The Ark Team

The Ark is administered by a team of bioinformatics specialists.

Paul White
Manager, Informatics System Development, University of Western Australia

Paul holds a Bachelor of Science and an Honours degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Western Australia. Paul also graduated with an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 1999. Paul has worked in the Information Technology sector for more than 20 years in Australia, Hong Kong and the US.

Prior to returning to Australia in 2004 from the US, Paul was a Principal at Diamond Technology Partners, a Chicago-based management consulting firm, before becoming the Enterprise Architect for a large biotechnology company in Boston. Since returning to Perth, Paul has worked with a number of start-up companies as well as on large State Government and private sector projects in management and technical roles.

Paul manages the development of the informatics solutions for The Ark team at the Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Chris Ellis
Analyst / Programmer, University of Western Australia

Chris graduated from Murdoch University in 2001 with a double major in Computer Science and Information Systems. He completed his Honours in Computer Science in 2002 and began a Graduate Software Engineer position at Fujitsu Australia Ltd, working with a large database management system as utilised by the Department of Housing and Works of Western Australia. After 2 years at Fujitsu, Chris came to the Centre for Genetic Epidemiology to take up the role of Analyst/Programmer. This position involves the analysis, design and construction of Oracle databases and web-based front-end interfaces for research groups that form part of The Ark project.