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North Chicago, Illinois, US

Provide Program Management support for solid tumor oncology Asset Team sub-teams- Serves as a key business partner for the asset sub-team leader in developing core strategies and meeting the sub-team’s goals - Coordinates sub-team activities, deliverables and supports the sub-team leader in driving cross-functional alignment within sub-team and structures.

North Chicago, Illinois, US

• Primary Dev Sci point of contact and relationship manager for R&D Strategic Resourcing team working to improve resource demand models across all Dev Sci functional areas.
• Led effort to gain leadership endorsement, launch, and serve as logistics coordinator for WeLead leadership development forum for all people leaders (n>600) in Dev Sci organization.
• Executed project management of 2 large organizational realignments impacting over 1000 employees to ensure minimal disruptions to R&D operations.
• Planned, executed, and facilitated 2022 Discovery-Dev Sci Scientific Advisory Committee meeting to improve AbbVie’s drug development strategy through both internal and external expert collaboration.
• Provide business operations perspective to multiple cross-functional groups, including the automation strategic initiative team and the Dev Sci Core Team steering committee.
• Serve as liaison between finance and functional leadership to forecast and track operational and capital budgets while making strategic recommendations to ensure operational efficiency.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Served as project manager delivering actionable solutions to health care providers and life sciences companies looking to develop impactful growth strategies. Leveraged data insights and expert intelligence to help.
• Provided “voice of the IDN customer” perspective and develop impactful growth strategies for life sciences and non-provider organizations for targeting US and international health care providers.
• Served as SME for custom segmentation and archetyping comparative tool of all US health systems designed to enable clients to tailor value proposition messaging based on partnership needs.
• SME responsibilities included training junior staff and colleagues in sales/service as well as developing innovative applications of the comparative tool.
• Presented strategic insights and analytic outputs across functions at every level of organizations, including C-suite.
• Developed proposals and execute project plans that meet timelines, budget and client expectations.

New York, New York, US

• Accountable for the design and successful execution of process characterization, site specific characterization, scale-up, and technical transfers of biosimilar products from Biosimilars Pharmaceutical Science to the.
• Author, edit, and/or coordinate the execution of testing protocols, study reports, and health authority submission documents.
• Manage projects and coordinate development activities with other Pfizer sites and external contract research organizations.
• Perform analytical laboratory testing for critical quality attributes to assess impact of manufacturing and transportation strains on products.

New York, New York, US

• Key clinical project team contributor for 3 biosimilar pipeline projects, resulting in three FDA product approvals
• Managed Contract Research Organizations (CRO) Immunogenicity testing and reviewed clinical trial results
• Assisted with authoring and reviewing of validation and study plans/reports, internal investigation reports, and applicable BLA sections to ensure compliance with FDA guidance documents
• Provided scientific insight and support for immunogenicity assays

• BioMolecular R&D BioAssay Group
• Performed over 100 bench scale process development experiments leading to the authoring and successfully execution of multiple pilot and full scale-up trials to overhaul manufacturing process
• Work with process development team to progress major product improvement investigation by designing experiments and performing enzyme digestion, ethanol precipitation, bioassay screening, biopotency assessment, Western.
• Routinely analyze manufacturing samples for product release utilizing automated bioassay techniques.
• Work directly with supplier on-site with field operations personnel to implement manufacturing process improvement scale-up to improve quality and yield.
• Develop and perform qualification for multiple immunoassays.

• Supervised team of 3-5 scientists in the Immunoassay group with the responsibility of setting objectives, scheduling workloads, and performing staff appraisals while serving as a study director/principal investigator.
• Led scientists technically in the development of bioanalytical methods using immunoassay, enzymatic, or cell-based techniques.
• Acted as validation study director for 20-25 assays to provide scientific and regulatory oversight studies ensuring validations were performed according to protocols, SOPs and current industry standards.
• Acted as principal/bioanalytical investigator for clinical and non-clinical GLP sample analysis utilizing validated methods to provide scientific and regulatory oversight ensuring study integrity and quality.
• Worked with in excess of 10 different sponsors often concurrently managing multiple projects from multiple sponsors.
• Managed the development of the group to align with company goals and objectives to maximize the efficiency of the group and provide growth opportunities for the team.

• As a study director/principal investigator, was responsible for ensuring the quality and integrity of studies from method development through the final sample analysis study report.
• Developed/transferred, optimized, and troubleshot bioanalytical methods in collaboration with group management to meet client timelines.
• Ensured all documentation for bioanalytical assays was in compliance with FDA GLP regulations and applicable SOPs and bioanalytical procedures.
• Compiled validation or bioanalytical results and assembled into final summary reports.
• Served as validation study director on 3-4 different assays for 2 sponsors and as principal investigator on subsequent sample analysis studies.
• Trained and mentored junior colleagues.

• Utilized immunochemical techniques such as Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), in sample analysis for protein therapeutics in a GLP laboratory. Assisted with method development, method validation and sample.
• Methodology included ELISA, enzyme activity assays, immunogenicity assays for possible host antibodies, cell-based neutralizing antibody assays and electrochemiluminescent immunoassays.
• Ensured that all applicable SOPs, policies, procedures, governmental (GLP) and safety regulations were followed.
• Created and executed multiple test scripts for successful software validations of multiple softwares

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Manufactured rare reagent components of diagnostic assays in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring/ Transplant/Cardiac segment through conjugation, purification, and solutions preparation.
• Attained certification in less than half of average time frame for new employees to quickly become a productive team member.
• Aided in design of and efficiently executed approximately 30-35 protocols leading to discovery of root cause as participant in two major investigational projects to avoid product availability issues.
• Attained proficiencies in following technical skills: pH adjustment, affinity chromatography, fraction collection, UV-Vis Spectroscopy, dialysis, chart recording, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, protein purification.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategy, Healthcare Management

B.S., Biochemistry