Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 16:19:37 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:02:30 GMT Content-length: 5119 Peter DeVries - Related Experience

Peter DeVries - Related Experience


Committees

UW-Madison Tech Partners Steering Committee
Madison Macintosh User Group Officer


Database Administration and Development

Developed an electronic logbook system for the microscopes at the IMR. This system allows the monthly billing records, and the usage section of the NIH annual report, to be compiled automatically rather than by re-entering data by hand from a standard logbook.

Developed a database system for managing the IMR's internal and external projects which also exports a report in a format required for the NIH annual report.

Developed and supervised the maintenance of an integrated system of spreadsheets and databases which automate the purchasing and other records for the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, the Integrated Microscopy Resource and the Cellular and Molecular Biology Program.

Developed export software and procedures to make existing data available via the Web. With this system, the office need only maintain and update one Cellular and Molecular Biology faculty database and one Molecular Biology staff database, both used internally and automatically exported to printed and Web versions.

Developed methods for integrating databases with the Web so that users can search, view and update information over the Web.


Systems Analysis, Management and Support

Analyze needs and recommend hardware and software for the faculty and staff of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the Integrated Microscopy Resource.

Maintain software records for legal compliance.

Order, install and maintain the facilities' 80 Macintosh computers and their peripherals.

Order, install and maintain the facilities' diverse software packages.

Create flexible standards to minimize software, support and end-user training costs.

Maintain software version compatibility within a diverse hardware base.

Answer faculty, staff and graduate student questions about software and hardware.

Train faculty, staff and graduate students in the use of hardware and software.

Train and supervise three student employees.


Networks & Communications:

Design and manage the Molecular Biology and IMR Network, composed of over 120 devices.

Evaluate, install and maintain the following network hardware, software and protocols:


Web Design and Administration:

Web Administrator and Author for the following Web areas:


Software Programming and Authoring:

Developed the full-color confocal merging software technique that is widely used by microscopists. Co-authored an article describing the technique which appeared in the January, 1993, issue of BioTechniques. Images resulting from this PC software have appeared in Science, Discovery Magazine and on the Disney Channel. Now all confocal microscopes include the ability to create 24-bit color merged files as a standard feature.

Developed the initial versions of "4D Navigator" Mac software for the viewing of 3D microscope data over time.

Developed a "Multimedia Tour of the Integrated Microscopy Resource" for the Governor's Conference on University-Industry relations.

Developed "Frogs & Toads of Wisconsin," an educational Mac software program, used at the University of WI - Eau Claire and University of WI - Madison.

Developed a PC hardware and software system for the acquisition, analysis and graphing of biological rhythm data. The system can be used with running wheels, infrared light beams or any other "switch". The system is currently in use at Lawrence University and the University of California at Berkeley.


Video Production:

Train students in animation, morphing and digital video techniques.

Supervise the production of movies and videos for scientific presentations and the Web.


Tuesday, December 10, 1996, 3:35 pm
Peter DeVries (pdevries@cs.wisc.edu)