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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Watertown, Ma, Us

Tokyo, Jp

Naples, Florida, Us

Drive product strategy related to Orthobiologic product lines including R&D, manufacturing, market research, surgeon opinion, positioning with other Arthrex products and procedures.Identify partnering opportunities for complimentary third-party Orthobiologic products.Maintain relationship with surgeon customers, product researchers, vendors and other key personnel essential to the continued successful development of Arthrex products and their associated techniques.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Us

•Provide cross-functional, operational, and strategic management for the Product Development Teams (PDT) supporting the clinical development and commercialization of MedImmune Immuno-Oncology assets.•Provide alliance management of immune mediated therapy oncology portfolio with key MedImmune industry partners and clinical research institutions •Coordinate the creation and maintenance of the integrated Product Development Plan and Timeline.•Identify issues and facilitate problem solving, contingency planning, and decision-making.•Inform key stakeholders of status, issues, problems, and proposed solutions as appropriate.•Develop and execute communication plan to ensure effective and timely communication between the PDT, line management, senior management, and external partners.•Develop and implement plans for use of collaborative team communication solutions (e.g.,eRooms, SharePoint).•Prepare independent periodic management reports (e.g. monthly reports, project milestones).

Fort Myers, Fl, Us

• Established and directed the daily activities of Algenol’s Program Management Organization ensuring that project management support is provided according to industry best practices and standards.• Served as the project manager for a $25 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant to construct an integrated pilot-scale bio-refinery using Algenol’s proprietary Direct to Ethanol process.• Recruited and directed a group of project managers supporting multiple cross-functional scientific and engineering development project teams across the US and Europe.• Provide direct support to Algenol’s corporate governance structure for organizational management, progress review, and decision making. • Directly supported Algenol’s Chief Operating Officer by facilitating strategy development, executive management organizational meetings, as well as creation, implementation, and management of all necessary forums to operate an effectively functioning research and development organization.

Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

• Served as the project manager for multiple cross-functional product teams that primarily involved the commercialization of Amgen’s late-stage bio-pharmaceutical products through successful engineering and validation campaigns, timely and comprehensive regulatory submissions, and successful pre-approval inspections from global regulatory agencies. Projects include cross-functional interaction with departments in process development, contract GMP manufacturing, QA, QC, regulatory, engineering, and validation.• My responsibilities included actively managing and monitoring the cross-functional projects by liaising closely with the process technical team leads, senior process development management, and the project team to maintain detailed knowledge of the project developments and to identify and mitigate project risks in a timely manner. • Detailed project management activities include preparing and maintaining project documentation, including the project plan, communication plan, milestones, weekly project status updates via dashboards, and monitoring of process development resources and project budgets to the established model. Further support included coordinating, scheduling and leading project team meetings, including teleconferences, WebEx, and face-to-face formats along with generating meeting agendas and minutes.

New York, New York, Us

• Served as the certified Six Sigma Green Belt lead project manager on a cross-functional project to recover unused product in the GMP Prevnar ® vaccine fill formulations GMP manufacturing unit across multiple Wyeth manufacturing sites.• Served as process subject matter expert on cross functional team to monitor product quality attributes throughout production and provided manufacturing support during investigations. Participated in definition of critical process parameters in conjugation and purification processes.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

• Conducted process development on the purification of bio-therapeutic proteins to increase pathogen safety and product yields in Bayer's human plasma business.• Participated in the design of a quantitative RT-PCR assay for the isolation and detection of multiple viruses from human plasma. • Lead a technology transfer team that provided the training and technical expertise for the successful implementation of a developed qualitative viral detection assay into Bayer's plasma donor screening platform. • Provided project development and design updates through formal presentations and formal monthly reports to senior research and operations management.

Indianapolis, In, Us

• Served as a research associate on a program project grant with Indiana University School of Medicine, Methodist Hospital, University of Washington, and Caltech investigating the origin, diagnosis, and treatment of renal stones. • The main focus was lithotripsy research, where the team focused on understanding the mechanisms of shock wave action involved in the breakage of stones, how shock waves lead to the tissue trauma that accompanies lithotripsy, and how to make lithotripsy safer and more effective.

B.S., Microbiology

M.S., Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics