Dick Parrish Email & Phone Number

Dick is a retired business executive. During phases of his nearly thirty year career with the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, he had the opportunity to recruit, hire, and manage new college graduates. After observing his sons' and their friends' trials and tribulations in securing jobs fresh out of college he was inspired to write Steps to Finding a Job After College with the goal of demystifying the job hiring process. Dick grew up in Ohio, received a Masters in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University, and now lives in Indiana.His book, Steps to Finding a Job After College focuses on how to find a job in today's global society using millennial based tools and processes. Also, while this book focuses on new college graduates and their job search, this book can also help those with job experience who want to or need to change careers. The only difference with the experienced hires is that they will find a much larger set of job openings than those just starting out. Moving to a city, knocking on doors and handing them a resume was the pre-millennial way of actively searching for a job. In this book active is defined as successfully communicating and navigating with job databases to secure a face to face interview using an online tool like Skype. The job hunting world has changed. Unfortunately, the process of matching open jobs with people looking for jobs is still pretty inefficient but with the understanding of how job hunting has changed and a lot of hard work, job openings can be found, applied to, and new careers started. “Steps to Finding a Job After College” is available as a Kindle download for $.99 on Amazon.com. at https://www.amazon.com/author/dickparrish

Dick has over 30 years of experience in the BioTech / Pharma and Medical Device industry running Information Technology operations and project management services. He has worked at Eli Lilly & Company and within many of Lilly's subsidiaries such as Elanco, IVAC, and the ICOS Joint Venture (Cialis).Over his career Dick has led teams delivering complex global programs along with managing smaller Direct To Consumer product websites. Also, he has had additional experiences providing Organizational Readiness expertise to both IT and Business areas to ensure the highest outcomes on their programs.Specialties: Organizational Change ManagementOrganizational ReadinessBusiness Case PreparationConsent Decree ExperienceStaff Coaching & DevelopmentSystem Development Life CycleProject / Program Management utilizing Critical ChainManaged IT and Clinical Trial ProjectsComputer System Validation in a GxP, FDA CFR part 11 environmentProficient with Microsoft's desktop toolsSharepoint, MS Project, and ProChain's desktop

Retired from Eli Lilly and worked as a pharmaceutical consultant for YourEncore providing Organizational Readiness expertise to a major pharmaceutical firm.

Responsible for the global integration of Critical Chain Project Management processes across the functions of Manufacturing in the US, Europe, and Puerto Rico. Prepared and executed an Organizational Change Management (OCM) plan for the Lilly leadership and Project Managers.

Program Manager responsible for global quality information systems at Lilly. Responsible for a multi-million dollar budget, project metrics, and management of 3 project managers

Program Manager responsible for sixteen Direct to Consumer (DTC) interactive websites at Lilly. Responsible for the budgets, metrics, management of eight contract Project Managers

Validated and deployed Eli Lilly's Plant Maintenance & Reliability System Implementation across 12 plant sites in 6 countries ( US, Puerto Rico, England, Ireland, France, Spain). Also ran varioius Information Technology operations during this time period.