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G. Steven Vanni |
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E-mail:
steve@vanni.cc |
4720 Rosedale AVE 704 |
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Resume:
www.vanni.cc |
Bethesda, MD |
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Phone: (412) 478-3504 |
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USA
20814-3752 |
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Objective:
Program management and technology development |
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Skills summary |
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· ·Industrial supervision of engineering
operations and in-house/contract maintenance in both biotech and nuclear
submarine settings · Government contracting: writing statements of work, negotiating contracts,
planning deliverables, administering from both contractor and government
perspectives· · Personnel management: training, career counseling and evaluation of 50+
personnel· · Technical proposal writing: opportunity identification, initial grantor
interactions, teaming and planning, document preparation, and submission · Scientific research management and technical report
writing · Instrumentation: design, integration, and user training of microscope instrumentation
and software· · Database:
design, implementation, and user training of spectral and imaging database
software· · Software development: managing user-developer interactions and the
application of C++, HTML, and Perl code in Unix environment for microscopy
user interface and image processing · · MicroImaging: Raman spectroscopy; Fluorescence microscopy; Protein purification & labeling; Cell culture; Microinjection & bulk loading · Teaching at the undergraduate level |
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Security clearance |
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Current
US DoD SS Background Investigation (SSBI) supporting TS-SCI clearance |
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Professional experience |
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Business Area Lead, ChemBioThreat Detection, ChemImage Corporation |
2002-present |
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· Managing business segment representing $4M+ in
annual government funded contract work and a significant portion of total
annual corporate revenue at this 40 person company · Developing novel instrumentation using Raman and
fluorescence light spectroscopy to detect chemical and biological threat
materials rapidly and without consuming reagents · Leading proposal writing for over 6 major proposals
for government funding per year -- $6M+ awarded · Directing and reviewing all aspects of proposal
concept/task definition, work planning, budgeting, contracting, IP coverage,
and legal certifications ·
Leading resource
allocation, planning, inter-corporate/agency teaming and day-to-day management in 3 major government
contracts with over 20 supporting personnel in a matrix management structure ·
Leading development of
world's first 1000+ element Chemical Imaging and Raman spectrum database of
biological threat materials · Leading development of world's first portable Raman Imaging Spectroscopy ChemBioThreat detector |
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Submarine Officer, Commander (O-5)
U. S. Navy Reserve |
1995-present |
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· Staff Officer
supporting Commander Submarines Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, VA |
2004-present |
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Commanding Officer
leading 50+ person Navy Reserve unit,
responsible for mission planning and execution as well as all aspects of command administration, performance |
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evaluations/recognition,
and career management |
2002-2004 |
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· Staff Officer
supporting NATO Commander Submarines Eastern Atlantic, London, UK |
1995-2001 |
Technical Researcher, graduate student, Carnegie
Mellon University |
1995-2002 |
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· Conceived and developed Deformation Quantification & Analysis (DQA) image processing
system that tracks and measures material motion in a gel matrix, regularizes
results, and graphically displays mechanical metrics based on a continuum
mechanics model ·
Built on-line user
interface for DQA at dqa.web.cmu.edu · Led five undergraduate programmers and research
assistants writing and testing over 9,000 lines of C++, HTML, and Perl code · Worked as primary scientist with a team of 3
programmers implementing optical & computer hardware and software for an
automated fluorescence microscope · Developed system for continuous high resolution
fluorescence imaging over several days of live cells in a 3D tissue construct ·
Conducted research on
cell-cell-matrix mechanical interactions leading to extracellular matrix
remodeling · Taught study sections and tutored undergraduates in
Computational Biology courses covering bioinformatics, process modeling, and
image analysis · Taught summer laboratory courses on Imaging Structure and Function in the Nervous System at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (1996 & 1997) · Completed Washington University Symposium on Image Restoration for 3-D Microscopy (1996) |
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Nuclear Submarine Officer, USS Rickover & USS
Key West, U. S. Navy
(Active Duty) |
1989-1994 |
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· Directed nuclear propulsion plant and tactical
operations as senior person on duty.
In port and at sea operations involved over 120 personnel and $1
billion of equipment. · Led workgroups responsible for maintenance of
nuclear power plant equipment including electrical distribution, hydraulics,
and reactor control electronics · Oversaw acceptance testing, quality assurance, and
trouble shooting · Managed 10-15 personnel including training, career counseling, and performance evaluations · Qualified Navy Nuclear Engineer in preparation for Department Head assignment |
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Science research intern, Oak Ridge National
Laboratories |
Summer 1989 |
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Designed and implemented algorithm in C on a multi-processor supercomputer (HyperCube 64). Algorithm used parallel processing to simulate compartmental model of atmospheric energy balance. |
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Science research intern, Los Alamos
National Laboratories |
Summer 1988 |
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Implemented Fortran code for efficient vector processing on a Cray supercomputer. Code simulated laser coupling to electron orbitals. |
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Education |
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Ph.D. |
Biology |
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA |
June 2004 |
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Computational, molecular
& cell biology; biochemistry; genetics; spectroscopy & fluorescence
microscopy |
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B.S. |
Physics |
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD |
May 1989 |
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With Merit · Extensive engineering and computer science |
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Passed national Engineer
In Training exam · Minor in French |
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Publications and presentations |
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Internet-Based Image Analysis
Quantifies Contractile Behavior Of Individual Fibroblasts Inside Model Tissue. Steven Vanni,
B. Christoffer Lagerholm, Carol Otey, D. Lansing Taylor and Frederick Lanni, Biophys J. 2003 Apr;84(4):2715-27. Cytomechanics
Applications Of Optical Sectioning Microscopy. B. Christoffer
Lagerholm, Steven Vanni, D.
Lansing Taylor, Frederick Lanni, Methods Enzymol. 2003;361:175-97. Fibroblast Mechanics In A Model
Extracellular Matrix - An Application Of Optical Sectioning Microscopy. Steven Vanni,
B. Christoffer Lagerholm, Carol A. Otey, Darrel Velegol, D. Lansing Taylor,
and Frederick Lanni, European Cells and Materials, 2001
September, Vol. 2, Suppl. 1, 21-22. Fibroblast
Contractility And Mechanics In A Model Extracellular Matrix -- Web-Based
Image Analysis. G. Steven Vanni, B. Christoffer Lagerholm, Carol Otey, Frederick Lanni,
Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting
of the American Society for Cell Biology, 2001 December. Washington, DC. (Mol. Biol. Cell, 2001 November, 12: Suppl. 171a;931). Locomotion, Contraction And Proliferation Of Fibrolasts In A Model Extracellular Matrix. G. Steven Vanni, Elizabeth Nadolny, Mathew Vieta, Darrell Velegol, Carol Otey and Frederick Lanni, Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, 1999 December. Washington, DC. |