Moses M. Hohman, Ph.D.

After completing a physics PhD at the University of Chicago, I wrote enterprise business software for ThoughtWorks in the States and India, learning a lot about software development and agile methods in the process. ThoughtWorks is a global systems integration company widely recognized in the industry as a leader in enterprise software development and integration for Global 1000 clients, and is notably active in the agile methods and open source communities. After a few great years at ThoughtWorks, I decided I wanted to pursue a career direction that mixed my interests in science and software, and was lucky to find a position in Northwestern University's Bioinformatics Core.

I was Associate Director of Bioinformatics at Northwestern University's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center (RHLCCC) and Center for Functional Genomics (CFG) for several years. I worked as a project and development manager for the CFG bioinformatics group, serving the CFG's NIH Neurogenomics project, an ENU mutagenesis effort that screened over 10,000 mice per year through a panel of neurologically-directed assays covering seven phenotypic domains. I stewarded the development of both an intranet colony and phenotyping management system and a public, web-based mutant mouse distribution portal, Neuromice.org. Within the RHLCCC Bioinformatics Core, I provided software architecture and development practice mentoring, and was co-lead of the NCI Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Architecture Best Practices Special Interest Group.

I am currently Director of Software Development at Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc., a small startup company located in the San Francisco bay area. More news about that later this year.

I strive to bring expertise in building, architecting and managing software applications to bio- and cheminformatics software development. In addition to a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago with Prof. Leo Kadanoff, I graduated magna cum laude in physics from Harvard College.

My professional interests include object-oriented design and development, software development methods (for development, analysis, testing and project management), organizational dynamics and management, web computing, and biomedical informatics algorithms and applications.