Alla Guseynova

Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Phone: 410-502-5319
Fax: 410-955-0859
URL: https://www.rits.onc.jhmi.edu/


Experience
2020 - Present Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD
Senior IT Project Manager
  • Provide custom system architecture for all projects needed for SKCCC reserchers and administration
  • Analyze and solve problems and assess needs to recommend appropriate information technology solutions
  • Lead and direct the planning and implementation of multiple projects
  • Evaluate the impact of modifications to existing systems in order to assign responsibility and monitor progress.
  • Review all requests and requirements, assign tasks to resources, and monitor progress
  • Design the architecture and flow of the application
  • Assign and prioritize work, setting and managing to individual and team goals and developing individual staff members to ensure the organization maintains needed skill sets/expertise
  • Meet with project staff and users at each milestone to keep the project on track for the schedule and expenses
  • Prepare billing for clients and work with financial analysts on the group's budget
  • Work with IT professionals in other departments in order to share ideas and data
  • Research new technologies
  • Participate and make key contributions to the design and implementation of the IT projects for the SKCCC
2014 - 2020 Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD
IT Project Manager
  • Hire and supervise a software development IT staff
  • Lead and direct the planning and implementation of multiple projects
  • Collect requirements from lead and key project users
  • Construct the specifications and create an estimate of time and expenses
  • Design the architecture and flow of the application
  • Assign appropriate staff to their tasks along with expected time expenditures
  • Meet with project staff and users at each milestone to keep the project on track for the schedule and expenses
  • Modify and create schedules as required
  • Perform staff performance evaluations for programmers and sysadmin/DBA
  • Prepare billing for clients and work with financial analysts on the group's budget
  • Work with IT professionals in other departments in order to share ideas and data
  • Research new technologies
2007 - 2010 Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD
caBIG Deployment Lead
  • Catalyze, organize and manage the deployment of caBIG technologies and data sharing frameworks
2004 - 2014 Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD
Database Architect/Project Leader
  • Design and development of integrated database applications using web interface for various clinical research projects: multi-trial lymphoma, prostate, head and neck cancer, thoracic cancer, pancreatic cancer, tissue procurement;
    for producing statistical (using SAS) Core Grant reports; for Oncology Center Administration (Biostatistics Other Support, Biosketch)
  • Development web based applications to support bioinformatics needs of the department - creating customized micro array databases with different types of search (using R)
  • Member of American Medical Informatics Association
  • Hire and traine staff - see http://www.rits.onc.jhmi.edu;
1999 - 2004 Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD
Senior Database Analyst
  • Design and development web based applications for clinical research office
  • Design database and web interface for various clinical research projects
  • Development web based application to produce annual statistical Core Grant reports
  • Development web based applications for Oncology Center Administration
1998-1999 Johns Hopkins Hospital - Baltimore, MD
Programmer Analyst
  • Designed and developed web base application for Central Physician Directory
  • Modified Electronic Patient Records application on the web
  • Trained CPD staff to work with web based applications
1997-1998 Community of Science, INC - Baltimore, MD
Applications Developer
  • Designed and developed search and presentation of web based interfaces for engineering bibliographic database EI Compendex
  • Designed and developed web based interface for faculty researchers of different universities including value-added hypertext markup of authors, figures, tables and equations
  • Developed tools for scheduled update local databases with data from NIH, NSF, USDA
1995-1997 Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD
Research Assistant
  • Modified and maintained free WAIS-sf for running web based database applications for biological projects
  • Developed web based interface for ECACC database
  • Developed and maintained update tools for TBASE database
  • Constructed web pages for different bio-medical projects
1993-1994 Odessa University - Odessa, Ukraine
Assistant Professor
  • Taught applied mathematics and programming courses for undergraduate students and research courses for graduate students
1990-1994 Center of Informatics - Odessa, Ukraine
Programmer Analyst
  • Developed software to control the flow of transportation at large firms and factories allowing users to do cost-efficiency and budget analysis
1980-1990 Research Institute of Applied Mathematics - Baku, Azerbaijan
Research Assistant
  • Developed ship navigation programs for Transport Ministry officials
Education
1982-1984 Baku University - Baku, Azerbaijan
MS in Applied Mathematics
Diploma with excellence
1973-1978 Baku University - Baku, Azerbaijan
BS in Mathematics
Diploma with excellence
Professional Meetings and Training
2016
  • AMIA 2016 Annual Symposium, 5 days
2013
  • BRIITE Conference, 3 days:
2013
  • Fundamentals of Cancer: Cause to Cure, 12 lectures
2012
  • AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium, 5 days
2011
  • BRIITE Conference, 3 days:
2010
2009
  • AMIA 2009 Annual Symposium, 5 days, tutorials:
    • Transforming and Visualizing Clinical Data for Research
    • Clinical Classifications and Biomedical Ontologies: Terminalogy Evolution, Principles, and Practicalities
  • AMIA Spring conference, 3 days, poster session on clinical research nformatics
  • caBIG Annual Face-To-Face meeting, 3 days
2008
  • AMIA Spring conference, 5 days, poster session on clinical research nformatics
  • caBIG Tissue Bank Pathology Tools working group meeting. 2 days
  • caBIG Annual Face-To-Face meeting, 3 days
2007
  • AMIA Fall conference, 5 days, tutorials: Evaluating Health IT Projects, Ontologies in Biomedicine
  • AMIA Spring conference, 5 days, poster session on translational research nformatics
2006
  • BRIITE conference, 3 days
  • AMIA conference, 5 days, poster session on customized development for Bioinformatics
2005
  • BRIITE conference, 3 days
  • AMIA Conference, Medical Informatics Workgroup
  • Introduction to Biomedical Informatics
  • Oracle Developers User Group, presentation on Rapid Application Development in Oracle
  • Presentation of multi-institutional research databases for SPOREs
2004
  • Informatics in Public Health, 6 weeks
  • Biological Databases and Distributed Computing, 6 weeks
  • Advanced Linux Administration, 5 days
  • AMIA Conference, 5 days, poster session on centralized development for clinical research support
2003
  • XML, 4 days, Learning Tree
  • AMIA conference, 4 days, AMIA
  • Bioinformatics course, 1 credit, Hopkins SOM
2002
  • Dreamweaver 4, 2 days, JHU
  • Active Server Pages: Level I, 2 days, JHU
  • SAS Programming I: Essentials, 3 days, SAS
  • SAS Report Writing: A Programming Approach, 2 days, SAS
  • SAS Programming II: Manipulating Data with the DATA Step, 3 days, SAS
  • SAS Macro Language, 2 days, SAS
2001
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 5 days, JHU
  • Advanced Cold Fusion Development, 3 days, Allaire
  • Flash, 1 day, Allaire
  • XML, 2 days, Allaire
2000
  • Oracle Designer, 5 days, Oracle
  • Annual Cold Fusion Conference, 3 days, Allaire
  • Develop PL/SQL Program Units, 3 days, Oracle
  • Cold Fusion Conference, 2 days, Allaire
  • Progress in Hematologic Malignancies & Bone Marrow Transplant, JHU
  • Computer System Validation, 2 days, Drug Informatics Association
  • Oracle Database Administration, 5 days, Oracle
  • Advanced Cold Fusion Development, 2 days, Allaire
  • PhotoShop 5.0, 1 day, JHU
  • Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Conference, 2 days, JHU
1994
  • Coursework in SPSS, 1 semester, UMBC
Languages
ColdFusion, SAS, Perl, SQL, CGI/Perl, JavaScript, Java(applets), C, Fortran, Power Dynamo
Operating Systems
Windows , UNIX
Databases
Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server
Publications & Posters
Shu-Chih Su1, Norma Kanarek, Michael G. Fox, Alla Guseynova, Shirley Crow, and Steven Piantadosi.
Spatial Analyses Identify the Geographic Source of Patients at a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer CenterClin Cancer Res; 16(3) February 1, 2010.
Guseynova A, Fox M, Grimm LA. Integrated Implementation of Cancer Research. AMIA 2009.
Guseynova A, Fox M, Grimm LA. Correlating Drug Efficacy and Microarray Analyses in Cancer Research Using Web Database Applications. AMIA 2008.
Fox M, Guseynova A, Grimm LA. Project Impact: A Web-based Centralized Catalog of the Most Important RandomizedControlled Trials (RCTs) since 1948. AMIA 2007.
Guseynova A, Fox M, Grimm LA. Web-Based Communication in an Animal Lab, Tissue Bank and Genomic Testing Environment. AMIA 2007.
Fox M, Guseynova A, Grimm LA. Focused and Customized IT Support of Bioinformatics. AMIA 2006.
Fox M, Guseynova A, Grimm LA. Using ColdFusion, Flash, SAS, Excel, and Access with Oracle. MAOP 2005.
Fox M, Guseynova A, Grimm LA. Research Information Technology Systems. AMIA 2004.
Guseynova, A. Calculation for High Order Integrals' Asymptotes of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Fields. Methods of discrete singularities in problems of mathematical physics (USSR), 5: 72-74, 1991.
Guseynova, A. Numerical Methods for Calculation Integrals' Asymptotes of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Fields. Sudostroenie (USSR), 7:33-45, 1988.
Guseynova, A., Ismaylova, S. Numerical solution of calculation's problem for long electrical cables with several receivers. Applied Mathematics of Industry (USSR)12:27-38, 1986.