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● Lead the development of IT strategy as IT Business Partner, liaise with business leads, define value proposition and business case. ● Develop roadmaps, business case and ROI working in collaboration with IT/business senior leadership. ● Lead the global delivery team and own the design, development and testing of technical solutions for EHSS, External Operations, Global Quality and Site Operations Business Units. ● Negotiate contracts with Procurement, Legal & vendor to identify cost-effective/feasible solutions.● Implemented SaaS solutions for Global Quality, Supply Chain, Facilities, EHSS, Regulatory Affairs, i.e. CBOE, LMS, Serialization, TrackWise Digital, ValGenesis, Veeva DMS, etc. ● Lead divestiture global initiatives and work with IT/business stakeholders and vendors.● Partner with the Enterprise Architecture and Information Security, to ensure technical solutions are compliant, aligned with the business processes, and follow best practices and industry standards.● Partner with Corporate PMO to ensure prioritization and governance of IT projects.● Graduated from a 6-month Women’s Unlimited Inc.’s IMPower Leadership program.● Identify, mentor, develop and retain a high performing global team.

• Establish a new PMO function from ground up and developed a portfolio roadmap, processes, best practices, discipline, structure, and templates for ensuring accountability and high-quality service. • Responsible for leading the business transformation initiatives for deploying HCM and ERP solutions.• Responsible for the monthly financial reporting of IT projects to the CIO and CFO. • Managed/mentored a team and responsible for their growth, learning and development.

● Lead the governance transformation in a SAFe/agile framework aimed at achieving strategic and financial objectives.● Drive portfolio-level information transparency by partnering with Business, IT, Finance, Architects, and Product Managers to define/analyze metrics and information related to value delivery.● Partner with Product Portfolio Management in the establishment of agile budgeting and forecasting methods to promote portfolio health and business agility.

● Responsible for the program and project delivery for United States and Canada to deliver regional and global initiatives. ● Responsible for the successful delivery of program/projects in multiple functions, i.e. Workday, SAP, SaaS, Agile, Payroll, RPA (Robotics), Supply Chain, Legal, GxP, Mergers and Acquisitions (Protein Sciences, Bioverativ, Merial) etc. ● Responsible for managing the budget of multiple multi-million dollar projects in North America.● Responsible for building an operational and tactical team of Program and Project Managers in the US and Canada to promptly deliver cost-effective and value-add solutions to the business.● Experience working across geographical, organizational and functional boundaries.● Lead, recruit, mentor and train a team of global/regional Program/Project Managers on scoping, project estimation, resource coordination and scheduling. ● Evaluate risks to program schedule and help to define and drive mitigation plans.● Work closely with Development Managers, Architects, other functional heads/managers to drive successful program and process execution.● Responsible for training over 65 Program/Project managers in US and Canada, the concepts of Project Management (governance, tools, processes, soft skills, PMI triple constraints etc.).● Ability to develop and maintain strong strategic relationships with key stakeholders and built trust to increase collaboration and deliver solutions. ● Proficient at promoting effective working relationships with colleagues from multi-disciplinary teams and diverse backgrounds. ● Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced dynamic environment with minimal supervision.

● Business Partner for IT related requests, services, information or direction from attorneys and multiple Global IP teams.● As the Global IT Manager, responsible for managing IT projects for Global Intellectual Property from various sites, i.e. France, Germany, U.S. etc. ● Collaborate across IT to ensure solutions meet the needs of senior Global IP leadership and patent attorneys.● Triage and follow up on issues/requests raised by Global IP leadership/stakeholders to establish credibility and build relationships.● Coordinate technical aspects of projects with third party vendors and internal consultants/developers. ● Keep current with trends in technical solutions relative to the business domain of Global IP. ● Establish processes, priorities and timelines for solution delivery.● Lead and facilitate discussions with Global IS/vendors to ensure projects are aligned with roadmap and is progressing as expected. ● Defined and established escalation path, teams for global help desk support and SharePoint administration for a customized SharePoint site collection supporting 200+ patent attorneys and operations staff. ● Introduced and created new paperless solutions for on-boarding new global employees and consultants and off-boarding them.● Managed local/off-shore teams and vendors globally in a matrixed environment. ● Promote IT standards and policies (PUMA etc.) and ensured Global IP teams follow them effectively and methodically.

Spearheaded development projects with global cross-functional teams by directing project activities through SDLC phases in various capacities. Some of the key initiatives worked on are: > Serialization > Learning Management System > Product Data Management System Lab Automation (PDMS)> Consent Decree Remediation > MES> SAP Material Master > Active Directory Integration with Livelink Directory ● Led the in-depth technical analysis for global projects, i.e. Genzyme Serialization program, PDMS including the business processes, complex interfaces between the multi-tier enterprise applications; delivered gap analysis, identified risks and provided recommendations which was significantly useful in making key business decisions to build the program’s roadmap. ● Technical Liaison between IT and manufacturing/quality organizations to identify and facilitate the resolution of issues, escalating problems to senior management as appropriate. ● Managed multiple projects and competing priorities in a matrixed organization. Ensured internal/external IT resources are secured to meet business demands.● Responsible for conducting Due Diligence on IT projects in collaboration with IT management, SMEs etc. from various global organizations to determine feasibility, costs, budget, resources and schedule. ● Evaluate new technology and apply them for business solutions. ● Analyzed business documents, i.e. Scope, URS, FS, Master Validation Plan, interface specifications to ensure technical specifications, i.e. infrastructure, database, business continuity, interfaces etc. are accurately captured and gaps identified/addressed. ● Authored SOPs to support new processes developed in IT. ● Mentored and trained new employees.