Work Experience

Life Sciences Business Analyst August 2022 - Present
Cognizant, Tampa, FL
  • Supported multiple applications in the healthcare and diagnostics industry.
  • Worked with Java and SQL technologies to deliver solutions and implement changes to application infrastructures.
  • Collaborated with team members to streamline application support for several life sciences clients.
Sales Support Specialist May 2019 - August 2019
Citrix Systems Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  • Helped deploy Desktop as a Service applications on the Microsoft Azure cloud.
  • Collaborated in facilitating pipeline development in the virtualization industry.
  • Spoke to clients and worked very closely with customer service to ensure customer satisfaction.

Research

Research Assistant June 2021 - May 2022
Brett Baker Lab, Austin, TX
  • Developed a package and an application in R to interpret DNA and protein sequences and visualize relationships between organisms.
Research Assistant January 2021 - May 2022
Justin Havird Lab, Austin, TX
  • 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Awardee.
  • Collected mussels in the field, sampled them, and conducted phylogenetic analyses.
  • Focused on conserving endangered freshwater mussels and aiding conservation practices for the species: Strophitus Undulatus.

Projects

Cloud Resume Challenge
  • I created bryanvernon.com to host my resume using the AWS Cloud.
  • Some of the AWS Services I leveraged were:
    • S3
    • CloudFront
    • Lambda
    • DynamoDB
    • API Gateway
    • Route 53
    • CodeCommit
    • CodeDeploy
March Machine Learning Mania 2023
  • This was a data competition hosted by kaggle.com where I finished in the top 25% of contestants.
  • Used machine learning models to predict the probability of winning matchups in the 2023 NCAA March Madness Tournament.
  • Submitted one entry using R code and one using Python code in order to practice my skills in both.


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