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Bucktown, Pa

Reading, Pennsylvania, United States

Creating Life Long LearnersCourses Taught:Accounting, Marketing & Entrepreneurship, Personal Finance, Project Management, Introduction to Data Science, Introduction to Business

Greater Philadelphia Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Led the Clinical Research Services PMO; develop and enhance templates, processes and systems, and help drive their adoption as appropriate. • Led, promoted and facilitated best practices for initiative execution and program management, including supporting capture, curation and implementation of lessons learned, role modelling and coaching of colleagues• Led the project management of initiative(s) to ensure completion within budget and schedule, with successful implementation and adoption, and achievement of anticipated benefits.• Supported development of business case, including costs/budget and benefits to be used to measure success.

Malvern, Pa

Co-Leader of multiple R&D project teams, responsible for developing project strategy, translating it into clear coherent development plans and leading high performing teams, ensuring plans are implemented on time, to cost and with quality.R&D Leader identifying and implementing solutions to increase project management capabilities and portfolio management. Enabling effective communications of R&D progress to executive leadership and board of directors.

Global responsibility for the design, implementation and ongoing support, of comprehensive solutions (process & technology) to meet the specific needs of accounts.Leverage technology to drive innovative and efficient solutions that delight our clients.

Greater Philadelphia Area

- Developed, implemented and helped manage a $3+ million portfolio of 20+ research studies, resulting in projects being delivered to time, budgets and all stakeholders expectations - Led the negotiations team, including stakeholders and legal departments resulting in the refresh of a multi-million, multi-year contract - Led the team to provide solutions for addressing gaps in existing contractual obligations, preventing thousands of dollars in penalties

Greater Philadelphia Area

- Led operations of a global team of 20+ clinical leaders as together we defined, integrated and implemented over 30 strategic initiatives within the clinical function, the largest change program in its history.- Led the tracking and measurement of the program’s envisaged $100+ million program benefits and ensured all risks were managed appropriately- Provided Senior Leaders transparency through regular status updates; escalated and ensured resolution of issues when needed- Applied flexible management approaches and thinking to help the team overcome barriers to change and promote new ways of working

Greater Philadelphia Area

Emerging Infection Compound- Led a high performing team in the simultaneous submissions of two INDs for anti-infective compounds enabling Clinical to achieve one of its annual objectives.Lifecycle Management Team - Diabetes Product- Facilitated the prioritization and approval of Phase IV ISS studies across the alliance organization; a key building block of the product strategy.Clinical PMO - Project Manager - Led the team to develop and implement several business cases for improving management of clinical programs, including critical path view for all of our clinical programs, establishing baselines and enhancing how we did capacity & resource management this resulted in over $1 million annual savings

Wilmington

Manager of eDetailing Platform and Web Development Team

Greater Philadelphia Area

Visual Basic, Networking, SDA, and Custom Application Instructor

Souderton, Pa

Branch Operations Manager and Marketing Database Administrator

Project Managment Professional

Masters Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship In Education Certificate Program

Master Of Education - Med, Secondary Education And Teaching, 4.0

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics