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United States

Supported the Digital Quality Executive Director and Leadership team. Managing the portfolio including reporting, resource management, prioritization, budget management (> $25M), Org Design, and demand management. Mentored and supported leadership team members. Advised on implementation of a Product Management organizational change.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Boulder, Colorado

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, MA

Greater Boston Area

BioInformatics, Project Management, LIMS, and Regulatory Consultant creating solutions to support Gritstone Oncology

Greater Boston Area

Senior Consultant providing technology program management for Foundation Medicines Medical Device Product Pipeline

Cambridge, MA

Providing strategy and direction for the Technology PMO. Leading the project management, business systems analysis, and software quality teams at FMI. Interacting with internal and external customers. Working to ensure departments functioning in a coordinated way to meet the needs of our patients and partners. Providing direction on fulfilling corporate.

Cambridge, MA

Project Manager for the implementation of a LIMS system in a high throughput genomics laboratory

Providing Project Management Services for the BLAZE LIMS upgrade project which will allow CSL to scale its operations for an upcoming, very large Clinical Trial.

Providing project management and technical services to the Medical Information Group to enhance their current Laboratory Results Management and Reporting System.

Delivered Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence solutions for a custom crowd sourced trading platform

FreshPath Consulting is continuing to support Comcast Spotlight North-Central Division's data warehouse and business intelligence systems.

Greater Boston Area

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Consulting with Comcast Spotlight as the Information Systems Department Business Systems Manager. The project includes overseeing datawarehouse integration with various business systems, dashboard application development and maintenance, and integration with new business systems. Also managing impact analysis and warehouse integration effort for Comcast's.

Consulting for the Social Law Library to assess an upgrade path for their current publishing system. Currently in the vendor selection phase.

Collaborating with Intrasphere Technologies to assist their client Millennium Pharmaceuticals in a software product evaluation project,

Consulting Firm Partner.

• Assumed project lead role on E2B project, directing Project Development Services and Systems Operations resources towards implementation of Individual Case Safety Report electronic submission process world wide.
• Responsible for directing resources in development of current safety system enhancements to support International regulatory body requirements for electronic submissions. Including implementations foro Europe (EMEA)o.
• Ensured proper documentation standards adhered to for 21 CFR 11 system validation.
• Tracked requirements, documentation, and project milestones.
• Managed resource contention and streamlined customer input requirements to ensure project deliverables provided on schedule

• Consultant to Veridiem Inc, providing data integration, ETL, and Crystal Report development for delivery of proof of concept prototype of Veridiem’s Marketing Resource Management System application to customer.
• Implemented structured ETL process via DTS providing auditing, archiving, staging and transformation of data for application and reporting functions.
• Developed drill down and interactive Crystal Reports for Fact Based reporting integrated into the Veridiem application.

• Lead Consultant for Eclipsys SunriseXA Access Manager stored procedure development team
• Lead developer on stored procedure team, supervising 7 database developers in the development of several hundred stored procedures in a SQL Server 2000 Visual Studio.NET environment.
• Responsible for o Project management duties, o Development of coding standards, o Liaison duties to UI, Business Objects, Design, and Senior Project Management Groupso Hands on code development
• Responsible for management of rapid development of extremely complex procedures in a very tight timeline.
• Managed working with.NET implementation issues via support to developers and creation/implementation of code workarounds.
• Responsible for managing scope issues surrounding implementation of extremely robust design specifications

• Consultant providing database development on schema design and implementation, data cleansing and migration, application development and database administration.
• Technical Lead on E2B electronic ICSR submission project
• Architect and developer on multi-platform distributed database solution designed to share data across the enterprise
• Completed 21 CRF Part 11 validation documentation.
• Technical lead and developer of a custom integration of Device and Drug Adverse Event databases (InfoMed & Clintrace) via a PL/SQL Interface
• Developed and implemented various ETL applications

• Development of a Graduate Admission Department reporting data mart fed from the Boston University Central Admissions Mainframe database system.
• Performed Business Analysis and developed business requirements for the BU School of Management Graduate Admissions Department. These needs had to be aligned with policies laid out by the University Provost and the.
• Developed Logical and Physical Database model through an intense process of reconstruction of the undocumented use of the UIS System by the Graduate Admission’s office.
• Functioned as a liaison to the UIS department for the Graduate admissions Office for the addition of new data structures and automated import process to the Mainframe system
• Designed and developed process to automate data refreshes to the reporting data mart

• Contract employee providing database consultation on schema design, data storage and migration of various user databases to Microsoft SQL Server. Cold Fusion/MS Access Application upgrade to multi-database centralized.
• Assisted in the development of a centralized data access infrastructure (Data Marts) to provide core datasets via SQL Server 2000 to users via standardized MS Access clients or reports.
• Reviewed and documented third party developed BU School of Management website
• Developed schema proposal for implementing Data Integrity.
• Migrated web site Microsoft Access database to SQL Server 2000 utilizing Data Transformation Services.
• Completed QA and all fixes associated with Migration to new environment

• Contract employee providing database consultation on schema, website configuration and software development methodology
• Planned and supervised the transition of Development Web/Database Server to new site
• Developed schema proposal for redesign of the Web Sites SQL Server Backend
• Ported Data from old system to new schema including significant data transformation utilizing DTS
• Recommended and assisted in the implementation of development standards in an ASP development environment.
• Provided recommendations for streamlining of website (ASP code and configuration)

• Consultant providing database administration and project coordination for AT&T’s MS SQL Server 7.0 based data warehouse.
• Supervised and implemented data and database administration tasks
• Responsible for development, administration and maintenance of ETL
• Responsible for design and maintenance of logical and physical design of databases.
• Developed and implemented administrative procedures to ensure availability requirements met.
• Utilized MS OLAP Services to create and deploy data cubes displaying sales financial data

• Installation of IntroSpect Litigation Support/Knowledge Management Software, an integrated product comprised of o MS SQL Server 6.5 o IntroSpect client/server applicationso Fulcrum SearchServer Search Engine Software o.
• Training of clients on the administration and use of the IntroSpect Product.
• Technical support for IntroSpect and other products integrated into the IntroSpect suite (specializing in SQL Server backend product support and network issues)
• Software QA
• Documentation and coordination of services to key reference accounts

Responsible for developing behavior and learning programs for consumers served by Vinfen's Boston and North of Boston Programs.

Ba, Philosophy

Pmp Certification

Computer Science

Computer Programming courses

Computer Science

Public Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, Philosophy