Lee Schaller Email & Phone Number

Apex, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

• The primary goal of this role is to help scientists design better drugs, faster. I will lead an effort to implement and optimize LiveDesign, Schrödinger’s enterprise-scale, collaborative cheminformatics and molecular.
• Manage and design LiveDesign implementations, from early stage discussions, through training, deployment, and overall success
• Understand the STG and collaborating pharma scientific needs, workflows, and mission in order to help craft the LiveDesign implementation and workflows.
• Help drive product development and the roadmap design by working closely with product management and engineering
• Represent product roadmap to STG, and help drive the feedback cycles.
• Coordinate with the various teams (Solutions Architects, LiveDesign Product Managers, STG Management, leadership teams) to help define solid processes around implementation and deployment

New York, United States

Spearheading the design, implementation, and roadmap of LiveDesign, Schrödinger’s industry leading drug discovery platform by working with the product management team to keep engineering teams well organized, goal-oriented, and consistent with the scientific mission of the product. Using my experience as a medicinal chemist and a developer of drug.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Retired

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Research Triangle Park, NC

• Support the WREF Infrastructure Services and REF R&D tower strategies for the IT services relating to the respective business processes.
• Implement Agile methodologies and methods
• Accountable for articulating, delivering and supporting a global strategy that simplified the scientific equipment lifecycle asset management across R&D and WREF
• Ensured the efficient and timely delivery of the Scientific Equipment Lifecycle Asset Management (SELCAM) Analytics platform and new One Tag registration and tracking tool.
• Successfully partnered with customers at all levels to identify and document business, functional and support requirements

Research Triangle Park, NC

• Accountable for articulating, delivering and supporting a global strategy that simplified the molecule design landscape for early discovery
• Successfully led 9 IT projects (£350k to £3MM) from strategy through execution and into support to deliver more than £30MM, in business benefit, substantial productivity boosts and achieving a 2 year ROI
• Developed the 5 year molecular design and synthesis target application landscape strategy to simplify the IT landscape and reduce costs (endorsed by the CIO)
• Planned and successfully implemented business change activities, project communications, and training programs resulting in an R&D Gold award for my personal contributions
• Successfully partnered with customers at all levels to identify and document business, functional and support requirements
• Managed and mentored off-shore business analysts to collect customer requirements and author high quality documentation

Research Triangle Park, NC

Research Triangle Park, NC

• Strategic partner and productive member on project teams that made significant contributions to the synthesis of drug candidates and progressed 7 candidate molecules from hits to lead and into clinical trials
• Key inventor on 3 US patents
• Designed, synthesized, purified and evaluated novel small molecule chemical entities and arrays as potential drug candidates for a broad variety of therapeutic targets
• Achieved an R&D Gold Award for my contributions to the Structure Activity Relationship Tools replacement project
• Expert user and IT Liaison for key chemistry tools

Research Triangle Park, NC

• Envisioned, designed and implemented a chemical inventory tracking system that doubled the productivity of the employees in the Chemistry Department
• Created a chemical requisition system that reduced departmental waste by 25%
• Subject matter expert for chemical safety, distribution, and waste
• Managed commercial and bulk inventories of chemicals for distribution to businesses and schools

Research Triangle Park, NC

• Synthesized, purified, and characterized a series of new chemical entities for their evaluation as antipsychotic agents
• Maintained, organized and cleaned the laboratory environment for other scientists

Certificate, Business Analysis, A

Completed the Certificate by completing three courses: Introduction to Business Analysis, Mastering Business Analysis, and Six Sigma Green.

Ms, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, A

I was a distance education student enhancing my education and honing my skills in synthetic organic and medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry.

Bs, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Pi national honors fraternity, Intramural sports, Upper class-men adviser, Leadership development.