OVERVIEW

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

EXPERIENCE

Developer, Xerox Litigation Services, Albany, NY, August 2007 to present.

• Participating in development and maintenance of a large-scale storage and retrieval system for legal documents and files.

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://dinamelt.bioinfo.rpi.edu.

Undergraduate research project, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Summer 2001.

• Developed suite of textual and graphical programs for biological sequence alignment.
• Continued work during 2001–2002 academic year.

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