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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

• 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

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.
• Created requirements documents for deliverables in their Dotmatics system

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 &.

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

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

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

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