CONTACT INFORMATION: Scot Kennedy scotfree@asis.com 510-915-4210 1423b Caroline St, Alameda CA 94501 EDUCATION: 2000-Master's Applied Mathematics UC Santa Cruz -Researcher, Human Genome Project -Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Summer Graduate Program & Workshop: "Mathematical and Computational Challenges In Molecular and Cell Biology" 1996-BA Mathematics UC Santa Cruz SKILLS: Core: Bioinformatics,Math/Statistics,Teaching,Machine Learning & Control Languages: Perl,C,Java,SQL,HTML,XML,(La)TeX,PHP,Lisp,Visual Basic,Delphi Tools: MatLab/etc,crossmatch/BLAST,phred/phrap,cap4,DBMS,etc OS: UNIX (Linux,FreeBSD,Sun,Digital,SGI,etc), MS (NT,Win,etc),Mac,PalmOS EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: 2001 Jan - Present: Bioinformaticist PPD Discovery (Menlo Park) -statistical analysis of selection assays and libraries -sequence analysis pipeline development & operation -client Joint Research presentations -microarray analysis and training -'tuning' of bioinformatics tool parameters and data flow -automated/manual sequence/gene annotation and filtering -web-based analysis tools for scientists/data-miners -cross platform team software development 2000: UC Santa Cruz Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering Researcher for Professor David Haussler (director) -Human Genome Project researcher -co-author Feb. 2001 Nature publications on HGP -Statistical Analyses (Wrote tools to both gather statistical information and to allow flexible, web-based access for research and testing) -high-volume RDBMS design/implementation/support -data mining for Genome Project (BAC-end data, Test-set construction, Quality Analysis, etc) -Involved in many aspects of the HGP at UCSC (http://genome.ucsc.edu) Some specific projects I was particularly involved in: -statistical analysis of 'GC-content' of Human Genome -estimation of coverage within clones -Statistical Data for Nature Human Genome Draft Assembly Paper (http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/crom.cgi) -Association of STS/genetic markers to Draft Assembly -some aspects of Human Genome Browser & data 1999-2000: Intranet Design/Administration Consulting -Maintained, Developed, and Extended intra-/extra-net software for various companies and projects. Generally SQL/Perl based. 1998-2000: Art Institutes International SF - Statistics Instructor -Developed and taught entire two quarter sequence in statistics (Teaching statistics to art/design students, as well as my extensive TA/tutor experience, has developed what I consider a key ability: Communicating complex technical ideas to non-specialists.) 1997-1999: UC Santa Cruz math department - Contract Developer/Trainer/TA -TA/tutor for many applied math/physics courses -Instructional Improvement Grant (Web interface for LaTeX-HTML translation/publishing) -Educational Web Publishing Consulting (helped faculty and graduate students create and publish web pages, LaTeX, and other complex documents (Mathematica/Matlab, etc.) as well as creating privacy-secure system for web publishing course scores.) -Systems/Web Admin (FreeBSD/Apache webserver, general IT support) 1996-1999: ASIS Telemedia - Contract Developer/Trainer -Taught Web Design Classes -Design & Programming Consulting (http://www.asis.com) -HTTP/SQL/Perl system for managing site resources -HTML/CGI design and support