Profile
Linux System Administrator and programmer with strong technical and analytical skills. Experienced in the areas of system administration, hardware, databases, backup, web design (LAMP developer), programming, and scientific research. Interested in data mining, pattern extraction, informatics, and software development. (see: here for extended CV.)
Education
B.S. Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Oregon State University
September 2000 -
June 2004
Skills
- see: Technical and Specialized Skills for a detailed listing.
- Computer operating systems: Linux / Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X
- Computer languages and scripts: Python, C (+MPI/MPICH), Perl (+CGI), PHP, (X)HTML, CSS, MySQL, various shell scripting languages (e.g., bash, awk, sed, etc.), and Apache HTTP Server
- Languages Spoken: English, Spanish (college level), and German (college level)
Publications
- Frank Zucker, P. Christoph Champ, and Ethan A. Merritt (2010). Validation of crystallographic models containing TLS or other descriptions of anisotropy. Acta Cryst., D66:889-900.
- P. Christoph Champ and Carlos J. Camacho (2007). FastContact: a free energy scoring tool for protein-protein complex structures. Nucleic Acids Research (Web Issue) [NAR-00339-Web-B-2007.R1].
- P. Christoph Champ, Tim T. Binnewies, Natasja Nielsen, Guy Zinman, Kristoffer Kiil, Hang Wu, Jon Bohlin and David W. Ussery (2006). Genome update: purine strand bias in 280 bacterial chromosomes. Microbiology, 152(3):579-583.
- Carlos J. Camacho, Ma H, and P. Christoph Champ (2006). Scoring a diverse set of high-quality docked conformations: A metascore based on electrostatic and desolvation interactions. Proteins, 63(4):868-77.
- P. Christoph Champ, Sandor Maurice, Jeffery M. Vargason, Tracy Camp, and P. Shing Ho (2004). Distributions of Z-DNA and nuclear factor I in human chromosome 22: a model for coupled transcriptional regulation. Nucleic Acids Research, 32(22):6501-6510.
Experience
Consultant, Chicago, USA
Web Developer
October 2006 to present
Dr. Ethan A. Merritt Laboratory, University of Washington, USA
System Administrator / Research Assistant (and software developer / maintainer)
October 2006 to October 2010
- see: here for detailed description.
Dr. Carlos J. Camacho Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, USA
System Administrator / Research Assistant (and software developer / maintainer)
March 2006 to February 2007
- see: here for detailed description.
Dr. David W. Ussery Laboratory, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
Research Assistant (and programmer)
August 2005 to November 2005
- see: here for detailed description.
Dr. Carlos J. Camacho Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, USA
System Administrator / Research Assistant (and programmer)
October 2004 to July 2005
- see: here for detailed description.
Dr. Alex Rich Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Research Assistant (and programmer)
July 2002 to Decmeber 2002
- see: here for detailed description.
Dr. P. Shing Ho Laboratory, Oregon State University, USA
Research Assistant (and software developer / maintainer)
May 2000 to September 2004
- see: here for detailed description.
Berlitz, Slovenia
English Language Instructor
December 1996 to December 1997
References
Personal and professional references are available upon request.