John C. Morris, Mba Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Us, Canada, Uk, Japan, France, Switzerland, Singapore, Germany, India, China, Us

Provide leadership and Project/Program for defining, designing, implementing, and supporting Informatics focused R&D digital activities. Recent examples include Knowledge Graphs, practical AI solutions, life science workflows in cloud ecosystems, and FAIR data solutions for innovative biopharmaceutical companies.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Strategic IT lead and client partner to R&D defining, designing, and implementing advanced data analytics, semantic search, and workflow solutions using on prem and cloud capabilities.

Principal Consultant to Cambridge, Mass based pharmaceutical company in developing program office in support of data integrity, data governance, and business driven IT project delivery of a biological asset registration system. Key activities include project management, architecture, organization change, and process design for customer data management, FAIR data principles, and system development activities using SDLC and agile frameworks.

New York, New York, Us

Focus Areas: -Research & Development IT site lead for Andover, Mass campus. Primary IT lead for research and pharmaceutical sciences groups that operate from the Andover pharmaceutical sciences and manufacturing campus. Lead a matrixed organization composed of both site direct reports and groups of indirect reports to deliver effective, innovative, and sustainable solutions that meet the needs of the site.-Global Lab Data Services Architect. Responsible for developing strategy and program management around the global research lab IT systems and services supporting ~5000 scientists IT ecosystems. This included data workflows, benchtop computing, Dev/ops, servers, laboratory data storage, vendor coordination, licensing, data governance/stewardship, and compute resources on the edge (research facility), core data centers (centralized and shared IT resources), and cloud (public and private cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services). In addition, to lead a matrix organization of colleagues and vendors to deliver upon solutions and services.-Massachusetts Lab Data Informatics lead for lab automation services. Provide full life cycle laboratory support and workflow development for the IT needs of research units based in Massachusetts.-Founding member and key contributor to Pfizer Elastic Infrastructure (storage, compute, database, applications) effort to provide agile capabilities (on premises and AWS). Enabled onramp to AWS data ecosystem and supported IoT experimentation.-Department and company wide IT project management and continuous improvement. Latest example of successful project was leading an effort to standardize and improve over 24 IT services and to create defined KPI's and cross organizational model to sustain/improve services.-HPC Governance Board. Cross functional team leading the HPC strategy within Pfizer

New York, New York, Us

-Digital Business partner for the Rare Disease Research Unit within Pfizer. This required me to work strategically with the departmental leadership VP/CSO as well as engaging senior directors and stakeholders to meet the needs of the growing department such as academic collaborations, secure data exchanges, and contract discussions for projects. This experience further developed my skills in communication and prioritization with key customers at all levels and delivering actionable insights.-Research IT site lead for Andover, Mass campus providing broad leadership to the full spectrum of IT resources critical to the success of a major R&D site (~1400 colleagues). -Global Lab Data Architect. Responsible for developing strategy and support for scientific lab data as it related to key site based IT franchises such as storage, benchtop computers, and compute capabilities.. In addition, to work with a matrix organization to deliver upon solution.

New York, New York, Us

IT Business partner for the rare disease research unit and Lab IT lead for Cambridge, Mass scientists. Provide IT analysis, support, strategic planning, and single point of contact for Rare Disease research unit. Key contact and lead for IT related projects (industry, academic, and government (DARPA) initiatives.

New York, New York, Us

Define, design, implement, and support the scientific and high performance (HPC) computing environment to support hundreds of advanced scientists through Discovery Research. • Recruited, developed, and lead high performance team.• Deployed and supported the full life cycle of compute, storage, data protection, and application services with quality and full partnership with our customers.• Managed the service desk of colleagues and contractors to deliver IT services on time and budget.• Work cross-organizationally and with the business to maintain and improve disaster recovery plans• Budget and resource planning, project development, needs analysis, sourcing, as well as developing and leading infrastructure and vendor relations/contracts.

New York, New York, Us

Manager and Principal Architect for the Advanced Research Computing Group within Wyeth Research. Provided computational, data, and application services to the bioinformatics and genomics research communities. Provide business continuity and disaster recovery planning for key business processes.

Primary responsibilities were to research, identify, and introduce information technology opportunities to support drug development and novel therapeutic indications for ~250 members of the Preclinical Research and Development organization.-Provide primary interface for preclinical research community to IT resources.Implemented and supported FACS, ELISA, expression profiling, and sequence analysis systemsusing PERL, Access, Filemaker Pro, etc.-Lead the project for Y2K remediation for >350 embedded chip systems-Supported departmental email (GroupWise), network, client, and server (Windows, Novell, Mac) environment. Build, support, and update technology and applications.-Supported all technologies necessary for operations and research. Including but not limited todesktops, workstations, laboratory equipment, robotics, etc.

Performed research on tyrosine kinase receptors, interleukins, gene targeting and receptor-driven drug discovery. Utilized bioinformatic and computational methods to support research (homology, secondary structure, chimera design, etc). Also participated in incorporating information technology as a strategic tool in research and development.• Cloned and characterized murine IL-11 and dozens of other targets.• Researched and implemented computer workstations and workgroup database solutions in 1992-1997 Discovery Research to facilitate data acquisition and analysis.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bs, Biochemistry