Stephen C. Grubb
HC 33 Box 91, Bass Harbor, Maine 04653
Telephone: 207-288-6633     Email: scg@jax.org



Education

M.S., Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1988.

B.S., Computer Science, The American University, Washington, DC, 1984.


Professional Experience

2000-present     Software Engineer III
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME.
    Lead developer. Design / implementation of a public scientific resource database and web site (Mouse Phenome Database; www.jax.org/phenome). Acquisition and management of biometric/phenotype data and SNP/genetic data. Web-based graphical data visualization tools and data displays. Biostatistical methods, genetic and mouse strain nomenclature, mammalian genetics terminology and concepts. Unix, C, HTML, CGI, SQL, XML, SVG, X11, MS Windows / Office desktop, RedHat Linux.


1995-2000     Senior Systems Analyst & Database Administrator
Clinical Trials and Biometry Unit, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Wilmer Eye Institute Clinical Trials Division, Baltimore, MD.
    Lead developer. Systems for multicenter clinical trials data collection, management, and reporting. Clinical trials data collection procedures and practices; biostatistical methods; ophthalmic terminology. Unix, C, HTML, X11, formfax and handwriting OCR tools.


1992-95     Overseas service worker
Mennonite Central Committee, Akron, PA. Instructor in PC applications and computer concepts at a post-secondary vocational school in central Jamaica, West Indies.
    Vocational instruction and curriculum development in cross-cultural setting. College library support. PC hardware; MS-DOS applications.


1990-92     Senior Research Programmer
Genome Data Base (GDB), The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Welch Medical Library Applied Research Laboratory, Baltimore, MD.
    User interface developer in team effort. Sybase, APT-SQL, stored procedures, triggers, DBLIB, Unix. Human genome data.


1987-89     Independent Contract Software Developer (Part Time)
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research / NEI and Section on Biochemical Genetics / NIMH, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
    Independent software development / maintenance projects. Unix, C. SunOS system administration.


1984-90     Senior Programmer/Analyst
Clinical Trials and Biometry Unit, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Wilmer Eye Institute Clinical Trials Division, Baltimore, MD.
    Clinical trials data management. See also 1995-2000 above.


1983-84     Computer Clerk / Student Intern
National Institutes of Health Center for Information Technology, Bethesda, MD.
    Independent software development / maintenance / technical writing projects. IBM OS/MVS, JCL, TSO, WYLBUR.


Other activities

I have authored and distributed several free software packages including comprehensive web-based documentation. The most widely known of these is ploticus, a graphing/charting software package. Others include quisp, SHSQL, getgui, and LXlogo.

Areas of professional interest include data display and data visualization techniques, dynamic web content systems, and complexity reduction.

Enjoyments include classical music, bicycling, gardening, heating with wood, and spending time with my wife and three children.


Publications and Presentations

Presenter at short course. Forty-sixth annual short course in medical and experimental mammalian genetics, July 2005, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME.

Grubb SC, Churchill GA, Bogue MA. A collaborative database of inbred mouse strain characteristics. Bioinformatics. 2004 Nov 1;20(16):2857-9. [Pubmed: 15130929]

Bogue MA, Grubb SC. The mouse phenome project. Genetica. 2004 Sep;122:71-74. [Pubmed: 15619963]

Grubb SC. Excellent adventures with Redhat 2.4.18 on a Thinkpad 600 laptop. Self-published on the internet. [Link]

Bogue M, Marcus J, Grubb S. Mouse Phenome Database: Research tool and data resource. Complex Traits Consortium Second Annual Meeting, July 1-3 2003, Oxford University, UK. [Abstract]

Grubb SC. A passive intranet for viewing images, data, and documents at a multicenter trial coordinating center. The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, May 18-20 1998, Atlanta, GA. Abstract. Controlled Clinical Trials 19:65S, 1998.

Grubb SC, Newhouse MM. The SST fax-based data collection system. The Ninth Annual Wilmer Research Meeting, The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, March 27, 1998, Baltimore, MD.

LoPresti F, Grubb SC, Kreamer L, McBride R, Williams A. Use of imaging technologies for data capture and clinical trial form viewing. The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, May 5-8, 1996, Pittsburgh, PA. Abstract. Controlled Clinical Trials 17:21S, 1996.

Grubb SC, Newhouse MM: A comparison of two UNIX-based data management systems. Poster at Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, May 22-25, 1988, San Diego, CA. Abstract. Controlled Clinical Trials 9:279, 1988.

Presenter at short course. Principles and Practices of Data Collection, Data Management, and Data Analysis for Clinical Trials, June 1988, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Departments of Epidemiology and Ophthalmology, Baltimore, MD.

Other publications as study group member for these ophthalmic clinical trials: Macular Photocoagulation Study; Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study; Submacular Surgery Trials.