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I am currently a consultant and a guest researcher at NIST working on the IUPAC InChI chemical identification project. The objective of the IUPAC Chemical Identifier Project is to establish a unique label, the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI), which is a non-proprietary identifier for chemical substances that could be used in printed and electronic data sources thus enabling easier linking of diverse data compilations. It was officially released in April 2005 and within a year it has been incorporated into numerous public and private databases. The largest individual database of structures with InChI's is currently about 40 million.

I am an Advisory Board member of the NIH Roadmap PubChem project.

From 2000 - 2006 I was a consultant to and a contributing editor of specialzed databases for Chemindustry.com.

From 2000 - 2002 I was a strategic planner for MDL Information Systems.

I receieved my BS in Chemistry from SUNY-Stony Brook and my PhD in Chemistry from Georgetown University .

I was member of the editorial board of the all electronic journal: the Internet Journal of Chemistry from 1197-2004 and from 1995 - 1997. I was editor of the Elsevier Trends in Analytical Chemistry (TrAC) Internet computer column.

I am the founder/creator/originator of the NIH/EPA/NIST Mass Spec database, the NIH/EPA CIS (Chemical Information System), the SciWords series of scientific spell checkers, the International Plant & Animal Genome conferences, and the IUPAC InChI project (mentioned above).

Details can be found in my resume. Slides from some of my recent talks are also available.

I am married (picture) to Shelly Heller and have have three sons, Josh, Adam, and Matt .

Josh is a board certified ER doctor. His grandparents are very proud of him.

Adam graduated from GW Law School and is a lawyer and sells 100% mangosteen juice on the side.

Matt has a Masters degree from GW in telecommunications and is a computer systems operations and computer security specialist.

All three are happily married and each has two children.

I have a few pictures of myself and some acquaintances - Al, Alice, Jason, Tom, Orrin, and Bill.

My hobbies include tennis, stamps, flying, (my current co-pilot is Nate) and sushi.

This was last updated October 4, 2008