I earned my MS in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2009, developing machine-learning approaches to problems in computational finance and inventory management. In 2012 I attained my PhD from the same department studying Bioinformatics, studying the impacts of climate change on natural populations and developing methods and software for population-level genomics and transcriptomics. From 2012 to 2020 I utilized and taught skills in data analysis and computational biology to hundreds of graduate students and faculty as Bioinformatics Trainer and Analyst with the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing at Oregon State University. Today I work with the Translational and Integrative Sciences Laboratory (TISLab) at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, as a Data Engineer and Training Coordinator for the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). My work with N3C involves facilitating researcher access to over 16 billion rows of EHR data about 14 million patients from 74 contributing healthcare sites, including navigating regulatory requirements, understanding the data organization and analysis methods, and efficient use of big-data tools for cohort-based analyses. As of today over 2700 researchers from 300 institutions have participated in over 360 research projects using these data.