Christopher Higgins Email & Phone Number

Carlsbad, CA

• Manage Drug Development Information Systems department, including Data Management and Systems personnel.
• Work with Data Management to plan and allocate internal and vendor resources for over two dozen clinical studies.
• Responsible for integration of Clinical Trial Management system, including acquisition of data from multiple CRO, IVRS and SAE vendors.
• Responsible for design of CTMS SharePoint portal, including portfolio, program and study home pages, as well as data lists, graphs and integrated reports for consumption by Drug Development department.
• Facilitate review and revision of document management process pertaining to the Trial Master File with Clinical Operations group.
• Participate in development of predictive analytics engine in conjunction with SAS in order to improve clinical study decision-making process.

Greater San Diego Area

• Manage and support mission-critical Electronic Data Capture and Clinical Trial Management Systems for Clinical Affairs.
• Develop programs used to collect and monitor data across critical clinical studies.
• Develop data-driven reports integrating SQL Server and Oracle clinical study and study management data.
• Develop database solutions (tables, triggers, functions, procedures, views) in both SQL Server and Oracle DBMS in support of clinical data initiatives.
• Support Oracle DBMS, including job monitoring, resource utilization, system health and application installation and upgrades.
• Create and manage Clinical Affairs SharePoint servers, including site development, maintenance and security.

Greater San Diego Area

• Responsible for the design and implementation of company-wide, data warehouse reporting solution.
• Conducted project meetings with executive-level staff, data warehouse vendor and internal project resources to coordinate testing, design changes, warehouse configuration and project scope.
• Provided high-level design specifications and data warehouse best practices to vendor in charge of implementation.
• Reported project status, negotiated resource availability, provided project timelines and defined acceptance criteria for overall project.
• Verified SQL Server database setup and access needs as well as BusinessObjects reporting environment.
• Assisted in testing and data validation through creation of complex SQL queries and stored procedures.

Greater San Diego Area

• Led company-wide data warehouse initiative, including management of project resources consisting of internal personnel, consultants and executive management.
• Assessed data needs of user community and architected dimensional and fact-based data model based on executive management and commercial operations requirements.
• Worked with developers to create and maintain DTS packages to assimilate warehouse data from multiple database systems and mediums (Oracle, Essbase, SQL Server, Excel) into staging, repository and mart databases.
• Provided support for report designer in the creation of Business Objects universe and reports for data warehouse.
• Served as SQL Server database administrator responsible for daily database maintenance, DTS package creation and job processing.
• Supported and developed Visual Basic applications for research community to collect and store clinical research and drug supply data.

Carlsbad, CA

Syracuse, New York Area

Syracuse, New York Area