I have lived in northeast Ohio for over 25 years and have long had an interest in computers and programming, starting with writing programs in BASIC on our family’s IBM PS/1. I have also long had an interest in biology, particularly genetics. Combining my two interests led me to pursue bioinformatics and a job as a Program Analyst at the Cleveland Clinic.

My research at CCF focused on using high-throughput sequencing to study a variety of issues, such as maternal obesity in mice, microbial populations in the Cuyahoga river, and Plasmodium Vivax malaria.

While at the Cleveland Clinic, I became an avid user of the statistical programming language R, using it to process, visualize, model and report our data. I also began writing R packages and contributing to open source packages on GitHub. I enjoyed working with open source software and being part of the R community, so looked for opportunities that allowed me to continue to do so, which eventually landed me at RStudio.

At RStudio I have worked on numerious projects including writing and/or maintaining 25+ R packages on CRAN. I have also given a number of talks and workshops about R and R packages, which has allowed my to travel to Europe and Australia, as well as throughout the United States.

After a number of years at RStudio I decided to pursue an exciting opportunity and Netflix, building infrastructure and supporting the R community there.

In my free time, I love spending time with my family, my two daughters and my dog Reese.

You can follow my current work on GitHub.