Waldo Holtzhausen
Mount Ida College, Class of 2012
From Medfield, MA
From Medfield, MA
Mount Ida College Bachelors in Biology graduate selected by IBM for summer internship to build incremental DNA sequencing and analysis tool. Gained experience in DNA sequencing, analysis and single nucleotide polymorphism identification working with IBM US and global offices in Switzerland and the UK. Provided solutions for the identification of SNPs and gene correlation using a variety of analysis tools and workflows.
Completed a senior biology research project internship doing research on a new antibiotic treatment, Quorum Sensing for cell-to-cell communication for the treatment for infections such as tuberculosis or other bacteria that use biofilms as a virulent property.
Did independent research using NCBI tools, BLAST, KEGG Pathway, OMIM, GenBank to study diseases such as diabetes and other auto-immune disorders.
Obtained experience in computational biology and bioinformatics doing genetics testing using BLASTp, BLASTn using nucleotide, protein and RNA sequences. Experience in lab work (chemical and organic) such as gel electrophoresis, cell cultures, purifying a culture to a single strain, controlled chemical precipitation. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, mathematics and statistics reaching advanced calculus and advanced physics.
Experienced in data manipulation including program languages C++, JAVA, SQL and LINUX OS terminal bash commands. Familiar with Amazon Redshift database analytics systems. Knowledge in data modeling, data types, schema designs, view queries, distribution/sort keys, and relational databases. Experienced in Microsoft OS and Linux OS as well as various scripting software tools.
Amazon Web Services certified Business Professional and Technical Professional.
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Medfield Resident Waldo Holtzhausen Graduates from Mount Ida College
Waldo Holtzhausen of Medfield, MA received a degree in Biology from Mount Ida College as of January 28, 2013. Degrees were conferred to 55 graduating students for January 2013, including four asso...
February, 27 2013 - Mount Ida College
Big Data Architecture at Magnus Data
http://magnus-data.com/
August 2014 - Present