ABOUT ME

I am an HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Perl and R software developer, and bioinformatician from the Bahamas.

When I'm not coding, I like to participate in:

• Parkour/Tumbling
• Karate
• Learning foreign languages
• Traveling
• Scuba Diving

M.S. in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics:
Yale University GSAS
GRE-1480: Verbal-690, Quantitative-790, Writing-3.5
MCAT- 33 (92nd percentile): Biological-12, Physical-11, Verbal-10, Writing-P

May 2014

M.S. in Biomedical Informatics:
Rutgers University
GPA: 3.87-Dean's List, Summa Cum Laude

May 2010

May 2008

Yale President's Public Service Fellow
Greater New Haven Business & Prof. Association

• Created a registry of 422 minority businesses and compiled monthly activities reports
• Analyzed demographics of surrounding community for market potential

May 25 - August 15, 2014

Pharmaceutical Summer Intern
Bristol-Myers Squib Wallingford, CT

• Learned Image J software and developed image analysis algorithm to quantify HIV infection
• Collaborated with Virology Department and presented work to BMS and Yale executives

June 29 - August 11, 2011

Mgmt Trainee/Business Analyst
Bahamas Oil Refining Co. (BORCO)
Freeport, Bahamas

• Coordinated Search for Savings & Chairman of 2nd annual SHE (Safety Health Env.) Day 2010
• Managed leading and lagging key performance indicators
• Used Excel pivot tables to create graphs for quarterly Managing Director's report
• Lean Champion for Bahamas terminal and ISO 9001 Certified Internal Auditor:
  • Assisted with the greatest audit improvement (27pts) in any Vopak terminal to date
• Chief Editor of quarterly magazine "The Voice" editions 4-7

April 1, 2009 - June 10, 2011

Harvard Intern
FAS Center for Systems Biology Bauer Lab Cambridge, MA

• Used C++ and Python to enhance a protein-folding algorithm to model evolution

Summer 2007

Penn SUMR Scholar
Leonard Davis Institute/Wharton - U. of Penn./CHERP Philadelphia, PA

• Learned SPSS to study HIV-positive and HIV-negative seriously mentally ill

Summer 2006

• C++
• GLIDE molecular screening
• HTML/CSS
• ImageJ
• JavaScript
• KNIME
• Matlab
• Meteor
• MongoDB
• Octave
• Perl
• Python
• R

• 2016 Winter Hartford A100 Apprentice
• Master Tutor with Ivy League Graduate Tutors
• 2015 Fall New Haven A100 Pre-Apprentice
• 2015 McKinsey Insight Sci. & Eng. and Bain Advance Participant; Bridge to BCG Finalist
• Graduate & Professional Schools Intramurals Coordinator 2014-2017
• Bioinformatics Consultant for The Rothberg Institute & 4Catalyzer
• Yale Black Graduate Student Network Chair 2012-2014
• Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine: Pub. & Comm. Chair, September 2012 Issue Editor
• Who's Who Among: Execs. 2010; Students in American Universities & Colleges 2008
• Junior Achievers' Youth Advisor for BORCO (VTB) Infinity Group
• Governor General's Youth Award (G.G.Y.A.) Gold Recipient
• Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society Treasurer and First Year Student Leader Award
• Phi Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity Vice President of Finance at Ramapo College
• President of Bioinformatics Club and S.O.C.A. (Students of Caribbean Ancestry) at Ramapo
• Volunteer for Broadway House (AIDS Hospice) in Newark, NJ

1. Rothberg JM, Merriman B, Higgs G. Introduction. Yale J Biol Med. 2012 September; 85(3): 305-308; Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447194/



2. Higgs G, Slack F. The multiple roles of microRNA-155 in oncogenesis. Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics 2013, 3:17; Available from: http://www.jclinbioinformatics.com/content/3/1/17


3. Higgs G, Lin Z, Cento V, Svicher V, Hattangadi S, Zhang J. Using Bayesian Models to Locate Mutations for HBV Drug Resistance. J Hematol Thrombo Dis. 2014; 2:6; Available from: http://www.esciencecentral.org/journals/using-bayesian-models-to-locate-mutations-for-hbv-drug-resistance-2329-8790.1000166.php?aid=35886

gadareth.h@gmail.com
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