirely on AWS.
Starting in 2019, we have been building out an AWS Landing Zones environment and big data genomics platform to support our Informatics and Computational Biology teams. During this build-out, we have been working closely with our partners to make sure the architecture is consistent across all locations and accounts.
We use AWS, AWS Linux 2, Ubuntu, CloudFormation, Java, Python, Systems Manager, GitLab and whatever else it takes to not ever log into an actual system. We treat infrastructure as code in order to automate our production environments so they can be reproduced in the same fashion every time without the need for manual processes.
If we are successful, we'll create a world where the benefits and joys of hearing are available to all.
PatientsLikeMe
Director of DevOps & Information Technology
April 2018 - April 2019
PatientsLikeMe is leading the social medicine space by allowing people to: share their health data, to track their progress, to help others, and change medicine for good. Each time someone shares their experience, they're helping the next person diagnosed learn what could really work for them, and helping researchers shorten the path to new treatments. We’re passionate about improving the lives of patients, improving the healthcare system, working on hard technical problems and doing all of this with teamwork.
As the Director of DevOps I lead the Cloud DevOps Team and the Scientific Computing DevOps Team. Our DevOps Engineers work as a team on the continuous support of our website and lab environments as well as large projects aimed at improving our existing systems and infrastructure while meeting our SLA for uptime.
Starting in 2018, we have building out a big data genomics platform to support our new Science and Computational Biology team. During this build out, we have been working closely with our international partners to make sure the stack is consistent across all partners, all locations and countries.
We use AWS, CentOS, Ubuntu, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Ruby, Python, GitHub and whatever else it takes to not ever log into an actual system. We treat infrastructure as code; if it’s not checked in, it doesn’t make it to production. In 2018, we have been moving to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and continuous integration and delivery.