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I'm proud to say that I work at Roswell Park. I'm one of five web developers in the IT dept. I write internal applications focused on supporting the many clinic

I'm proud to say that I work at Roswell Park. I'm one of five web developers in the IT dept. I write internal applications focused on supporting the many clinical trials happening here. There is definitely a huge buzz going through Roswell's campus regarding this. Here is the publicly available information regarding this particular Phase I study. http://www.roswellpark.org/clinical-trials/list/191511 http://www.roswellpark.org/clinical-trials/list/191511

tomkin 15y ago
As a near-border neighbour in Hamilton, it's great to see Roswell Park and Buffalo get some much deserved attention on the biomed front.
- darkmethod 15y ago
  Agreed. Some great things are happening in Buffalo/Roswell, this is just one of the more vocal discoveries worthy of attention. I truly hope this trial continues on successfully as the PIs (principal investigators) envision. On a personal note, I find it mildly entertaining to say that "I code to cure cancer". It is an honor to support incredibly smart people working to eradicate such a horrible array of diseases.
daviddaviddavid 15y ago
I'm curious, how do you like working there? I'm a programmer in Buffalo, NY. I always check Roswell's "Available Careers" and they always have to same two Programmer Analyst postings. Do you have a chance to use cool technologies there? The postings mention JSP/VB/blah. I'd love to send in a resume to support meaningful work.
- darkmethod 15y ago
  I've been at Roswell nine years. I intend to retire from here. I'm also a Buffalo native and I can't think of anywhere else in the city I'd rather work. Roswell is run similarly to a college campus (I've had previous experience supporting NY State colleges), meaning there are many departments, each run fairly independently of each other and each with different technical needs. The departments usually fall in one of three categories: there is an educational group that works with UB's medical campus, a clinical component that treats patients, and obviously a heavy research component. During my time here, there have been at least four startups/companies that have formed as a result of research I've helped support. Roswell currently has about 3,300+ employees. The Programmer/Analyst positions you have seen are an attempt to fill needed positions in various departments. Everyone's version of "cool technologies" is different. I'm of the opinion, for the most part, whatever gets the job done thoroughly and accurately works. In the past nine years I've written and maintain about 20+ applications in VBscript, C#, Actionscript, PHP, Ruby, etc with the various associated frameworks. Since every department requires something slightly different I've had to adapt as needed. However, recently we've been running with an inhouse PHP framework called Surebert which was/is written by a co-worker. http://www.surebert.com http://www.surebert.com https://github.com/surebert https://github.com/surebert Interestingly enough for me, I've never written anything professionally in Java, but a lot of my co-workers have. Out of the five of us on the web team, I'm the Apple fanboy. So I'm on a MacBook, iPhone, etc. Another one is on Fedora, another is using a Dell (ugh). To each their own. And Roswell lets me moonlight on the side. I've had fairly steady freelancing gigs for a couple years now. Interesting place to work. Good people. Very little complaints (nothing's perfect).
  - daviddaviddavid 15y ago
    I appreciate this response so much. Thank you.
nreece 15y ago
I'm writing an article that could use some input from you. I'll appreciate if you can contact me (http://www.nilkanth.com/contact http://www.nilkanth.com/contact) and share some insight.
- darkmethod 15y ago
  Hi. Message sent. However, your contact form timed out on me.

tomkin 15y ago

As a near-border neighbour in Hamilton, it's great to see Roswell Park and Buffalo get some much deserved attention on the biomed front.

darkmethod 15y ago
Agreed. Some great things are happening in Buffalo/Roswell, this is just one of the more vocal discoveries worthy of attention. I truly hope this trial continues on successfully as the PIs (principal investigators) envision. On a personal note, I find it mildly entertaining to say that "I code to cure cancer". It is an honor to support incredibly smart people working to eradicate such a horrible array of diseases.

daviddaviddavid 15y ago

I'm curious, how do you like working there? I'm a programmer in Buffalo, NY. I always check Roswell's "Available Careers" and they always have to same two Programmer Analyst postings. Do you have a chance to use cool technologies there? The postings mention JSP/VB/blah. I'd love to send in a resume to support meaningful work.

darkmethod 15y ago
I've been at Roswell nine years. I intend to retire from here. I'm also a Buffalo native and I can't think of anywhere else in the city I'd rather work. Roswell is run similarly to a college campus (I've had previous experience supporting NY State colleges), meaning there are many departments, each run fairly independently of each other and each with different technical needs. The departments usually fall in one of three categories: there is an educational group that works with UB's medical campus, a clinical component that treats patients, and obviously a heavy research component. During my time here, there have been at least four startups/companies that have formed as a result of research I've helped support. Roswell currently has about 3,300+ employees. The Programmer/Analyst positions you have seen are an attempt to fill needed positions in various departments. Everyone's version of "cool technologies" is different. I'm of the opinion, for the most part, whatever gets the job done thoroughly and accurately works. In the past nine years I've written and maintain about 20+ applications in VBscript, C#, Actionscript, PHP, Ruby, etc with the various associated frameworks. Since every department requires something slightly different I've had to adapt as needed. However, recently we've been running with an inhouse PHP framework called Surebert which was/is written by a co-worker. http://www.surebert.com http://www.surebert.com https://github.com/surebert https://github.com/surebert Interestingly enough for me, I've never written anything professionally in Java, but a lot of my co-workers have. Out of the five of us on the web team, I'm the Apple fanboy. So I'm on a MacBook, iPhone, etc. Another one is on Fedora, another is using a Dell (ugh). To each their own. And Roswell lets me moonlight on the side. I've had fairly steady freelancing gigs for a couple years now. Interesting place to work. Good people. Very little complaints (nothing's perfect).
- daviddaviddavid 15y ago
  I appreciate this response so much. Thank you.

nreece 15y ago

I'm writing an article that could use some input from you. I'll appreciate if you can contact me (http://www.nilkanth.com/contact http://www.nilkanth.com/contact) and share some insight.

darkmethod 15y ago
Hi. Message sent. However, your contact form timed out on me.