Lead Scientist Cover Letter

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the lead scientist position.

Previously, I was responsible for expert advice for regulatory filings strategies and effective data presentation to support Control Strategy, by applying knowledge of regulatory guidelines and territorial requirements, to ensure acceptability of proposals.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Provide strategic support across a portfolio of technology programs, spanning dozens of individual projects and hundreds of DHS customer requirements
• Provide direct support to Government leaders, particularly at the interfaces among science, technology, policy, law, and business
• Develop formal reports, briefings, and read-ahead materials, organize/coordinate meetings, discussions, and seminars
• High computer literacy, to include creating final drafts of polished, formal documents and presentations
• Recognized expertise in the employee's primary field
• Experience and understanding of Big Data ecosystem with technologies like Spark/PySpark, MapReduce, Kafka, Hive Experience in UNIX scripting and NoSQL would be an added advantage
• Agile working
• Statistical Project Management experience

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the lead scientist position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for direction to counterparts in the data analysis function on data collection, analysis, and performance reporting to ensure that regulatory requirements and internal business needs are met.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Strong scripting experience using Perl, Bash, or similar
• PhD in science or related field preferred
• PhD in biology, chemistry, engineering, or related field minimum requirement
• Master’s in health policy, government, health services research, or similar field
• Demonstrated experience in convening and driving consensus processes among public health subject matter experts
• Demonstrated competence in managing a variety of activities concurrently, meeting deadlines, and ensuring attention to detail in producing quality products
• Be proficient in structured data analysis
• Implement and operate data pipelines for collecting millions of transactions per day from client applications and users

I would like to submit my application for the lead scientist opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for guidance to data collection teams on data collection and test protocols including design of experiments, sample size, and statistical distributions.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Develop advanced materials
• Materials development, scale-up and integration
• Technical Management experience in a TRL assessment environment
• Exposure for Six sigma and DOE (design of experiment)
• Expertise with LC-MS/MS instrumentation
• Strong working knowledge of current regulatory guidelines (GLP, GCP)
• MSc or PhD in Polymer Science, for instance Polymer Chemistry, Plastics Technology, Materials Science or Coatings Technology
• Enthusiastic, hands-on, eager, pragmatic person with an eye for detail, taking the lead in projects

I would like to submit my application for the lead scientist opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for sME input on the sections of documentation for regulatory agency meetings and participate in said meetings to address technical questions raised by regulatory agencies.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• A team player, interacting constructively with various departments and functions
• Proficient programming skills in Java and Python
• Familiarity with probabilistic models and an understanding of the mathematical concepts underlying machine learning methods
• Applied machine learning
• Natural Language Processing (e.g., ClearTK, ScalaNLP/Breeze, ClearNLP, OpenNLP, NLP4J, or similar)
• Statistical data analysis and experimental design (e.g., using R, Matlab, iPython)
• Information retrieval and search engines, Solr/Lucene/Elastic Search
• Databases (traditional and noSQL) including experience in hands-on processing, representation and transformation of large amounts of data

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the lead scientist position.

Previously, I was responsible for leadership to ensure high quality deliverables in accordance with customer requirements, business procedures, and regulatory guidelines.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Write code to develop new software products and/or features
• Work closely with Scientist teams to develop and implement new algorithms to meet evolving computational needs
• Work with data scientists and analysts to put machine learning models into production
• Significant experience with Hadoop and Spark -- capturing/organizing high volumes of transactional data feeding into data models involving extractions of features, proper data warehousing and data preparatory practices
• Object-oriented programming (primarily Java) experience
• Experience working with relational SQL and NoSQL databases
• Good understanding of CS fundamentals, algorithms and data structures
• Experience in statistical programming tools such as R, Matlab, SAS