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