Robert T. Miller
February 2008
e-mail: rob at janerob dot com web: www.janerob.com/rob
Citizenship: US Family: Wife, two daughters. Date of birth: 1963
Current Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Summary:

• Manager -- team leader -- team player -- troubleshooter
• Fast learner enjoying new challenges and application areas
• 25+ years programming and IT work in commercial and academic settings; FLOSS proselytizer
• 2 years technical support/development for Zambian ISP
• PhD Bioinformatician with 8 years academic and commercial experience encompassing DNA/Protein and structure/sequence

Education:

• Interdisciplinary Ph.D., Biochemistry, Computer Science, and Chemistry; Washington State University, Spring 1994.
  • dissertation: Bioinformatic Approaches to Protein Structual Analysis
  • Tektronix Fellow, NORCUS Appointee.
• M.S., Biochemistry, Washington State University, Autumn, 1991.
  • emphases: protein structure, computational and instrumental approaches.
• M.S., Computer Science, Washington State University, Summer, 1991.
  • emphases: artificial intelligence, graphics, theory of computation.
• B.A, B.S., Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College, 1985.
  • US history, political economics, biological sciences, electronics.
  • terms of study in: D.J. Evans U.S. Senate office; E. Kutter T4 phage lab; Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Experience:

• Africonnect Zambia
  • 06-07 Senior Technical Consultant
    • software development: create and maintain web interfaces for system monitoring and manipulation by support staff; automate system/client management
    • staff training: design and implementation of existing network; linux
    • network administration for 1,000 client satellite/wireless broadband ISP
• American International School of Abuja (AISA), Abuja, Nigeria
  • 04-05 Board President and Chair of Strategic Policy and Planning Committee
  • 03-04 Board Secretary
  • Team leader implementing three-year plan for school growth and devlopment
  • Team member implementing multi-million dollar new school for capital of largest country in Africa
• West African Biotechnology Workshops (WABW)
  • 03,05 Lecturer for workshops at University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
    • Perl Pogramming
    • Protein Structure and HIV
• Inpharmatica, Ltd., 60 Charlotte St., London W1P 2AX.
  • 02-03 Associate Director, Research Informatics
  • 00-02 Head of Research
  • 99-00 Programmer/Analyst
  • Line-manager for 9-15 Bioinformaticians.
  • Major projects covering genome annotation, gene finding/prediction, sequence/profile comparison, threading.
  • Extensive role as interface between scientists and IT specialists.
• South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
  • 96-99 Postdoc -- Manager, Durban Satellite
    • Created and managed bioinformatics lab (8 Linux and Windows95 workstations) to support local Virology Department. Ongoing training and supervision of 10 lab employees.
    • Developed STACK clustered EST database and STACK-PACK, the toolset to create it. Remote management of students and postdocs tasked with support and upgrades. STACK is currently licensed by over 100 commercial and academic sites worldwide.
    • Software development consultancy for Inpharmatica, Ltd. (March-May 1999).
    • Conducted IT department external review for the Health Systems Trust, a South African NGO providing e-mail access to rural clinics nationwide. Member of selection and interview committee to identify replacement IT manager. (December 1998 - January 1999)
• 94-96 Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Biomolecular Structure and Modelling Unit, University College, London (J. Thornton lab). THREADER testing and GUI development.
• 92-93 NORCUS Appointee: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Developed protein structure analysis tools in C and Lisp.
• 89-92 Research Assistant: Washington State University. Developed inter-processor communication protocol for atmospheric hydroxyl radical monitor.
• 87-90 Technical Consultant, Molecular Kinetics/BioLogic: sole technical support on North American continent for BioLogic rapid kinetics instruments.
• 85-87 Embedded Systems Software Engineer, Maverick International: assembly language firmware development for portable EPROM programmer (Hit6303) and point-of-sale cheque printer/encoder (MC6809).

Skilled with: C++, C, Perl, HTML, SQL, Tcl, Lisp, assembly code, FORTRAN; Unix, Linux, X11, AmigaDOS, MS-Windows/DOS, VAX/VMS; PC hardware, Intel Touchstone Delta, Maspars; 2-D PAGE; CD, UV-Vis, and NMR spectroscopy; logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, solder.

Publications:
First Author

• ''A comprehensive approach to clustering of expressed human gene sequence: the Sequence Tag Alignment and Consensus Knowledgebase,'' Miller, Christoffels, Burke, Ptitsyn, Broveak, and Hide, Genome Research 1999 9(11);1143-55.
• ''Protein Fold Recognition by Sequence Threading: Tools and Assessment Techniques,'' Miller, Jones, and Thornton, FASEB Journal 1996 10(1);171-8.
• ''Development and Application of a Three-dimensional Description of Amino Acid Environments in Protein,'' Miller, Douthart, and Dunker, Advances in Molecular Bioinformatics, IOS Press, 1994, ISBN 90 5199 172 x, pp. 9-30.
• ''An alphabet of Amino Acid Conformations in Protein,'' Miller, Douthart, and Dunker, Proceedings of the 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993.
• ''Learning an Objective Alphabet of Amino Acid Conformations in Protein,'' Miller, Douthart, and Dunker, Techniques in Protein Chemistry IV, Academic Press, 1993, pp. 541-548.
• ''Identifying Repeated Structural Elements in Folded Proteins,'' Miller, Douthart, and Dunker, Proceedings of the 27th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994.

Other

• ''An integrated genetic data environment (GDE)-based LINUX interface for analysis of HIV-1 and other microbial sequences,'' De Oliveira, Miller, Tarin and Cassol, Bioinformatics 2003.
• ''STACK: Sequence Tag Alignment and Consensus Knowledgebase,'' Christoffels, van Gelder, Greyling, Miller, Hide, and Hide, Nucleic Acids Research 2001.
• ''A novel approach towards a comprehensive consensus representation of the expressed human genome,'' Hide, Burke, Christoffels and Miller, Genome Informatics 1997.
• ''Conformational changes in a mammalian voltage-dependent potassium channel inactivation peptide,'' Abbott, Mercer, Miller, Ramesh and Srai, Biochemistry 1998.
• ''Secondary structure, stability and tetramerisation of recombinant K(V)1.1 potassium channel cytoplasmic N-terminal fragment,'' Abbott, Bloemendal, Van Stokkum, Mercer, Miller, Sewing, Wolters, Pongs and Srai, Biochim Biophys Acta 1997.
• ''Successful Protein Fold Recognition by Optimal Sequence Threading Validated by Rigorous Blind Testing,'' Jones, Miller and Thornton, Proteins 1995.

Open Source Contributions

• fixes to 386BSD iso9660 filesystem to support Brookhaven PDB cdroms
• minor pilot-link work
• smcinit, initialiser for IrDA subsystem on some Toshiba laptops.
• Linux driver for Synaptics cPad mousepad
• Prozect, a hierarchical outliner and to-do list for the Sharp Zaurus PDA
• Linux driver for Kensington Expert Mouse Pro trackball
• Piccel, an editor for ICC Color Profiles under Linux