I have based my career on building and leading high functioning teams that accomplish challenging goals in short periods of time. While at Merck I built the Bioinformatics department and deployed an integrated data and analytical infrastructure within 12 months. In 1993, reporting to the CIO, I assembled and led the team that implemented Merck’s initial connection to the Internet – one of the first in the Fortune 100. I built and led a team across academia, industry and government that generated over 500,000 EST’s representing over 3/4 of human protein-coding genes in less than 24 months, which became the framework for the assembly of the Human Genome. At Bayer I built a Genomics tea