I am a creative, results, and mission driven translational Scientist and Program Manager effective in leading and managing drug development projects and team in matrixed environments in biotech/pharma industry and academia. I deliver reliable data, build highly motivated teams, and competitively lead teams to make successful progress and produce meaningful results.• Scientific and Organizational Leadership: Develop and lead drug discovery programs with cross-functional teams and external collaborators by combining innovative and strategic thinking with a high skill level in stakeholders, teams, CROs, and project management. Drives successfully from HTS to lead optimization to product delivery.• Project Management: Manage multiple, complex drug development projects to deliver screening assays, engineering solutions, and other results within tight schedules and budgets to reach go/no go decisions that result in scientific advancement and profitability. Adept at generating quality reports and budgets as well as formal presentations. • Creativity and Expertise: Use broad and current scientific knowledge and professional network to solve challenging problems resulting in finding new solutions, workflows, concepts, and businesses. Expertise include in vitro assay development/validation for HTS, organ on a chip technologies, 3D tissue engineering/modeling, as well as PK/PD in vivo animal model and efficacy model development.