by J.M. Greene » Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:52 am
I'll save a lot of typing - our bios are now up on the front forum page,
Basically, getting to SRA was a lucky accident. I was very unhappy at Gene Logic, which in my view broke the balance that must be maintained between biology and IT, with too much weight on IT that was not serving the customers well. My wife and I wanted to stay in metro DC, and I hit my network hard. A friend of mine, Dr. Ron Taylor of PNNL, had worked at NIH in the Center for Information Technology for a wonderful Section Chief named John Powell, CAPT USPHS (ret.). I cold-wrote John P., who was just starting up a microarray database project, staffed by SRA under contract. John sent my resume on to SRA, and after they and he interviewed me, I was offered the position of Task Lead on the NCI microarray database (mAdb) project, which has now grown to over 60,000 microarrays and well over 1,400 registered users at NIH and their collaborators. SRA has been a great place to work for the last 6.5 years - literally. We have been on the Fortune magazine List of "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" for SEVEN straight years. It's never been dull, and something new always is popping up. I never thought I'd be happy as a Gov't contractor, but here I am...
John G.