Parthav Jailwala

Bioinformatics Manager @Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

Frederick, MD, US

Recruited & managed a team of 12 Bioinformatics Scientists working on collaborative cancer research projects in a fast-paced & high-pressure environment• Provided both on-going and annual performance summary reports to management and stakeholders• Co-ordinated implementation of a data life cycle policy involving data and metadata management for 400TB of NGS data dispersed across multiple active and archival storage points• Promoted best practices for experimental and sequencing set-up for NGS experiments• Participated in outreach activities at meetings, symposiums and conferences at NIH, to showcase and promote team capabilities and identify new opportunities for collaboration• Co-ordinated a weekly Journal Club and NGS technology development forum spanning members of multiple teams• Steered the development team for migrating NGS pipelines from a local cluster to the Cloud