Sean Watford
Chemical Safety Data Science Manager
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolSean Watford is a Chemical Safety Data Science Manager with a decade of experience building large-scale systems that integrate chemical and biological data to bridge data science and toxicology. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at the US EPA and Booz Allen, architecting databases, dashboards, and controlled vocabularies used for regulatory toxicology (including stewardship of ToxRefDB and contributions to the CompTox and EDSP21 dashboards). Sean pairs a PhD and MPH in environmental health engineering with hands-on expertise in bioinformatics, data engineering, and RESTful web services, enabling practical interoperability between biomedical ontologies and regulatory workflows. He’s known for translating complex toxicology endpoints into standardized, machine-readable vocabularies mapped to UMLS and CDISC, an under-the-radar strength that improves reproducibility and regulatory compliance. Based in Washington, DC, he now leads data science efforts at UL Research Institutes, focusing on production-grade systems that make toxicology data more accessible and actionable.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at Wofford CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (19)
ord10
risk-assessment7
mongodb6
pymongo6
health6
odm5
workspace5
python5
django5
extrapolation4
creative-commons4
orm3
product-management3
database3
r3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
swatford/litminer_old
Nov 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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