Name:  Lucy McWilliam
Date of birth:  7th April 1978
Nationality:  British
Address:  available on request
Telephone:  available on request
Email:  lucifer[at]chiark.greenend.org.uk (please note the anti-spam format)
WWW:  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~lucifer/

Employment

November 2005 - present: Life Sciences Data Analyst, BioWisdom Ltd., Cambridge, UK
Promoted to a permanent position, I am now involved in the identification of healthcare data sources, text mining, data curation and quality control.

August 2005 - November 2005: Data Curator, BioWisdom Ltd., Cambridge, UK
In this temporary position, my main role was the capture of healthcare intelligence from unstructured data sources.

Summer 1999: Software engineer, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK
Implementation of an online course delivery system in perl (8 weeks).

Summer 1998: Web author, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
Renovation of the undergraduate web site - involving HTML coding, graphic design, and liaison with relevant staff (8 weeks).

Summer 1997: Clerical assistant, Northern Examinations and Assessment Board, Manchester, UK
Involved mental arithmetic and sustained concentration (4 weeks).

Education

2000 - present: Department of Genetics & Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student, funded by the Medical Research Council. As a member of the FlyChip Group, which provides functional genomics services to the UK Drosophila community, I have studied various aspects of the analysis of gene expression data obtained from microarrays, including the comparison of microarray platforms, the evaluation of gene clustering algorithms, and the characterisation of genes with male-biased expression.

1999 - 2000: Faculty of Biology, University of Leeds, UK
Distinction, MRes Bioinformatics, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Courses taken include bioinformatics programming, molecular evolution and epidemiology. My research project was the development of a gene compendium for the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa - a web-accessible relational database containing accumulated genetic annotation.

1996 - 1999: School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
2:1, BSc (Hons) Anatomical Sciences. Courses taken range from biochemistry and evolution to microbiology and pathology. My dissertation investigated the current neurosurgical treatments for Parkinson's disease. My research project was the development of a biomedical web portal - a database of useful internet resources.

1994-1996: Winstanley Sixth Form College, Wigan, Lancashire, UK
A-Levels in Biology (A), Mathematics (A), Further Mathematics (C), Art (B) and General Studies (A).

Awards

• Shortlisted for the Max Perutz Essay Prize, 2000
• Incyte Travel Grant, 2001
• Certificate of Merit, The Daily Telegraph BASF Young Science Writer Awards, 2000
• School leavers prize for English Literature, 1994
• UK Schools Maths Challenge gold certificate, 1993 & 1994

Professional memberships

• International Society for Computational Biologists
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Presentations/posters

• Speaker at Yet Another Perl Conference (Europe) 2002
• Speaker at Darwin College science seminar, 2002
• Speaker at Cambridge University Science Fiction Society symposium, 2001
• Poster presentation at departmental symposium, 2002
• Sivakumar A, Clarke M, McWilliam L, Radford A. NCGC - A secure post genome database for the genes of Neurospora crassa. Poster at Bioinformatics 2003, May 22-24, Helsinki, Finland.

Positions of responsibility

• Website officer, Cambridge University Women's Union, 2002 - 2003
• Student member, Computer Committee, Darwin College, 2002 - 2003
• Manager of Cambridge University BLUE and BI mailing lists, 2001 - 2005
• Leader/co-founder of Cambridge Perlmongers, a perl user group, 2001 - present
• Treasurer and fanzine sub-editor for University of Manchester RockSoc, 1997 - 1998
• Company secretary for award-winning Young Enterprise company, 1992 - 1993

Skills

• Computing - experience with Linux, system administration, perl, C, HTML, XML, SQL, relational database design, Microsoft Office, bioinformatics software.
• Languages - basic French & German

Interests

• Member of the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse and regular attendee at film festivals
• CAMRA member and volunteer at local beer festivals
• Lifelong supporter of Tranmere Rovers FC

References

References are available on request.