Engineer Software

ANDREI VOLKOV

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OVERVIEW OF QUALIFICATIONS

A highly skilled and accomplished scientific software engineer with 20+

years of experience designing unique software, demonstrating innovative

problem solving abilities and a solid background in systems development.

Expert skills in development of C/C++ and Java multi-threaded applications

for scientific research and analysis as well as highly developed numerical

modeling as statistical description of data, advanced GUI techniques, and

data base support. Recognized as a self-motivator, successfully managing

complex projects, paying close attention to details, and providing

innovative software solutions to meet complex objectives.

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Languages (expert-level skills): Java, JSP/Servlets, JNI, JDBC, Swing,

C/C++, GUI, Oracle, MySQL

Other software skills: Unix, Java2D, Java Applets, Java Mail, HTML, XML,

Tomcat, Oracle Pro*C, UML

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Linux

Numerical methods: Solve linear and non-linear systems of equations; Curve

Fitting; Integration and evaluation of functions; Fast Fourier Transform;

Statistical description of data; Solve differential equations and two-point

boundary problems.

OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Life Technologies

. Play a key role as part of a team of engineers in the invention of a

ground breaking systems method (currently in USPTO patent

application), based on single-molecule FRET event detection, that can

be used for fast and cheap genome sequencing.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Engineer III, LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Houston, TX 2008-Present

Software Developer, VISIGEN BIOTECHNOLOGIES, Houston, TX 2005-2008

Continued to work under new ownership (VisiGen Biotechnologies and Life

Technologies merger) for demonstrating excellent performance.

Single-molecule Event Detection Project

. Designed and maintained software solutions to detect weak biological

signals as well as data analysis tools, related to single molecule

genome sequencing based on FRET.

. Developed the detection software that reads stacks of images from a

fast CCD camera recording the same area in several spatially separated

color channels, then translates the coordinates from one color

quadrant into another, computes the pixel coordinates of the bright

objects (spots) in acceptor quadrants in order to get color

information about the same physical object, extracts the time-

dependent intensity of each spot, and then searches for color-changing

events, associated with FRET interactions.

. Enriched the detection software by creating unique algorithms.

Sr. Systems Programmer, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, Houston, TX 2002-

2005

. Provided web access to multiple scientific modules developed by other

team members as part of a web-based project (www.genboree.org);

enabled users to share genome annotations, browse, and access data.

. Developed and tested web access through Java Servlets and JSP pages,

user account registration, user rights management, visual layout, user

controls and other front-end development as well as managed and

maintained all back-end activities.

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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY (Continued)

Software Engineer, AMICAS, INC., Newton, MA 2001

. Enhanced the front-end and back-end of the configuration tools for

Amicas Server, which is a part of Amicas Internet-based solutions for

managing diagnostic medical images.

Programmer Analyst, ALAZAR, LLC, Washington, DC 2000-2001

. Designed and implemented the Form Editor, a tool for visual editing of

frames and dialogs.

. Provided JNI access to the Outlook Address Book for a Java-written

cross-platform application, targeted to the automated generation of MS

Word and Word Perfect documents.

Software Developer, NOVOSOFT, INC., Novosibirsk, Russia 1998-2000

. Implemented a tool which generated an SQL script to replicate an

existing Oracle schema, identified and eliminated differences in two

Oracle schemata by generating SQL scripts, and viewed/modified

existing Oracle schemata and their individual objects (tables, stored

procedures, access rights, etc.).

. Designed and developed an automated Pro*C and C++/OCI source code

generation tool for Oracle tables and external SQL statements.

Early Professional Experience

Research Engineer, Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian, Branch of Russian

Academy of Sciences-Novosibirsk, Russia, 1989-1998

PUBLICATIONS

US Patent Application 11/671,956 (USPTO 200********) Volkov, Andrei, et al.

Method For Analyzing Dynamic Detectable Events At The Single Molecule

Level. October 25, 2007

Rat Genome Sequencing Project Consortium: R. A. Gibbs et al. Genome

sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution.

Nature, VOL 428, 1 April 2004.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Master of Science in Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk,

Russia, 1989

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