Last year, Adrienne and I celebrated our 10-year wedding anniversary by revisiting our honeymoon destination: beautiful Maui, Hawaii! It was a spectacular trip and one we’ll remember for years to come. Hawaii is one of our favorite places to visit, and it’s truly a paradise on earth.

In career news, I’ve left academia since my last post and have rejoined industry. I’ve served in leadership roles in Data Science over the past ~4 years, previously on an oil and gas Analytics team. I’m fortunate to have had the opportunity to learn and grow my knowledge and skills in machine learning, technology, and leadership. Currently, I lead a Data Science team at Verinovum, a healthcare data curation startup.

That’s enough for now and it’s late! See you in another 2-5 years

I’ve enjoyed doing a bit of traveling and presenting my research this past fall at data science, HPC and medical informatics conferences: first was at ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) in New York in August, second at the Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium in Norman, and more recently at the American Medical Informatics Assocation (AMIA) 2014 Symposium in Washington, D.C in November. The KDD paper was an overview of the software tools, processes, and general environment used in clinical analytics at OU School of Community Medicine. At AMIA and the Supercomputing Symposium I discussed my analysis and research in medication adherence of Sooner Health Access Network patients. I’m really enjoying my data science work in health and clinical data analysis.

Speaking of traveling, our family spent Thanksgiving this year in Savannah, Georgia with the LeSages. We drove with the Elfrinks from Tulsa, so had quite a journey there and back (~17 hour drive). Savannah was an interesting city with a lot of character and southern charm, and it was great to see and spend time with all of Adrienne’s extended family in Savannah. With a grand history stretching back to 1733, it makes Oklahoma seem quite young in comparison. We all enjoyed our time there and look forward to seeing it again some day.

Lastly and more recently, we had a great time at Christmas in Spiro with my family and had the rare opportunity to spend several days there. Sydney had fun playing with her cousins and we all enjoyed celebrating Christmas there. Now the new year is almost upon us, so here’s to a superb 2015!

• Sydney is a gregarious 2 year old (26 months) and continues to bring joy and humor to our lives
• I have 2 new nieces, both born late this year:
  • Greenley (b. Oct 16) is April’s third child
  • Caroline (b. December 26) is Nathan’s second
• I completed my doctoral research and studies at TU (in May 2012) and now have a PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics focus
• I’ve accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Research at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, and have been working as Data Scientist at MyHealth Access Network