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Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Lead global engineering teams in the development and enhancement of innovative software solutions for data collection in clinical research, driving product excellence and operational efficiency.Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the engineering vision and strategy aligned with the company's goals, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.Team Management: Direct a diverse team of engineers across multiple locations, overseeing recruitment, mentoring, and professional development to build a high-performing engineering organization.Product Development: Spearhead the end-to-end software development lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery of scalable, reliable, and compliant software products tailored to clinical research needs.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product management, quality assurance, clinical operations, and regulatory teams to ensure product alignment with market demands and compliance standards.Technology Oversight: Champion the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and best practices, including Agile methodologies, cloud computing, and data analytics, to enhance product functionality and performance.Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with executive leadership and key stakeholders to define product roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, and ensure alignment with business objectives.Quality Assurance: Establish and enforce engineering standards and best practices to maintain high-quality software deliverables, resulting in improved customer satisfaction and reduced time to market.Budget Management: Manage the engineering budget, optimizing resource allocation to support strategic initiatives while ensuring cost efficiency.

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Responsible for the management of all software development activities, the management of the full life cycle of software development in accordance with FDA regulatory requirements (including code development and documentation relating to requirements, design specifications, general architecture decisions and routine application support & maintenance), and creating a culture of accountability within the development organization by setting goals, prioritizing work, creating project plans, and tracking/reporting progress.

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Responsible for development and management of all Clinical Ink software, including requirements analysis, scoping, planning, engineering, implementation, technical documentation and release. Transitioned core application development from a 3 rd party company to in-house development. Lead architect and developer of the SureSource application suite. Completely re-designed and built the SureSource web portal, introducing several new features and enhancing the end user experience. Defined the software development life-cycle and the policies and procedures related to that development process. Authored quality assurance documentation which includes the standard operating procedures, work instructions, guidelines and training materials related to the policies and procedures for software development.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for systems analysis, requirements gathering, documentation, application design, implementation, testing and support of Medidata products and technical lead of Medidata's Trial Planning software applications.Principal Contributions: Customized and configured Trial Planning software to be implemented within a specific client environment. Assessed customers' technical environments to determine the best implementation solution and gather requirements for future implementation needs. Mentored and provided technical consulting to standardize and streamline the clients' trial planning process. Provided advanced training to both internal and external users of the Trial Planning products on customization and configuration of the application.  Designed and contributed to the development of core product enhancements - including, significant user interface improvements, key metrics tracking utilities, product stabilization, automation of Trial Planning documents and the extension of the underlying data model. Implemented and managed a Citrix environment to host the Trial Planning software to reduce significant client installation costs and to more rapidly deploy the product into client environments. Authored quality assurance documentation which includes the standard operating procedures, work instructions, guidelines and training materials for implementation of the Trial Planning software for a client.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for systems analysis, requirements gathering, documentation, application design, implementation, testing and support of internal services applications, which support accounting, trade entry processes, post-trade analysis, compliance monitoring, project management, document management and other daily operations. Principal Contributions: Worked closely with the Chief Compliance Officer to create a web-based automated application that monitors and reviews personal trade activity to ensure that all employees are compliant with SEC regulations and company policies. Continue to meet with the Compliance department to review personal trade activity and to continuously analyze the review process to ensure that it effectively meets their needs. Created and support a stand-alone data maintenance application that helps preserve the integrity of our primary databases and assists the Middle Office in supporting the company traders and trade entry activities.  Created a web-based attendance and time tracking system which facilitates Human Resources in processing payroll and time-off requests. Created web-based reports that aid the Back Office in their post-trade analysis of company activity. Worked closely with the Accounting and Treasury departments to create stand-alone and web-based applications that track such things as broker relationships, cost of traders, and fund allocations. Supported and maintained security access to the various trading position reports for upper management, traders, and general departments of the organization. Managed project development to ensure that company procedures are followed and that applications are deployed in a timely manner.

Responsible for teaching a six-week introductory course in web design and programming in HTML at a local high school to small business owners and members of the community.Principal Contributions: Taught an interactive course in a computer lab that allows members of the community to gain hands-on training in web-development. Training included an in-depth tutorial in Macromedia Dreamweaver, basic HTML concepts, internet design techniques, and publishing to a remote server.

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Responsible for meeting with local cardiologists and neurologists to discuss the benefits and side effects of three leading prescription medications, organizing evening medical discussion forums, analyzing market trends and physician prescribing habits, and providing technical support to fellow district members.Principal Contributions: Reviewed clinical trial results and discussed benefits of pharmaceutical products with physicians and prescribing medical professionals in the central New Jersey area. Supported a sales district of sixteen sales representatives - creating custom Excel reports and PowerPoint presentations, and resolving technical issues with company software and hardware devices. Trained sales district on use of a newly introduced hand-held device, which allowed physicians to electronically sign for drug samples and sales representatives to electronically track sampling distribution.

Masters Of Science, Information Systems

Bachelor Of Arts, Spanish