Team - LifeOmic

Don Brown

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Don is the most successful serial software entrepreneur in the Midwest. His first company was acquired by EDS in 1986. He founded Software Artistry in 1988 which became the first software company in Indiana ever to go public and was later acquired by IBM for $200 million. Don then founded and served as CEO of Interactive Intelligence which went public in 1999 and was acquired by Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories in 2016 for $1.4 billion.

He is also an active technology and business advisor, investor, and philanthropist. In 2016, Don donated $30 million for the establishment of the Brown Immunotherapy Center at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Don received a bachelor’s in physics from Indiana University in 1978, a master’s in computer science from IU in 1982, an MD from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1985, and a master’s in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University in 2017.

Don is an avid outdoorsman who loves hiking, rock climbing, skiing, and snowshoeing with his eight children – especially in and around Park City, Utah. He was named Sagamore of the Wabash by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels in 2012.

Jeff Swartz

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Jeff kicked off his software development coding career at Software Artistry and joined Interactive Intelligence as employee #9 and software architect. In 2012 Jeff left ININ to found OrgSpan, which was focused on enterprise social media.

As COO he led day-to-day operations, recruiting, and product development until OrgSpan was acquired by Interactive Intelligence in 2014. He next led the Interactive Intelligence PureCloud development effort and then served as VP of Innovation, leading their strategic partnership and M&A efforts. Jeff earned a bachelor’s in computer science from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in 1994.

Tom Barber

Chief Scientific Officer

Tom has over 25 years of experience studying genetic causes of human diseases such as cancer, deafness, myotonic dystrophy, and other inherited diseases. During his postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Tom’s discoveries contributed to the first exome studies of cancer. He began his industry career at Eli Lilly in 2006 as an oncology drug hunter and biomarker developer.

In 2010, Tom created and led the Next Generation Sequencing platform at Eli Lilly which identified preclinical and clinical models for personalized medicine in oncology, diabetes, neuroscience, and cardiovascular disease. In 2014, Tom became the genomics leader at Beckman Coulter developing solutions for NGS sample preparation. Tom has studied human molecular genetics throughout his career, earning a BS in Zoology-Genetics from Michigan State University in 1993, a MS in Human and Molecular Genetics from Baylor College of Medicine in 1995, and a PhD in Genetics from Michigan State University in 2000.

Chris Hemp

VP of Development

Chris started coding in high school and built web pages for a local web hosting firm. While Chris was studying at North Carolina State University he joined IBM’s Tivoli Security group as a software engineer, and he continued working at IBM after earning a BS in Computer Science from NCSU in 2003. Chris then moved on to more challenging software development roles at SAS and RSA Security (part of EMC).

In 2013 Chris joined OrgSpan and owned the web client experience. When OrgSpan was acquired by Interactive Intelligence, Chris forged small independent teams and leveraged WebRTC at the core of ININ’s PureCloud initiative. Chris champions software development process improvements that decrease defects and improve update cycles. Chris lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife and three sons.

Matt Lavin

Software Architect

Matt has known he was going to be a software engineer for as long as he can remember. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from North Carolina State University in 2001 and immediately joined a small company called OTI. OTI was soon acquired by IBM and Matt stayed for the next 12 years building software development tools and providing a foundation for IBM’s SaaS cloud offerings.

Looking for a return to a small company, Matt joined OrgSpan in 2014 just before it was acquired by Interactive Intelligence, and he re-engineered PureCloud’s chat services to scale from tens of users to thousands in multiple regions. He also has a special place in his heart for automating software tests and deployments. Matt is active in the local DevOps and Node.js Meetups, has created and contributed to numerous open source projects and is thinking about computers almost all the time. He keeps a balance in his life by staying active and is usually training for a half or full marathon.

Steve Bray

Scientific Director

In over 15 years of research experience Steve has gained broad expertise in applying genomics to better understand disease. Steve received a BS in biochemistry from Brigham Young University in 2000 and a PhD in genetics from Duke University in 2006. His doctoral research at Duke University and subsequent post-doctoral training at Emory University focused on the genetic control of neurological function including studies of chemosensory function, fragile X syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease.

Additionally, his population genetic analyses uncovered unique genetic characteristics of founder populations. In 2011, Steve joined Eli Lilly and Company as a genetics research scientist utilizing DNA sequencing of tumor samples to better understand the genomic landscape of cancer and associated drug response. In these efforts he helped uncover cancer mutations that predict positive treatment responses or resistance to therapies.

Casey Herman

IT Manager

Casey comes to LifeOmic with a heavy background in Virtualization, Application Layering, and VDI systems. He has a big passion for technology and is a “no task is too large”-oriented solutions expert. When asked what he does with computers, he’ll say, “I take something that doesn’t exist and make it available globally.”

Casey has loved both technology and airplane grease in his professional career. He’s gone from being a general aviation mechanic to being the rare cable-guy that people actually love. Next Casey took on progressively larger roles in IT and network/datacom management and eventually ran enterprise desktop virtualization server farms and became a senior IT consultant. Casey’s also an avid R/C aircraft enthusiast and designer. He’s looking to compete in his first drone racing competition soon.

Krisanna Bohall

Director of Operations

Krisanna has over 10 years of experience in the facility management field and is an active member of the International Facility Management Association. Prior to joining LifeOmic she served as Physical Security and MAC Manager for Interactive Intelligence and excelled at providing a safe and secure environment as well as delivering excellent customer service. Krisanna also enjoys spending time outside and exploring new places.

Jeff Jagoda

Technical Director

Jeff has always loved learning how complex systems work and finding technical solutions to problems. His early work experience included building profilers for the Linux kernel at Red Hat and for the JVM at IBM. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science in 2007, Jeff joined IBM full-time to work on projects ranging from web collaboration tools to cloud computing platforms.

In 2014 Jeff left IBM to prototype new Internet-based communication solutions at Bandwidth. Before coming to LifeOmic, Jeff rejoined IBM to use a combination of big data analytics and automated systems to understand and influence developer behaviors inside the company.

Chad Jarreau

Software Engineer

Chad has a deep interest in the intersection of life sciences and technology. He received a master’s degree in bioengineering in 2010 and bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 2015 from Louisiana State University. During his undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Chad interned at OrgSpan working on the quality assurance team. Upon graduation, he was hired as a software developer on the Purecloud search team at Interactive Intelligence.

Chad enjoys many outdoor activities including cycling, running, swimming, and skiing. On weekends he can often be found spending time with his family.

Alex Luebbehusen

Senior Software Engineer

Alex’s passion for software development was sparked in high school when he programmed his TI-83 calculator to assist with math homework. He was instantly hooked and eventually developed ballistic trajectory simulators, coded a school-wide chat network and started and led his high school’s very successful autonomous robotics program. This inspired Alex to pursue a technology-focused degree at the University of Evansville where he partnered on award-winning robotics teams and earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2015 while also graduating as one of the top of his class and side-lining as a professional software developer.

Alex next gained progressive cloud software engineering experience at Interactive Intelligence and ADESA. He brings multiple-platform software development skills in manufacturing, customer engagement and automotive remarking industries to Lifeomic. When not working on personal software projects, Alex enjoys working out and spending time with friends and family.

Anthony Roach

Technical Director

Anthony became interested in computers playing Colossal Cave Adventures on Data General minicomputers at his dad’s software company and coding demos on a Tandy 1000. This led to receiving a bachelor’s degree in physics from Purdue University in 1996 and a master’s degree in physics from the University of Michigan in 1997 while working as a research assistant in various labs –including a summer at Fermilab measuring and modeling the magnetic field for one the Tevatron’s giant detector magnets.

He started his professional software development career at National Instruments in Austin, TX building industrial automation and test and measurement software. He then returned to Indiana to join Interactive Intelligence as a lead developer and was promoted to Chief Architect on the PureCloud AWS-based contact center product. Anthony has contributed to many open source projects including being an early major contributor to the SCons build tool. When not developing software Anthony enjoys reading, running, playing computer games and spending time with his family.

Doryan Algarra

VP of Design

Doryan’s love and talent for art was evident at a very early age. Growing up he was constantly drawing and designing, winning awards in middle and high school. After college Doryan combined his interest in technology and art while serving in the United States Marine Corps. It was during that time that he dove into digital design and web design.

After his tour in the Marines Doryan went to work for companies such as Duke Medicine, ReverbNation and Interactive Intelligence where he was constantly expanding his knowledge from web design into product and experience design. Previous to LifeOmic, Doryan was Creative Director for Genesys. In his spare time Doryan enjoys drawing and traveling.

Mark DeLaVergne

Software Architect

Mark earned his bachelor’s degree in Music Business at Anderson University in 2007 while also taking Computer Science courses on the side and building professional web apps throughout college. He then worked as a software engineer at companies in the staffing and learning management spaces and completed various technical certifications along the way. This led to being hired at Interactive Intelligence in 2011 where he built an enterprise iOS app from scratch, earned AWS certifications while working on the PureCloud platform, and generally crafted his skills in a wide range of technologies.

Mark enjoys any outdoor activity, woodworking and spending time with his wife and two children. If asked he’ll also try to melt your face off with a guitar.

Annica Burns

Director of Mobile Engineering

Annica’s current work building mobile apps for Healthcare seems predictable in hindsight but took a circuitous route. While studying medicine at BYU, Annica realized it was the wrong path when she couldn’t euthanize shelter dogs brought to the lab for experimentation. She decided to put her pre-med degree to use as a science writer and headed to Northwestern for an MS in Journalism. Instead she found her true calling when a professor asked her to join a Media startup where she quickly gravitated to the technology side of the business building the databases, web apps and cloud services that were core to the startup’s future. As it grew, Annica moved on from building software to managing software development and eventually landed in a more strategic role as VP of Information Systems.

Then came the iPhone. Excited to be part of a technology that was changing the world, she jumped back into engineering and has been building mobile apps and managing mobile development teams in healthcare since 2014.

Since her husband won’t let her write code ALL the time, Annica also skis, bikes, and takes long runs in the mountains of Utah with her dog, Mozzie.

Paige Jarreau

VP of Social and Science Communications

Paige is a scientist by training but a writer at heart. As a child she dreamed of writing sci-fi novels like her heroes Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. Her love of science won over at first. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biological Engineering from Louisiana State University. After a brief stint of PhD studies in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, she finally realized that her true passion was writing. She returned to LSU, where she earned her PhD and conducted postdoctoral research at the Manship School of Mass Communication. She nerds out about how scientists use social media and how we can improve public trust in science.

Paige is an experienced science communication researcher and practitioner. She’s written for Nature Magazine, Scientific American, American Scientist and other outlets. Since June 2016 she has been at the LSU College of Science, developing their social media presence and training researchers to communicate. She enjoys yoga and spending time with family.

Ben Salisbury

Scientific Director

Ben is a computational biologist by training who loves building and improving products that drive better healthcare and better science. A 17-year veteran of the precision medicine industry, Ben started out as an algorithm developer at Genaissance Pharmaceuticals. Over an 11-year period with Genaissance and its successors by acquisition and divestiture, he made contributions in population genetics and statistical genetics and helped bring a novel antidepressant to market and build a successful clinical lab business that introduced genetic diagnosis to hundreds of cardiology practices around the world. More recently, Ben has worked with software and informatics companies, leading technical and commercial efforts to deliver tools and platforms for clinical labs and researchers.

Ben lives with his family in Dayton, Ohio. His pastimes include gardening, cooking, and singing. He loves taking his children on nature hikes and bike rides. Ben studied biology as an undergraduate at Yale and received his PhD from the University of Michigan. He returned to Yale for two years as a postdoctoral researcher before moving to industry in 2001.

Jesse Kinser

Advisor

Jesse graduated from the School of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington in 2010 with a passion for security and set off to Washington D.C. to work in the Intelligence Community. During her 5 year term in the government sector working on various National Security research and development projects, she also completed her Master’s in Computer Science.

In 2014, Jesse returned to Indianapolis to take on a role at a leading energy company in which she focused on building out modern cloud applications. Her interest in cloud technology led to her next role at Salesforce where she was in charge of hacking the product ecosystem. Jesse has presented her offensive security research and tools at leading conferences around the US, including DEFCON and BSides Las Vegas. A self-proclaimed serial hobbiest, Jesse enjoys picking up new skillsets and traveling to new places with her family.

Jesse serves as an advisor to LifeOmic and is currently the CISO of Pathwire, creator of Mailgun and MailJet.

Casey Dexter

Principal Product Designer

Growing up Casey always enjoyed art and technology. He has been labeled as a “learner”, or someone who enjoys the learning process. Web design has complemented this trait as it continues to provide him with fresh material.

After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Graphics from Purdue University in 2001, he went to work for Purdue full-time as a graphic designer in the marketing communications office and then later as a web designer in the housing and food services division. While working at Purdue, Casey was introduced to CSS, and that’s when his passion for web design began to blossom. He moved on from Purdue to work for Interactive Intelligence as a designer and spent seven years there working on CaaS Quick Spin and PureCloud products.

When not pushing pixels, Casey enjoys longboarding, playing basketball, hanging out by a campfire, and spending time with his wife and three kids.

Matt Ferguson

Product Director

Matt has spent his entire career in the population health management space, using behaviorally-focused approaches to help people lead healthier lives. Spanning a nearly 10-year career at WebMD Health Services, Matt focused on clinical products designed to improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs and delivered through a wide variety of modalities to hundreds of thousands of end-users. Matt then joined the Growth and Innovation team at OurHealth, a provider of onsite and near-site direct primary care services for employers, and led the overall strategy of their Wellness portfolio as well as launching their first Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) program.

Matt received a BA in Kinesiology from Purdue University in 2005 and a MS in Biomechanics from Ball State University in 2007. In addition to his weekly dose of Crossfit, Matt is an avid watersports enthusiast and enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons.

Ben Kraus

Principal Mobile Engineer

Ben has been developing for the iPhone since shortly after the release of the iPhone SDK. His passion lies in shipping high quality mobile applications and he’s been broadening his horizons and is very interested in full stack development as well. He’s spent many years as both an independent mobile app developer and with mobile development teams at Family Search and Instructure.

Besides app development, Ben enjoys hiking and camping in the great outdoors. He also spends way too much time at Disneyland and Disney World.

Matthew Tieman

Senior Software Engineer

Matt’s first coding experience was programming his TI-83 calculator in high school. He then thought it would be cool to learn how to tell computers what to do. As a result he decided to study computer science and graduated with a bachelor’s in CS from North Central College in 2012.

Matt’s first job was at Interactive Intelligence in automated QA. After two years he switched to the PureCloud analytics team as a developer. Working on the PureCloud analytics team sparked Matt’s growing interest and enjoyment in working on distributed system and application resiliency problems.

Matt is a private pilot and has been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu since 2008.

Brady Larson

Principal Mobile Engineer

Brady graduated from the University of Utah in 2007. He made his first Android app at his first job when he had some time between projects. Since then he’s been hooked on mobile, making iOS and (mostly) Android apps both personally and professionally.

Outside of work Brady enjoys spending time with his family and exploring the many hiking trails nearby. He also recently started mountain biking.

Zhenya Ragulin

Senior Software Engineer

Zhenya decided he wanted to be a programmer at the age of 8, when his family got their first PC with Windows 95, Caesar III, and Diablo II on it. He thought programming would be similar to playing video games (like many other naive kids). It turned out to be very different — but still fun.

Zhenya is excited about self-development, and software development is something that helps him continuously challenge himself.

Zhenya received his bachelor’s from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2012, and his master’s from Brno University of Technology in Computer Graphics in 2015. He has been working in healthcare since 2014 working on various solutions to improve patients’ experience communicating with the physicians.

When not coding or eating ice-cream made of snow in the mountains, Zhenya enjoys running and swing, contemporary and jazz dancing.

Ryan Hilliard

VP of Marketing

Ryan has a passion for solving complex problems using a methodical, data- and logic-driven approach. He received a bachelor’s degree in business/marketing from North Carolina State in 2010. Prior to joining LifeOmic, Ryan served as the Head of Growth at a prominent digital marketing agency, ROI Revolution, where he led the agency’s largest service with over 50 employees servicing more than 200 clients. During his time at ROI, Ryan also managed paid marketing efforts for more than a dozen SaaS and software providers, including Wrike, Urban Airship and SingleHop.

When he’s not analyzing data, Ryan is goofing around with his family of four, tending to his yard, playing competitive adult-league soccer or starting a new home project. He’s also passionate about wine, craft beer and Doctor Who.

Ananth Iyer

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Ananth is an electrical engineer with a specialization in audio and digital signal processing. His interest in audio started off when he was in middle school with a project to retrofit his boombox to make it louder. He went on to get an MS from Penn State University and a Ph.D. from Temple University — both in speech processing.

At Genesys and Interactive Intelligence he built several speech based products to improve customer experience. Further on, he gained interest and experience in machine learning — which led him to build bots, search engines and entity recognizers, primarily using Deep Learning.

Ananth also enjoys participating in hackathons and is a proud winner of the 2018 AT&T IoT and 2017 PureCloud hackathons. While not at work, Ananth enjoys trying to run and also time with family, photography and socializing at the Indianapolis Python and AWS developer communities.

Simon Silitonga

Senior Software Engineer

Simon graduated from Stevens in Hoboken, NJ in 2001 with a BS degree in Computer Science. He began his software development career working in the NASDAQ market maker and trading industry for six years.

He and his family moved to Indiana in 2006 and he ultimately ended up at Interactive Intelligence, where he worked for almost 9 years in the analytics team for both the CIC and PureCloud divisions.

In his free time, Simon loves being with his wife and four children, serving at church or on mission trips.

Tony Ward

Senior Software Engineer

Tony earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering Technology at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. During his time in college, he held an internship where he worked in software and hardware development. After building many embedded, desktop, and mobile applications, he had the opportunity to work at Interactive Intelligence on the PureCloud product. At Interactive Intelligence, he would dive deep into modern web development. He’s very passionate about creating applications that not only look great but that help people as well. He enjoys being active in the development community by contributing to his favorite open source libraries and presenting at local meetups.

Tony enjoys watching and playing basketball, traveling to new places, reading, and hiking.

Jason Kokx

Test Automation Engineer

Jason graduated from Michigan Technological University in 1990 with a BSEE degree. He started working in software testing in 2000 doing software automation testing. He has worked on web client automation and set up automation processes on various test lab systems. He started working at OrgSpan in 2012 where he built the QA test automation teams for Backend, Web Client and Mobile Clients, worked on mobile test automation and was responsible for the Continuous Integration pipelines. Jason joined LifeOmic in 2019 because of his passion to use his skills to make a contribution to the health and wellness of people’s lives.

Jason is married with two daughters in college. His aim is to live a healthy and active lifestyle. He enjoys cooking healthy meals, running, swimming, strength training, hiking and yoga.

Candace Luebbehusen

Marketing Manager

Candace excels at bringing an eye for detail, digital marketing, content creation and event management. Prior to joining LifeOmic, Candace served as the Director of Student Activities at Marian University coordinating over 100 large- and small-scale events each year for up to 3000 guests.

Candace earned a Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies from Texas Woman’s University and a M.S.Ed. from Indiana University-Bloomington.

In her spare time, Candace loves to read, dance, play board games, travel, and spend time with family and friends (especially her dog, Bonnie).

Melissa Webb

Product Director

Melissa brings a customer-centric approach to product management, which ensures she’s always building products people love to use. She excels at uncovering problems, solving them through delightful software solutions, and then maintaining a continuous feedback loop post-delivery to ensure successful adoption.

Before joining LifeOmic, Melissa led products in the spend analytics, sales, procurement, and healthcare spaces. Melissa’s varied background allows her to bring a fresh perspective to the ever-evolving world of health and wellness. Her ability to empathize and uncover patterns across an entire customer base allows the team to provide value to end users at scale.

Melissa earned a BA in Economics and Spanish at DePauw University, and she completed her MBA at Indiana Wesleyan University. She has also received the Pragmatic Marketing certification (PMC-VI). When she’s not working, Melissa enjoys running, listening to music, and traveling the world with her husband and son.

Allen Clineff

Software Engineer

Allen discovered his love for technology at an early age learning to navigate MS-DOS as early as he learned to read. He went on to learn basic web design and programming in high school, and he eventually received a bachelor’s in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2012.

After graduating, Allen worked for six years as a full stack developer and consultant, gaining experience across a wide breadth of industries including healthcare, utilities, insurance, and banking.

Besides being a programmer and avid gamer, Allen is a passionate percussionist, having played for almost 20 years. He also enjoys hiking and rock climbing.

Dan Perkins

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Dan decided to pursue software development after being exposed to programming, web development, Flash, and building computers in high school. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 with a BS in Computer Science, he spent a few years focusing on testing Windows applications at Microsoft before switching into web-focused development roles for Microsoft’s PowerBI and AppSource products.

After Microsoft and before before moving to the Raleigh, NC area and landing at LifeOmic, Dan split his time between teaching an Intro to Computer Science course at a high school in Seattle and working as a developer at customer data platform startup mParticle.

His free time is usually split between fun adventures with his wife and two kids, or finding something active to do – ideally indoor rock climbing and biking, or ‘settling’ for windsurfing, kiteboarding, or snowboarding.

Ashley Soucar

Senior Mobile Engineer

Ashley has been developing for the iPhone since before graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013. Her first iPhone work was teaching summer camp students how to build iPhone applications. Since then, she’s developed apps for educational games, social media, and business education. Most recently she’s branched out into cross platform mobile development.

When not programming, Ashley can be found skating at the nearest ice rink, cooking, or trying to get better at video games.

David Tanner

Senior Software Engineer

David has always loved computers and built his first Windows PC in high school. He attended Brigham Young University and received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Computer Engineering in 2014. David’s focus on quality software drives his desire to produce services that just run. He’s worked with Amazon Web Services since 2010 and loves using their tools to produce awesome software.

For fun, David likes to fix things, do his own car repairs, play video games, and remodel his house. He has recently picked up running with his wife and likes to take the family for hikes in the mountains, or family trips around Utah.

Joe Adams

Director of Business Development

Joe has known LifeOmic Founder/CEO Don Brown since high school, and they have been business partners in various endeavors since their student days as roommates at Indiana University. After graduating from IU, Joe co-founded Dealership Programming Systems with Don, which was sold in 1987 to EDS/GMAC for $12.5 million. Don and Joe next co-founded Software Artistry in 1987, which went public on NASDAQ and was subsequently sold to IBM for $230 million. Joe retired right after Software Artistry’s IPO to pursue philanthropic interests — and to ‘raise Ferraris’ in the Indiana countryside. After a year of ‘retirement’, Joe joined Don at Interactive Intelligence and held various management and strategic roles, including VP Marketing, VP Market Communications, and Chief Technology Evangelist.

Joe serves on a variety of civic, university and non-profit boards, including being the Chairman of the Deans Council for the Indiana University School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering. And for his years of tireless service nurturing the Ferrari community in the U.S., Joe is now Chairman of the Ferrari Club of America, the oldest and largest Ferrari Club in the World with 7,000 members.

Nathan Amick

Senior Software Engineer

Nathan was introduced to programming at age 12 when his parents brought home a Commodore 64 for Christmas. After his parent’s refused to buy him games, he began modeling his favorite arcade hits in C64 Basic.

Years later, Nathan found himself building web sites and began freelancing as a way to pay for college. He started several companies with friends, and in 2007 launched SeedboxHosting. Its main product empowered non-technical users to configure and provision their own server resources for gaming and file sharing. In 2013, he moved to San Francisco and signed on with GoodGuide working with large enterprise applications, web services, and front-end frameworks. He has also worked with streaming music, decentralized networks, and learning software.

Nathan brings 20+ years of experience working and mentoring in the industry across all phases of software development. He especially loves creating great UI/UX while maintaining quality and tested code. He also loves woodworking, climbing trees, and hanging out with his wife and three girls.

Ryan Ratcliff

Senior Software Engineer

Ryan is a graduate of IUPUI with a BS degree in Information Technology. He began his software development career by working in the warehousing industry for six years, insuring music lovers got their CDs in a timely manner by solving interesting ‘traveling salesmen’ and ‘path picking’ problems. Next, he spent a three year period as a contractor at Eli Lilly building SOA/ETL solutions. Luckily, he then joined Interactive Intelligence, where he worked for over 8 years on various teams including reporting, alerting and analytics for both the CIC and PureCloud divisions.

In his free time, Ryan enjoys running, reading and traveling.

Pearce Keesling

Senior Mobile Engineer

Pearce started learning to program because he loved video games as a kid and wanted to learn how they worked, and he wanted to make his own games. As he grew up, his passion for video games faded but his interest in software only continued to grow.

Pearce began his software development career working part time at Jolt from 2016-2019 while he worked on his bachelor’s degree, after which he hired on with LifeOmic. Pearce enjoys hiking, fitness, and a great nap out in the sun.

Justin Ligman

Senior Software Engineer

Justin built his first computer from gathering scrap parts at 10 years old, and began teaching himself how to program. This led to his first coding job working on various programming projects while a student at Indiana University Southeast, where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science in 2009. His full-time development career started at Interactive Intelligence, and he advanced from coding billing subsystems and databases, web applications and back-end services to managing a team of several web developers. He next worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix in California before joining LifeOmic to be closer to family in North Carolina.

In his spare time, Justin enjoys tinkering with all sorts of electronics and technology, spending time with family and their dog, and various outdoor activities. He’s also a huge fan of random trivia, and you’ll often find him reading articles or watching documentaries about any random thing that has piqued his interest.

Aymane Nadi

Principal Software Engineer

Aymane graduated in 2013 with two Master degrees, which he obtained from IMT Atlantique (France) in Telecommunications and Computer Sciences, and from Ball State University in Information and Communication Sciences. Aymane started his career at Interactive Intelligence, where he worked on various teams for both the CIC and PureCloud platforms. He then joined PactSafe and led the development of their new customer-facing web application.

In his free time, Aymane enjoys soccer, playing with his son Ilyas, and working on personal projects.

William ‘Mac’ Beckner

Director of Business Development - Public Sector

Mac has over 25 years of experience in developing human-centric digital health innovations and solutions in the health, wellness and human performance domains. Mac thrives on developing, delivering and implementing strategies and products that anticipate and synthesize the impact of technology and scientific innovation in health care. He enjoys working for innovative companies with the vision and courage to advance and bring into practice new tools and therapeutics that advance human health and wellbeing.

Prior to joining LifeOmic, Mac was responsible for developing the Technology Enhanced Mobile Platform for Performance Optimization (TEMPPO) for the Office of the Secretary of Defense to enhance human/soldier performance optimization efforts across the Department of Defense. Other initiatives include the NIH’s All of Us Research Program and DoD’s Building Healthier Military Communities initiative.

Mac has a Master’s in Information Systems and certificates in Artificial Intelligence (MIT 2018) and in Leadership Management (Georgetown University 2010). Mac has authored numerous research articles, systematic reviews and a book chapter, and he’s the author of the book ‘Complementary Therapies on the Internet’ (2003). Mac also holds a patent related to human centered digital therapeutic solutions.

When not working, Mac’s pursuits include boating and being outdoors with his fiancée, dogs, cats and good friends.

Luisa Torres

Science Communication and Social Media Manager

Luisa earned a PhD in Pharmacology from Stony Brook University in 2015 studying anti-inflammatory treatments for spinal cord injury. She then worked at Cornell University as a postdoctoral researcher studying the link between parasites and Alzheimer’s disease. Her strong interest in science communication drove her to produce scientific content for lay audiences in the form of blog posts and radio scripts. This led her to spend a summer at NPR working as a science journalist and writing for NPR’s blogs ‘Shots’, ‘Goats and Soda’, and ‘The Salt’.

Luisa currently volunteers at her local radio station producing short interviews with local scientists for a show called Locally Sourced Science. She is also the communications officer for the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) where she manages a team of 6 writers who generate science communication content for the ASPET website.

In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, dancing flamenco and playing the piano.

Xander Dumaine

Senior Software Engineer

Xander has loved programming ever since making games, apps and tools on his TI-86 programming calculator in high school. After earning a B.S. in Computer Science from Ohio University in 2012, Xander went on to push the boundaries of web technologies. Prior to joining LifeOmic, he worked at Interactive Intelligence and Genesys, where he helped take WebRTC from an experimental technology to one serving almost ten million conversations every week across voice, video, and screen streaming.

Xander loves reading, hiking and spending time with his wife Bailey, trying to be good parents to their sons Atlas and Aries. Xander is also a cyclist, rock climber, and an amateur woodworker.

Jay Moore

Principal Product Designer

After receiving his degree in Art from James Madison University, Jay moved to Washington DC, where he had the opportunity to work in a variety of design roles – from working in-house at some of the largest brands & best known media giants, to consulting for agencies, start ups, corporate environments & all kinds of independent design projects in-between. In 2013, Jay moved his family from the big city & now very happily calls Wake Forest, NC home.

When he’s not behind a computer pushing pixels, Jay enjoys spending time with his family, exploring new areas, drawing, on long trail hikes, and grilling up tasty meals.

Rob Snyder

Senior Software Engineer

Rob first became interested in programming as a teenager. He started off writing text-based adventure games in Visual Studio and found it fueled both the creative and logical parts of his mind. He went on to graduate from DePauw University with a degree in computer science and has worked at Kaplan Compliance, Aprimo, and Bluelock.

When not in front of a computer screen, Rob enjoys hiking in the mountains and playing ultimate frisbee. He is always looking to learn new things.

Haley Ward

Software Engineer

Haley is a self-taught software engineer who has always loved to learn new things. She previously worked in the healthcare industry for 6 years as a Medical Coder before moving into software engineering roles at Alkami Technology and Zylo.

In her spare time she loves to hike, run, practice hot yoga, and read. One of Haley’s next goals is to run her first half marathon!

Josh Dowdle

Senior Mobile Software Engineer

Several years ago when Josh was living in Texas, he was looking for a job that would get him back to Utah, provide tuition money for the pursuit of a planned degree in Economics, and (most importantly) needed cash for an engagement ring. Through his software developer older brother, Josh found that opportunity in the IT department where his brother worked, and Josh gained experience building internal web applications. That internship, in a field Josh had never considered before, made it clear that software development should be the focus of his career plans.

Prior to LifeOmic, Josh developed various software; his most recent job was coding applications for emergency dispatch (i.e. 911) centers.

Josh loves spending free time with his wife (the target of the aforementioned engagement ring) and their two young boys. Together they enjoy exploring nearby parks, playing games, and reading books.

Ed Simcox

Advisor

Ed Simcox is currently serves as an Advisor. Previously, Ed served as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at LifeOmic and, before that, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest civilian government agency in the world. He led efforts at HHS to effectively leverage data, technology and innovation to improve the lives of the American people and the performance of the Department’s 29 agencies and offices. While CTO, he also served as Acting Chief Information Officer at HHS, where he oversaw the Department’s IT modernization efforts, IT operations and cybersecurity.

Prior to HHS, Ed was served in roles as Healthcare Practice Leader at Logicalis, Director of US Healthcare Strategy and Offer Development at AT&T and Chief Technology Officer at Indiana University Health.

Ed was recently awarded The Best Boss in Federal IT, The Fed 50 and the American society of Nephrology’s President’s Medal for his work to improve kidney care in the United States.

Prior to entering healthcare, Ed was a professional drummer, having toured and played numerous studio sessions. He is an avid sports and entertainment photographer, and his photos have been syndicated and featured in magazines and industry websites. Ed, his wife and his three daughters live in Indianapolis.

Jairav Desai

Bioinformatics Scientist

Jairav has, by his own description, a non-standard biography. He has Indian roots but is a third generation African – born in Kenya and raised in Southern Africa. As a child he was always fascinated with the sciences, but in elementary school he read a book about the birth of the computer revolution that etched itself onto his mind. After high school in Botswana, he studied Computer Science and Mathematics at Purdue University, and then did a Masters in Computational Biology at Northwestern University. He then worked for 10 years at Eli Lilly in bioinformatics research, working largely with autoimmune and endocrine scientists. His main research interest lies in cross-sectional analysis of high-dimensional, multi-omics data and the challenge of visualizing that data.

Jairav enjoys playing tennis and soccer, but he’ll play any sport “to test the limits of his coordination”. He enjoys hiking and backpacking, and is in the process of hiking every back country trail in Indiana.

Brad Hancock

Research Scientist

Brad is a translational scientist whose passion is improving patient lives through advancing precision medicine to the forefront of healthcare. His 12 year career as a scientist in oncology has been dedicated to the personalization of cancer-focused therapies through the discovery of genomic biomarkers of response and toxicity. To LifeOmic, Brad brings the perspective of the clinician and scientist, leveraging the broad expertise he has amassed encompassing clinical practice, clinical and translational research, precision oncology, and personalized medicine.

Brad holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Clinical Laboratory Science from Purdue University and a board certification in Medical Technology. He currently resides in the Indianapolis area with his wife and son and enjoys talking science, sports, craft beer, and country living.

Matthew Stagg

Software Engineer

Matthew cut his teeth on programming in middle school by working with Lego robotics kits and building text adventure games in BASIC. He joined the National Guard in 2010 and served 6 years as an Intelligence Analyst in the US Army. Matthew graduated with a bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Southern Indiana in 2016.

He has since worked as a software engineer in a variety of industries, including IoT, home appliances, manufacturing, and e-commerce. Prior to LifeOmic, he worked at Viral Launch building a platform that drove more than $8 billion in sales on Amazon.

When he isn’t bashing his keyboard, Matthew enjoys hunting, barbecuing, playing board games, and rooting for the Indianapolis Colts.

Lars Mortenson

Senior Software Engineer

Lars has been passionate about writing software from an early age, writing games in BASIC and spending summers programming as a web developer. After receiving a B.S in Computer Science from William & Mary in 2003, he went on to spend his career developing applications for clients ranging from the U.S. Navy to Fortune 500 corporations. During this time, due to a series of improbable circumstances he also wrote part of an international treaty with Australia.

Prior to joining LifeOmic, Lars developed reverse logistics software that annually processes millions of retailer product returns at Inmar Intelligence.

In his free time Lars enjoys swimming, home automation, flying drones and spending time with his wife and two sons.

Bishop Bettini

Director of Security

Bishop’s passion for technology and the great outdoors began early. When not teaching himself to program on the family IBM PS/2, he was out working and exploring his family’s farm or camping with his Boy Scout troop, where he earned the rank of Eagle Scout.

After graduating from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and then North Carolina State University with a degree in Computer Science, he led a successful startup that disrupted the facilities management space with the world’s first web-based campus asset and capital project management app.

These days, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, traveling, flying kites, and tending their urban homestead. He’s recently rekindled his childhood interest in metal detecting and hopes to hook his family on that soon.

Amy Gilchriest

Senior Product Manager

Amy joins LifeOmic with technical scientific background, extensive software product ownership experience, and passion for improving health with digital products.

After building novel analytical instruments during her doctoral research, Amy joined a startup company to build software automating scientific data analysis and laboratory processes. Over 13 years with Indigo BioAutomation, she served as Chief Scientist and Product Manager, contributing to all aspects of delivering the company’s flagship product.

Born in Virginia, Amy earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Mathematics from The College of William and Mary in 2000. She earned a Doctorate in Analytical Chemistry from Purdue University in 2005 and now resides in Indiana. Her pastimes include jogging, cooking, reading, and spending time with loved ones.

Alexander Olivero

Software Engineer

Alexander received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Butler University in 2016. During his time there, he developed an interest in computer science and business development.

Prior to joining LifeOmic, he worked as a data engineer for a major actuarial consulting firm where he built analytics for value-based care healthcare organizations. Wanting to shift focus from financial outcomes to have a more direct impact on patients, he was naturally drawn to clinical data and precision medicine.

When he’s not digging into healthcare data, Alexander enjoys reading, yoga, sand volleyball, and the occasional problem solving session on a bouldering wall.

Max Johansen

Mobile Software Engineer

Max started writing code in high school for the FTC robotics club. He programmed both the autonomous functionality and driver control software.

He graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. While at school he focused on Machine Learning and co-founded the Machine Learning @ Berkeley club.

After graduation he wrote TypeScript for various frontends and backends at Instructure and Lacuna.

In his free time Max likes to play Chess, Warzone and League of Legends. He also rock climbs, and enjoys cycling during the summer and cross-country skiing in the winter.

Elaine Algarra

Lifeology Communications Manager

Elaine joined Lifeomic after a 24-year career in Art and Design Education, working in England and the USA. She completed her BA Hons Degree in Design and PGCE in Art Education at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, England. She has been awarded two national Silver medals at the Scholastic Art Awards, with some of her students’ work on display in the U.S. Capitol.

Elaine is passionate about mental health wellness, using art to communicate ideas, social-emotional learning, health literacy, and empowering the public. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with family, traveling, and creating art in various media.

Jelani Jackson

Senior Software Engineer

Jelani is a senior software engineer hailing from the University of Central Florida (#GoKnights and #ChargeOn) graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering. He joined PowerDMS in Orlando, FL for 8 years as a software engineer working on a variety of solutions to service the law enforcement industry.

Jelani’s love for quotes and video games brought him a quote that he lives by in his personal and professional life, “The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer” – Call of Duty. He considers himself a lifetime student (actively learning Spanish), believing that when you stop learning you stop growing. He also has a passion for travel, investing, and becoming comfortable being uncomfortable.

Camille Brown

Social Media Associate

Camille is passionate about exercise, nutrition, and wellness. She is currently finishing an undergraduate degree in human nutrition and dietetics at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and will soon be pursing her master’s degree and Registered Dietician license.

Camille has been certified in personal training by the National Personal Training Institute. She is a former gymnast and is currently a competition-level CrossFit athlete. Camille lives in Denver, Colorado and enjoys spending time with her family in Park City, Utah.

Eloisa Docton

Sr Product Designer

Eloisa is a designer and maker based in North Carolina mostly known for her whimsy illustrations, content creation and web design. After going to Art School in Venezuela, Eloisa pursued a Coding Bootcamp where the learned front end development, focusing on user interfaces. She has been a designer for 17+ years and specializes in web and mobile design. Eloisa is the Product Designer for Skillspring, the LifeOmic video widget, and also collaborates with marketing and owns all of the company’s websites.

Eloisa lives in a small town with her husband, two girls, and her ever growing group of animals that include chickens, roosters, dogs, bunnies and whatever else needs a new home.

Jeff Beard

Principal Technical Writer

Jeff has been writing about technology for over twenty years, beginning with his job as the technology and IPO editor at Dow Jones Newswires. After writing about startups for investors, he moved to California and became a technical writer at the startup Cerent Corp., which was acquired by Cisco for $6.9 billion. After working for Cisco for fourteen years, Jeff joined Interactive Intelligence to write about the PureCloud product.

Jeff earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Spring Hill College and a master’s degree in Nonfiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University. He has contributed freelance photography and writing to magazines, such as the Wine Spectator, Into the Wind, the Foreign Service Journal, and Golden Retriever World, where he wrote about his brother hiking the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail with his dog, Max. Jeff enjoys bowhunting, training his Boykin Spaniel, and trying to keep up with his wife and three kids on hikes.

Grace Gamble

Web Engineer

Prior to her career in engineering, Grace obtained her BA from the University of the South in environmental studies, and worked in education, the outdoor retail industry and in the sustainability field. Her drive to make the world a better place led her in the direction of an additional passion, the software engineering space.

She obtained her certificate in full stack JavaScript development in 2016 from RefactorU in Boulder, CO. Since then, Grace has worked with WordPress at multiple web development agencies as well as front end software engineering in the fintech space.

Grace has a strong passion for health, especially mental and physical and is excited to be aligned with a company with such a like-minded mission. She is based out of Charlotte, NC and enjoys most outdoor activities, but most often can be found on her bike, climbing an artificial wall or rock face, skiing when she’s back out west or spending time with her friends, family and/or border collie mix.

Ana Ferreira

Video Marketing Manager

I was born and raised in Portugal, I’m a proud mama of 2 beautiful girls and I love the chaos and growth that being a parent brings to my life. I am obsessed with just about anything that lets me be creative! I have played guitar and written songs since I was 8 years old, have a Bachelors degree in Economics from the UK and also have a heavy science background in my family (Physics and Marine Biology). Some of my proudest moments as a singer/songwriter are opening for Shakira on her 2010 tour, being a finalist in the Guitar Center Singer Songwriter Competition with Don Was and sharing my albums with the world. In recent years, I’ve become really passionate about self-development, healing oneself and others through mental health work and finding a rich spiritual inner life. I love scuba diving, baking, traveling, BBQs, hanging with family and friends, sushi and gooey undercooked brownies.

Swain Molster

Senior Software Engineer

Swain is a software engineer with a passion for building products focused on people. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.S. in Computer Science in 2017, he went to work building iOS apps on behalf of CapTech Consulting.

After his time at CapTech, he spent nine months backpacking solo across the west coast of South America. After returning, he moved back to North Carolina, and joined the team at LifeOmic.

When Swain’s not working, he’s probably playing guitar!

Lisa Hawke

Chief Legal Officer

Prior to joining LifeOmic, Lisa led Security and Compliance at Everlaw, a Series C startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, K9 Ventures, and CapitalG, Alphabet’s Growth Equity Investment Fund. Before joining Everlaw, she spent almost a decade in the energy industry in Houston, Texas and a shorter time as a Law Fellow at the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, D.C. After the Deepwater Horizon accident, she managed Natural Resource Damage Assessment investigations and the $1 billion early environmental restoration program.

Lisa earned a BS in Environmental Science at the University of New Hampshire and a JD at Suffolk University Law School. When she’s not working, Lisa enjoys reading, writing, birding, and traveling the world with her husband.

Alejandro Corredor

Senior Software Engineer

Alejandro has always been passionate about designing and building things. He also has always been passionate about tech, extending from his love of games. So, after studying Architecture for a year, he decided to switch majors to combine all three of them. He majored in Computer Science and received a Bachelor’s degree from Florida International University in 2017. Shortly after, he joined Xevo, a Seattle based company that built software for the automotive and cruise industry. During his time there, he worked as a full-stack engineer building web and mobile apps. Later on, he started working at Univision Communications. He worked on the company’s tech team, which was in charge of developing the company’s digital experience. After two years there, he joined the team at LifeOmic as the first remote engineer on the SkillSpring team. He is based in Miami, FL.

Alejandro is originally from Venezuela, so in his free time you’ll definitely find him watching or playing soccer. He also loves gaming and snowboarding; he tries to find colder places than Miami for the latter, so he is always up for recommendations.

Lauren Murray

Bioinformatics Scientist

Lauren is a cancer specialist passionate about the role of Omics and Data Science in personalized medicine and translational biology. Her research interests are cancer prevention, disease detection and drug resistance.

Lauren studied Computer Science and Bioinformatics at Miami University. She joins us after six years at Eli Lilly in early phase development of cancer therapeutics. Her pastimes include art, event planning, cycling and trying to keep houseplants alive.

Evan Heisler

Senior Software Engineer

Evan grew up immersed in technology and learned how to work on computers from his father. After earning a degree in graphic design in 2007, he found his way back to programming as a frontend engineer bringing beautiful designs and user experiences to digital life and combining his love for art and science.

Evan has spent most of his career building web applications for startups, non-profits and socially responsible brands. The advent of client-side JavaScript frameworks was a pivotal moment and has been his focus ever since.

When not on the computer, Evan enjoys woodworking and is an avid endurance sport athlete both on foot and bike, participating in many 100+ mile adventures around the country.

Richard Neidermyer

Software Architect

Richard has been coding since high school, self-taught, creating DOS programs through trial and error. This interest lead to the opportunity to take his high school’s first programming course offerings. Set onto a path that cumulated in completing a Computer Science BS degree at East Stroudsburg University and his master’s from Purdue University (@IUPUI campus).

Still an undergrad, Richard joined Interactive Intelligence as an intern creating business communications solutions eventually specializing in telephony and media processing. He enjoyed a 20 year journey with Interactive and Genesys covering a full spectrum of engineering roles. Richard’s last role before joining LifeOmic was as an Architect and Senior Development Director leading a group in developing a highly scalable cloud architecture for business communications.

Richard lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, three kids and an unruly dog. He enjoys coaching youth baseball and staying busy with his family and a variety of outdoor activities.

Bruce Glazier

Mobile Software Engineer

Bruce is a Senior Mobile Infrastructure Engineer with a unique career trajectory beginning as an Associate Electrical Engineer after graduating from New Hampshire Technical Institute in 2011 with an A.S. Degree in Electronic Engineering Technology.

Soon after starting his first job, he noticed that much of the tooling and equipment was very dated and there was a lot of capacity for innovation. This is where his passion for streamlining and automation began. Bruce spent the next 8 years with Exacom improving the efficiency of development, staging, installation, and customer support. He eventually realized that he wanted to work with modern platforms and tooling which led him to WillowTree and several years later, LifeOmic.

Outside of work you will find Bruce hanging with his family, working on DIY projects, watching tv and playing PC games. He also enjoys cooking, eating, hiking, camping, and sitting around a fire.

Teddy Sterne

Senior Software Engineer

Teddy joined LifeOmic in early 2021 as a fullstack developer. He is enthusiastic about software development and is always looking for new ways to learn and to enhance his skills. He is a frequent contributor on Stack Overflow and enjoys giving presentations on software technologies and concepts.

Teddy graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2015 with a B.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering.

After college, Teddy worked as a software consultant specializing in the development of user-centered web applications. As a consultant, Teddy learned how to quickly switch between new technologies and paradigms giving him a broad set of skills he uses to create reliable solutions.

In his free time, Teddy enjoys spending time with his wife Sarah and their border collie Nic, playing videogames, doing jigsaw puzzles, watching movies, working on side projects, and socializing with friends.

Shelagh Fraser

Chief Medical Officer

Shelagh has a comprehensive understanding of the delivery of healthcare, having practiced internal medicine in academic, inpatient, traditional outpatient and direct primary care environments. She currently practices internal medicine at Priority Physicians, a direct primary care practice in Indianapolis. Shelagh not only has a passion for extending lifespan, but also for optimizing the healthspan of her patients. She encourages people to care about their own health. She combines her 25 years of clinical experience with a dedication to staying current with evidence-based advancements in medicine. She joins LifeOmic with a focus on advocating for improved health at a population level.

Shelagh earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a medical degree from Yale University. She completed her residency training in internal medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. After moving to Indianapolis, she was a National Research Service Award Fellow and earned a master’s degree as part of the Clinical Investigator Training Enhancement Program at the Regenstrief Institute.

Shelagh, her husband, three children, and two dogs live in Indianapolis.

Jonathan Branam

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Jonathan began programming on his parent’s TI-99/4A with its BASIC interpreter building simple text adventures, eventually learning x86 assembly language and landing a job at a small game development studio called Monolith Productions outside of Seattle. Later, he moved on from video games to work in all areas of full stack software development, preferring positions where he could interact with end users and apply data and research to the software development process. He was a member of the architecture team at Ontario Systems where he helped design future generations of their software and later lead teams of developers improving UX and UI for their customers at EffectiveUI.

In 2012, Jonathan joined a consulting company in China and moved there with his wife and four (later five) kids, studying Chinese every day for several years to achieve fluency, and experiencing the joys and struggles of living in another country and culture. As his children got older, the family decided to return to Indiana for their continued education and to live closer to family.

During this period Jonathan improved his skills in data science and machine learning and completed his master’s degree in Data Science from Indiana University in 2019. He has been working as a data scientist or machine learning engineer while continuing to pursue his love of using machines to solve the real needs of people.

Jonathan currently lives in the countryside near Muncie, IN with his wife and five children where they can enjoy nature and the outdoors. Outside of work, he is passionate about personal wellness and encouraging others to self-educate and achieve their wellness and life goals, which is a passion he shared with his father. He loves building things, woodworking, engineering projects, playing board games, and all outdoor activities, especially when he can do it together with family and friends.

Courtney Adams

Lifeology Science Writer and Communications Specialist

Courtney is a science writer who strives to make others excited about health and science. She is passionate about education and the ability for visuals to help people learn. She earned her B.S. in Biomedical Sciences before combining her enthusiasm for science with her lifelong interest in writing by pursuing an M.S. in Science and Technology Journalism.

In her free time, Courtney enjoys playing board games, tending to her houseplants and fish tanks, and spending time with her dog and two cats.

Thomas DuScheid

Senior Product Manager

Tom enters LifeOmic with a diverse background in product management. This includes healthcare with Greenlight Health, digital advertising with Netsertive, channel marketing with Zift Solutions, and email hosting applications with Rackspace.

Tom has enjoyed bringing new products and features to market as well as growing and redeveloping existing products. Tom utilizes his knowledge of frontend and backend technologies as well as his strengths in collaboration and intrapreneurialism to move these projects forward. Ultimately he loves creating experiences that delight users and bring value to the business.

Tom earned a Bachelor of Science in Management and Marketing from Virginia Tech (go Hokies!) and now resides in Raleigh. He has been practicing the traditional Korean martial art of Tang Soo Do for over 26 years and also enjoys running and traveling.

Sandra Chouinard

Customer Success Manager

Sandy is an experienced leader and consultant, with a strong track record of successful solutions delivery addressing customers’ business challenges. She is committed to focusing on customer satisfaction to ensure lasting and growing relationships through delivery of SaaS or custom development solutions that promote continuous value and improvement.

Sandy’s career has focused on business process improvements in the information technology and services industry across various business verticals, including healthcare, manufacturing, finance and petroleum. Her strong internal and customer team engagement skills complemented by extensive program management experience enable her to make a substantial difference wherever she works.

Sandy is an accomplished professional with a Canadian Financial Accounting designation and holds a Graduate Certificate focused in Health Information Management and Exchange from Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. She is also PMP Certified, Certified Agile Coach and Certified Change Management Practitioner. In her spare time she keeps busy with scouting, traveling, curling and any adventure on or below the water.

Andy North

Mobile Software Engineer

Before beginning his career in software development, Andy obtained his BA in Education from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He worked as a kindergarten teacher, then a science teacher, and performed at night in the Chicago comedy scene.

An amateur game designer, Andy enrolled in Fullstack Academy in Chicago in the fall of 2016 to learn JavaScript development, and began building workout games for iOS and Android shortly thereafter. Since then, Andy has worked as a JavaScript instructor, and has built out web and mobile apps at several organizations.

When not programming, Andy enjoys running, spending time with his wife and cats, and landscaping.

Melissa Crandall

Administrative Specialist

Melissa graduated from Purdue University, and comes to LifeOmic with 15 years of experience in IT Management and Administrative Support. Additionally, she previously owned a small business focused on teaching individuals and small groups about topics such as mindfulness and meditation.

Melissa spends her free time with her two kids and dog, hiking, playing music, writing, taking photos, and dabbling in new hobbies that catch her attention.

Schaffer Stewart

Software Engineer

Schaffer first started coding when he joined a robotics team as a kid. Before joining LifeOmic, he worked for an Electric Cooperative and IBM. At IBM he worked on blockchain applications and cloud infrastructure, specializing in the development of cloud capacity management software.

Schaffer is very passionate about Civic Tech and improving his community through technology. He was a Code for America Brigade Captain at Code for Greensboro before leading an open-source NC campaign finance project at the Open Raleigh Brigade.

In his free time he enjoys collecting and listening to vinyl, cooking, baking and hiking.

John Yamich

Lead Product Security Engineer

John joined LifeOmic in the fall of 2020 as a Product Security Engineer with over 15 years of experience in Cyber Security. In college he studied network engineering and went on to receive a Master of Science Degree from Purdue University in Information Security with his research focused on hash cracking using GPUs.

In John’s free time, you’ll find him playing online games with friends, coding for fun, traveling (pre-Covid), and working on home improvement projects.

Juliana DeLong

Growth Marketing Manager

Jules, a Raleigh native, graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor’s in Business Marketing. She enjoys thinking creatively to develop and execute on growth-focused strategic marketing plans and has a passion for improving health and wellness in the lives of those around her.

Prior to joining the LifeOmic team, Jules worked as a digital marketing strategist at a leading digital agency in Raleigh, where she created and implemented paid media advertising strategies for clients in a wide range of industries. Here she learned her love of marrying creativity and strategic thinking with data analysis to build and evolve effective marketing plans.

Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband, Dylan, and their German Shepherd, Sadie. Jules is passionate about travel, exploring new places, and trying new foods. She also loves anything that allows her to be creative: painting, yoga, photography, design, and fashion.

Stephanie Krizman

Facility Manager/Director of Hospitality

My name is Stephanie Krizman and I work as the event and hospitality manager for the Salt Lake City branch of LifeOmic Inc. I bring a solid 20 years of professional experience in the hospitality industry to the table when hosting corporate retreats, business lunches and casual get togethers.

I graduated from the University of Utah in 1994 with a BS in Earth Sciences while working as an evening prep cook for a new and innovative Italian restaurant in Park City, Utah. The owner invited me to take a more permanent roll and we eventually went on to open eight different concept restaurants, a retail bakery and organic farm. I was encouraged to continue my education along the way and received a baking and pastry certificate from The Culinary Institute of America, St. Helena as well as attending numerous courses taught by notable pastry chefs across the country.

I was lucky enough to have a strong voice within the restaurant group and was able to establish policies for the things I believe in. Things like recycling, food pantry donations, mentorships, farmer’s markets, teaching cooking and supporting local agriculture as much as possible. I received the 2008 “Pastry Chef of the Year” award from Salt Lake Magazine and have appeared in numerous local magazine pieces and even a handful of stomach butterfly inducing television cooking segments.

Taking the time to hand craft a delicious meal from fresh, organic ingredients has always been my passion. Along the way I’ve baked birthday cakes for president’s (Obama!), cooked for NBA players, politicians and even royals but I’ve never had as much fun as I’ve had cooking for all the hungry scientists, programmers and intellectuals that work for LifeOmic, Inc.

Stephen Grogg

Senior Software Engineer

Stephen started specializing in accounting at Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, though his passion for technology inspired him to switch gears. Stephen started his career working for an insurance company in Chicago (CNA) as a Java Developer. He then moved to Indianapolis to build experience as a software engineer at companies such as Aprimo, Interactive Intelligence, Angie’s List and Cox Automotive.

Stephen has a passion for building software using many different technologies. He enjoys building something from scratch and seeing it being used in the industry. Stephen has worked in a variety of industries including insurance, marketing, telecommunication, e-commerce and automotive. He has been involved in the tech community administering a NodeJS meetup in Indianapolis for several years.

When not focusing on technology, he likes to play card and board games such as Magic the Gathering. Stephen loves hanging out with friends and family, taking trips to new places, and lighting fireworks. Visiting wineries and distilleries has been a new adventure in his life.

James Dunn

VP of Sales

James comes to LifeOmic with a wide ranging sales and service background in Healthcare IT, Capital Imaging and Pharmaceuticals. Most recently James spent eleven years with Vocera Communications, a leader in the enterprise communication space, where he led teams to close several of the largest commercial deals in company history. Prior to his work at Vocera, James spent time with GE Healthcare in diagnostic imaging sales and also with Merck, where he began his career after graduating from North Carolina State University.

James resides in Raleigh, North Carolina and enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids. Outside of work he is an avid fan of rock n roll music and baseball.

Liam Roach

Software Engineer Intern

Liam is a LifeOmic summer 2021 intern tasked with working on the backend of Lifeology. His interest in computers and electronics began at a young age. Besides enjoying computers for online gaming, Liam has self-taught himself various computer languages, such as Rust, and is currently tackling JavaScript. In high school he was awarded the AP + PLTW Achievement Award in Engineering.

Liam is currently studying engineering at Purdue University. In his free time he enjoys playing video games, collecting and restoring old electronics, reading sci-fi novels, and learning japanese for fun.

Clayton Mercer

Associate Software Engineer

Clayton has always loved computers throughout his life and that love grew into a bachelor’s degree at Ball State University in Computer Science. He has a wide variety of experiences ranging from web development to game development. Mobile development has also played a part in his software development career as he has worked on a number of iOS and Android applications too. Clayton not only loves software engineering, but also computer hardware. With a minor in Computer Technology, PC hardware is another aspect of his life and he thoroughly enjoys building PCs.

When life slows down, he loves spending time with family and friends. Playing the violin is also a skill he keeps in his back pocket as he has played for over 12 years.

Allison Barkel

Customer Success Manager

Allison has a passion for supporting people throughout their wellness journey and beyond. Prior to joining the LifeOmic Team, Allison spent her career in K-16 education and worked at IUPUI, Higher Learning Commission and Project Lead The Way where she honed her skills in learning and development, onboarding, client engagement, and instructional strategies.

Allison has a B.B.A in Human Resource Management from Eastern Michigan University and a M.S.Ed in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University. As a lifelong learner she is always in pursuit of a certification or training opportunity to continue to enhance her knowledge.

Allison is also involved in the Indianapolis community through organizations focused on environmentalism, arts & culture, and food access for all. She loves to travel, read, spend time outdoors, laugh with loved ones and live life as one great adventure.

Levi Olson

Senior Software Engineer

Levi started coding as a hobby, helping friends/family create websites. After high school, he joined the Air National Guard, and later graduated from South Dakota State University with a plan to be an Electrical Engineer. During his second job in the Engineering field, he realized he was doing more website/software creation than actual Electrical Engineering and decided to make a switch and turn his hobby into a career.

Levi’s path quickly accelerated as he was doing something he enjoyed. Prior to LifeOmic, he created highly scalable services and microservices for Carsforsale.com using the latest state-of-the-art technology, with a focus on image and video manipulation and compression.

He loves God, his family, making music and if he isn’t learning about some new tech, he’s creating something new of his own.

Joshua King

Software Engineer

I got my feet wet with programming languages with my TI-83 calculator in high school. I quickly realized the power of technology to solve day-to-day tasks as I automated the majority of my Algebra courses with BASIC programs. I ended up studying Computer Science at Marshall University in my hometown of Huntington, West Virginia and fell in love with it.

I spent some time studying Computer Vision techniques in a Doctorate program at the University of Kentucky, but eventually decided that it wasn’t my cup of tea and began working as a web developer in Louisville, Kentucky. Since then, I have acted in different development and software quality roles with companies like Roche and Angie’s List.

You’ll likely find my wife and I trying new restaurants or recipes – the spicier the better! We will often take biking day trips to local rail trails and try a new restaurant as a bonus. We also have a house full of cats and dogs and we like it that way.

Jenna Dahl

Growth Marketing Manager

Jenna is a Florida native who earned her Bachelor’s in Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. While applying for PhD programs in biomedical engineering, she took a hard pivot and instead decided to explore a Master’s in Business Administration through a partnership with UF’s College of Engineering. Jenna completed her MBA in 2014 with concentrations in Marketing, Social Entrepreneurship, and Strategy.

Shortly after, Jenna migrated north to Raleigh, NC where she spent 7 years at ROI Revolution, a premier digital marketing agency in the Triangle. She worked as a Senior Advertising Analyst supporting clients across dozens of industries before shifting into an Operations Manager role, where she orchestrated client success programs and special projects for the agency.

Jenna has dedicated the better part of the past decade to coaching and competing in the sport of ultimate frisbee at youth, college, club, and semi-professional levels. She currently serves on the steering committee for the Raleigh Radiance, North Carolina’s Premier Ultimate League team.

Jenna shares her life with her partner TJ and their two rescue hounds. She enjoys visiting friends in cities across the US, traveling to National Parks, listening to podcasts, curating her pollinator garden, playing pickleball, and adopting new obsessions (most recently, Formula 1 racing).

Deborah Roach

Documentation Writer

Deborah has a diverse background as a retail pharmacist, community college teacher, business center manager, and fiction writer (paranormal, fantasy, drama, and horror). At LifeOmic, she translates the complex functions built by LO’s creative developers, into an easy to understand User Documentation Guide, to help our clients navigate and utilize our products with ease.

David Meade

Director of Compliance

David joined LifeOmic in the summer of 2020 as our Director of Compliance. David brings with him 20+ years of experience in Information Security and Compliance earned in everything from startups to market leading cloud providers.

When not at work, David enjoys an eclectic list of hobbies and interests including: online gaming, singing, coding/development, Esperanto, flying (David is a licensed private pilot), short-wave radio (David is also a licensed ham radio operator), and travel.

Greg Roth

Sales Executive

Greg comes to LifeOmic with a wide range of sales and service experience primarily in Healthcare. Most recently Greg was with Hillrom in the Welch Allyn Division where he led teams working with several of the largest healthcare systems in the West. Prior to his work at Hillrom, Greg spent time with Abbott in Core Lab sales and also with B. Braun Medical. Greg began his professional career after graduating from California State University, Sacramento.

Greg resides in Granite Bay, California and enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids. Outside of work he enjoys being active outdoors and traveling with his family.

Thad Smith

Senior Software Engineer

I found a passion for software development in college. Originally on a course to become a chemical engineer, I switched majors to computer science and left school early to pursue a hot job market looking for anyone and everyone who had Java and web development experience. I eventually finished my degree from WSU while working full time for a project management software startup (Pacific Edge Software in Kirkland, WA). After the startup was sold, I began looking for my next thing and landed at a boutique IFE company, Custom Control Concepts. There I developed and maintained their cabin management user interfaces as well as the audio/video on demand systems. Eventually CCC was purchased and I decided to set out on my own and built and maintained the full software stack for adviserly.com a product/service that tries to connect customers with the sales/service adviser that is “right” for them before they get to the dealership.

When I’m not working you’ll find me in the mountains, at the gym, or relaxing on the farm with my beautiful wife Kathleen and our plethora of pets.

Vir Desai

Senior Mobile Engineer

Vir’s love for engineering is attributed to building Legos at a young age. That eventually led to him receiving a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016 while trying to start his own ed tech startup. He’s worked on a variety of areas of the tech stack but has always had a focus on mobile. Originally picking up Android development off of YouTube videos in college to make apps while he was bored, he switched to learning React Native in their early days (late 2015/early 2016).

Vir joined LifeOmic having worked for varying stage startups for years. He has an obsession with sports and enjoys fitness and being around his friends and family.

Paxton Eley

Sales Development Specialist

I graduated from Washington State University with a bachelors Degree in Strategic Communication and a minor in Hospitality and Business Management. My time at Washington State University lead me to be passionate about problem solving and integrating creativity into any and all business objectives. Outside of work I enjoy hiking, yoga, and any opportunity to get outside and explore. I also love to cook and am always researching new recipes and techniques in cooking.

Aaron Cheshire

Senior Software Engineer

I originally went to college for Mechanical Engineering, but after getting an introduction to software development, I decided to switch majors and got a B.S. in Computer Science in 2018. I joined a small development team for a digital marketing agency in 2017 and after about 4 years, decided to join the LifeOmic team.

Outside of work, I can often be found playing video games and board games with friends, finding fun ways to stay active, and occasionally going on local adventures to new parks and restaurants.

Jamie Renbarger Miller

Medical Research Scientist

Jamie has a passion for finding and implementing innovative ways to achieve optimal health and wellness for individuals impacted by cancer and other severe illnesses. She has over 20 years of experience as a pediatric oncology physician-scientist. Jamie’s research questions are always grounded in her experiences caring for cancer patients. Throughout her training and early career, Jamie developed a foundation for using genomics to optimize patient care. Her initial research focused on prediction of anticancer treatment-related side effects, especially chemotherapy-induced neuropathy. Jamie’s drive to understand the long-term effects of cancer and its treatments and identify innovative approaches to optimize health and wellness in people impacted by cancer and severe illnesses have come to the forefront. In an effort to fill a crucial gap in care, Jamie founded a non-profit, Karuna Precision Wellness Center in 2020, a center focused on providing coordinated integrative medicine services aimed at helping people to live healthy, happy, productive lives. Her role at Lifeomic compliments this incredibly well—with a focus on improving the health of our population, thereby preventing severe illnesses when possible and improving long-term health and wellness during and after severe illnesses.

Jamie earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Rochester and a medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine, where she also completed her pediatrics residency training. She then went on to Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Cancer Center in Houston to complete pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship training. She relocated to Indianapolis after completion of her training to join the faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) where she also earned a master’s degree in clinical research as part of the Clinical Investigator Training Enhancement Program. Jamie is the Caroline Symmes Professor of Pediatrics and Division Chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at IUSM.

Jamie, her two children, and two dogs live in Indianapolis.

Michelle Paul

Lifeology Health Writer and Content Manager

Michelle’s true passion has always been writing, but after working as a registered nurse for the better part of a decade, she’s combined that passion with a love for health education and literacy to ensure people and their communities are empowered to live healthy lives.

After receiving a B.S. in Nursing from Weber State University, she immediately followed it with a post-baccalaureate certification in technical writing. Since then, she’s changed off working as either a hands-on nurse or health writer until joining the Lifeology content team at LifeOmic.

In her free time, she enjoys photographing people and stars and traveling to new places.

Laurel Shelley-Reuss

Graphic Illustrator

Laurel is an illustrator and comic artist with a passion for finding engaging ways to innovate storytelling through visual art. She has been a professional illustrator serving non-profit, governmental and private entities for over 10 years, as well as a comic artist for a graphic novel and three long-running webcomics in addition to book covers, coloring books and children’s mascots.

Michael Haffey

Director of Channel Sales

Michael’s passion for over 30 years has been creating and deploying innovative strategies to assist employers and their employees in controlling their health insurance spend by providing access to appropriate low cost, high outcome providers, while accessing solutions that move them towards holistic wellness and optimal health.

Michael has provided leadership in the employees benefits industry as both the founder and principal of three successful insurance agencies and as part of the executive leadership team in 2 top 10 National insurance agencies. He has been helping employers as well as State based and Nationl Associations provide appropriate Next Generation member benefits since 1996. He has spoken at the White House to DOL and HHS on Assocaition Health Plan success.

Michael graduated from Miami University, where he met his wife of 30+ years, Catherine. They make their home in Naples, FL after spending 20 years in Indianapolis raising their family. The family consists of Jack and Mary, both student-athletes. Michael and Cathy enjoy traveling, cycling, plant-based cooking, animal rescue and are active members of Grow Church in Naples.

Austin Stevens

Security Analyst

I worked as a dental technician for 14 years. When I had my first kid I decided to change my life. Went to school while working full time and finished my degree on April 1, 2020 at Western Governors University in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance. I have sense worked at Intermountain Healthcare and Fidelity Investments.

I love to travel. My wife is Korean and we’ve been able to travel to South Korea a couple of times. We are attempting to learn the language as well. I enjoy fly fishing and tying fly’s, snowboarding and hiking and camping in the mountains. I also enjoy developing websites and I’m continuing to learn coding, as well as all things security.

Angie Smith

User Success Manager

Angie has over 20 years of experience building and leading teams in a variety of industries from long-term care facilities to Fintech SaaS start-ups. She lives out her best life on a small, 10-acre dairy farm, in rural South Carolina, where her family breeds and shows ADGA registered Nigerian Dwarf goats. Her small hobby farm sparked a passion for studying genetics and Angie has spent the last couple of years collaborating on an ai application which leverages PTA and PTI data to predict conformation and production outcomes based on potential pairings of highly competitive dairy goats.

Angie spends her free time with her husband, 5 kids, and 5 grandchildren. She enjoys glamping by the lake, snorkeling in the Caribbean, and Clemson Football.

Austin Lee

Security Analyst

When I originally started attending Weber State University, I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to major in but had plans to get a degree in Economics. After a few classes, I quickly realized it wasn’t for me. I have always loved to tinker with computers and technology so naturally that was my next idea, and I went on to complete a degree in Information Systems & Technology.

I love enjoying the great outdoors that Utah has to offer and try to spend as much of my free time as possible in the mountains via activities like hiking, mountain biking, and especially skiing.

Christopher Smith

Software Engineer

Before becoming a software developer, Chris was a landscaper, a dishwasher, a maid, a city park worker and a tutor (among other things that he can’t remember, and not in that order). He wrote his first “hello world” program at the tender age of 30 and never looked back.

He enjoys tinkering with javascript, reading about technology, playing musical instruments, singing in the car, skateboarding, spending time with his wife and cats, and writing about himself in the third person.

Nathan Xavier

Sales Executive

Nathan comes from a background in the healthcare Saas space. His passion is helping other people, so working in this space is a natural fit. He lives in Rhode Island (not to be confused with Long Island) with his wife and 2 sons, Brody and Casey.

They enjoy fishing, hiking, winter sports, and anything that is related to New England sports teams.

Matt Nicolls

Software Engineer

Matt graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014 with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and a Minor in Computer Science. Since then, he’s been the first employee at 3 different SaaS startups with domains in ASR, computer vision, and law. His responsibilities focused on the full development and creation of the product including frontend, backend, devops, product management, and anything else needed to make great products. These companies also allowed him to see the world and live in Los Angeles, California; Darmstadt, Germany; and Vienna, Austria.

In his free time, Matt likes to run, lift weights, play ultimate frisbee, play board games, play computer games, learn new things, and spend time with family and friends.

Charles Bevan

Principal Security Engineer

Charles graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2010 with a Masters in Computer Science. His first job was at 3C Institute where he started as a game developer and eventually moved into the IT and dev-ops space. After working with 3C he moved on to work for the CSIRT team at CISCO. Moving from a small company to a very large company was a bit of a shock, but provided many opportunities to learn.

In his free time Charles likes to participate in CTF competitions, play video games, and play board games with friends.

Samir Hasanov

Senior Software Engineer

I received my Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Qafqaz University, Azerbaijan in 2014.

I started working in 2012 as an intern at a software company, using plain JavaScript and Java web technologies as Servlets and JSP. Then I worked at several banking and software companies, developing software for ATMs, Online and Mobile Banking. In my previous role, I was developing distributed serverless services to support online ordering for large restaurant chains in the United States.

I enjoy reading books, hiking, video games, and playing ping-pong and soccer.

Dave Lyon

Mobile Architect

After graduating from Northern Michigan University with a degree in Computer Science, Dave stumbled into full-stack web app development for a few years before gradually making his way to working on full-stack mobile apps. Dave has worked at a number of startups in industries ranging from consumer mobile apps, to B2C subscription payment processing.

With a focus on performance and simplicity, Dave is always aiming to push the limits of what’s possible with today’s technology.

Dave also enjoys pinball, roller skating, biking, photography and deck-building games.

Paul Weber

Advisor

Paul is a seasoned strategic advisor with 25 plus years of experience in the enterprise software (SaaS) industry focused on Go To Market Strategies.

Paul’s most recent experience was as Chief Business Officer and SVP of Sales, at Interactive Intelligence, Inc. that went public in 1999 and was recently acquired by Genesys for $1.4B. Interactive was a global provider of business communications software in the Unified Communications/Contact Center space. Joining Interactive in 1997, Paul was part of the original team that set the go-to-market strategy while scaling the direct and channel salesforce to $400m in revenue and over 2,000 employees.

Prior to joining Interactive, Paul spent five years with Software Artistry Inc. selling within the early-stage HelpDesk (CRM) industry. He worked from the startup phase of the business through the IPO, leaving just prior to the time the company was sold to IBM.

Paul currently serves as a Board Member and/or Advisor to several early-stage private (Cloud) companies including Capacity AI, Inference Solutions (recently sold to Five 9’s) and Glia.

Milad Alucozai

Advisor

Milad Alucozai invests in early-stage bio, healthcare, and deep technology companies. He is a Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, a global fund with a portfolio value of over $5 billion. In 2020, he was appointed as an External Advisor to AstraZeneca, working on initiatives to partner more closely with startups. He proudly serves as a Mentor for groups like the Creative Destruction Lab and Harvard University iLabs.

Milad’s career began as a bench scientist working in translational neuroscience and multiphysics labs. He transitioned into becoming a founder and part of the founding team of multiple healthcare and bio startups. He is part of the founding team at Mekonos, a San Francisco-based company building a platform for cell delivery supporting the future of cell and gene therapies. Prior to this, he served as CBO at Corstem, a company specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence software (acquired by Circle Cardiovascular, a platform used in over 1000 hospitals and in more than 40 countries). He was also part of Numerate, a San Francisco-based drug discovery company (acquired by Valo Health). During his time at Accenture, Milad led data science and engineering teams focused on AI products for global pharmaceutical companies and hospital networks.

He is a former Visiting Scholar in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center. He was a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program. As a George J. Mitchell Scholar, he completed graduate school in Immunology & Public Health.

Shawn Zhu

Principal Software Engineer

Shawn is enthusiastic about Linux, databases and distributed systems starting from resolving material manufacturing problems by computer simulation. After graduating from Tsinghua University in 2007, he joined IBM as a software engineer to work on software development including application runtimes, cloud computing infrastructures and SaaS tools.

Prior to LifeOmic, Shawn’s passion on data drives his focus to open source data analytics from running large scale applications. He’s active in open source communities, Stack Overflow and enjoys collaborating with developers all over the world.

In his spare time, Shawn loves exploring state parks with his family.

Kevin Schwaar

Software Engineer

Kevin started programming during his college years at Southern Utah University where he earned his BS in computer science in 2018. Since graduating, Kevin has worked as a full stack developer on multiple smaller team projects. As a result of the varying projects, domains, teams, and colleagues, Kevin has worked with many technologies and has grown to appreciate the cleanliness and organization needed for any software solution to succeed. He continues to learn and explore new potential improvements to cloud architectures and serverless systems.

Outside of the cyber world, Kevin enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids. Their favorite vacation spot is the Oregon coast where they can comb beaches and explore marine life. Kevin also enjoys playing disc golf whenever he gets the chance.

Mike Cluck

Senior Software Engineer

As a kid in Oklahoma, Mike became fascinated by computers and what they could do. He spent a lot of time making games in ZZT and taking apart electronics with mixed results putting them back together. Since then he developed a desire to build software that helps real people solve real problems.

Before joining LifeOmic, he designed and worked on a web-based radiology imaging application and worked on a technology education platform used by thousands of people around the world.

In his free time, he likes to work on personal programming projects (often compilers) and spend time with his wife traveling the world, exploring new foods, and playing board games.

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