Stephen Loo

• Provide support to The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health managing a representative sample of over 20,000 participants.
• Developed applications from ground up for managing the research data from external data collection sources, imported and deliver reports for analysis.
• Created Integration for research data transmission in both direction, with multiple third party contractors.
• Actively providing solutions to support data portal services that maintain data on population, health, aging, and the environment, and share data and findings that push the field forward and train the next generation of population scholars.

• Implemented study instrumentations for survey data collection using ODK.
• Built mobile calculator apps to assist survey data collection on the field.
• Built mobile app and dashboard for malaria surveillance used in Zanzibar.
• Built a dashboard for data presentation for the Federal Annual Survey of Jails.
• Built a Report Builder dashboard using Ruby on Rails for the Envision Neglected Tropical Diseases Database.
• Built a prototype of Real-time Sentinel Surveillance system for Ebola.
• Built reporting modules in PHP for the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria project.
• Built and implement a data collection mobile app to help improve schools attendance in refugee camps in Kenya.

• Enhanced existing in-house applications with new functionalities, refactoring the current codes for improvements.
• Revamped their Joomla website with new features and functionalities.
• Introduced new developer tools to improve team cooperation.
• Pushed for and implement SVN version control for the project team.
• Brought tangible results to the team, even though on a temporary contract position.

• Maintained multiple corporate websites including a social network site (Ruby on Rails applications).
• Migrated all legacy PHP-based sites to ROR stack.
• Adding modules for new functionalities based on new business requirements.
• Supported ERP & CRM on the NetSuite Financial software suite.

• Worked with a ROR shop maintaining its client’s preexisting Ruby on Rails/PHP applications.
• Helped a startup company to develop and launch an e-commerce site for online retailing of medical supplies.

• Supported legacy PHP web applications and CRM sites.
• Migrated legacy system to MS SharePoint, migrated legacy data from MySQL to Oracle
• Built new in-house applications to support the corporate business processes and their engineering department.

Works with World University Services of Canada to implement KEEP II in Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya. The project objective is to support refugee children so they can access quality education despite the difficult living conditions. Of particular interest is ensuring equitable enrollment of refugee girls in school; their retention in school; support for good academic performance; and, tied to this, support for livelihoods for their families. Participated in the design, development, and deployment of an offline technology solution that will automate the monitoring process to achieve efficiency and effectiveness.

The Annual Survey of Jails is a program to collect data from a nationally representative sample of local jails on jail inmate populations, jail capacity, and related information. The 2015 version was administered in tandem with the 2015 Deaths in Custody Reporting Program to reduce respondent burden and minimize cost. Part of a team of programmers that rewrites the existing application, which will serve as a separate application from the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program.

This program, funded by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, collects quarterly inmate death records from each of the nation’s 50 state prison systems and 3,095 jail jurisdictions using a multimode approach involving telephone screening, paper or Web questionnaire response, and various modes of nonresponse or data quality follow-up. Supports the existing Web application, resolving issues, adding new features, and so on.

CARB-X is a nonprofit public- private partnership dedicated to accelerating antibacterial research to tackle the global rising threat of drug-resistant bacteria. With more than $500 million to invest, CARB-X funds the best science from around the world. The CARB-X portfolio is the world’s largest early development pipeline of new antibiotics, vaccines, rapid diagnostics, and other products to prevent and treat life-threatening bacterial infections. As part of a team of developers, supports and enhances the private CARB-X Web application as the requirements evolve. Creating new reports with dynamic data visualizations, multiple layers, and various types of applications, using a custom PHP-based framework for development and delivery of the Web site.

Supporting the team that works with the Tanzanian government to prevent human trafficking. Recommended and implemented a project collaboration tool (Asana) to help improve team member communication and file sharing pertaining to project. Serves in a consultant capacity for the team .

This program conducts rigorous epidemiological, biomedical, and socio behavioral research to identify and intervene on factors that affect infectious disease and chronic health outcomes. These research findings are used to inform the design and implementation of new programs, monitoring and evaluation systems, and health policies around the world. As a Programmer-Analyst , I help create the instrumentation survey forms implemented in multiple languages using the Open Data Kit (ODK) software platform. These forms are deployed on tablets on the field for research data collection. Also provide technical support and consultation on the implementations.

Part of a team of developers working to expand and upgrade the scope of Coconut Surveillance software. Coconut has been used by Zanzibar Malaria Control as a key component for their malaria elimination strategy. The project aimed at bringing Coconut to a level where its usage can be adapted to more countries battling malaria. The second goal was to enable an integration to the DHIS2 health management information system used in 47 countries and 23 organizations across four continents.

Global Network is a partnership dedicated to improving maternal and child health outcomes and building health research capacity in resource-poor settings by testing cost-effective, sustainable interventions that provide guidance for the practice of evidence-based medicine. The major goal of this project is the development, testing, and adaptation of cost- effective, integrated biomedical, behavioral, social, and public health interventions to reduce premature morbidity and mortality among reproductive-age women and young children in developing countries. Each site will conduct its own research protocol. Systems include PC and mobile handheld technologies. Sites include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Argentina, Kenya, Zambia, India and Pakistan. My role was to serve as a developer, develops software solutions and improvements for data collection, trains users, and builds capacity at the international sites, provide technical support to each site to facilitate the data collection and transmission.

The goal is to generalize RTI’s Coconut Surveillance mobile software used for malaria surveillance and response in Zanzibar, Africa, to be a real-time sentinel surveillance system for Ebola and TB and pilot test functionality at up to 14 clinical sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where existing surveillance infrastructure is limited at the local level.

The goal of this National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded study is to compare the effectiveness of the standard test, treat, and retain model (TTR) versus an enhanced, woman-focused model that integrates the TTR with the Women’s Health CoOp PLUS intervention (WHC+), among vulnerable, high-risk women in Tshwane, South Africa. My role was to help develop the instrumentation forms using KoboToolbox. These forms will be implemented on tablets on the field for research data collection. Also provide technical support and consultation on the implementations.

Primary developer for implementing the Report Builder website to further enhance the NTD Database site. The NTD Database website is used to collect, store, and analyze monitoring and evaluation data reported by USAID-supported projects working to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases. The Report Builder is designed to extend the reporting capability of the NTD Database site, introducing the flexibility of extracting reports from current data. Although built as a separate site using the Ruby on Rails framework, it was designed to be seamlessly integrated with the NTD Database site, which runs on Drupal and PHP. Project tasks include understanding the data schema from the NTD Database, setting up new AWS web and database servers, designing the data schema and setting up the database, creating the User Interface prototype to demonstrates the system functionality, setting up the deployment to the staging and production servers, and launching the application.