TAKANG (DAVID) LIU

41249 Thurston Street                                                               Phone:  (510) 364-9358

Fremont, CA  94538                                                              E-mail:  taliu06@attbi.com

 

OBJECTIVE:  Database Curator (Job Code: 002496)

 

Summary

·     Professional Bioinformatics training and certification.

·     Excellent skills and knowledge in Bioinformatics database, software and tools.

·     Extensive knowledge and skills in genomic sequence analysis and

    gene structure prediction.

·     Perform sequence alignment and analysis, functional genomic, phylogenetic analysis,

    microarray analysis, gene annotation, and proteomics.

·     An excellent team player with good customer attitude and work effectively

    under pressure to deliver result.

·     Broad skills and experiences in computer languages, algorithms and data processing.

·     Knowledge of relational database with experience of Oracle database design

·     Experienced with Oracle 8i installation and configuration on Window XP.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

·     Computer Languages:

Ø      Perl, Tcl, SQL and PL/SQL programming

Ø      Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows

Ø      C, C++ and C Shell

·     Bioinformatics Software:

Ø      BLAST, FASTA, Clustalw, cN3D, chime

Ø      GCG, Vector NTI, Genscan, Genomescan, Grail, GrailExp, Sim4

Ø      Fgenesh, Fgenesh+, Genewise, PAUP, PHYLIP, Rasmal, SwissPDB

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Mos Institute of Technology, Santa Clara, CA.                             2002 – Present

 

·     Supported  Bioinformatics tools/software installation and configuration.

·     Supported IT software installation and customization.

·     Retrieved, parsed and analyzed Bioinformatics data from public database.

·     Researched protein 3D structures study methods.

·     Annotated mouse cDNA array sequence data.

·     Applied algorithms, tools and software to Bioinformatics projects.

·     Created a cDNA database and user interface based on Oracle 8i.

·     Conducted analyses of sequence alignment, gene structure and prediction.

·     Compared DNA and protein sequences through public databases such as

Genbank, EMBL, DDBJ, SwissProt, PDB. 

 

LSI LOGIC CORPORATION, Milpitas, CA                                 2000 – 2002

 

QA/Customer Support Engineer

·     Designed project flow automation using Perl language.

·     Responsible for computer software installation and QA

     process.

·     Developed high-speed interface transceiver(Serdes) and

     PCI-66 using various software, tools and computer

     programming languages. 

·     Provided worldwide customer technical support and various

     information technology systems implementation and analysis.

 

OKI SEMICONDUCTOR, Sunnyvale, CA                                  1996 – 2000

 

QA/Customer Support Engineer

·     Performed software tools evaluation, customization, and

    automation using Perl and various hardware programming languages.

·     Provided worldwide customer technical support and IT software

QA assistant.

·     Performed wire-load model re-characterization using Perl language.

·     Customized and documented Perl script to automate wire-load model

     correlation report.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Bioinformatics Certification, CBS in progress (Certification in Dec. 2002)

M.S., Electrical  Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

M.S., Electronics Engineering, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS