Shuly Avraham’s CV
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Scientific computing project leader
HAZERA SEEDS, R&D DIVISION Mivhor Farm, ISRAEL 2012–Present
Hands-on leader of scientific software development to facilitate genetic research and breeding of vegetable seeds. I support all R&D units incl. breeders, geneticists, laboratories and operations. I’m in charge of the entire software development life cycle, incl. analysis, design, coding, DevOps, deployment, implementation, user support and maintenance. Projects include machine and deep-learning based image analysis software, genetic and genomic data acquisition and analyses projects, laboratories management systems, web-based software etc.
Scientific information systems consultant and developer
BIO5 INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Tuscon, AZ, USA 2010–2011
Led development of a semantic analysis bioinformatics project for plant genetics research.
Senior scientific software developer and database administrator
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA 2002–2010
Worked with a team of scientists developing advanced applications for bioinformatics research.
E-Commerce solutions consultant
E-COMMERCE PARTNERS New York, NY, USA 2008–2009
Provided consultation for e-commerce software development. Performed systems analysis, design, and development.
Information systems and technology department manager and systems analyst
YARD INTERACTIVE New York, NY, USA 1999–2001
Led development of e-commerce applications. Supervised IS/IT personnel. Managed and coordinated projects.
Senior software analyst, developer and database administrator
ISRAELI MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, MISSION TO THE US New York, NY, USA 1997–1999
Developed finance & procurement information systems for Israeli Ministry of Defense and USA government and vendors.
Software & database analyst, designer and developer
ISRAEI MINISTRY OF DEFENSE Tel Aviv, Israel 1994–1997
Led development of finance & inventory IS for Israeli Ministry of Defense and military. Implemented and supervised secured electronic data interchange with US army and government.
Software and database designer and developer
ISRAELI NAVY DEFENSE FORCES Tel Aviv, Israel 1992–1994
Developed financial & budgeting information systems and databases of the Israeli Navy.
EDUCATION
Executive MBA in Financial Engineering and Banking
The Hebrew University Jerusalem, ISRAEL 2011-2012
M.S. Administrative science
Fairleigh Dickinson University New Jersey, USA 1999–2000
B.S. Computer science GPA
Polytechnic University (NYU) New York, NY, USA 1997–2000
Information systems design & analysis course
Software development & programming course
MAMRAM, Center for Comp. & Information Systems Professions, Israeli Defense Forces 1992-1993
TECHNICAL EXPERTICE
- Various computer languages, e.g. Python, Perl, Java, C, C++, etc., currently developing mostly in Python for backend and web based languages such as HTML and JavaScript (React, Riot, etc.) for front end.
- Database management of several systems, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgress, Oracle, SQLServer, MS Access etc.
- DevOps, Linux, shell scripting, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud environment, machine and deep learning, image analysis, Git.
PUBLICATIONS (1st author)
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Nelson RT, Avraham S , Shoemaker RC, May GD, Ware D, Gessler DDG. Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol (SSWAP) for bioinformatics resource discovery and disparate data and service integration. BioData Mining 2010, 3:3 doi:10.1186/1756-0381-3-3
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S Avraham, CW Tung, K Ilic, P Jaiswal et al. The Plant Ontology Database: a community resource for plant structure and development stages controlled vocabulary and annotations. Nucleic Acid Research, 2008,36 (Database issue):D449-D454