Managed the end-to-end data governance and information effort for the Clinical Operations functional area including finalization of assessment, planning and development of roadmap and execution of targeted projects and capabilities for key data domains and compliance activities. Key achievements included:* Created first-of-kind current state assessment of data maturity of the clinical operations area * Created Data Governance strategy based on assessment and obtained executive buy-in for execution* Partnered with IT to review and bring most appropriate capability to the forefront for developed IT initiatives for Customer MDM, Metadata Management and reference data and glossary management.* Owned data related activities for cross-functional data lake to define/refine the clinical data glossary and Compound, Study, Indication and other associated reference and master data definitions* Functional area stakeholder for the Enterprise Customer MDM, Product MDM and Taxonomy initiatives* Created Alteryx-based data-analyses and workflows to quickly investigate data quality questions and automate repetitive data related tasks* Supported Business operations through data-related activities for resource forecasting and time tracking* Co-led Certified Data Management Professional certification review of DMBOK v2 content

Information management and data related projects including big data, master data management, data governance and related information and data-focused efforts to increase the value of that information for key clients. Projects as follows: Healthcare Data Analytics Platform: Managed creation of a Data Lake in Amazon Web Services based environment for a large health insurance company to improve Retention Data Availability/Optimization and Prospective Risk Score (Medicare) revenue opportunities within their organization. The project included: Creation of Medicaid disenrollment list significantly faster (from 35 days to 2-5 days) with an increase in data quality and list effectiveness when calling members; Improvement of risk score processing to allow identification of significant missing potential revenue; All on AWS technologies include: Apache Spark/EMR, DMS, Lambda functions, S3, etc.Pharmaceutical Data Catalog Platform: Managed creation of a Data Catalog that registered Clinical and Commercial data assets for a large Pharmaceutical company. Project included creation of base catalog using Drupal CMS with the DKAN Data Set management modules (conceptually aligned to healthdata.gov) within AWS BioPharmaceutical Research IT Platform: Creation of platform for Reference Data, Search, Logging and Security Platform including: Developed a Scientific Search platform using Lucidworks Fusion including ontology-enriched text analytics and OCR for images embedded in documents; Creation of entity reference data domains for key scientific domains using RESTful technologies on MongoDB; Creation of fundamental services for logging using Solr, Logstash, and Kibana and log analysis using Silk BioPharmaceutical Novel Data Analytics Platform: Led team developing initial implementation of taxonomy management system supporting initial implementation of big data platform for Research through Clinical using new big data technologies (MongoDB, Protégé Ontology Manager)

Manage projects impacting key business areas of high-profile Fortune 500 accounts, supervising up to 100 on and offshore technical professionals. Continue to lead large-scale application development efforts, including both packaged and custom applications and various architectures.External SaaS: Lead 30 onshore/offshore team members (projected to grow to 70) to build external SaaS clinical and operational data warehouse for large pharmaceutical customer to support a radically different business model that will increase R&D productivity on the largest scale. Managed multiple workstreams including clinical data warehouse, operational data warehouse, master data management, integration, and document management.Post-Merger Integration: Led medical area of two-year project for post-merger integration of systems for R&D for large pharmaceutical company. Project included three functional areas comprising 25+ data migration/implementation projects. Managed team of onshore and offshore members that peaked at 100+. Delivered major synergy savings and operational efficiencies by retiring 80+ applications; enabled combined companies to operate under leaner, single integrated process with consistent technologies.R&D: Directed global implementation of hosted SaaS EDC platform over two-year period for large pharmaceutical client’s clinical study operations; rolled out seven key integrations to legacy infrastructure, including business process monitoring, global process changes, and associated data life cycle package updates leading to active pipeline of 20+ Phase 1 through 3 studies.Sales & Customer Service: Delivered significant cost savings, generated 50% increase in new orders, and improved customer satisfaction and retention web properties for leading telecommunications company by managing technical delivery of large, consumer-facing website with 2+ million users.

Led a group of 7 professionals for both hardware and software problems including Unix, FORTRAN, X, and script-based tasks and systems administration tasks including upgrading of hardware, operating systems and application software. The context for this project focused on high performance computational science in the effort to develop more effective analytical tools.• Created and developed a novel methodology that dramatically reduced computational costs (up to 128x).