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As an employee of Ab Initio, I ensure than our customers succeed when they use our software. My role includes designing, implementing, project managing, and testing complex systems using Ab Initio software. I work predominately in health care, and have contributed to projects in many other industries and countries.

• As the Director for IT in Technical Operations (Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Device Development, Facilities) for MannKind Corporation, I implemented systems to support the commercialization of Afrezza®, a.
• Developed and standardized business and IT processes for procurement, receiving, accounts payable, item and bill of material management, costing, and forecasting.
• Led the implementation of ERP (MS Dynamics GP as an interim to SAP) for the company, covering not only the new commercial processes, but also R&D and clinical processes
• Validated ERP for cGMP and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
• Implemented a standard, validated workflow engine for incident and change management & investigations of deviations
• Standardized laboratory data collection and metadata search for quality and development laboratories, and implemented a single backup, archive and business continuity solution across the research, development, and.

• Built SpendTrak, using Six Sigma statistical techniques first identifying and selecting the best spending targets for changes that improved negotiations with vendors, producing a net reduction in cost of 22% over 3.
• Defined single eProcurement process across all GSK business units, and multiple ERP systems and standardized and outsourced vendor catalogs, resulting in savings of $25m pa from preferred vendor switches, $28m pa in.
• Defined process and set up IT support for an outsourced reverse auction pilot with a projected savings of $270K from the first 3 auctions. Later switched outsourcing arrangements, resulting in annual cost reduction.
• Adapted standard eProcurement business process to SAP SRM for use in manufacturing saving $17m pa on $500m in indirect expenses globally.

• Turned around a failed EDI solution, leading the implementation of an MQ Series and XML based Global Messaging Services for Enterprise (GMSe), delivering the new messaging system on time and on budget, the system.
• Expanded the GMSe system to external vendors, toll manufacturers and contract manufacturers, all targeted suppliers and partners online in the first year. Their accurate forecasts reduced their overall costs, cost.
• Adopted Check-IT, which was, during the implementation, re-branded as ITIL, which aligned with the CoBIT audit framework. Documentation for the project earned high commendations during cGMP audits. Overall productivity.

• Adapted shared services guidelines developed for European countries to Latin America, eliminated duplication of 3-5 operating units into a single shared service per market. All shared services operations met their.
• Created awareness of control principles and best practices, allowing Shared Service operations to determine their own control gaps, making them better prepared for audits, and better focusing audits on areas of concern.
• Designed and implemented the system and data control processes for an OTC AIDS test (ORASURE). Product launched on schedule. No data loss or IT issues during the launch.

• Designed and built a flexible system for connecting laboratory instruments with a serial connection, reducing the cycle time to bring new instruments online from 4 weeks to 3 days and eliminating backlog of requests in.
• Developed business case, agreed requirements, and delivered a standard chromatography data system which drastically reduced support and integration costs.
• Created a global R&D policy for Computer Systems Validation, reducing the costs of compliance and lowering a major barrier for new system development.
• Redesigned the instrumentation on analytical ultracentrifuges, re-tasking them to measure protein binding constants, reducing the screening time for new HIV protease inhibitors from 6 weeks to 48 hours.
• Consolidated the department computing resources to a central service, standardized service level agreements, and used the cost savings to fund expanded laboratory system support hours.

• Brought the first VAX into Wyeth-Ayerst, tripling the productivity of the programming staff.
• Completed 3 FDA computer and facility inspections without a comment.
• Interfaced laboratory equipment directly to the computer, increasing lab throughput by 20% and eliminating transcription errors.

• Automated pilot plant, allowing investigators to easily set control strategies on any combination of over 20 variables, enabling optimal production processes to be found faster and reducing variation so that fewer.
• Supported researchers in their use of genetic and protein sequence search software, including instructions, software modifications, and database maintenance, contributing to the company’s IP portfolio.
• Prepared the company’s first online clinical case report forms, allowing clinical data to be collected every night from every site, enabling close monitoring of beta-interferon clinical trials and improving.

Ms, Biochemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Educational Studies Program (Director), Nominations Committee (Chair), Alpha Phi Omega, Parliamentarian

Certificate, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Mba, International Business & Information Technology

Bs, Biology

Activities and Societies: NSF Fellow, Asinari Award for Biology Research, Karl Taylor Compton Award, Alpha Phi Omega, Educational Studies.

Bs, Chemical Engineering

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