I started my software engineering career with Motorola Paging Products Group, working on Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). I later transferred to Motorola Manufacturing Systems, where I worked on CIM for Motorola Semiconductors in multiple fabrications in Arizona.
In 1997 I remained with Motorola Manufacturing Systems, but was seconded to the Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to assist in applying CIM methodologies to the science of genomic sequencing (Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project). I remained a guest bioinformatician with the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project until 2008.
In 1998, I bacame a founding member of Motorola BioChip Systems (later Motorola Life Sciences), and led bioinformatics efforts for genomic sequence analysis and biochip design. Motorola Life Sciences was bought by Amersham in 2002, and Amersham was bought by General Electric in 2004.
In 2006, I joined Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus as part of Scientific Computing, providing software engineering support to labs and projects. During this time, I moved from Perl to Python, transitioned from local storage and compute to leveraging cloud storage and computing, progressed from using SVN to Git, and learned a host of new tools, techniques, and technologies.