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Chris Gessner

Health and Life Sciences Solutions Director

Katana Graph

Country or State

United States

Bio

Data scientist and cheminformatics scientific developer with seventeen years experience in academic, pharmaceutical, and chemical information industries. Experience in algorithm design/development in chemical information/proteomics. Programming skills include Java, C/C++, C#, Visual Basic(6,.NET, VBA), Python/Perl. Technical programming languages include Matlab/R. Experience in cheminformatics techniques and software including chemical search, clustering methods, chemical API’s including CDK,OpenEye,Knime. Experience with cheminformatics tools running on both Unix/Linux and Windows platforms. Familiar with NoSQL XML database technologies and big data processing using Hadoop/Cloudera,Spark. Experience in software development life cycle (RUP, SCRUM). Adept at translating scientific problems into solutions through the use of computer science and software engineering techniques. Strong ability to inter-operate between computer scientists to solve interdisciplinary problems. Possess strong communication and presentation skills, with excellent capabilities in the formation and delivery of complex ideas.

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Current Position

Health and Life Sciences Solutions Director at Katana Graph

Degrees

Structural Bioinformatics

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