Michael Cordell

Architect of a framework that provides rapid development of medical data abstraction software. Utilized this framework to build and release multiple products to the quality-of-care market. This framework and application constellation became the foundation of the company's push into data and technology offerings.

• As a tech lead, coordinated the delivery of sub-applications on strict deadlines. In parallel, balanced work on performance improvements to the underlying framework to improve user experience.
  • Leader in the product development practice within a Scrum framework. Guided decision making around performance and scalability.
• Developed with full test coverage and well structured object oriented practices.
  • Tech stack was a combination of Ruby on Rails backing a PostgreSQL database. Application provided GraphQL APIs to Ember and React front-ends and served from an AWS cloud environment.

• Active and significant contributions to two commerce-focused Rails applications, multiple PHP applications, and a ruby gem
• Worked within an Open Allocation style of management, which entails:
  • enhanced project management skills
  • simultaneous engagement across multiple projects
  • continuous effective interdepartmental collaboration and communication
• Lead engineer on three successfully executed long-term projects under Open Allocation

• Designed and deployed a group of websites for the Sei Querce Vineyards’ product line
• Work included literature research and synthesis for a book on nutrition
• Built a custom content management system for the Six Oaks Farm branch of Sei Querce Vineyards
  • Application written in PHP using the Yii framework and MVC principles
  • Includes both an in-app management and emailing of weekly harvest updates

• Autonomously developed and executed a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI) study on changes in appetitive behavior and neural circuitry underlying these changes.
  • Study focused on changes in appetitive behavior and neural circuitry underlying these changes
  • The experiment required sound planning and people management skills including: protocol development, subject screening, recruitment, and MRI scanning
• Sole programmer for all scripts across the entire continuum of the experiment
  • Wrote stimuli presentation and data collection scripts in MATLAB. This was challenging due to the granularity required in time-tracking and coordination with the fMRI scanner.
  • Data analysis scripts combined shell, MATLAB, and Python which drove the fMRIB software library.

Designed, programmed, and implemented a series of Flash-based immunology cases for use in U.C.S.B professor’s medical immunology class

• Product was a game that graded students on their ability to correctly diagnose a patient through symptom presentation and diagnostic tests
• Underlying game logic was written in Action Script and included approximately 20 scenarios with 30 different diagnostic tests
• Crafted the underlying SQL queries to store users and scores in a MySQL database

Hinkle W, Cordell M, Leibel R, Rosenbaum M, Hirsch J (2013) Effects of Reduced Weight Maintenance and Leptin Repletion on Functional Connectivity of the Hypothalamus in Obese Humans. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59114 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059114