Damion Dooley
Ontology Development Lead at Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDamion Dooley is an Ontology Development Lead with 11 years of experience building semantic web solutions and biomedical ontologies to accelerate public health genomics. Based in Vancouver, he leads ontology curation and tooling at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health, and founded the widely adopted FoodOn food ontology to enable cross-agency data sharing for foodborne disease, agriculture and nutrition. He combines hands-on web and UI development (HTML5, jQuery, D3, VivaGraphJS) with deep OWL 2.0 expertise to make complex domain knowledge machine-readable and interoperable. Damion’s background spans academic bioinformatics, operational roles within the OBOFoundry consortium, and two decades of technical leadership in web startups, giving him a rare mix of practical product delivery and ontology governance experience. He is driven by FAIR data principles and a pragmatic focus on reducing barriers to discovery in fast-moving public health contexts.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Honours, Cognitive Science, B.A, Honours, Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (200)
ecology10
digital-humanities10
json-schema10
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
standardized10
linkml10
data-management10
shex10
microbiome10
shacl10
genomics10
owl10
schema10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cidgoh/DataHarmonizer
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
A standardized browser-based spreadsheet editor and validator that can be run offline and locally, and which includes templates for SARS-CoV-2 and Monkeypox sampling data. This project, created by the Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health (CIDGOH), at Simon Fraser University, is now an open-source collaboration with contributions from the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), the LinkML development team, and others.
Contributions:51 releases, 70 reviews, 112 commits in 1 year 11 months
standardizednationaldataharmonizationcollaboration
GenEpiO/genepio
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
The Genomic Epidemiology Application Ontology describes the genomics, laboratory, clinical and epidemiological contextual information required to support data sharing and integration for foodborne infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigations.
Contributions:4 releases, 30 reviews, 24 commits in 1 year 9 months
investigationsclinicallaboratorysurveillancesharing
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