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Systems Management, Databases, Linux, Biodiversity informatics, Ecological Niche/Envelope Models

ID: 729617 United Kingdom

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Started his career as research assistant (marine ecologist, analyst) at the Fishery Research Lab and Marine Research Centre in his native town (Klaipeda, Lithuania) by observing patterns of benthic and fish communities of the Baltic Sea and Curonian Lagoon. Initially employment was a part of university studies. Afterwards it turned out into a more free-form cooperation after he started independent consulting activities in 2000. The consulting activities involved sampling, statistical data analysis, reporting to different governmental bodies (national and international). He has been reading ecology lectures for undergraduate students at Klaipeda university for a couple of years. Since 1999 he has been more and more involved into IT development and consulting activities (LAMP, computer networks, databases, data exploration software development using a range of scripting languages - perl, php, bash, livecode, html/javascript). This naturally evolved into the mainstream activity throughout his carrier and was backed up by both formal (environmental information management) and informal studies on a wide range of IT subjects.

During his later projects he participated in design and implementation of the DAISIE alien species database describing ~50 000 introduction events of ~10 000 alien species in Europe. He collated data from partners in different parts of Europe into a single database and created software to map and explore alien species occurrence and spread in Europe. During the NOBANIS project he has produced and published a few popular alien species profiles. He has implemented a few regional biodiversity resource portals. Currently he works as systems manager at the Employer (4D4Life and i4Life projects funded by the EC 7th Framework). He works in a team of the Catalogue of Life - the database aiming to collect names and taxonomy of all known living species. He is also employed as a leader of a work-package in the i4Life project which aims to bring together all the major global biodiversity data providers and smaller biodiversity databases into a unified workflow that would allow to exchange and update taxonomical parts of databases of all the participating parties.

Since 2001, he has been producing ecological niche/environmental envelope models implemented in GIS (IDRISI, Manifold GIS, and own software) to map species or habitat distributions (probability of occurence of marine habitats or species under certain environmental conditions) for an environmental consultancy Alleco located in Helsinki. These maps were used by the consultancy to plan sampling and produce reports for their customers.Since 2001 has been designing and programming server-side software for LAMP systems. This includes various databases and web-frontends programmed using Perl, PHP or customized Webmin/Usermin. usually this also involves some JavaScript. Also programming crossplatform dektop applications (using LiveCode RAD for it). Different customers - from private research organisations to government agencies that need working systems delivered within reasonable timeframe.As an employee (systems manager) at the University of Reading he did comparison of options, described, chose, ordered and purchased pc and server hardware. Virtualized the catalogue's of life servers infrastructure and introduced load balancing (as well as elimination of single point of failure). Systems management also involved beta testing of the software provided by project partners, building Linux servers, scripting (bash, awk, sed, php, perl), data transformation (ETL).

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 2000 Degree: MSc Subject: Ecology Institution: Klaipeda University
Year: 1998 Degree: BSc Subject: Ecology Institution: Klaipeda University

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2009 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Systems Manager Department: School of Biological Sciences
Responsibilities:
Responsible for production servers (hardware purchases, maintenance, set up, virtualization, software and database development/tests, supervision of staff for i4life project, software and services documentation) and new services of the Catalogue of Life.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2000 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: consultant (self employed) Department:
Responsibilities:
Independent consultant: software development, databases, species distribution and habitat mapping. Working both with former employers and new contractors.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2004 to 2009 Employer: University of Klaipeda Title: Research Assistant/Lecturer/PhD student Department: Coastal Research and Planning Institute
Responsibilities:
Software and database development for DAISIE project. Also other projects on alien species (NOBANIS, BINLIT, EUROCOML) some of these were not employment contracts but consulting.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1999 to 2002 Employer: Institute for Applied Ecology (Rostock, Germany) Title: Research Assistant Department:
Responsibilities:
Sampling and analysis of Baltic Sea and North Sea zoobenthos.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1996 to 2000 Employer: Marine Research Centre Title: Researcher Department:
Responsibilities:
Monitoring (macrozoobenthos) of the Baltic Sea and Curonian Lagoon: sampling, data analysis, state of environment report writing.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1996 to 2000 Employer: Fishery Research Laboratory Title: Research Assistant Department:
Responsibilities:
Monitoring of fish resources and impacts of alien species, sampling, analysis, report writing.

Government Experience

Years Agency Role Description
Years: 1996 to 2000 Agency: Fishery Research Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture (Lithuania) Role: Research Description: He was directly involved in all steps of monitoring of state of fish resources or impacts of environmental and anthropogenic factors (alien species, oil spils, diseases, fishing activities, port deepening and soil dumping activities) on fish populations from planning research strategy, fish sampling and sample analysis to report writing and submission of results to agencies or organizations like ICES.
Years: 1997 to 2004 Agency: Marine Research Centre, Ministry of Environment (Lithuania) Role: Research, Consulting Description: He was directly involved in all steps of monitoring of state of marine environment (zoobenthos) or impacts of environmental and anthropogenic factors (alien species, oil spils, diseases, fishing activities, port deepening and soil dumping activities) on macrozoobenthic populations. This included sampling, data analysis, report writing and submission of results to agencies and organizations like HELCOM.
Years: 2006 to 2008 Agency: Republic of Marshall Islands Office of Environmental Planning and Policy Coordination Role: Consultant Description: He was a developer of the dynamic website and databases of the Biodiversity Clearinghouse Mechanism.
Years: 2005 to Present Agency: European Comission (as the funding body) Role: Consultant and Project Partner Description: He is developer of software tools/systems manager and databases in various EC funded (7th Framework Programme) projects related to biodiversity and biodiversity informatics.

International Experience

Years Country / Region Summary
Years: 2009 to Present Country / Region: United Kingdom Summary: Systems Manager and Developer, Workpackage Leader in the EC Funded projects 4D4Life and i4Life at the University of Reading. Supporting and developing IT infrastructure (Linux Servers, Virtualization using XEN) for the Catalogue of Life services.

Career Accomplishments

Licenses / Certifications
Environmental Information Management (course certificate from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm);
**CMAS Research Diver License
Professional Appointments
Research assistant (Analyst), Systems Manager, Project Workpackage Leader
Publications and Patents Summary
He has 16 publications (both independent and in cooperation with other authors) in ecology science.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Writing reports for governmental organizations.
Training / Seminars
Used to deliver lectures of Ecology (general, population, ecosystems) for undergraduate students and superwise students course projects at Klaipeda University.
Vendor Selection
Hardware purchase for previous emploers and 4D4Life and i4Life projects: PCs, servers, accessories. Expert in open source software.
Marketing Experience
Rapid crossplatform software development using LiveCode (GUI, interfacing with databases).
Web applications programming (Linux, Apache, Perl/PHP, HTML/XML/JavaScript).
Databases (MySQL, SQLite).
Other Relevant Experience
Systems Management

Language Skills

Language Proficiency
English He uses English daily to communicate with colleagues and project partners.
Russian He uses Russian daily to communicate with colleagues and project partners who speak Russian as their first language.
Lithuanian Is a mother tongue.

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