Asif — VP Software

• Quality and Best Practices. Established development standards and testing procedures for each level of development. Identified tools which will used by the team for testing the new development. • Application Development. Designed and developed a configurable stats data loading program that validates data using configurable rules before loading data. Designed loading procedure to be also fully configurable and allowing data to be pre-processed before it is loaded into the Oracle database. • Enterprise Architect. Reviewed systems design and source code for requirement matching and consistency with all other applications. Assist team with any technical problems. Responsible for all database design and architecture decisions. • IT Support. Helped with establishing monitoring system for different environments (development. test and production) for any unexpected changes. Updated WIKI with environment details and established SOP for future updates.

Joined Vistronix as a key resource for Health IT Program Management to perform as the senior technical advisor for programs. • Business Development. Worked with Business development team to capture Scientific\Health IT contractors. Assisted in RFP responses. Set in Vistronix's booths in different conferences at EPA, NIEHS, NIH and NCI. Identified strategic partnerships for upcoming contracts. • Program Management. Successfully recompeted contract and increased the funding level to 27M for five years. Reorganized the team to new contract requirements. Established procedures weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting with help of JIRA software. Responsible for financial and contractual performance in keeping with task order and/or related contract modifications. Report to Vistronix Executive Management ensuring highest line-of-sight for customer within the Vistronix organization. Managed contract modifications related to projects/programs. • Team Management. Build a multidisciplinary team of 28 staff consisting of LIMS (Provanits) administrator/supports staff, biostatisticians, bioinformatician, data curators and IT staff. Organized the team based on matrix organization. Implemented JIRA software for task management. • Product Management. Managed ten software products consisting of custom and COTS products. Established product roadmaps for good visibility for stakeholders. In JIRA each product is represented by different project with its own team roles, workflows and notifications. Each product road-map is filled in backlog queue in JIRA. • Quality and Best Practices. Managed CMMI and ISO processes instituted by corporate and successfully passed annual audit. Since studies in commercial LIMS (Provantis) are GLP. Established the procedures to compliance the GLP guidelines.

• Project Management. Successfully moved CEBS project to newer contract. Coordinates with the customer regarding different contract deliverables assuring that the desired result was achieved and on a schedule meeting customer requirement. • Team Management. Managed a multidisciplinary consisting of Bioinformatician, toxicologists, and developers. Communicates with staff about any new changes related to the contract and/or customer performance expectations. • Scientific Data Management. Worked with Project Officer and vendor company to establish scientifically and computationally verifiable data import process for CEBS. Established data feeds from different NTP operational databases containing histopathology, immunology, in-life observation, clinical chemistry, hematology, Genetic toxicology and High Throughput Screen data (Tox21) to CEBS. Managed effort to convert CEBS data into ontological representation using multiple available ontologies. This also involved developing CEBS own ontology to address missing concepts from other ontologies. • Application Development. Revamped CEBS user interface with new dashboards and searching capabilities. Successfully implemented Spotfire based analysis platform and assisted NTP scientists to effectively use it with CEBS data. • Application Security. Wrote a security document for CEBS which is designated as FISMA moderate application. This effort required to develop additional controls and procedures to address security requirements mentioned in FIPS 199, FIPS 200, NIST 800-53, 800-59 and 800-60 documents. • Modernization. Successfully deploy a pilot installation of existing production application on cloud using Amazon Webservices (AWS). Updated Security document with controls related to cloud deployment in case client decided to move application to cloud. • Quality and Best Practices. Main point-of-contact for CEBS for CMMI and ISO audit and current procedures.

• Liaison between IT and Scientists. From the beginning started playing liaison role between Institute scientists and external IT vendor. Developed prototypes to flesh out the requirements for vendor's developers. • Application Development. Designed CEBS application from ground-up to address new data types and reduce the complexity of deployment. It was a rewrite of large application delivered by external vendor. • Scientific Data Management. Data Developed a SIFT (Simple Investigative Format Text) format specification for submission of phenotypic, genetics and genomics data to CEBS. This specification based on GEO's (Gene Expression Omnibus) SOFT format. Provided informatics support for ontology/metadata development for CEBS. • Operation Support. Orchestrated the deployment of a scientific application (3 million-dollar J2EE application) on customer environment. It involved working with multiple vendors and customer teams and solving technical issues faced by production environment.

• Application Development. Supported CEBS (Chemical Effects in Biological Systems) application development by working on requirement gathering and developing prototypes. Developed a prototype database based on ArrayTrack application for Microarray data storage and analysis. • Scientific Data Management. Assisted customer with developing CEBS data dictionary (CEBS-DD). This involved working with existing vocabularies and standards for toxicology and microarray data

Directed company's software development department consisting of six developers. • Project Management. Successfully completed number of high visibility projects for company's customers (IBM, Compaq, and EPA) based on J2EE technologies. For example, Driver Testing software for Florida state, Order Status application for IBM, and Human Exposure Model (HEM) software for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). • Product Management. Brought company's first software product (Web360Software) from vision to reality. Developed the project plan and resource schedule to complete the first version of the Web360Software product. Performed client and end-user demos. Coordinated and led team for deployment into client environment. • Business Development. Played a major role in transforming company from environmental engineering to software development. After Dot-com bubble burst moved company again to scientific computing and bioinformatics area. Managed company's first bioinformatics project with US Army to managed and analyzed their microarray data.

• Team Management. Managed company s software development department with four developers. Responsible for hiring, firing, and all performance management activities for development staff. Developed and monitored department budget. • Application Development. Lead software efforts supporting internal departments of Finance, Sales, and Operations. Managed all internal company databases. Developed different database driven web applications for Internet, and Intranet using CGI, ASP, ISAPI, Java, Oracle, SQL Server, IIS, Apache Server, Linux, Windows NT. Designed Network Management Software (Win32, VC++, MFC, WinSock, SMTP, POP3) and ActiveX controls. Managed Billing System developed in Oracle and Developer 2000. • IT Support. Managed the company's MS Exchange server, LAN and Internet connectivity.