Quality Assurance Engineer

Paea LePendu R sum

*** * * ***** ******, Menlo Park, CA 94025 509-***-**** ********@********.***

http://www.stanford.edu/~plependu

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Stanford University, Biomedical Informatics, 2012.

Ph.D., University of Oregon, Computer and Information Science, 2010.

M.S., University of Oregon, Computer and Information Science, 2006.

B.A., summa cum laude, Whitman College, Mathematics, 1996.

Saint Louis High School, valedictorian, 1992.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research Scientist, Stanford 2012 present

Analyze millions of electronic health records for temporal associations between drugs, diseases,

devices, and procedures that enable us to perform: off-label drug use profiling, severe adverse

drug event detection, and comparative effectiveness of alternative treatment trajectories. Publish,

present, and review relevant research. Mentor graduate students. Grants: $18M NIH/U54

HG004028 (NCBO).

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford 2010 2012

Develop tools and services that enable researchers in biomedicine to use ontologies for

intelligent information systems. Efficiently manage nearly 100-billion records. Perform meta-

analyses of diverse biomedical repositories including electronic medical records to drive

decision-making. Develop productive collaborations with biomedical researchers from Harvard,

MIT, and other leading institutions from around the world. Publish, present, and review relevant

research. Mentor graduate students. Grants: $18M NIH/U54 HG004028 (NCBO).

School of Medicine Management Consulting Group, Stanford 2010 present

Assess needs, develop strategies, and make recommendations for business cases. Specialize in

information technology management and development. Network with specialists in biomedicine.

Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Oregon 2004 2010

Independent conception and investigation of novel theoretical and applied research in the area of

databases, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and category theory. Published, presented, and

reviewed relevant research. Mentored students and managed lab activities. Teaching instructor.

Grants: $2.2M NIH/R01 EB007684 (NEMO); $200k NPSC; $300k ONR/Geometric Networks.

IBM Internship, Beaverton, OR and Toronto, Canada 2008 2009

Technical lead on intelligent, self-tuning configuration component for the newest DB2 clustering

architecture, a database technology used by customers such as Walmart and Goldman Sachs.

Applied advanced training in database theory and artificial intelligence. Project management,

communication, collaboration, automated testing, quality assurance, and revision control within a

very large and globally distributed workforce (300,000 employees, 600 DB2 engineers).

Programmer / Analyst, Whitman College 2001 2004

Managed 30+ student employees. Chief technology architect for online voting system, mass

mailer, administrative web portal, online course evaluations, weather station, digital asset

management system, website reorganization, print tracking, residence life floor plans, foreign

language assessment portal, geological stream-flow station. Cost/benefit analysis, competitive

review, adoption strategies, and incentives for course management overhaul.

Software Specialist, Engineer, Analyst, Harland Financial Solutions 1997 2001

Software engineering, technical support, and quality assurance of banking and legal disclosure

software. Technical support and engineering liaison. Introduced rotating mentors program. Team

lead on codebase reverse engineering project.

Technical Specialist, Cabletron Systems 1996 1997

Lead support specialist for company headquarters. Consistently exceeded expectations.

Numerous special projects: sales executives technical consult, open new offices, install

gubernatorial systems (Jeanne Shaheen), deploy $15M SAP enterprise management system.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS / SERVICE

Whitman Technology Task Force Governing Board Member First Prize: Semantic Web

Challenge 10 UO Graduate Teaching Fellow of the Year Distinction on PhD Qualifying

Exams National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship Upsilon Pi Epsilon Phi Beta

Kappa ZFIN Semantic Search Engine Whitman Summa Cum Laude St. Louis Valedictorian

UO Graduate Education Council 09 Stanford Dean Of the School of Medicine Search

Committee 10Whitman College WCTS Systems Administrator Search Committee 02

Whitman College Library Archivist Search Committee 04 Whitman College Diversity Mentor

04 Kalihi-Palama Culture and Arts Society Volunteer Walla Walla Kid s Place Volunteer

RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE

Database Theory, Computational Logic, Artificial Intelligence, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Data

Mining, Automata Theory, Algorithms and Complexity, Data Structures, Programming

Language Theory, Compilers, Distributed Systems, User Interfaces, Category Theory, Discrete

Mathematics, Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Complex Analysis, Differential Equations,

Linear Algebra, Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry, Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Asian

Studies. Spoken English and French; some Japanese, Hawaiian and Tahitian. Microsoft Certified

Systems Engineer. HIPAA Certified.

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