IT Project Manager of Biotech and Research & Development Projects- Early Discovery Phase

• Perform cross functional activities to support Unique Device Identification (UDI) enterprise program • Global Project Manager lead working closely with the functional business representatives, IT, and the UDI team ensuring the completion of the business goals and objectives.• Provide timely and concise project updates to executive project steering committee members.

Firmenich: A Perfume, Flavor and Ingredients essential global businessSenior Business Analyst & Global Team ManagerManage team and projects within Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Quality Management (QM), Legal and Corporate Affairs, Human Resource and Finance domains.• Serve as Project Manager for company ESG/ Sustainability Platform software implementation.• Performed a major Kronos/UKG Timekeeping system migration to SaaS solution for multiple sites.• Oversee Kronos/UKG Work Force Dimensions (WFD) and Work Force Central (WFC) Implementations and support.• Acted as Integral part of company merger and acquisition (M&A) IS Team. Responsible for the largest forensic eDiscovery data gathering event in the company’s history in support of litigation.• Performed complete Intellectual Property (IP) migration of Patent and Trademarks from a homemade system to an enterprise standard docketing system leading to a reduction in missed deadlines and faster turnaround times for responses to Patent agencies.• Implemented an improved Human Resources Benefit Administration solution supporting overall Human Resources benefits strategy.• Functioned as IT Project Manager of Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) software in support of US Customs and Border Protection leading to 4.4 Million USD in duty cost avoidance.

Manage multiple projects within the Text Analytics & Patent Analyst group and advanced enterprise search program.• Implemented and monitored advanced enterprise scientific search engine to support clinical trials and data evaluation for authority submissions.• Reverse engineered project plans and performed a gap analysis of missing project tasks to ensure timely implementation of projects.• Mapped and documented key sub processes for patent analysis in Research and Development that resulted in a streamlined system with a significant cost reduction.

Senior Scientific Systems Business Analyst, Research IS Dept. Scientific Analyst Scientific Computing & Data MGMT Dept., 2003-2008• Installed, maintained, and supported core scientific research applications and computer systems on multi-CPU UNIX systems, Linux Clusters and end user computers.• Project Manager for key deliverable & harmonization of an automated Chemical Logistics reporting tool resulting in the replacement of a manual management reporting tool. • Provided advanced application support to scientific business units such as Genomics, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Pharmacokinetics and Chemical Logistics.• Collaborated within scientific business units to obtain vendor support agreements and negotiate annual maintenance contracts.• Business Relationship Manager for a multicultural and interdisciplinary six-member global team implementing scientific computing infrastructure totaling $4M within five locations. Successfully managed the multicultural team in a bilingual environment.• Functioned as Sanofi-Aventis representative member to the Cross Pharma High Performance Computing consortium group which seeks to develop HPC best practices across Pharmaceutical member companies.• Gathered, managed and prepared systematic business requirements resulting in computer system infrastructure requirements leading to consistent delivery of computing resources for the benefit of over 100 global scientific users.• Led the evaluation and implementation of a global Linux cluster for job scheduling that allowed access and troubleshooting of database system.• Improved infrastructure budgeting and purchasing process for scientific computing arena to proactively monitor quarterly costs and timely delivery of purchases.

Scientific Systems Support Analyst Bioinformatics Dept., Research Assistant I & II, Biochemistry & Cardiovascular Dept., Oncology Dept.