OVERVIEW

Software developer with expertise in mathematical modeling. Experience with the complete software life cycle — requirements gathering, design, implementation, documentation and testing. Knowledge of several programming languages and software tools. Familiarity with creating computational models of scientific systems.

EXPERIENCE

Senior Developer, Xerox Litigation Services, Albany, NY, February 2011 to present.
Developer, August 2007 to January 2011.

• Participating in development and maintenance of a large-scale distributed agent-based storage and retrieval system for legal documents and files.
• Developed coding standards for Perl and PL/SQL.
• Advising junior developers and testers.

Software engineer, Simplicita Software, Inc., Troy, NY, August 2006 to June 2007.

• Participed in design, development, testing and documentation of carrier-scale zombie remediation system.

Research assistant, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, May 2002 to May 2006.

• Developed, implemented and documented algorithms to model nucleic acid ensembles.
• Developing Web-based interface at http://mfold.rna.albany.edu/?q=DINAMelt.

Student Assistant, IT Team, New York State Department of Family Assistance, September 2000 – May 2001.

• Worked with team to design and maintain Intranet and Internet Web pages for DFA.

Owner, www.rpihockey.net, November 2001 to present.

• Designed and implemented database-based Web site to promote RPI hockey.

EDUCATION

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

• Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, 2006. Dissertation on algorithms for nucleic acid sequences. GPA 3.86.
• Master of Science, Computer Science, 2003. GPA 3.88.
• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics of Computation, 2002. Graduated summa cum laude (GPA 3.96). Dean's List, all semesters.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Software: MS Windows, MS Office, Linux/Unix, LaTeX, Maple, MATLAB, lex/yacc, autoconf/automake

Languages: C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Bourne shell scripts, Visual Basic, SQL

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

Web technologies: HTML, XML, CSS, CGI, ASP, JavaScript

PUBLICATIONS

N. R. Markham & M. Zuker. UNAFold: software for nucleic acid folding and hybridizing. Methods in Molecular Biology: Bioinformatics. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, in press.

N. R. Markham & M. Zuker. (2005) DINAMelt web server for nucleic acid melting prediction. Nucleic Acids Res. 33:W577–W581