Jeffrey Hoover

Jeff is a Software Engineer at the J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). He is a member of the JCVI CAMERA project staff, with a focus on design, implementation, and administration of databases. He joined JCVI in September 2005. Jeff has extensive experience providing database solutions for scientific research projects extending back over the past decade. Previously, at Celera Genomics, he was instrumental in the redesign of Celera's Internal Data Store, improving query response, implementing an effective versioning strategy to support incremental publication, and leveraging Oracle's partitioning option to support efficient data loading and archiving. At Oxford Molecular Group, Jeff was part of the team that created the RS3 chemical structure module, the first commercial application to implement chemical substructure searching in a relational database. In his final two years with OMG, he was promoted to Principal Investigator for the contract supporting the National Cancer Institute's Drug Information System, a primary client of RS3. Jeff graduated from Bucknell University of Lewisburg Pennsylvania in 1981 with a B.S. in Mathematics.