I am the Senior Scientist for Virginia Commonwealth University's Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research, and the informatics team lead for the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Immunosuppressed/compromised Domain Team. I have been engaged in inter- and multidisciplinary research from the very start of my research career, and was taught early on how to work in a team environment. While my formal education is in Computer Science, my research was focused on Bioinformatics (Master's degree) and Clinical Natural Language Processing (PhD), which are two highly inter/multi-disciplinary fields involving collaboration between computer scientists, clinicians, biologists, statisticians, and others. Through my experience in these fields I have gained a passion for data sharing, reproducibility, and team science. My role as a domain team lead in N3C has boosted this passion and enabled me to lead an international team of diverse researchers (including clinicians, informaticians, and statisticians) to perform COVID-19 research, which has resulted in 7 publications, received media attention, and has provided guidance on COVID-19 policy for those who are immunosuppressed/compromised. My primary research interests revolve around Clinical Natural Language Processing, specifically expanding the use of the unstructured text data in the EHR to improve patient care and outcomes. This includes participating in the integration of some of this data into the N3C Enclave to enhance the records that are already present, as well as developing an in-house pipeline to parse and store information from clinical notes in a structured database to make it more easily accessible to researchers without compromising patient privacy.