Résumé
Wolfgang F. Bluhm, Ph.D.
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Employment
(U.S. Citizen, German Citizen)
2016-present: Technical Program Manager, Google
2014-2016: Program Manager, Google
2001-2014: Production Manager, Protein Data Bank (PDB), San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
- Managing site reliability and quality assurance for the PDB production site
- Writing automated Selenium test suites
- Developing and implementing new website features
- Providing project management to a team of eight developers
- Belonging to senior leadership team of the PDB (total staff of about 40)
2000-2001: Application Developer, Protein Data Bank (PDB), San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
- Designed and implemented redundancy filter for PDB web interface
- Developed Perl modules for parsing mmCIF files (new standard in structural biology)
1996-2000: Postgraduate Researcher, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
- Cloned mouse HCN2 and Kv4.2 ion channel promoters (more)
- Evaluated approaches to cardiac in vivo gene therapy (more)
- Characterized contractile phenotypes of transgenic mice in isolated papillary muscles (more)
- Discovered important component of cardiac force-frequency relationship (more)
- Demonstrated ischemic protection of cytoskeleton by specific heat shock proteins (more)
1995-1996: Staff Volunteer, Medical Mission and Orphanage of Foundation for His Ministry, Vicente Guerrero, Baja California, Mexico
- Worked as a caretaker in the nursery and in various roles in the medical clinic
1986-1992: Various Teaching Assistantships
Education
1995: Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
- Investigated mechanisms of cardiac length-tension relationship
- Measured contractile force in isolated mammalian cardiac myocytes
- Developed computational models of cardiac contractile function
1990: M.S., Engineering Sciences (Bioengineering), University of California, San Diego
1989: Diplom (similar to M.S.), Physics, University of Siegen, Germany
- Designed a Fourier spectrometer for high resolution spectral analysis of faint light sources
Awards
1998-2000: National Research Service Award (individual postdoctoral training grant), NIH
1992-1995: American Heart Association, California Affiliate, Predoctoral Research Fellow
1987-1990: German National Scholarship Foundation (supports top 1% of German students)
Skills
PROGRAMMING:
Solid knowledge of
Java (present) and
Perl (past),
working knowledge of
(X)HTML
and XML,
some knowledge of CSS, Python, JavaScript, Ajax, web services (all present),
Fortran (past)
SOFTWARE AND TOOLS:
SQL/MySQL (present),
Sybase and Oracle (past),
Tomcat, Tomcat monitoring, Apache, Hibernate, Struts, Tiles, Jira, Subversion,
Maven, Eclipse, FindBugs, Selenium, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit,
bioinformatics, computer modeling of cardiac physiology, data acquisition and analysis
SYSTEMS:
Unix/Linux
(working knowledge of OS and system administration, some knowledge of shell scripting and internals),
Mac, PC/Windows
MANAGEMENT TRAINING:
Servant leadership certification, NTL Human Interaction Laboratory
PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOLOGY:
Small animal surgery, contractile function of heart muscle preparations
including single cells, standard molecular biology techniques
OPTICS AND IMAGING:
Confocal and light microscopy, image analysis, spectroscopy,
interferometry, instrumentation design
Languages
Bilingual in English and German, proficient in Spanish, knowledge of French
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