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Stuart Bogatko

Brussels

Summary

Experience working in and managing a fast paced, globally distributed software engineering team. Exposure to diverse computational techniques acquired working in the clinical trial space, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, materials science, and physics. Searching for opportunities to continue growing as a problem solver, scientist and software engineer.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Study Configuration Engineer Manager (SCE Manager)

4g Clinical
7 2021 - Current
  • Lead and motivate 20 high performing, globally distributed software engineers
  • Established regular 1 on 1 meetings and team stand-ups
  • Deliver and listen to feedback
  • Nurture culture of high quality
  • Negotiate resource allocation with stakeholders
  • Develop KPIs to track and improve team performance
  • Perform weekly metrics analysis and reporting
  • Perform annual capacity forecasts for to support headcount requests
  • Subject matter expert in all products and releases

Study Configuration Engineer (SCE)

4g Clinical
03.2019 - 06.2021
  • Responsible for technical configuration of clinical trials
  • Developed custom code (Python, Django) to implement complex workflows
  • Worked with clients and third-party vendors to develop web service and other integrations with external APIs
  • Delivered study-specific reports
  • Delivered and maintained repository of re-usable data modification scripts for data changes as needed by Support and Delivery
  • Test, troubleshooting and resolve defects
  • Primary technical support during study build process and troubleshooting production issues

Computational Scientist, Pharmacokinetic modeling

Hays Life Sciences / Janssen Pharmaceuticals
05.2017 - 02.2019
  • Worked with stakeholders to establish requirements for in-house Physiology Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling software
  • Implemented powerful high-output in-silico workflows in Matlab to predict in-vivo absorption, pharmaceutical quality attributes and clinical performance of drug products

Research Associate

Imperial College London
11.2014 - 05.2017
  • Development of quantum mechanics embedding software in Python to allow wavefunction in DFT embedding calculations
  • Investigate candidates for room temperature mazer: analysis of simulation results with experimental observations to predicting outcomes of hypothetical experiments.

Scientific Programmer/Sr. Research Associate

University College London
04.2014 - 11.2014
  • Parallel software optimization and debugging for ABINIT (quantum mechanics simulation package written in FORTRAN using MPI)

Research Fellow

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
08.2009 - 01.2014
  • Numerical simulations on HPC facilities to study reactivity of molecules in aqueous environments

Postdoctoral Researcher

Université Libre de Bruxelles
04.2009 - 08.2009
  • Installing and maintaining quantum chemistry software (NWChem) on university HPC facility
  • Numerical simulations to study radical pair mechanisms in next generation cancer therapies

Education

PhD Chemistry -

University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California
09.2002 - 12.2008

M.S. Materials Science -

Missouri State University
Springfield, Missouri
09.2000 - 06.2002

B.S. Physics -

Missouri State University
Springfield, Missouri
09.1994 - 06.2000

Skills

Software Development

Awards

  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel postdoctoral Fellowship (2012)
  • Fellowship from the NSF-International Research Fellowship Program (2010)
  • Fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation (2009)

Publications

  • NWChem: Past, present, and future., Edoardo Apra, Eric J Bylaska, Wibe A De Jong et al., The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020, 152, 184102
  • Implicit and explicit host effects on excitons in pentacene derivatives., Robert Charlton, Richard Fogarty, Stuart Bogatko, Tim Zuehlsdorff, Nick Hine, Martin Heeney, Andrew Horsfield, Peter Haynes, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018, 148, 104108
  • Molecular Design of a Room-Temperature Maser., Stuart A. Bogatko, Peter Haynes, Andrew Horsfield and Mark Oxborrow, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016, 120, 15, 8251–8260
  • On the coupling of solvent characteristics to the electronic structure of solute molecules., Stuart Bogatko, Emilie Cauët, Paul Geerlings, Frank De Proft, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014, 16, 3807-3814
  • Pressure induced changes to the speciation patterns of aqueous Al3+., Stuart Bogatko, Paul Geerlings, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014, 16, 21383-21390
  • Electron attachment-induced DNA Damage: Instantaneous Strand Breaks., Emilie Cauët, Stuart Bogatko, Jacques Liévin, Frank De Proft, Paul Geerlings, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2013, 117, 33, 9669–9676
  • Improved DFT-based interpretation of ESI-MS of Aqueous Metal Cations, Stuart Bogatko, Emilie Cauët, Paul Geerlings, Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2013, 24, 6, 926-931
  • Ion Solvation Structure and Dynamical Information via Deviations from the Solvent-Berg Diffusion Model, Stuart Bogatko, Chemical Physics Letters, 2013, 565, 148-150
  • Li+ speciation and the use of 7Li/6Li isotope ratios for ancient climate monitoring., Stuart Bogatko, Philippe Claeys, Frank De Proft, Paul Geerlings, Chemical Geology, 2013, 357, 24, 1–7
  • Rydberg electron capture by neutral Al hydrolysis products., Stuart Bogatko, Emilie Cauët, Paul Geerlings, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2013, 15, 15309-15311
  • The Aqueous Ca2+ system, in Comparison with Zn2+, Fe3+, and Al3+, An Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study., Stuart Bogatko, Emilie Cauët, Eric Bylaska, Gregory Schenter, John Fulton, John Weare, Chemistry-A European Journal, 2013, 19, 3047-3060
  • Factors Influencing Al3+-Dimer Speciation and Stability from Density Functional Theory Calculations., Stuart Bogatko, Paul Geerlings, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012, 14, 8058-8066
  • Ion Association in AlCl3 Aqueous Solutions from Constrained Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics., Emilie Cauët
  • Stuart A. Bogatko
  • Eric J. Bylaska, John H. Weare, Inorganic Chemistry, 2012, 51, 20, 10856–10869
  • Near quantitative agreement of model free DFT- MD predictions with XAFS observations of the hydration structure of highly charged transition metal ions., John L. Fulton, Eric J. Bylaska, Stuart Bogatko, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Emilie Cauët, Gregory K. Schenter, and John H. Weare, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2012, 3, 18, 2588-2593
  • The influence of F- coordination on Al3+ Hydrolysis Reactions from Density Functional Theory Calculations., Stuart Bogatko, Emilie Cauët, Paul Geerlings, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2011, 115, 14, 6910–6921
  • 1st principle dynamical simulation of hydrogen bond structure, dynamics and simple reactions in the hydration shells of highly charged metal ions., John Weare, Eric Bylaska, Stuart Bogatko, Emilie Cauët and John Fulton, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010, 74, 12, A1119-A1119
  • Cooperativity in Al3+ Hydrolysis Reactions from Density Functional Theory Calculations., Stuart Bogatko, Jan Moens and Paul Geerlings, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2010, 114, 29, 7791–7799
  • Density Functional Theory interpretation of the 1H photo-CIDNP enhancements characterizing photo-reduced polyazaaromatic Ru(II) coordination complexes., Emilie Cauët, Stuart Bogatko, Epiphanie Mugeniwabagara, Luca Fusaro, Andrée Kirsch - De Mesmaeker, Michel Luhmer and Nathalie Vaeck, Inorganic Chemistry, 2010, 49, 17, 7826-7831
  • 1st principles simulation of the bonding, vibrational and electronic properties of the hydration shells of the high spin Fe3+ ion., Stuart Bogatko, Eric Bylaska and John H. Weare, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2010, 114, 5, 2189–2200
  • Isotopic fractionation of Mg2+(aq), Ca2+(aq), and Fe2+(aq) with carbonate minerals., James Rustad, William Casey, Qing-Zhu Yin, Eric Bylaska, Andrew Felmy, Stuart Bogatko, Virgil Jackson and David Dixon, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010, 74, 22, 6301-6323
  • Structure and Dynamics of the Hydration Shells of the Zn2+ Ion from ab initio Molecular Dynamics and Combined ab initio and Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations., Emilie Cauët, Stuart Bogatko, John H. Weare, John L. Fulton, Gregory K. Schenter, and Eric Bylaska, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2010, 132, 194502
  • XAFS spectroscopy and molecular dynamics: Aqueous ions and ion pairs under non-ideal conditions., John Fulton, SM Kathmann,, Gregory Schenter, Eric Bylaska, Stuart Bogatko, John Weare, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010, 74, 12, A311-A311
  • GEOC 76-Structure and dynamics of the hydration shells of Al3+, Fe3+, Zn2+ and UO22+ ions from ab initio molecular dynamics and combined ab initio and classical molecular dynamics simulations., Eric Bylaska, Stuart Bogatko, Emilie Cauët, Patrick Nichols, John Weare, Wibe deJong, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 238
  • First-principles simulation of solvation structure and deprotonation reactions in very nonideal solutions., Eric Bylaska, Marat Valiev, Stuart Bogatko, John Weare, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2005, 69, 10, A505-A505
  • First-principles simulation of solvation structure and deprotonation reactions in very nonideal solutions., Eric Bylaska, Marat Valiev, Stuart Bogatko, John Weare, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2005, 229
  • Large scale first principles simulations for problems in earth and planetary science (ion hydration) and biochemistry (phosphoryl transfer signaling reactions)., Eric Bylaska, Marat Valiev, Stuart Bogatko, John Weare, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2005, 230
  • New developments of fast computational methods for first principles geochemical and geophysical simulations., Marat Valiev Eric Bylaska K. Tsemekman, Stuart Bogatko John Weare, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2005, 69, 10, A511-A

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
French
Intermediate (B1)

Interests

Science, Technology, Nature, Art, Music

Timeline

Study Configuration Engineer (SCE)

4g Clinical
03.2019 - 06.2021

Computational Scientist, Pharmacokinetic modeling

Hays Life Sciences / Janssen Pharmaceuticals
05.2017 - 02.2019

Research Associate

Imperial College London
11.2014 - 05.2017

Scientific Programmer/Sr. Research Associate

University College London
04.2014 - 11.2014

Research Fellow

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
08.2009 - 01.2014

Postdoctoral Researcher

Université Libre de Bruxelles
04.2009 - 08.2009

PhD Chemistry -

University of California San Diego
09.2002 - 12.2008

M.S. Materials Science -

Missouri State University
09.2000 - 06.2002

B.S. Physics -

Missouri State University
09.1994 - 06.2000

Study Configuration Engineer Manager (SCE Manager)

4g Clinical
7 2021 - Current
Stuart Bogatko