Victor was a research assistant in the lab who worked on our transcriptome and other high-throughput sequencing projects from 2010-20012, after obtaining his BSc in biotechnology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Victor designed custom tools for de novo assembly and merging sequence data from different platforms, did the bulk of the analysis for our Parhyale, Gryllus and Achaearanea transcriptomes, and built our Assembled Searchable Giant Arthropod Read Database (ASGARD) (see the paper in Database). He is currently consulting on bioinformatics research for several groups, and working as a Staff Engineer at Platform Science.