Leadership
Founder and Director
Dr. Grossman is the Frederick H. Rawson Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Computer Science and the Jim and Karen Frank Director of the Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS) at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Grossman is also the Founder and Director of the not-for-profit Open Commons Consortium (OCC), which manages and operates cloud computing and data commons infrastructure to support scientific, medical, healthcare and environmental research.
Director of Development and Operations
Lea is a nonprofit executive responsible for the development, operations, and governance of all OCC projects and the organization as a whole. She uses development strategies to increase organizational capacity and partner relationships. Lea has over a decade of experience providing consulting for various non-profits to build capacity, sustainability and social impact.
Lea holds an MPH in Global Public Health Leadership from the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and received her undergraduate degree from University of California, Santa Barbara.
Chief Information Security Officer
Plamen is an information security executive with 20 years of hands-on experience and proven leader in the areas of cybersecurity and innovative problem-solving. Plamen has extensive experience in developing and implementing strategies for improvements in data protection for on-premise and cloud-based environments.
As the Chief Information Security Officer for the University of Chicago (UoC) Biological Science Division (BSD), Plamen was an early adopter of the Cybersecurity Framework. Under his leadership, UoC remained at the forefront of Framework implementations by being the first organization to develop and publish a case study for NIST.
Our Team
Software Engineer
Urvi is a Software Engineer responsible for the development and maintenance of project-specific data commons and ecosystems. She has experience as a software developer for designing and deploying web applications. She aspires to be a contributor to the revolutionary implementation of data science techniques to generate helpful predictions. She aims to utilize her skills to develop software solutions that can be beneficial to society.
Urvi has a master's degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) with proficiency in web development and data analytics.
DevOps Engineer
Divya is an DevOps Engineer with a primary focus on developing and maintaining infrastructures and applications on various data commons projects. She works closely with senior leaders to deliver on complex, enterprise-level initiatives that are a part of the organization's overall strategic direction. She uses her skills for architecting, designing, and deploying dynamic and interactive data-driven applications, techniques, and tools. She strongly believes that every day is new, innovation is inevitable and aims to contribute to the world around her.
Divya has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Northeastern Illinois University with proficiency in Cloud & Security. She also holds professional certifications with respect to AWS Cloud and Security and has contributed to many scientific research papers and publications.
Technical Project Manager
Mikisha is a Technical Project Manager responsible for analyzing, planning, governance and developing project-specific data commons. She has hands on experience working with cross management on multiple projects which includes research, defining deliverables, evaluation and managing technological needs per clients’ requirements. She uses her skillsets to adopt different project management approaches, tools, and phases of product life cycle to solve/manage project communications, structure for data contribution and data access. She works closely with the technical leads, interacting with internal and external stakeholders as the Subject Matter Expert to provide Information Technology guidance and solutions.
Mikisha has master’s degree in Informatics from Northeastern University, Boston with expertise in Leading and Managing Technical Projects.