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Hi, I am Patrick

Patrick Meier

IT Consultant / Software Engineer at Consenso

As an IT consultant and data engineer, I develop customized solutions that are precisely tailored to the individual requirements of our customers. With a broad expertise in project management, software development, master data management as well as business intelligence and data analytics, I work to develop innovative solutions that help our clients achieve their goals.

Team player
Goal-oriented
Adaptable
Versatile
Fast-learner
Communication

Skills

Experiences

1
IT Consultant / Data Engineer
CONSENSO

Sep 2023 - Present, Liestal

IT & Digital Business Consulting

Responsibilities:
  • Project Management
  • BI & Data Analytics
  • Master Data Management Solutions
  • System Integration

Health Informatics Specialist
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Jan 2023 - Feb 2024, Allschwil

Swiss Centre for International Health (SCIH) | Digital Health Unit

Responsibilities:
  • Developing international eCDSS solutions for disease management
  • Translation of narrative care guidelines into structured components
  • Incorporation of medical data standards
2

3
Scientific Assistant | Software Developer
FHNW

Aug 2020 - Dec 2022, Muttenz

FHNW School of Life Sciences. FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

Responsibilities:
  • Full-Stack software development
  • Lead in personalized health project PERSONALIS
  • Data Science using heterogeneous data from collaborators

Multimedia electrician
Kilchenmann AG

2016 - 2017, Arlesheim

Professional telecommunication and multimedia systems

Responsibilities:
  • Installation and maintenance of videoconferencing systems
  • Rack building and server based systems
  • Sound systems and large screen projections
4

5
Multimedia electrician
Edi Blatter AG

2012 - 2014, Basel

High-class Bang & Olufsen multimedia systems

Responsibilities:
  • Installation and maintenance of Bang & Olufsen systems
  • Project planning AV solutions
  • Sales and independent order processing

Multimedia electrician
Glanzmann Multimedia AG

2011 - 2012, Allschwil

Multimedia systems

Responsibilities:
  • Installation and maintenance of Audio Video systems
  • Project planning for AV solutions
  • Sales and independent order processing
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7
Apprenticeship as a multimedia electrician
Glanzmann Multimedia AG

2007 - 2011, Allschwil

Multimedia systems

Responsibilities:
  • Installation and maintenance of Audio Video systems
  • Project planning for AV solutions
  • Sales and independent order processing

Education

MSc. in Medical Informatics
Grade: 5.5 out of 6
Taken Courses
  • Digital Transformation in Healthcare
  • BioMedical Data Science
  • Medical Software Development
  • Digitalization of Business Processes
  • Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery
  • Applied Computational Intelligence
  • Innovation Trends in Medical Informatics
BSc. in Life Science Technologies | Medical IT
Grade: 5.5 out of 6
Taken Courses
  • Data Science
  • Software Development
  • Visualization and User Interaction
  • Imaging Techniques
  • Medical Information Systems
  • Bioinformatics
  • Management

Projects

Machine learning for precision diagnostics of autoimmunity
Machine learning for precision diagnostics of autoimmunity
Nov 2024

Our Article about a new integration pipeline which combines multi-omics, clinical, and lab data to achieve up to 96% accuracy in diagnosing autoimmune diseases, offering adaptable applications for broader disease diagnostics.

Master Thesis
Master Thesis
Jan 2024

Automated translation of narrative care guidelines into structured components for integration into electronic clinical decision support systems - a feasibility study

The dengue-specific immune response and antibody identification with machine learning
The dengue-specific immune response and antibody identification with machine learning
Jan 2024

The paper investigates the dengue antibody response using advanced sequencing and machine learning, revealing insights into diversity changes, repertoire architecture, and identifying rare broadly neutralizing antibody sequences.

EmCare - digital solution to implement WHO SMART Guidelines for newborn and child health
EmCare - digital solution to implement WHO SMART Guidelines for newborn and child health
Jan 2023

Em Care is a fully open-source, FHIR-native solution that can be configured to meet country- or site-specific requirements and integrated to Member State’s existing digital solutions. It is available for Android devices and built using the Android FHIR SDK which supports HL7 FHIR®/CQL. It will be available from the Google Play store or as a direct download to an Android Package Kit (APK)

Using the Light Gradient Boosting Machine for Prediction in QSAR Models
Using the Light Gradient Boosting Machine for Prediction in QSAR Models
Jun 2022

An applied computational intelligence project to determine whether LightGBM is a suitable replacement for the random forest classifier widely used in QSAR models. Published and presented at the IJCACI 2022 conference.

cDR3AM
cDR3AM
Lead in Project Jan 2022 - Present

A curated Database of immune repertoires and metadata in the AIRR format annotated using IgBLAST.

GeneX
GeneX
Oct 2021

A full-stack application to search and filter for desired genes that have been downloaded from the NCBI FTP server using Java Spring Boot, Maven, Apache Tomcat, SQL, npm and React.

Bioactivity prediction app
Bioactivity prediction app
Oct 2021

Predicting the bioactivity of small molecules in SMILES format towards a known target molecule Monoamine Oxidase B (MAO-B), an enzyme for the inhibition of dopamine and therefore a known drug target for Parkinson’s disease.

Machine Learning Detects Anti-DENV Signatures in Antibody Repertoire Sequences
Machine Learning Detects Anti-DENV Signatures in Antibody Repertoire Sequences
Oct 2021

The paper explores the use of high-throughput sequencing and machine learning techniques, including neural networks, random forests, and support vector machines, to analyze the immune response to dengue virus at both the antibody repertoire and sequence levels, identifying detectable signatures that could contribute to antibody discovery and vaccine design.

PERSONALIS
PERSONALIS
Lead in Project Aug 2020 - Sep 2022

PERSONALIS, a clinical decision support system aimed to demultiplex complex autoimmune diseases by applying machine learning models to various types of medical and molecular datasets for the diagnosis and treatment.

Augmented reality tracking application
Augmented reality tracking application
Lead in Project Dec 2019 - Jan 2020

Microsoft Hololens application written in C# using Unity and Vuforia for drug package recognition, which can present the associated ingredients and their corresponding molecules in 3D. Mobile solution for Android as well as iOS to enable a playful interaction of pharmaceutical products.

Medical image application
Medical image application
Developer Jul 2019

Development of a hospital architecture for the analysis of image data from medical diagnostic images. Full-stack solution with the ability to filter results according to specific criteria or by using tags. The app was built using TypeScript, Vue.js, Node, Docker & PACS Server.

Accomplishments

Lecturer in Medical Informatics Pre-course

Teaching prospective Master’s students in the medical informatics programme. Covering the basics of programming and data wrangling with Python.

Best Paper Award

Award for Best Paper in the category of Intelligent Systems for our paper Using the Light Gradient Boosting Machine for Prediction in QSAR Models presented in the 6th International Joint Conference on Advances in Computational Intelligence. The paper is available at Springer: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1435-7_10

Asstistant Lecturer Immunoinformatics Course

Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) of antibody repertoires. Background, generation of diversity, sequencing technologies currently in use and hand-on session on computational tools available for NGS data analysis. Pre-processing and analysis of data using the programming platforms of R and Python, along with existing bioinformatics pipelines. Repertoire analysis to provide statistical quantification and visualisation of high-dimensional data.

sciCORE Linux and Cluster Introduction Course

Basic knowledge of the Linux/UNIX environment and high throughput and high performance computing. Usage of the sciCORE infrastructure for scientific applications (including hands-on exercises). Effective and efficient cluster usage.

Intermediate Python Course

Parsing, transforming, and exploring data using pandas. Performing statistical simulation and testing with numpy/scipy. Representing data in an efficient and impactful manner using seaborn. Speeding-up your Python code with numba and more.

Award for the completion of the BSc in Life Science Technologies as best in the year in the specialisation Medical Informatics

SQL Island Challenge

Certificate of completion for the SQL Island Challenge, a gamified learning experience to master SQL fundamentals.