I'm interested in exciting opportunities to work on data driven solutions to real-world problems.

Data Analyst @ Supervisor: Paddu Vedam - Quality assurance and anomaly detection for medical insurance claims data. - Maintenance of ETL operations. From September 2013 to December 2013 (4 months) san francisco bay areaSoftware Engineer @ Supervisor: Yaron Pacht - Automated document creation and processing for a diverse client base. - Developed web automation tools to extract information from web-based user interfaces. - Developed streaming information extraction for dynamic client data. - Responsible for maintaining and refactoring large Perl codebase. From March 2013 to June 2013 (4 months) Bioinformatics Engineer @ Supervisor: Jason Chin Project: Genetic Tests for Organ Transplant Histocompatibility Goal: Develop robust histocompatibility testing for the PacBio RS platform. - Developed clustering technique for immunogenetic data that defies standard methods due to high redundancy. - Developed classification scheme to classify gene sequences and reliably identify novel sequences. - Demonstrated histocompatibility typing proof-of-principle to clients and opinion leaders. - Received company-wide "Rock Star" award for contributions to the project. From September 2012 to February 2013 (6 months) Assistant Statistician @ Principal Investigator: Lauren Weiss Project: Genetic Risk Factors for Autism Goal: To discover genes associated with autism - Integrated disparate autism research efforts to create a unified explorable dataset. - Performed a series of statistical hypothesis tests to measure genetic risk for autism. - Created novel statistical techniques to test impact of maternal genetics on autism risk. - Conducted unsupervised clustering to explore latent population substructure. From May 2011 to September 2012 (1 year 5 months) Research Assistant @ Principal Investigator: Kerry Ressler Project: Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for PTSD Goal: Demonstrate an interaction between genetic risk factors and traumatic exposure in PTSD. - Performed DNA extraction and phenotypic feature extraction. - Synthesized disparate data sources into a single utilizable dataset. - Carried out joint genetic and environmental risk analysis for PTSD. - Conducted statistical hypothesis testing to support a genetic predisposition for PTSD-like symptoms. From September 2009 to May 2011 (1 year 9 months) Bioinformatics Engineering Intern @ Principal Investigator: Paul de Bakker Project: HIV Controllers Study Goal: Discover the genetic basis for HIV resistance - Conducted simulations of genetic evolution to explore origins of HIV resistance. - Investigated genetic associations with quantitative features of HIV infection. From June 2010 to September 2010 (4 months) Technician Analyst @ Principal Investigator: Suxiang Tong Project: Pathogen Discovery Program Goal: Characterize emerging respiratory viruses. - Responsible for cleaning and management of genetic sequence data streams. - Performed classification of unknown sequence data as viral or non-viral. - Conducted phylogenetic analysis of viral sequence data to detect novel viruses. From October 2008 to April 2010 (1 year 7 months) Lab Assistant @ Principal Investigator: Clinton T. Baldwin - PCR, sample prep, and other basic lab duties. - Analysis of genetic data in R. From 2008 to 2008 (less than a year)

BS, Biology, Highest Honors @ Emory University From 2007 to 2011 Jeff Quinn is skilled in: R, Python, C, Perl, Unix Shell Scripting, UNIX utilities, Statistics, Sun Cluster, Selenium, LaTeX, PLINK, PCR, DNA sequencing, Genomics, Computational Biology