NELSON LOPEZJIMENEZ

**** ******** ****** #***, *********, FL 33021

Cell: 415-***-****

ac0txc@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Seeking a position as a Data Scientist II that will effectively maximize my unique experience in programming, molecular genetics research, natural and computer languages, computer sciences, and academia. EDUCATION

09/2012-05/2015 Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Miami. GPA 3.59. Graduation: May 2015. 01/1993-12/1999 Ph.D. Degree, Department of Medical Chemistry, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

01/1990-11/1993 Master’s Degree in Human Genetics. Institute for Genetic Research. Graduate Program in Human Genetics, Colombia National University Faculty of Medicine, Bogota. Topic: Analysis of the distribution of genetic markers in 29.982 individuals from Colombia.

03/1987-05/1988 Internship (sixth) year, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valle, Cali, Colombia. As a requirement to validate a degree obtained abroad. 09/1978-06/1985 M.D. Degree, Faculty of Medicine, Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic, Perl, Python. Web development on PHP, JSP and ASP.NET with use of XML, XHTML, HTML5, WebGL, javascript. Database Operation (DBO) SQL Server (version 7 and 2000), MYSQL. Computer Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux, and VMware. Other: Networking, Computer Security, Microsoft Office Suite, Video/Photo Editing. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

01/2015 to

present

Professor, Programming Languages (Java: COP2800, C++: COP1334, COP2335), Computer Competency Microsoft Office Suite (CGS1060), System Administration and Maintenance (CNT4603). Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida. Supervisor: Djuradj Babic, School Director, email: ac0txc@r.postjobfree.com, phone: 305-***-**** 09/2013-

05/2015

Teaching Assistant, Computer Programming I Java, CSC120, Computer Science Department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. Supervisor Dr. Dilip Sarkar, 305- 284-2256, ac0txc@r.postjobfree.com

02/2013-

05/2013

Assistant Software Developer, Miller Office of Research, School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL. Supervisor Stephen DeGennaro, Research Information Technology Director, phone: 305-***-****, email: ac0txc@r.postjobfree.com

6/2013-

11/2013

PhD Dissertation Committee Member and External Advisor, Doctoral Dissertation

“Toward the Prediction of Mutations in Genomic Sequences”, Juan Carlos Martinez, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University. 05/2008-

06/2011

Postdoctoral Scholar Fellow, Division of Medical Genetics, Pediatrics Department, University of California, San Francisco. Topic: Targeted “next-generation” sequencing in anophtalmia and microphtalmia patients. Supervisor: Anne Slavotinek, phone: 415-***-****

06/2003-

06/2007

Research Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health, NIH, Maryland. Topic: generation of mouse knockout models to study the function of polycystic kidney disease 1-like 3 gene (Pkd1l3), as well as of G-protein coupled receptor 113 gene (Gpr113). Supervisor: Susan Sullivan, phone: 301-***-**** 03/2000-

06/2003

Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDCD/NIH. Topic: construction of a subtracted taste cell-receptor specific library. Isolation of novel taste cell-receptor specific genes: Pdk1l3, Gpr113, and taste cell-receptor specific gene (Trcg1). Supervisor: Susan Sullivan, phone: 301-***-**** 09/1998-

10/1999

Associate Researcher, National Institute for Genetics, National University of Colombia at Bogota. Type: Genetic counseling and diagnostics. COMPUTER

SCIENCE

COURSES

Bioinformatics I and II, Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis, Programming Languages, Data Security and Cryptography, Mobile Wireless Systems, Semantic Web, Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics, Database Management Systems. LANGUAG

ES

Fluent in English, Russian, and Spanish. Intermediate level French and Japanese. HONORS

Scholarship from the Government of the former Soviet Union to carry out studies in the faculty of Medicine at Lviv Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine. Scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Japan (Monbusho) to carry out research at the Graduate School of Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

O-1 Visa granted in 2000 from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for extraordinary ability in the sciences. “Extraordinary ability in the fields of science, education, business or athletics means a level of expertise indicating that the person is one of the small percentage who has risen to the very top of the field of endeavor.” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Scientific

Training

and Courses

1)Current topics in Genome Analysis. Lecture series. National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). 2000. 2003. Topics: physical mapping, positional cloning, large insert libraries, comparative genomics, genetic variation, disease gene identification. 2)The Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Human Subject Research. Bethesda, Maryland, 2002. Topics: conflicts of interest, informed consent, and phase I research. 3)Advanced Sequence Analysis Using GCG (Genetics Computer Group). Center for Information Technology. Nat’l. Inst. of Health. Spring 2000. 4)Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course on Computational Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. October-31, 2000. Topics: BLAST, statistical analysis, multiple sequence alignment, theory and practice of algorithms used in computational biology. 5)The 38

th

annual short course in Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics. The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. July 14-25, 1997. Topics: genetics in experimental animals and humans, modern techniques in bioinformatics, mathematical genetics, genome manipulation, mutagenesis, and phenotyping.

6)New concepts in Immunology. Chairpersons: Tasuku Honjo, F. Melchers, and T.Taniguchi. Kyoto Hotel, Kyoto, Japan. November 10, 1995.

7)The Molecular Basis of Homeostasis and its Modification. Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. Organizers: K. Nagai, and S. Kaminogawa. Tokyo, Japan. September 22, 1994

Poster

Presentation

1)LopezJimenez ND., Gerber S., Slavotinek AM., Trueb B. Fgfrl1 null mice have reduced expression of TPM3 and other sarcomere genes in the diaphragm. Poster Presentation at the 59 th

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, October 24, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii. 2)LopezJimenez ND., Moshrefi A., Shaw G., Slavotinek AM. PPP1R3B as a Candidate Gene for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. Poster Presentation at the 58 th

Annual Meeting of the American

Society of Human Genetics, November 11, 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 3)Nelson T.M., LopezJimenez ND., Tessarollo L., Inoue M., McCaughey S.A., Bachmanov A.A., Sullivan S.L. Taste Function in Pkd1l3 knockout mice. XXV International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste. Poster Presentation. San Francisco, CA., July 21- 26, 2008. 4)LopezJimenez ND., Cavenagh MM., Sainz E., Battey JF., Sullivan SL. Identification of two putative taste signal transduction components. 28

th

Annual Meeting. Association for

Chemoreception Sciences. Poster presentation. Sarasota, Florida. April 2006. 5)LopezJimenez ND., Sainz E., Blackwood CA., Cavenagh MM., Battey JF., Sullivan SL. Expression Profiling of Taste Receptor Cells. 25

th

Annual Meeting. Association for

Chemoreception Sciences. Poster presentation. Sarasota, Florida. April 2003. 6)N LopezJimenez, E Sainz, J Battey, S Sullivan Construction and analysis of a taste receptor-cell enriched cDNA library. Auditory and Visual Research in 2001. NIDCD/NEI Symposium. Poster presentation. December 14, 2001

7)Lopez-Jimenez ND, Shirozu M, Tanigaki K, Nakano I, Nakano T, Tashiro K and Honjo T. Isolation and Tissue Expression of a Novel Gene of the Immunoglobulin Superfamily. Oral presentation in 70

th

Congress of the Biochemical Society of Japan. 1997 8)Lopez-Jimenez ND, Tanigaki K, Nakano I, Nakano T, Tashiro K and Honjo T. SDR1 beta: a brain specific form of a novel gene of the immunoglobulin superfamily. Poster presentation in the 38

th

annual short course in Medical and Experimental Mammallian Genetics. The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1997

Literature 1:Juan C. Martinez, Nelson LopezJimenez, Tao Meng, SS Iyengar. Predicting DNA mutations during cancer evolution. Internation Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Vol. 11, No 3, pp. 200-218, 2015.

2: Jimenez NL, Flannick J, Yahyavi M, Li J, Bardakjian T, Tonkin L, Schneider A, Sherr EH, Slavotinek AM. Targeted 'next-generation' sequencing in anophthalmia and microphthalmia patients confirms SOX2, OTX2 and FOXE3 mutations. BMC Med Genet. 2011 Dec 28;12:172. doi: 10.1186/147*-****-**-***. PubMed PMID: 22204637; 3: Chao R, Nevin L, Agarwal P, Riemer J, Bai X, Delaney A, Akana M, JimenezLopez N, Bardakjian T, Schneider A, Chassaing N, Schorderet DF, FitzPatrick D, Kwok PY, Ellgaard L, Gould DB, Zhang Y, Malicki J, Baier H, Slavotinek A. A male with unilateral microphthalmia reveals a role for TMX3 in eye development. PLoS One. 2010 May 11;5(5):e10565. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010565. PubMed PMID: 20485507

4: Zayed H, Chao R, Moshrefi A, Lopezjimenez N, Delaney A, Chen J, Shaw GM, Slavotinek AM. A maternally inherited chromosome 18q22.1 deletion in a male with late-presenting diaphragmatic hernia and microphthalmia-evaluation of DSEL as a candidate gene for the diaphragmatic defect. Am J Med Genet A. 2010 Apr;152A(4):916-23. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33341. PubMed PMID: 20358601; PubMed 5: LopezJimenez N, Gerber S, Popovici V, Mirza S, Copren K, Ta L, Shaw GM, Trueb B, Slavotinek AM. Examination of FGFRL1 as a candidate gene for diaphragmatic defects at chromosome 4p16.3 shows that Fgfrl1 null mice have reduced expression of Tpm3, sarcomere genes and Lrtm1 in the diaphragm. Hum Genet. 2010 Mar;127(3):325-36. doi: 10.1007/s00439-009-0777-8. Epub 2009 Dec 19. PubMed PMID: 6: Nelson TM, Lopezjimenez ND, Tessarollo L, Inoue M, Bachmanov AA, Sullivan SL. Taste function in mice with a targeted mutation of the pkd1l3 gene. Chem Senses. 2010 Sep;35(7):565-77. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjq070. Epub 2010 Jul 6. PubMed PMID: 20605874; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2924428.

7: Sainz E, Cavenagh MM, LopezJimenez ND, Gutierrez JC, Battey JF, Northup JK, Sullivan SL. The G-protein coupling properties of the human sweet and amino acid taste receptors. Dev Neurobiol. 2007 Jun;67(7):948-59. PubMed PMID: 17506496. 8: LopezJimenez ND, Sainz E, Cavenagh MM, Cruz-Ithier MA, Blackwood CA, Battey JF, Sullivan SL. Two novel genes, Gpr113, which encodes a family 2 G-protein-coupled receptor, and Trcg1, are selectively expressed in taste receptor cells. Genomics. 2005 Apr;85(4):472-82. PubMed PMID: 15780750. 9: LopezJimenez ND, Cavenagh MM, Sainz E, Cruz-Ithier MA, Battey JF, Sullivan SL. Two members of the TRPP family of ion channels, Pkd1l3 and Pkd2l1, are co-expressed in a subset of taste receptor cells. J Neurochem. 2006 Jul;98(1):68-77. PubMed PMID: 16805797.

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