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Gaithersburg Md

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

• Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) Consulting in the following roles: o Senior Business Analyst o Template Developer o Product Management• Solution Architecture Consulting: o Analyze existing lab paradigm and develop solutions to streamline & standardize current processes to increase efficiency and data availability

Vélizy-Villacoublay, Fr

• Define and prioritize necessary features to initially achieve ELN MVP and then become a class leader.• Host customer workshops to understand pain-points and key features for the new ELN product• Work closely with User Experience experts to ensure all requirements are correctly understood• Coordinate a team of Product Managers working on various aspects of the ELN Product implementation• Work with other BIOVIA Product Managers and Industry Process Experience Product Managers to produce a unified roadmap that delivers complete, cross-product coordinated workflows for various scientific domains• Work effectively with software developers and quality assurance engineers to ensure delivery against agreed priorities• Interact directly with customers at a scientific and technical level during product demonstrations• Identify and manage engagement risks and flag major issues early• Work closely with other product teams both within and without BIOVIA to define and develop deep integration between Scientific Notebook and other BIOVIA/Dassault products• Lead the definition and development of CFR Part 11 Compliant features on the 3DExperience Platform to be shared with other Platform applications• Develop go-to-market plans that include marketing programs, positioning, packaging, and pricing

• Author User Requirements (User Stories) and Functional Requirements based on principles of ALCOA+, business need and regulatory requirements• Author Performance Qualification scripts• Execute Performance Qualification scripts• Record defects found during Performance Qualification• Perform root cause analysis for software defects with a severity of Very High and High• Complete CAPAs that are assigned• Generate traceability matrix between User Requirements (User Stories) and Performance Qualification scripts

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

• Advisor to internal team for IDBS ELN deployment & implementation project• Provided recommendations, direction, advice, suggestions, etc. for team based on previous experience.• Provided demos on advanced functionality of structured data capture and configuration need to implement this.• Administrator for ELN system as needed

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Creation of documentation and process flow diagrams to capture user requirements• Designing/architecting ELN Templates & Schemas in Benchling• Development of IT roadmap• Oversee development of deliverables by developers• Assist in aligning IT needs between systems by addressing areas that are system agnostic

South San Francisco, Ca, Us

• LIMS evaluation and selection project for R&D department• Evaluate, manage, and configure 3rd party and in-house build scientific tools• Understand & document laboratory workflows for ELN development• Capture enhancement requests from scientists & prioritize defects, simplify workflows, and capture data in a consistent & structured way for analytics and visualization• Collaborated in cross-functional groups, such as software engineering, biological sciences, data sciences, regulatory, and manufacturing

New York, New York, Us

• Technical lead on the system integration & migration planning project for integrating Array Biopharma with Pfizer• Scope of project includes Array’s ELN and 60+ scientific applications in use by their scientists• Work as the technical lead with IT Business Partners to define a future state for all apps• Actively developed business plan with team for full implementation • Created “as is” and future state process flow diagrams

Stamford, Ct, Us

• Leading initiatives to streamline current laboratory workflows & increase productivity• Leading the “Data Landscape Initiative” to centralize, streamline, automate, & unify internally generated and multiple CRO-generated data• Architecting back-end processes to facilitate availability & efficient information flow between departments• Managing with outsourced teams for various software systems’ development• Leading the following projects:o Evaluation & Deployment of Perkin Elmer Signals Lead Discoveryo Deployment & Training of Tibco SpotFire throughout companyo Evaluation & Deployment of Perkin Elmer Signals Notebook for Chemistry Departmento Evaluation of multiple ELN systems for Biology Departmento Transfer of experiments from current ELN systems to new systemso Evaluation of Inventory & Sample Management systemso Automated CRO Data loading to internal Data Warehouse• Managing with outsourced teams for various software systems’ development• Created requirements documents for deliverables in their Dotmatics system• Created & deployed Dotmatics ELN templates

Watertown, Massachusetts, Us

• Designing, developing, & deploying ELN Templates based on user requirements• Leading ETL Project of experimental data from IDBS E-Workbook experiments to central database• Partnering with CRO’s to import experiments from CRO ELN to Perkin Elmer E-Notebook system• Managing developers for XML ETL Parser project• Training user community on usage of ELN software and templates

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Led the development of the “Biologics Operations Streamlining & Standardization” projecto Objective of project is the standardize and streamline the current internal processes of each group in the Process Sciences department, create ELN templates for data capture to the central database, and have that data made available in SpotFire dashboards• Led the proof of concept and production development of the inter-group assay/work request projecto Objective of this project is to have a single system utilized by all groups in the Process Sciences and Manufacturing Sciences departments where assay & work requests are created, maintained and tracked. o Development of work requests & automated data transfer between ELN experiments & groupso Led the development of automated KPI metrics reports and Spotfire visualizations based on information & data entered in ELN.• Development of ELN workflow capture templates for Cell Culture and Purifications Labs.• Solution Architecture projects for streamline lab workflowso Investigating middleware software solutions for automated data captureo Leading a POC project for setting up barcodes and barcode scanners for Automated data entry directly into ELN experiments and Lab instruments• Led ELN “Open Houses” and training seminars on project specific templates to ensure knowledge transfer to end-users• Focused decision making on business needs to ensure stakeholders buy-in

Foster City, Ca, Us

• Short-term Contract for project roll-out and deployment• Project Manager in the Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) department • Actively lead, motivated, and challenged cross-functional teams while creating stakeholders buy-in• Developed relationships with key project stakeholders and ensured appropriate level of active participation throughout project life cycle.• Developed short-term project plan to maximize on-boarding of users to the ELN system with the smallest disruption (to the user) by creating custom ELN templates with Integrated Spreadsheets based on their standardized excel workflows• Developed long-term strategy of utilizing Structured Data Tables to smoothly replace integrated spreadsheets to allow for data aggregation, mining, and visualization by direct database queries via 3rd party tools & programs • Developed an “ELN Biologics Roadmap” presentation to show the short-term & long-term project plan to directors and management.• Created project plan for development of the complex architecture that will comprise the backbone of the structured data tables. This architecture will span across all groups in the company• Identified scope and created project plan with specific milestones for each research department• Created a project plan for the investigation & development of equipment & software integration efforts for high-priority systems• Developed and built relationships with the business to foster adoption and further development• Predict and identify enhancements from business to improve user experience• BIOVIA ELN in use by company (formally Accelrys Symyx ELN)

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

• ELN Expert with IDBS BioBook & PKI/Cambridgesoft BioAssay• Led development of simple and complex ELN projects across 4 of Merck’s sites:Kenilworth, NJ; Rahway, NJ; West Point, PA; & Boston, MA• Managed the day-to-day activities of small, medium, and large-scale projects• Prioritized project activities; actively tracked, identified, mitigated and minimized project to risks• Maintain overall project schedule and the delivery of expected project objectives• Ensure that client drivers and priorities are understood and addressed. Focused decision making on business needs to ensure stakeholders buy-in• Partnered with members of the research organization and current ELN team members to help analyze scientific needs and support the application• Worked closely with subject matter experts, end-users, and technical team members to translate high-level business / user requirements into functional and design specifications.• Identified & articulated use cases and stories; developed mockups and collected/interpreted data integration requirements• Developed projects are large-scale deployments of technical solutions that directly affect a scientist’s day-to-day job• Developed interactive training classes and user guides to increase user efficiency • Wrote technical best practice guidelines to increase development efficiency• Experience managing all phases of Scientific Information Systems projects• Presented “Creating a Universal In-Vivo Pharmacology Data Landscape at Merck” at Merck Symposium

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

•Supporting several biotherapeutic assets in non-GLP preclinical studies for large molecule drug development•Immunoassay conception, development, evaluation and implementation •Measurement of protein-based therapeutics in biological samples such as serum or plasma utilizing ELISA and ECL immunoassay platforms•Reagent evaluation and development to support domain antibody platform•Custom reagent development and evaluation of reagent coupling & conjugation methods to improve immunoassay performance (i.e. overcome interference from serum or plasma samples)•Created an inventory database with a user-friendly interface for tracking reagents, antibodies, and other materials •Collaborated in efforts to enhance current electronic laboratory notebook(ELN) assets

Woking, Surrey, Gb

•Worked with programming development team to enhance company ELN product •Installed and deployed ELN software at client sites•Worked with clients to translate business requirements into functional requirements and design of system•Gave interactive hands-on training classes for scientists at client sites to facilitate a fast learning curve•Designed & developed custom in-vivo and in-vitro experiments and Biobook templates for clients’ usage •Optimized existing clients’ ELN and Biobook projects to increase productivity

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

•Developed cell-based assays for drug comparison studies•Analyzed company protease inhibitors & competitors on multiple cell lines for efficacy comparisons•Lipodystrophy studies of antiretroviral drugs that utilized adipose cell lines•Anti-diabetic drug analysis that utilized hepatic and adrenal cell lines

Concord, North Carolina, Us

•Led multidisciplinary team for the design and develop anti-platelet coatings for medical devices•Developed effective polymer coatings for the prevention of blood coagulation & cell adhesion•Led design and development of a dual 50L bioreactor-based dynamic flow system to test for biofilm buildup inside chemically coated neurological catheters•Designed, developed, and validated fluorescent & quantitative immunoassays to determine platelet adhesion on normal and chemically coated surfaces•Part of multidisciplinary team involved with the cost-effective deployment of a novel coating for neurological catheters

Princeton, Nj, Us

•Conducted immunohistochemistry experiments & immunoassays of fully human monoclonal antibodies to drive development decisions•Maintained cell lines for IHC department use•Supplemented pharmacokinetics group by performing ELISA testing of monoclonal antibodies via SOP protocols•MSD and Luminex protocol development•Recording & maintaining data in compliance with FDA GLP standards

Us

•In charge of four software developers •Developed company software using Visual Basic•Involved with new product design and development•Developed project plans and written reports detailing project status•Perform HR duties of identifying potential new employees and interviewing them.•Setup and maintained company’s internal network and computer systems •Created cliental database and interface program

Boston, Ma, Us

•Peritumor lymphatic analysis of melanoma tumors for ongoing oncology research•Optimized current immunohistochemistry protocols for more robust assays•Amplified genetic material though tissue culture and cloning techniques, performed PCR’s, RNA and DNA extractions/purifications for postdoc scientists•Performed lymphatic vessel analysis using IP lab software

•Designed and developed a system using a genetic toggle switch and bacteriophage lambda to eliminate biofilm colonies by penetrating biofilm and destroying it from the inside•Presented conclusions at industry conference with 40+ companies in attendance

Masters, Biotechnology Engineering

Bachelors, Biomedical Engineering