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My most noteable feature is my seemingly unlimited brain capacity. I am a native speaker of Russian and English (thanks Mom!) and pretty fluent in Spanish as of High School. I started programming my Commodore 64 microcomputer in elementary school, quickly picking up the BASIC and 6502 Assembly languages. In high school I received an honorable mention on the 31st annual ACS scholarship competition and competed on the JETS team at the state finals in 1990 and 1991. I interned at the Argonne National Laboratory during in the summer of 1998 while studying for my BS in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. My work involved the development of a 3D Immersive CAVE Visualization for DIASS, a music synthesis package, in conjunction with the NCSA. I was also studying organic and biochemistry during this time period and after receiving my degree in 1999 I continued my studies at the same university, working towards a MS of Applied Mathematics. I worked on a 3D first-person interface to an advanced self-organizing map of a technical reference library's search results navigation tool as a research programmer for the LIS department. Following this appointment, I did several interesting projects including a 3D CAVE visualization of a pair of concentric carbon nanotubes simulated by Molecular Dynamics with a calculation of friction coefficient; built an actual electronic Chua Circuit with an oscilloscope visualization and sonification of the various attractor states in the audible frequency ranges in this non-deterministic oscillator; and added a crystal structure visualization to the GNU Ghemical project. In 1993 I decided to postpone my masters work with WSU on a web based user interface to the PONDR bioinformatics tool (along with a thorough accuracy analysis), which I then incorporated into an in-house biopolymer sequence annotation package at Amgen Pharmacueticals, utilizing their massively distributed linux cluster for the embarrassingly parallel computation. My graduate coursework topics range from Information and Coding theory to Quantum Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, and Atomic Scale Simulation. I have also done intense experimention with various computational methods including Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Monte Carlo methods, and Cellular Automaton.