Work history
Chief Software Architect
tags:
soap
• current state
• web 2.0
• project management
• governance
• resource
• chief
• ontology
• triple store
• java
• management
• semantic web
• architecture
• rdf
• rest
• user group
• cmmunity
• strategy
• soa
• executive
• leadership
• risk management
• semantic
• obo
• future state
• mulgara
• software
• architect
• portal
• application
soap
• current state
• web 2.0
• project management
• governance
• resource
• chief
• ontology
• triple store
• java
• management
• semantic web
• architecture
• rdf
• rest
• user group
• cmmunity
• strategy
• soa
• executive
• leadership
• risk management
• semantic
• obo
• future state
• mulgara
• software
• architect
• portal
• application
• owl
• medicine
• web
• services
• bioportal
• protege
How would you describe your time at Stanford University?
-Led the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) in the architecture, design, development, and delivery of a web-based portal and other software products to share scientific knowledge residing in diverse online resources and to enable collaboration between biomedical communities to describe and share their experimental results pertaining to human health and disease. NCBO is committed to improving health by developing software products that accelerates biomedical discovery.
??? Managed six software development teams in the design, development, and delivery of NCBO products.
-Delivered the NCBO Current State Architecture, Future State Architecture, Architecture Roadmap, and Software Development Principles.
-Established integrated architecture solution to share re-usable NCBO assets through REST services. Solution enabled throttling/queuing (to ensure QoS and maintain SLA of third-party services) and URI gating (to ensure enforcement of security policy).
-Architected, designed, and delivered BioPortal 2.0 (currently in pre-release at http://alpha.bioontology.org), a layered architecture solution which leverages Ruby, REST services, Spring, Hibernate, Protege, and LexGrid.
-Designed and implemented a scalable REST services API to provide full access to all of UMLS.
-Delivered RDF FOAF-based services for BioPortal 2.0 users.
-Managed, led, and drove technology selection of SOA framework (NetKernel) and RDF Triple Store (Sesame/Mulgara) applied to entire NCBO product-line.
-Initiated and drove nationwide quarterly NCBO Developers Conferences and monthly NCBO Code Reviews.
-Established NCBO GForge central repository and communications infrastructure for all NCBO developers.... 
Enterprise Architect & Manager
Director of Application Engineering
Associate Director of Technology
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