Welcome! Mircea
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Woon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Avalon Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:27 AM Subject: Introduction > Greetings! > > It looks like I'm the latest addition to the Avalon team, and since > I wouldn't want to break with tradition... > > My name's Mark Woon and I'm 25 years old. I graduated from Princeton > University with a CS degree. I'm currently living in northern > California, and work in Stanford University's Medical Infomatics > department. We're working on developing a > pharmacogenetic/pharmacogenomic knowledge base that will allow > researchers to understand how genetic variation contributes to variation > in the response to drugs. One benefit of this research would be to > enable doctors to customize your prescription based on your genes (eg. > higher or lower dosages, different kinds of medications, etc). > > Prior to this, I worked at Netscape/iPlanet/AOL (take your pick). Most > of my time there was spent on their web server, although I also worked > on the app server and meta-directory server. I was responsible for > installation and server management, and if you've ever installed/managed > the iPlanet web server, you've probably had to deal with some of my > code... ;) Since then, I've sworn off any work related to > install/uninstall/upgrades, which is just a major PITA, especially on > products that have to ship on 7 different OS's. > > After working on the web server and before working on the meta-directory > server, I took a year off during the height of the dot-com craze to try > to start a company with a friend (doing monitoring/analysis of sentiment > in the financial/investment world). Let's just say that the millions > I was hoping for failed to materialize... > > While I've been using Linux since 1994 and have benefited greatly from > all the OSS projects around, I've never really had the time/opportunity > to contribute back, and I'm very excited to finally be able to do so. > > -Mark > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
