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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 sub-team meetings and discussions to drive good decision making practices - Responsible for partnering with Asset Team PM and helping sub-team prepare key messages and deliverables for, and navigate the governance process effectively and appropriate use of each forum

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 clients resolve their most pressing strategic challenges while ensuring projects remained on time and within budget. • 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.• Project experience included providing expert strategic analysis to clients across areas of diabetes, oncology, point-of-care diagnostics, transplantation and immunization.

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 manufacturing facility. • 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 blots, titrations and SDS-PAGE analysis.• 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.• Mentored 2 analysts to assume the role of study director/principal investigator.• Maintained effective lines of communication, both written and verbal, between the client and the laboratory to ensure total customer satisfaction with a high rate of return business.• Worked with other team leaders and support staff to coordinate resources to ensure studies with constantly changing priorities were conducted efficiently to meet deadlines and ensure client satisfaction• Stayed current with industry standards and new technologies for bioanalytical techniques to keep the group at the forefront of bioanalytical sciences and add service lines as needed. • Assisted in review of business proposals for new projects to ensure accuracy in scope of work.

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 analysis to support nonclinical and clinical trials.• 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 (AKTA) and bioburden filtration.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategy, Healthcare Management

B.S., Biochemistry