Pacific Health Research & Education Institute
Programmer / Analyst (Full-time) · Honolulu, Hawai'i · 12/2009 - 12/2011Served as staff programmer on two NIH cancer studies (PLCO and NLST), developed custom data management, workflow and case management applications as well as many small scripts and programs for impromptu reporting and data analysis. I was laid off at the close of the studies (along with the rest of the staff) then re-hired a year later to work on the GRADE study.
- Developed custom data management, workflow and case management applications as well as many small scripts and programs for impromptu reporting and data analysis which allowed me to provide critical study statics and reports at a moments notice.
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Developed methods for dealing with some very complex logistical constraints imposed on the studies.
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Added a feature to Ruby’s “gem” command to install gems from a directory. This was necessary since the study’s computers were not allowed to connect to the Internet (see https://github.com/delonnewman/rubygems).
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Saved the institute thousands of dollars in software and hardware purchases
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Designed various workflow systems using Ruby on Rails and MySQL
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Developed micro services in Ruby & Sinatra that could be used by various of these workflow systems and desktop applications
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Developed desktop applications in Python and Qt.
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Integrated web applications into a standard Windows desktop configuration for staff of over 50 research assistants.
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Started my quest to understand the challenges involved with modeling healthcare, biological and other sparsely structured data.