The suggestion from this week's teleconference that we introduce ourselves is a good one. We did a little of that last week, and we'll do it at the hackathon<http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/wiki/HackathonOne>; I find email introductions can be very useful as well.
I'm interested to know about your role in this project, as much background as you think is relevant, and whatever contact info you'd like to share in this public forum. At the risk of tooting my own horn, here's my personal statement from the GPC/PCORI application: A. Personal Statement My experience in research and development includes over 20 years of software engineering and collaboration. It began with software engineering for supercomputer development tools, then moved to a successful start-up company delivering enterprise print management systems to fortune 500 companies, and then intersected with the growth of the World Wide Web. I was invited by the Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to come to MIT to catalyze collaboration between hundreds of companies and organizations in an effort to keep the Web open and fair during a period of dizzying innovation. I helped bitter rivals Netscape and Microsoft come to agreements on HTML standards and played leading roles in the development of standards such as HTTP, XML, CSS, and OWL, which has emerged as a leading interchange technology for biomedical terminology, as well as participating in the management of the consortium and the development of its standards process. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, I lead software development which includes of our i2b2 based HERON initiative which currently contains over 1 billion facts from diverse sources such as the Epic electronic medical record, social security, tumor registry, billing records, and hospital quality indicators. Other recent activities are developing next generation high bandwidth applications for dementia monitoring, leading medical center wide reading groups for web security best practices, and the development of Pioneers, a web application for community engagement, collecting patient reported outcome measures, pre-screening for clinical trials. I will lead software engineering development and collaboration for the Greater Plains Collaborative. You're welcome to call my office phone for GPC stuff: 913-709-6405. Other possibly relevant contact info: * DanC on the FreeNode<https://informatics.kumc.edu/work/wiki/FreeNode> IRC network; e.g. in #gpc-dev * KUMC BMI (HERON) trac work<https://informatics.kumc.edu/work/> * @dckc on twitter<https://twitter.com/dckc> * linkedin profile<http://www.linkedin.com/in/connollydan> * MadMode tinkering blog<http://www.madmode.com/> * bitbucket<https://bitbucket.org/DanC> / github<https://github.com/dckc> code * Zotero cv<https://www.zotero.org/connolly/cv> * I use researchgate a little, but since they don't offer an export tool, I'm not going to link to them. -- Dan Connolly
