Who are you again?

Short professional bio

Douglas Creager is the Vice President of Research and Development at RedJack, LLC, a network analytics startup in Washington, DC. He has a PhD in Computing from the University of Oxford, and an MEng from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on infrastructure support and programming techniques for analyzing truly huge volumes of data. During his MIT years, he helped develop initial versions of the Open Microscopy Environment, a system for biologists to manage and analyze microscope images. At Oxford, he was a member of the Software Engineering Programme, and helped teach and develop curricula for their part-time MSc for professional software engineers. Before coming to RedJack, he was a consultant at Ab Initio Software, working on large-scale data analysis applications in the finance and telecoms industries. At RedJack, he brings his extensive data analysis expertise to help advance the state of the art in network analysis and security.

Slightly longer personal bio

Given the bold new world of telecommuting, I live in Boston, Massachusetts, even though my company is based out of suburban Washington, DC. I am a huge fan (and season ticket holder) of the Boston Red Sox.

I lived in sunny Oxford, England for three years while researching for my DPhil. While there, I was a member of Linacre College, played for Corpus-Linacre MCR football team, attended pub quiz weekly at the Cricketer's Arms, and ate far too many meals at Bodrum Kebab House.

Working backwards, I was at MIT for seven years before heading off to Oxford: five of those getting my SB and MEng degrees, and two as a post-Masters researcher. Even though I was (and am) a computer scientist, I did my research in the Department of Biology, as a member of the Sorger Lab, which has since moved across the river to Harvard Medical. I was also a member of the Rho Alpha chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity.

Before MIT, I spent my formative years living in Minnesota and North Carolina, though my family is originally from the mountains of East Tennessee. This gives me a somewhat schizophrenic view of college sports, as I cheer for the Gophers in hockey, the Volunteers in football, and the Blue Devils in basketball.

Contacting me

My preferred method of contact is by email. You can reach me at either of the following addresses:

• dcreager AT dcreager DOT net
• douglas DOT creager AT redjack DOT com

You might also be interested in my PGP public key (0xE5C93DA3).