Mark Pauley

About Mark Pauley

Scientist and researcher with 20+ years of experience in overcoming challenges in academia and government, with national, regional, and local scope. Trained as a physical chemist, but professionally a computer, life, and data scientist, the latter by way of bioinformatics. Detail-oriented with expertise that spans computer programming, data visualization, research, grant writing, and program development. Proven leader who successfully builds and leads diverse teams while managing complex projects and programs. Caring mentor with many years of experience as a program director at the National Science Foundation and as an instructor of college-level bioinformatics and computer science courses. Engaging presenter and author of 130+(and counting) peer-reviewed papers and other scholarly products, with significant grantsmanship and technical writing experience.Highlights: • Strong communication and technical skills that include Python, R (with ggplot2 and the tidyverse), Java, C++, C, SQL, regular expressions, and Unix/Linux.• Determined which proposals to award/decline, concurrently supervised 150 active projects, and developed a new funding program as a Program Director and Lead Program Director at the National Science Foundation.• Played a crucial role in creating a cutting-edge bioinformatics major and associated minor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.• Helped develop the Rhesus Macaque Genome Array, a commercial product used in biomedical research.• Launched the Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education, a non-profit network of academic and industry professionals dedicated to integrating bioinformatics into biology.

Experience

1. Business Development Manager

   SRI

   Jan 2021 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US

   Responsible for developing and expanding the BioCyc.org (https://biocyc.org/) and Pathway Tools business unit. SRI International, founded as Stanford (University) Research Institute, is a California-based nonprofit scientific research organization that performs client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, and private foundations.BioCyc.org is an organism-centric collection of over pathway/genome databases (PGDBs), each of which includes an organism\'s annotated genome and its computationally inferred metabolic pathways and operons (when appropriate) plus other information. The databases of many model and highly studied organisms have been curated with data from over peer-reviewed publications. BioCyc also provides an integrated collection of software tools for analyzing, visualizing, and searching PGDB and user-supplied data. Pathway Tools is a desktop and server application that provides all of the functionality of BioCyc but adds the ability to create and edit pathway/genome databases and construct quantitative metabolic models.

Education

• The Johns Hopkins University

  Specialization, Data Science: Foundations using R

  2021 — 2021

• University of Florida

  Bachelor of Science, Chemistry

• North Carolina State University

  Post-baccalaureate Studies, Computer Science

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), (Physical) Chemistry

• UC San Diego

  Specialization, Data Structures and Algorithms

  2022

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Post-baccalaureate Studies, Computer Science

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Master of Science - MS, Chemistry

Skills

• Science
• Research
• Regular Expressions
• Teaching
• C++
• Grant Writing
• Microsoft Word
• College Teaching
• Java
• Python
• Flipped Classroom
• Bioinformatics
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Sql
• Budgeting
• Computer Science
• Grantsmanship
• Curriculum Design
• Unix
• Programming
• Higher Education
• Data Analysis
• University Teaching
• Postgresql