An avid runner logging 1000 miles per year, my passion is turning bold visions into working systems, combining insightful hands-on technical leadership with excellent communication.
Key
interests
Healthcare and life sciences
Information interoperability
Semantic web applications
Distributed systems and heterogeneous data production pipelines
Experience
2019-present: Independent consulting.
Focus on applying semantic web technology to healthcare and life sciences.
2018-2018: Vertiv Inc,
Senior software architect. Project to use
semantic web technology and natural language processing to intelligently
combine a wide variety of structured and unstructured data
for use by pharmaceutical researchers.
2015-2017: Hokukahu LLC,
Senior software architect. DoD-funded project that uses
semantic web technology to make healthcare data interoperable between
different systems and data models.
2014-2015: Rancho BioSciences,
Senior software architect. Helping big pharma customers
apply Semantic Web technology to information integration problems.
2014-2014: Hawaii Resource Group,
Senior software architect. DoD-funded project that uses
semantic web technology to make healthcare data interoperable between
different systems and data models.
2013-2014: Independent consulting,
Senior software architect. Focus on applying semantic web
technology to information integration and analysis in healthcare and
life sciences.
2012-2013:
KnowMED,
Senior software architect. Applying semantic
web
technology in healthcare for quality reporting and clinical outcomes
measurement. The applications use a Java backend with RDF and
SPARQL, RESTful web services, transforming data from relational databases, spreadsheets and
other sources to RDF for sophisticated semantic query and analysis.
The RDF Pipeline Framework: Automating Distributed,
Dependency-Driven Data Pipelines. DILS 2013 - 9th International
Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, 11 & 12 July
2013, Montreal. http://dbooth.org/2013/dils/pipeline/Booth_pipeline.pdf
Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the Universal
Exchange Language of Healthcare. Response to the Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. http://dbooth.org/2013/mu/MU-Stage3-RFC-Simple-Response.pdf
Co-organizer of a monthly Semantic Web meetup at MIT in Cambridge, MA.
2011-2012:
PanGenX,
Senior software architect / senior knowledge engineer, applying
semantic web technology to
bioinformatics and genomics in support of personalized medicine.
Prototyped the data production pipeline using RDF, SPARQL and Perl, transforming data from dbSNP,
DrugBank and other sources to RDF for analysis and enrichment.
2009-2010: Cleveland Clinic (consultant),
Senior
software architect for the SemanticDB
project, which applies semantic web technology to
clinical research.
Managed development of
applications that derive research data from patient medical records and
measure the quality of patient treatment.
Resource Identity and Semantic Extensions: Making Sense of
Ambiguity, Semantic Technology Conference 2010, San Francisco http://dbooth.org/2010/ambiguity/
Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records through Semantic
Technologies: The Cleveland Clinic Experience, Semantic Technology
Conference 2010, San Francisco http://dbooth.org/2010/stc-ehr/
Electronic Health Records with Cleveland Clinic and Oracle
Semantic Technologies, Oracle Open World 2010, San Francisco http://dbooth.org/2010/oow/
RDF as a Lingua Franca: Architectural Strategies, Semantic
Technology Conference 2009, San Jose http://dbooth.org/2009/stc/
Denotation as a Two-Step Mapping in Semantic Web Architecture,
IJCAI-09 Workshop on Identity and Reference http://dbooth.org/2009/denotation/
Contributing member of the W3C task force on Architecture of the
World Wide
Semantic Web, and frequent contributor to discussions on semantic web
architecture.
2005-2009:
HP
Software
Senior Research Architect in the central software architecture team,
which
provides architectural
governance and guidelines to the development
teams for the 50+ products in HP Software. Main activities:
Responsible for defining modeling guidelines for a common data
model
across products, many of which were acquired through acquisition.
Raising awareness and understanding of semantic web technology,
the
trade-offs between information modeling in XML versus semantic web
technology (RDF in particular), and the
relevance of semantic web technology to data integration and service
oriented architecture
(SOA).
Tracking and participating in W3C standards
and technologies.
Responsible for creating and managing an internal software
"Academy" for raising awareness on strategic and emerging
technologies. Overall responsibility for technical
curriculum and oversight of department chairs.
Additional roles:
Contributing member of W3C task force on Architecture of the
World Wide
Semantic Web; monitoring member of the W3C Semantic Web Health Care and
Life
Sciences
interest group.
Contributing member of the W3C GRDDL working group. GRDDL
is a standard for specifying how XML documents should be transformed to
RDF.
Member of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
Working Group.
Why URI Declarations? A comparison of architectural approaches.
Fifth European Semantic Web Conference ESWC-08, workshop on Identity
and Reference: http://dbooth.org/2008/irsw/
2002-2005: HP Software / W3C Fellow,
MIT
W3C Fellow from HP Software, working out of W3C's MIT offices.
Alternate W3C team
contact for the W3C Web Services Description working group, and
alternate W3C team contact for the W3C
Web Services Architecture working group. Some
writings and presentations: