Co-founded company that develops and markets Sente, an academic reference management application for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Responsible for product design, implementation and support. Sente is used by tens of thousands of researchers in all academic fields at universities and research organizations around the world.

Established the Denver office for this laboratory instrument manufacturer and assembled the team responsible for the design and development of commercial software applications. Rescued foundering project to create second-generation instrument control and data analysis software application required for timely launch of major upgrade to company’s flagship DHPLC DNA sample analysis system.

Headed group of Ph.D.-level biologists in the analysis and design for a commercial genetic data analysis application for pre-clinical research groups in the pharmaceutical industry. Also initiated commercial market analysis effort for the company.

Established informatics group for new, NCI-designated cancer center. This group designed and developed numerous information systems to support various laboratory and clinical research efforts. Projects included: major redesign of the Utah Population Database, one of the most important collection of family history data anywhere; cancer patient registries and tracking systems for various cancer clinics; and a DNA sequencing and genotyping LIMS. Also responsible for the IT infrastructure and computer support team for the Institute, and the network and telecommunications systems for a new, state-of-the-art research facility.


Member of task force assembled by U.S. Senator Pete Domenici that established this not-for-profit organization to provide essential services to laboratories working as part of the national Human Genome Project. Director of the Genome Sequence Database project performed for the U.S. Department of Energy.


Held various positions on the GenBank DNA Sequence Database project at Los Alamos, including Director. Created the first version of the GenBank database built using relational database technology, and converted the data collection operation from manual data entry to direct author submission, dramatically improving overall performance. Member of Human Genome Information Resource group, which developed software tools for genome mapping.