David Novo, President and Founder
David received his PhD in Biophysics from UCLA. His research concentrated on developing novel optical and mathematical techniques for measurements and analysis of localized fluorescent Calcium transients from a microdomain within a muscle cell. David also built several confocal microscopes, as well as writing the data acquisition and data analysis systems. Prior to commencing his PhD, David worked with Dr. Howard Shapiro, one of the leaders in the field of flow cytometry, performing research on membrane potential determination in bacteria using flow cytometry. During the course of this research they built several flow cytometers custom made for bacterial measurements. Two papers were published on the subject. David still maintains close ties to the flow cytometry community through his appointment to the Data Standards Committee of the International Society of Analytical Cytometry. This committee maintains the flow cytometry data file standard and deals with issues standardizing all sorts of flow cytometry related data storage and analysis issues. David frequently consults on data analysis issues related to flow cytometry and collaborates in many projects involving novel data analysis requirements.

Tanya Tolmachoff, Director of Sales and Marketing
Tanya is the newest member on the De Novo team, and brings over 20 years of cytometry based experience with her.   She learned flow cytometry at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in the Division of Immunology & Cytometry working as a licensed Medical Technologist.  While at CSMC, Tanya earned her ASCP certification as a Specialist in Immunology, performed didactic lectures for the School of Med. Technology, functioned as the Immunolgy Division’s Path. Resident Teaching Facilitator, and was the primary instructor for a CAP approved Practicum covering Image Analysis & Flow Cytometry DNA analysis techniques.  Focusing on image analysis, she co-authored several scientific papers as well as a chapter in “Image Analysis: A Primer for Pathologists”.   Tanya joined Beckman Coulter Inc. as the Los Angeles Area Cytometry Accounts Manager and later became the Cytometry Systems Specialist for the South Western Region covering CA, AZ, NM, TX, and HI.     Tanya graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Microbiology from California State University, Fresno.

Daniel Zimmerman, Systems Analyst
Daniel worked at IBM for four years as a developer and test leader in the VisualAge for Java IDE project. He has extensive experience developing in Java and Delphi throughout his career. He performed research at Simon Fraser University in computational linguistics, employing machine learning techniques such as transformation-based error-driven learning, and has several years experience designing and writing flow cytometry data analysis software with De Novo Software. In addition, he has spent time volunteering and training with Netcorps, a volunteer coalition dedicated to enhancing technological infrastructure and skills throughout the developing world.

Vlad Kryvokobylsky, Systems Analyst
Vlad has over 9 years of experience in software development. He obtained his Masters degree in Computer Science from Dnipropetrovsk State University in Ukraine and began his career as a systems analyst for one of the largest financial institutions in Ukraine (Privatbank). He was helped design Privatbank's credit card processing system which issued the first credit cards in Ukraine.

Since coming to the United States he has worked as a software consultant on different projects mostly in the Financial, Telecomunication and Healthcare industries. He is specializes in the Microsoft Windows platform and has a wide range of experience developing different types of applications: Windows GUI applications, Client/Server Mult-tier systems, Web Applications. Among the products and technologies he used for software development are Delphi, C#, ASP.NET, COM+, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.

Mike Dixon, Systems Analyst
Mike adds to the international flavour of De Novo Software, bringing an English accent to the office whenever he wants to yell at someone and not be understood. He has studied Computer Science for several years at CalTech and is an expert in the fields of designing software plug-ins and user-friendly interfaces.

Juan Luis Almará, Scientific Programming Consultant
Juan holds a Master degree in Applied Informatics. He has many years of experience in software development, working on genetic algorithms, optimizations and computational geometry, and has published several papers about data visualization and matrix processing. He is especially skilled at building C++/Delphi/Kylix applications and components, digital signal processing, communication protocols and device access.