20.3214, Jobs: English, Natural Lang Processing: Programmer, U of Minnesota

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Subject: 20.3214, Jobs: English, Natural Lang Processing: Programmer, U of Minnesota

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Date: 22-Sep-2009
From: Genevieve Melton-Meaux < gmelton at umn.edu >
Subject: English & Natural Language Processing: Programmer / Research Programmer, University of Minnesota, USA
 

	
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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:10:13
From: Genevieve Melton-Meaux [gmelton at umn.edu]
Subject: English & Natural Language Processing: Programmer / Research Programmer, University of Minnesota, USA

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University or Organization: University of Minnesota 
Department: Institute for Health Informatics
Job Location: Minnesota, USA 
Job Rank: Programmer  

Specialty Areas: Natural Language Processing

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

The University of Minnesota, Institute for Health Informatics seeks to hire
a Research Programmer/Analyst for our group. Individual to be involved with
projects utilizing large, complex healthcare datasets, biomedical
ontologies, medical text-mining, and other informatics tools. 

Duties:
1) Design, build, implement, and maintain applications and research
datasets for health informatics research. 
2) Medical textmining and other datamining and statistical techniques. 
3) Responsible for all aspects of system implementation cycle, including
developing code and scripts, testing and debugging, executing and analyzing
software, and maintaining applications 
4) Designing and populating online content, tools, and services for data
collection, on-line forms, and data reports/analysis 
5) Assist with server maintenance as needed for software upgrades and
enhancement projects. 
6) Support and provide data analytical services including statistical
analysis for research. 
7) Manage and delegate research projects. 
8) Strong administrative skills and detail orientation, keeping projects on
timeline.  


Required Qualifications: 
1) Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
AND four years of progressive experience in a variety of analytic, computer
science, and information technology areas related to the job duties as
described.
2) Background or coursework in biomedical informatics and biostatistics. 
3) Strong interest or experience with medicine, healthcare, or biology. 
4) Demonstrate proficiency with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, SQL) and
operating systems (particularly Unix or Linux, including shell scripting) 
5) Significant experience with Perl or scripting language for text
processing/scripting. 
6) Significant experience creating and formatting reports using XML data
and XSLT. 
7) Experience with Web-based application development for creation and
maintenance of online content and tools for data collection and analysis. 
8) Strong analytical skills with statistical, mathematical, or engineering
analytic background. Experience with or an ability to learn a number of
statistical tools. 
9) Familiarity or experience with ontologies, text-mining/natural language
processing, and datamining techniques. 
10) Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills. 
11) Strong oral and written communication skills. 
12) Experience with managing large projects and administration of projects. 
13) Ability to document code clearly and comprehensively. 
14) Ability to work well within a team and to function independently.

Apply online:  https://employment.umn.edu
JOB REQUISITION NUMBER: 163269

Position opened until filled.


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://employment.umn.edu 
Contact Information:
	Program and Operations Manager Jen Trochinski 
	Email: troc0021 at umn.edu 



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