Eric holds a degree in Biochemistry from SFU and a diploma in Computer Systems from BCIT, specializing in database systems. Over his 20-year career at the Genome Sciences Centre, he has progressed from computational biologist to Bioinformatics group leader, where he now manages several teams of software developers and computational biologists. His main areas of focus are in data management, automation, and data sciences, including machine learning and AI.
Eric’s teams develop systems for laboratory information management systems (LIMS), QC of sequencing data, analysis tracking and dissemination, and large-scale data sharing applications. His projects include web applications for generating personalized genomic reports, a massively scalable Hadoop database for storing and analyzing variant data and a graph knowledgebase which aggregates therapeutic, diagnostic, prognostic, and biological interpretations of cancer-associated variants from multiple external resources. In additional to his supervisory roles, Eric participates in Pan-Canadian data sharing initiatives, IT infrastructure planning, implementing quality management systems and maintaining accreditation for ISO27001 Information security.
