1. Dave Parizek
dparizek@gmail.com 1(520) 333-0851 linkedin.com/in/daveparizek skype: daveparizek US Citizen Tucson, AZ
Summary
 Experienced software engineer with 8+ years experience -- including 3+ years successfully leading teams of
up to 15 staff and student developers.
 Strong JavaScript, Angular JS, Python, and Django web/mobile application construction skills.
 Proven success at collaborating with diverse stakeholders to develop useful, timely software solutions.
Juggles competing projects well.
 Adept at focusing on the nitty-gritty daily details while still maintaining sight of the forest for the trees. Gets
results and finishes.
 Team focused – always a team player; proven successful as team leader. Can wear many hats.
 Loves mentoring, finding synergies, and architecting win-wins. Has positive attitude.
 Makes mistakes. Learns from them. Committed to professional improvement of self and colleagues.
 Skilled at written and verbal communication; gifted at elucidating what users need; problem solver.
 Community-minded. Concerned about giving back and doing good. Open source and open data advocate.
Expertise
 Modern software engineering practices and design patterns; especially relative to web applications
 Supervision, leadership, mentoring, and positive motivation of student and staff developers
 Project Management
 User requirements analysis,effective collaboration, client expectation management
 Public speaking and oral/written presentation
 LIMS /sample tracking; HIPPA certified
 Drupal, Django, Angular JS web application frameworks
 Python, PHP, Objective-C, JavaScript
 MySQL, PostgreSQL; general database design, query, and management
 HPC, Amazon EC2/S3, iRODS, LAMP stack
 MacOS, *nix, Angular JS, jQuery/AJAX, HTML5/CSS, SVN, Git, REST, JSON, hybrid mobile
Select Projects
 Marble (marble.arl.arizona.edu) 2014 - Present
Lead developer and architect for significant new LIMS to support clinical exome sequencing. Prototype in
production, ongoing development using Django and Angular JS.
 SLM (slm.arl.arizona.edu, cslm.arl.arizona.edu, slm3.arl.arizona.edu) 2012 – Present
Maintain legacy Django LIMS that supports high-throughput DNA sequencing wet lab services. Architect
and Lead Developer for cSLM and SLM3 next generation replacements. New products are major rebuild
with Django Rest Frameworks feeding Angular JS front end.
 LIvES (lives.arl.arizona.edu) 2013 - 2015
Lead developer for Drupal web application that serves as call center software optimized for researchers.
Interfaces with Twilio API (twilio.com) to provide VOIP and SMS functionality integrated with coaching
dashboards and researcher focused forms and reports.
 eHIP eHealth & Intervention Platform 2014-present
Second generation of LIvES project – building a reusable platform with Angular JS / Django to offer SaaS
to support behavioral and health researchers
 Hugo (hugo.arl.arizona.edu) 2012-Present
Lead developer and architect for human sample management LIMS built on Django.
 Special Pops to Immport 2012-Present
Team lead working with NIH-funded Special Populations Group and Immport (immport.niaid.nih.gov) to
hone open data sharing techniques for large-scale clinical experiment data.
 CADDE (ema.arl.arizona.edu) 2012-Present
Lead developer and architect for Drupal web application to manage medical research study conducted via
an integrated Android phone application.
 Music Enthusiast Television, Inc. (musicenthusiast.tv) 2010
Helped convert from a downloadable video sales scheme to a hosted, streaming video service. Created

2. Dave Parizek
dparizek@gmail.com 1(520) 333-0851 linkedin.com/in/daveparizek skype: daveparizek US Citizen Tucson, AZ
custom Drupal modules; integrated Flowplayer API (flowplayer.org), a Wowza server, jQuery/Ajax and
Amazon S3 to develop customer facing front end. Consulted on search engine marketing (SEM).
Community Involvement
 Open source consumer, advocate, and producer: (https://github.com/dparizek,
https://bitbucket.org/daveparizek)
 Shares knowledge publicly: (http://stackoverflow.com/users/2977962/dave-parizek, http://parizek.com)
 Presenter, UA IT Summit, 2013.
 Youth Computing and Technology Club: starting 501(c)(3) non-profit to give kids hands-on experience
with programming, robotics, technology in general.
 Guest-taught introduction to programming to elementary school classrooms.
 Active participant and founder of Bio5 Developer Brown Bag SIG.
 Volunteer Project Lead for open source project NewEcosystems (http://newecosystems.org) - an Angular
JS / Django web application that provides suggested native planting lists to neighborhood groups. Plants
are selected based on sound community ecology science.
 HerpCount (www.herpcount.org) Primary developer of an open source Drupal web application to enable
citizen scientists to contribute herpetological distribution and activity data.
Employment History
Sep 2014 – present Manager of Software Engineering
Biotech Computing Facility, Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona
Jul 2011 – Aug 2014 Applications Systems Analyst / Developer, Senior
Biotech Computing Facility, Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona
Jan 2011 – Jul 2011 Applications Systems Analyst / Developer
Biotech Computing Facility, Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona
2008 – 2010 Freelance PHP / MySQL / Drupal Web Developer
1997 – 2007 Small Business Operator, Stay Home Dad, and Stock Day Trader
Developed Objective-C / Mac OSX Cocoa software that integrated with eBay’s and Amazon Marketplace’s
APIs. Developed custom trade management software using PHP, MySQL, Frontier.
Education
B.S., Wildlife & Fisheries Science, University of Arizona 1993
M.S. candidate, Wildlife & Fisheries Science, University of Arizona -- completed most of the requirements and all
of the funding deliverables for M.S.
Publications
Rosen, P. C., Schwalbe, C. R., Parizek, D. A., Holm, P. A., & Lowe, C. H. (1994). Introduced aquatic vertebrates in
the Chiricahua region: Effects of declining native ranid frogs. Biodiversity and management of the Madrean
Archipelago: the sky islands of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, 251-261.
Parizek, D. A., Rosen, P. C., Schwalbe, C. R., & Lowe, C. H. "FINAL REPORT IIPAM PROJECT NUMBER 92051 -
Ecology of the Mexican Rosy Boa and the Ajo Mountain Whipsnake" (1996).